In many ways, Natalie is your average recent high school grad; she is looking forward to college, making real plans for her future, and having mixed feelings about leaving her small home town. You quickly realize, though, that Natalie is also seeing and experiencing things that can’t really be explained. More and more, those things […]
Genre: Magical Realism
Average Rating: 3.83
Ex Libris Audio: Bone Gap
I admit that I decided to read/listen to this book based on its nomination for a National Book Award. To be fair, though, I heard many people saying how good it was and they were not wrong. Like all of the best stories with magical realism elements, the writing is lyrical and dreamy. The story […]
The Status Of All Things By Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
I grabbed this book from Edelweiss because the premise was so interesting. What if you could get a do over simply by updating your Facebook status? Although the writing did not flow very well, the story itself started out strong as we are dropped into the hours before the wedding rehearsal dinner. The devastation of […]
The Weight of Feathers By Anna-Marie McLemore
There is just something so appealing about a story that begins with two families locked in a feud. It’s such an old idea and it resonates with us as humans, almost to the point where the girl and boy gazing at each other from behind the hatred of their families approaches archetypal status. One […]
First Frost By Sarah Addison Allen
Since Garden Spells is one of my favorite books, I was beyond thrilled to find out that SAA would be writing a book set in that world, once again. First Frost takes place about 10 years after the events of Garden Spells and we find both Waverley Daughters more settled than they have ever […]
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future By A.S. King
I never really know what I am going to get when I read an A.S. King book, but I do know that it is going to be interesting and engaging, and Glory O’Brien’s History Of The Future was certainly that. Glory is a rather disaffected teen who is rapidly approaching graduation and has no […]