What Light has a gorgeous cover and the promise of a fun and cozy holiday romance. The thing is, I don’t require car chases, hidden pregnancies or big drama in my books, but What Light just lacked momentum. I’m not sure if it was trying to convey a subtle message that my forever sleep-deprived brain […]
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Ex Libris Audio: Magonia
Oh, how I wanted to like this book. The idea seemed liked something that would be perfect for me. Yet, when it was done, I just couldn’t say that I enjoyed it. The story started with Aza, who was very ill with a mysterious disease that attacked her respiratory system and the strange things she […]
Ex Libris Audio: Assassin’s Heart
Assassin’s Heart takes place in a fantasy world that has definite Italian overtones. Families live in secret compounds and perform assassinations, something that’s legal in this world, as a service to those who wish to hire them. There is a star-crossed lover element to this story that I thought might be interesting, but the story […]
The Killing Jar By Jennifer Bosworth
The Killing Jar, with its interesting story and gorgeous cover, was a book that I was looking forward to reading. Kenna’s powers are a source of anxiety and shame in a family that is already dealing with so much. Her twin sister’s illness is a shadow hanging over all of them, but when a horrible […]
Ex Libris Audio: Red Rising
There are books that lend themselves well to the audio format, and some that are perhaps better when read. I think that Red Rising falls into the latter category. The extreme details and references to locations (the print version had a map) made me wish I had the book. I found myself vacillating between fascination […]
Down From The Mountain By Elizabeth Fixmer
Cults, for lack of a better word, have been in the news a lot the last few decades. Mostly, the ones that we hear about, are in the public eye because of their dangerously charismatic leaders and practices that lead to great tragedy. The Righteous Path could have been patterned after any of those, […]
All The Bright Places By Jennifer Niven
Violet and Finch are both in a lot of pain, and their meeting sets the tone for a book that I found to be profoundly sad at times. Violet is still trying to navigate life after the death of her sister. While she has distanced herself from her pre-loss life, much of her school […]
The Boy Next Door By Katie Van Ark
The reason I picked this up was because when I saw the cover, all I could think of was the movie The Cutting Edge (It’s from the 90s, kids. You should watch it.) Although I have zero talent for ice skating, due to my terminal case of being a Texan, I have always […]
A Memory Of Violets By Hazel Gaynor
A Memory Of Violets takes place in two time periods, the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Our main character is Tilly, a young woman who is leaving her home town for reasons we don’t immediately know and in 1912, the jobs a single woman of a certain class can have are somewhat […]
Playlist For The Dead By Michelle Falkoff
Imagine waking up one morning after sleeping at your friend’s house and finding that your friend killed himself while you were in the room. This is Sam’s new world. Hayden’s suicide and the playlist he left Sam, sent him on a journey which turned more into a quest, to find answers […]