Death first visited Signa Farrow when she was just a baby. Years later, the orphan has been raised by a succession of relatives, each more interested in Signa’s fortune than in the girl herself. Each of those relatives met an untimely end. Now, Signa has found herself in the conservatorship of the Hawthorn family, a […]
Book Review: Never Coming Home by Kate Williams
Unknown Island is the newest, hottest, and most exclusive luxury resort in the world—and the best kept secret. With a viral marketing campaign drawing attention to the descriptions of natural beauty, luxurious accommodations, and world-class service everyone wants their chance to go. But the highly exclusive new resort is open by invitation only for the […]
Book Review: I’m The Girl by Courtney Summers
Confession: I’ve never read a Courtney Summers book that I didn’t fan girl over. When I caught my first glance of I’m The Girl, I knew I had to have her…I mean it. After reading it, I have to say that my record with Courtney Summers remains unchallenged. Aspera! It’s a lure, a promise, a curse. Aspera […]
Book Review: Three Kisses, One Midnight by Roshani Chokshi, Sandhya Menon, and Evelyn Skye
Not only is it Halloween, but also the 400thanniversary of the founding of Moon Ridge. There is a legend that every century The Lady of Moon Ridge comes from the stars and walks through the town leaving love in her wake. The Coven—the name of high school friends Onny, True, and Ash—are hoping the legend […]
Book Review: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
Wow, I really didn’t know what I was getting into when I requested The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker and what a wonderful experience this turned out to be. Sylvia Wren is a notoriously reclusive artist who lives a quiet life in New Mexico. One day a letter comes in the mail from a journalist […]
Book Review: How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
Astrid is in college and, along with a very detailed life plan (she wants to become a doctor), she also meticulously plans each and every busy minute in each and every day. Advanced science labs, Organic Chemistry, volunteer hours, the opportunity to work in a research lab, study time; each has been carefully fit into […]
Book Review: Shadow Kissed (Marked by Blood #1) by Rebecca L. Garcia
Nineteen-year-old Olivia is an empath and sorceress. She’s the daughter of a prominent sorceress who is a member of the Guild—a group dedicated to protecting mortals from the threat of vampires. But, when one of their own betrays the Guild, Olivia is lucky to survive the attack. Pulled from certain death by Sebastian—a fairly bad-tempered […]
Book Review: This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg
Poppy doesn’t know why her family has spent her entire life on the run—or even where they’re from. She can recognize the subtle clues that her family is ready to flee to another location, another life, and another identity. Now, Poppy, her mom, dad, and younger sister are on their way to a new location, […]
Book Review: Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen
Violet Made of Thorns is an exciting fairy-tale type YA fantasy with a morally ambiguous lead character and a very hot enemies-to-lovers subplot. And it all works so well! Violet was a homeless girl who inadvertently saved the life of a young prince who the Fates had intended to die. What dos a grateful king […]
Genre loyalist or polygenre?
I admire people who can easily and quickly answer the question: What kind of books do you like to read? I’m always impressed when someone offers a decisive “Romance” or “I only read non-fiction” answer.For me the answer is more convoluted: “Well, I really like thrillers, and I’m a huge historical fiction fan, but sometimes I […]