Showing posts with label series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label series. Show all posts

Monday, June 9, 2025

Book Review | SKIPSHOCK by Caroline O'Donoghue

SKIPSHOCK BY CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE | PUBLICATION: JUNE 3, 2025 WALKER BOOKS US | GENRE: YA FANTASY RATING: ★★★★★ "Where love, survival, and fate collide across train tracks." ____________________________________________________________________ Set in a universe where time is key to power...

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Book Review | THE ANTIQUE HUNTER'S DEATH ON THE RED SEA by C.L. Miller

THE ANTIQUE HUNTER'S DEATH ON THE RED SEA BY C.L. MILLER | FEBRUARY 18, 2025 SIMON & SCHUSTER | GENRE: MYSTERY RATING: ★★★★ "Amateur sleuthing with a grand adventure." ____________________________________________________________________ The next installment in the nationally bestselling...

Monday, June 1, 2020

Fictional Power Couples I've Read and Adored

  This list is prompted by the book club’s discussion of An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn. Well, more like the tangent discussion of Homer’s Odyssey due to the former book. The question of whether Odysseus is a true hero or not was brought forward, which made...

Monday, April 6, 2020

Book Review | WHO SPEAKS FOR THE DAMNED by C.S. Harris

    Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris Series:  Sebastian St. Cyr #15 Publication Date:  April 7, 2020 Publisher:  Berkley Genre:  Historical Mystery Rating:  ★★★★★ It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have...

Monday, December 9, 2019

THE STORY OF ARTHUR TRULUV by Elizabeth Berg

   The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg Publication: November 21, 2017 Publisher: Random House Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ A beautiful, life-affirming novel about a remarkably loving man who creates for himself and others second chances at happiness. A moving novel about...

Monday, November 18, 2019

15 BOOK SERIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY (OTHER THAN HP)

My spawn at 12. My family has a standing Yuletide tradition to [either] listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks, or watch the movies, each day leading to New Year’s Eve. However, there are also other books we shared together over the years since my daughter started reading at three. It was always...

Monday, November 19, 2018

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Book Review | THE FOREVER KING by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy

Arthur Blessing is more than just a ten-year-old boy, for his mere name defines myth and magic. To keep the power, as ancient as time itself, is his by right. But forces beyond the grasp of humanity are after that same power. With Hal Woczniak as his guardian, Arthur must cross time and continent...

Friday, March 2, 2018

Book Review | HERO AT THE FALL by Alwyn Hamilton

March 6th, 2018  Viking Books for Young Readers The breathless finale to the New York Times bestselling Rebel of the Sands series will have you on the edge of your seat until the dust from the final battle clears! When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end...

Monday, November 6, 2017

Book Review | AUTUMN by Ali Smith

AUTUMN begins in a dream-like state. Daniel Gluck is dead. He supposed he is in heaven because he looks young again and naked. It is as if rebirth took place by the seashore and he is the only one who survived. The truth is, the time has finally caught up with Daniel. He is reliving some old...

Monday, July 24, 2017

Book Review | SELECT by Marit Weisenberg

October 3, 2017 Charlesbridge Teen “It had always been a fact of life that we were biologically different—better—and that it had to be kept secret.”   Seventeen-year-old Julia Jaynes has the perfect life. She’s beautiful, freakishly athletic, and extremely smart. That’s because...

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Book Review | THE AWAKENING by Amanda Stevens

      March 28th, 2017, Mira My name is Amelia Gray, and I'm a cemetery restorer who lives with the dead. An anonymous donor has hired me to restore Woodbine Cemetery, a place where the rich and powerful bury their secrets. Forty years ago, a child disappeared without...