Caroline has grown up on the river with her father, a wherryman, on their ship. She has grown to love both the river and the people in her community. One day, her father is arrested because he refuses to transport a mysterious case. In order to get her father out of jail, seventeen-year-old Caroline decides…
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KingsGuard Review/First Book of the Year! (Freya Snow Book 9)
While Freya is living with her family, Lord Uther sends demons to her house. After saving her human family, she has to wipe their memories and move away. Escaping to Sarah’s coven, she hopes to receive some help and advice about her family. Instead, she is blamed for the attack and told that it is…
Treasure of Maria Mamoun Review
I read this book on the OpenEbooks app, which I will make a post about later today. However, you can also find this book on Amazon! Twelve-year-old Maria lives in the Bronx with her Lebanese mother who works two nursing jobs, often working 12 hours a day for six days a week. Maria keeps her…
Freedom’s Heroes Arc Review
The prison ship called Freedom crash lands on a planet, and the inhabitants begin to build a world for themselves there. Fast forward 200 years and seventeen-year-olds Alistar and Sabel are betrothed in marriage to each other. On their marriage night, they must go on a journey and find out who else has crash-landed on…
The Titan’s Curse Review (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book 3)
I don’t know where this picture is from, but the watermark says prince-of-the-palmtrees. Either way, this is an adorable picture! Sometimes I forget that Annabeth was supposed to have blonde hair, I keep remembering the awful movies. Yes, I watched both of them, and I still haven’t finished the original Percy Jackson series! I’m sorry.…
His: The Cellar Sequel Review (Spoilers)
Let me give a bit of a backstory about this before I hop into the review. When I finished reading the Cellar and heard that there was a sequel to it from Goodreads, I thought that I would have to wait until it was published next year. However, I found out that the sequel was…
Top Ten Tuesday: 2018 Releases!
Hi Everyone! Top Ten Tuesdays were a meme created by the Broke and the Bookish in 2010. They have new themes for Top Tens every week, and this week’s theme is “Top Ten Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2018”. I plan to start doing these, but on January 16 That Artsy Reader Girl will be hosting the…
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo Review
Genie Lo hopes to be able to get into a good college, and getting good grades in her academic private school is going to get her there. Then, a male transfer student named Quentin Sun arrives and immediately latches on to her. She wants to avoid him at all costs, but he tells her that…
Rhinoceros Summer Review
Lydia is a seventeen-year-old girl who wants to be a photographer. Her father’s friend from school offers her the chance of a lifetime: to travel to Tanzania and take pictures for him. At first, she is worried that her overprotective parents won’t let her go. But when they do let her go, despite her mother’s…
In Other Lands Review
Song I Listened To While Reading This: This story follows the life of a young boy named Elliot who is taken from the human world to the Borderlands, where he is greeted by magical creatures and warriors. We see him grow from age 14-17 and he goes on many adventures with his friends Selene and…