These modern retellings of story-tales are really stepping up their game! This story is a retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Instead of Goldilocks being a naive little girl who just happened to wander into a house full of bears, she is a grown woman who has been trained in order to infiltrate the…
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Cowboy’s Pride
This book is free on Amazon right now! Sydney has been in love with Cam ever since they snuck off together to talk for hours when she was on a sixth grade field trip to his father’s farm. However, when she asked him out to Junior prom, he simply laughed at her, causing the whole…
Finder’s Keepers Review (DNF)
I hate to DNF a book, but this is one of the most confusing and poorly written books that I have ever read. I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review. Danielle and her husband Donald are newly married, Danielle is black and her husband is white (trust me this is…
City of Lost Souls Review
This book took me forever to get through, and I kinda have mixed feelings about it. Simon has been banned from his house, as his mother thinks he is some kind of devil pretending to be her son. He is worried for Clary, who is constantly looking for missing Jace. When Clary finds Jace, her…
Kindred Review
Dana is a normal 26 year old African American woman living in 1976 (the year the actual story was published). She had recently married Kevin, a white man whose books are successful, unlike hers. She thinks that they will live comfortably in their new house, and grow old together. Then she is swept away. She…
Outlander Review
Claire married her husband Frank at the age of 20, but then she left to be an army nurse for 7 years during WWII. She and him are now, finally, reunited for their eighth year of marriage, and are attempting to have children. However, as her husband mentions in passing conversation, 7 years is a…
The Selection Review
In America’s world, there is a strict class system. At the top of the classes are the Ones, royalty. At the bottom of the classes are the servants. America is in the 5th class with the artists and musicians, but she is in love with Aspen, a 6. She knows that in order to marry…
Reign the Earth Arc Review
Finally out of my book slump. This book saved me. Shalia is a 17 year old girl of the desert. She has a friend named Kata, who is an Elementae. She can manipulate water, but the Elementae are being hunted by the current king so she must stay in hiding. Shalia is leaving her home…
The Orchid Caper Review
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Eighteen year old Darlene works for her sister in a thieving business. She has to go on a heist that is supposed to be pretty easy, but then the person who’s house she is stealing from comes home early. She would…
The Maze of Bones Review
The 39 Clues is yet another series that I used to read quite a lot when I was younger. I loved hearing about Amy and Dan, two orphaned kids in a powerful, rich family, going all over the world to collect clues and solve their family’s great mystery. After not reading the series for over…