Guess who’s baaaaaaack! 😅 Wow. It’s been a while, friends. To be honest, I had to look at my wordpress admin settings to remember when I had last posted anything on here (hint: it’s been a WHILE). If I was wiser and just a little trendier, I’d be telling you how I purposely took a…… Continue reading Present Over Perfect — Realizing Self Care Really Is A Thing
4/5 ⭐️ ( Cinder + Scarlet + Cress + Winter) It’s a few hundred years into the Third Era, and after rebuilding from the ground up after World War 4, Earth is finally united and at peace. The only thing that poses a major threat is the mysterious, incurable letumosis, a pandemic sweeping the planet…… Continue reading The Lunar Chronicles, by Marissa Meyer
2/5 ⭐️ This book is titled The Bad Habits of Jesus: Showing Us the Way To Live Right In A World Gone Wrong, and takes a closer look at several things that Jesus did during his earthly ministry that were considered culturally rude or politically incorrect. Leonard Sweet’s aim is to draw attention to Jesus’…… Continue reading The Bad Habits of Jesus, by Leonard Sweet
4/5 ⭐️ Well, I’m definitely on a middle grade kick right now, and I’m seriously considering having that be the main genre for all of my reviews. I can’t seem to get enough! There’s something so refreshing about middle grade—there are always new ideas and stories and adventures to be had, and in the end…… Continue reading Book Scavenger, by Jennifer Chambliss Bertram
5/5⭐️ “I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.” When you come across a book with a title so long the bookstore closes by the time you finish reading it,…… Continue reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente
5/5 ⭐️ Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel by Megan Morrison is a fun new twist on the classic fairytale, and even though I never get tired of remakes of her story, this one in particular is fresh and original and bushels of fun, and probably my all time favorite! For the most part, when you…… Continue reading Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel, by Megan Morrison
2.5/5 ⭐️ Anticipating its very own film that released last week, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was one of the most popular YA books of 2016. It was recommended to me a long time ago, and I finally got around to reading it last weekend to prepare for the film release, but to be…… Continue reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
4/5 ⭐️ What makes the perfect autumn read? For me, it’s the English moors, and poetic wordsmithing, and coming of age, and unrequited love in the most romantic way. Dodie Smith, author of Hundred and One Dalmations, crafts I Capture the Castle with the hands of a master, and it couldn’t be lovelier. It’s 1934,…… Continue reading I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
Samantha Whipple is the last living relative of the famed and enigmatic Brontë sisters, and is doing her best to keep as far away as possible from the public, the press, and a particularly nosy historian, all of whom are obsessed with Sam’s alleged inheritance, “the Vast Brontë Estate.” All she wants to do is…… Continue reading The Madwoman Upstairs, by Catherine Lowell
The Muse was delightful in almost every way. Rich settings and and flowing prose paint a captivating tale that switches between an English artist, caught in the Port of Spain on the brink of World War 2, and a Trinidadian writer working for a London art dealer. 30 years separate their stories, but as the…… Continue reading The Muse, by Jessie Burton
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