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…
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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.…
The Cellar Review
Nothing happens in the town of Long Thorpe. One night, sixteen-year-old Summer is kidnapped by a man named Clover. She is taken to his cellar where she is forced to live with his four other flowers: Violet, Poppy, and Rose. She is his Lily. At first, all she can think of is escaping. She thinks…
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…
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…
Trident Review (Freya Snow Book 8)
Song I Listened to while Reading This: Freya and Alex had to separate, and so now Freya is traveling back to her friends Sarah and Mel whom she hasn’t seen in over a year. Out of the blue, Mel’s relatives start sending assassins after her. Mel’s mother was an heir to the House of Atlantis,…
2017 Year In Book Review Tag
I was hunting around for an end of the year book tag, and I stumbled across this one at @Malanie Loves Fiction . Onto the tag! 1. First Ever Female Doctor Who: favorite female protagonist. I actually have 2 for this one. First, I love Freya Snow from the Freya Snow series. She is a strong female protagonist…
Reaper Review (Freya Snow Book 7)
Songs I listened to while reading this: Freya and Alex are traveling across Europe to escape Alex’s Enhanced handlers and the Council of Light. The Council of Light is chasing Freya because her new powers could be making her unstable. The Enhanced are chasing Alex because she betrayed them by helping Freya. While on…