Book Review: Pure, Pure Trilogy Book 1, Julianna Baggott Fantasy: Pure, Pure Trilogy Book 1, Julianna Baggott Pressia lives with her grandfather in the ruins of a barbershop. Several years after the “detonations,” nuclear bombs and nanotechnology attacks that transformed the earth, most people live in squalor and terror. The combination of the […]
Book Review: Girls Who Lie, Forbidden Iceland Book 2, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb Mystery: Girls Who Lie, Forbidden Iceland Book 2, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb Blog Tour July 26, 2021 Girls Who Lie may be the mostly aptly titled psychological thriller/police procedural I have ever read. Most of the […]
Book Review: Ruabon, Lost Tales of Solace, Karl Drinkwater Science Fiction: Ruabon, Lost Tales of Solace, Karl Drinkwater Blog Tour July 25, 2021 I have this mental image of Karl Drinkwater having created this amazing playground called “Solace,” where the main attractions are two novels featuring a talented and dangerous woman searching for her […]
Book Review: War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi Fiction: War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls is one of those books that is categorized YA but I think should be approached with caution by parents and younger readers. It is an excellent book, very powerful and compelling. It is also violent and unflinching in its view […]
Book Review: The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson Mystery/Thriller: The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson Some books should not be started in the evening, especially not the evening before a workday. The Kind Worth Killing is not a “start in the evening” sort of book. First, it has a fast paced intensity that […]
Book Review: Gregor the Overlander, The Underland Chronicles Book 1, Suzanne Collins Shared Reading/Fantasy: Gregor the Overlander, The Underland Chronicles Book 1, Suzanne Collins Gregor is eleven years old, living in a New York City apartment with his mother, grandmother, and two younger sisters. Forced to grow up quickly after the disappearance of […]
Book Review: We Need to Talk, Jonathan Crane Short Story Collection: We Need to Talk, Jonathan Crane Blog Tour July 14, 2021 Sudleigh is a fictional town in the south of England. It’s people are normal. Ordinary. People that you might find in any town in any country. In his collection of intertwined short […]
Book Review: The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson Nonfiction: The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson During the summer of 1854 a cholera outbreak threatened to devastate London. In particular, London’s Soho neighborhood lost many of its residents. Entire households were found dead. Yet from the ashes of this destruction rose a phoenix of discovery that […]
