Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she’ll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest…
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Dangerous to Know Review
After Breed, an thief-assassin of small renown is chased by a dragon, tricked by a demon, almost killed by a psychopathic gang boss, and hunted by a ferocious spider, life really takes a turn for the worst. Sentenced to five years bonded servitude to a one-handed priest magician, Breed must find the hammer of the…
Escapement Blog Tour Plus Review
Escapement – An Exquisite Tale of Love and Passion by Kristen Wolf Publication Date: August 1, 2018 Pixeltry Paperback & eBook; 481 Pages Genre: Fiction/Historical/Women’s ***WINNER of the 2018 IndieReader DISCOVERY AWARD*** From the bestselling Author of THE WAY, hailed by O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE as “A Title To Pick Up Now!” Henri…
Daddy’s Soul Tie Review
Shannon has struggled with a drinking problem for years, and she traces back the cause of this issue to her father, who was also a heavy drinker. This story discusses the generational issue of alcoholism, and how two people years apart were determined to overcome their inner demons. This book discusses the issue of how…
Giving Birth To HIV Review
At the age of 27, Shannon married a man nearly twice her age who had been diagnosed with HIV. She still wanted to have children with him, but she didn’t know if her children would also be HIV positive. The couple must overcome the people judging them due to their age difference and Tony’s HIV…
Red the Wolf Tracker Review
I haven’t read a book on a pure whim for a while, but I found out about this series and decided to take a few extra minutes to check it out. Boy, was I glad I did! Red has gone to the Wonderland Academy since middle school, but at 16 she still doesn’t feel like…
Switch Review
Greg is starting to worry about his friend Kyle, who seems to have made a habit of sleeping with a different man every night. He doesn’t want him to get hurt, and he doesn’t want Kyle to hurt himself by drinking too much and getting into trouble. Usually when things get like this, Greg tries…
Island on Fire Blog Tour Plus Review
Island on Fire by Sophie Schiller Publication Date: March 15, 2018 Paperback & eBook; 270 Pages ISBN-13: 978-1986210782 Genre: Fiction/Historical/Thriller In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon discovers that her fiancé, a rich sugar planter, has been unfaithful. Desperate to leave…
The Damned Review (The Almosts #2)
It has been months since Kara killed Fiona, but she still can’t get over it. Turning to drinking and plunging herself into her work, she tries to forget the past and focus on the future. But her heart just isn’t in it anymore. Moira offers her a forgetting potion, but in order to get the…
Disgraced Review (Royal Cleaner Prequel)
This prequel gives Lady’ Caroline’s backstory. She was happy with her girlfriend with the Wardens, and running away from her political responsibilities. She wasn’t even the oldest of the house, so she didn’t have an obligation to stay in the House that never really accepted her. Then, her brother dies unexpectedly, and she has to…