I’ve been in a reading slump while finishing the spring semester, but I found this entire trilogy while searching at my local Goodwill. I couldn’t stop myself from reading the first book once I had it, and I really enjoyed the storyline. A Darker Shade of Magic is a world-traversing fantastical tale. There were once …
Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically …
The Storys are the envy of their neighbours: owners of the largest property on their East Coast island, they are rich, beautiful, and close. Until it all falls apart. The four children are suddenly dropped by their mother with a single sentence: You know what you did. They never hear from her again. Years later, …
The Waltz of Devil’s Creek by Justine Carver Publication Date: October 20, 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction/Coming of Age Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994, Judith tells him the …
Here’s another book I read at 13 and then didn’t get the chance to read again! I read this book at the library, loved it, and then I don’t think I could check out the next two books in the series since it was from a branch far from our house. And by the time …
This book has sat on my bookshelf for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I think I bought it from Ollie’s in like 2016? I’m the type of person that when I see a popular book on sale I usually end up buying it. Had no idea what this book was about, I actually thought …
Book Info: The Tigers in the Tower by Julia Golding Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publishing Date: November 18, 2020 Synopsis: “A Little Princess – with tigers! Orphan and outcast Sahira Clive is a brave and plucky heroine with a brightly burning heart. I was rooting for her all the way to the end of this …
I signed up for a tour of this book, and I was looking forward to a good paranormal thriller novel. I think my face must have been in a constant state of confusion from the start of this novel to the end. The novel starts with the main female villain getting mad at one of …
I am loving the Rick Riordan Presents books so far. They all focus on the mythologies of different cultures, and Race to the Sun is about Navajo Holy People. Nizhoni is a young Navajo girl who has started to see monsters. At first, she thinks she might just have to live with the frightening sights, …
Casino Chiseler (Alex Cohen #4) by Leopold Borstinski Book Blurb: Would you gamble everything you possess to win more than you can imagine? Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen leaves jail to find salvation from the 1940s mob in the hotels of Las Vegas. When Bugsy Siegel invites him to take over sports betting in Nevada, Alex …
