Before I decided to listen to Seraphina I had it in my mind that I would be head over heels for this story. It is a unique setting and a well-built world, with a richly built society where dragons and humans live in an uneasy peace. Seraphina is a musician in the palace and when […]
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Ex Libris Audio: Sword and Verse
Sword and Verse has been on my reading list for a long time, so I decided to gibe it a listen. The story was a good one, all in all, but in many ways it was not original. Raisa is an orphan and a slave who is picked to be a royal tutor. Her lineage, […]
These Vicious Masks By Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas
These Vicious Masks had me at its historical setting with a hearty dose of the supernatural. I liked the sister dynamic, which was very strong, and was the impetus for the entire story. Evelyn is not a fan of being married off to someone she doesn’t know, but her parents are motivated […]
Red Girl, Blue Boy By Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Red Girl, Blue Boy is a rom-com style story set during the 2016 presidential elections. The two love interests on the opposite side of the isle story has been done before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in a YA setting, so I think that’s what grabbed my interest. […]
Hold Me Like A Breath By Tiffany Schmidt
The first thing you realize about Penelope is that she is very much a prisoner. She is a prisoner to her rare illness and a prisoner to the fears of her parents. For that reason, she lives in a world where she is sheltered from the outside, but she is not sheltered from the […]
The Novice By Taran Matharu
The Novice takes cues from many books that are fantasy staples and combines them to create a story where class, money, and even some political intrigue build an interesting world. Fletcher’s beginnings are both mysterious and humble. The mythology of The Orphan with hidden powers is strong in this book and while his path to […]
My Best Everything By Sarah Tomp
My Best Everything was a book that had a very interesting premise, but with a somewhat uneven delivery. I felt very sorry for Lulu. She worked so hard to get out of that town and had her dreams pulled out from under her. Her mother’s mental illness compounded her feeling that she had to get […]
Inherit Midnight By Kate Kae Myers
The premise of this book is like a family owned Amazing Race, with ultra-wealth combined with a large and unhappy family. Of course, many of the members hate each other, but none more than Avery, whose status as the offspring of the’ affair with the nanny’ puts her in a particular place of ridicule. […]
When By Victoria Laurie
Maddie Flynn can see when you are going to die. Not how, mind you, only when. As with any gift, the burden of it can almost be too much to bear sometimes. It is this way with Maddie as her clients either don’t believe her or become angry with her, but the money she earns […]
Amherst By William Nicholson
I think it’s safe to say that almost everyone has recited or is at least familiar with, Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Her eccentricities are almost as famous as her poems. She never left the house, she really never saw people or let people see her, and she became an acclaimed poet after her death. What I […]