Series: Avalon, #1 Publisher: Balzer & Bray Publish Date: January 21st, 2014 Source: ARC Goodreads Rating: 5/5 – My new favorite sci-fi series! A ragtag group of teenage mercenaries who crew the spaceship Avalon stumble upon a conspiracy that could threaten the entire galaxy in this fascinating and fast-paced sci-fi adventure from author Mindee Arnett. […]
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Series: Unbound, #3 Publisher: Harlequin MIRA Publish Date: April 30th, 2013 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 5/5 – Please tell me this series isn’t over!!! About the book: The Tower Syndicate will fall… The secret daughter of the head of an infamous Skilled crime family, Sera Brandt has hidden her past, her potential and especially her powers. But […]
Read the rest of this entry »Were(wolf) Wednesday: Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
Series: Kitty Norville Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publish Date: November 1st, 2005 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Submissive wolves Synopsis: Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station – and a werewolf in the closet. Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it’s Kitty who can use […]
Read the rest of this entry »Were(cat) Wednesday: Rogue by Rachel Vincent
Series: Shifters, #2 Publisher: Mira Books Publish Date: April 1st, 2008 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4.5/5 – Still in love with this series. Synopsis: Okay, so cats don’t always land on their feet. I know that better than most. Since rejoining the Pride, I’ve made big decisions and even bigger mistakes: the kind paid for with […]
Read the rest of this entry »Review: Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers Publish Date: September 4th, 2012 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Baggers Synopsis: Aries, Clementine, Michael, and Mason have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers. Now they’re hiding out in an abandoned […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
Synopsis: For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks […]
Read the rest of this entry »Back to School? This week ReaWrite looks at the best middle grade fiction!
It’s that time of year again… back to school! Alas, not for me but this seemed like the perfect week to look back on some of my favorite reads from my school days. This week I’ll be reviewing four of my all time favorite books from growing up, after having reread them this summer. They […]
Read the rest of this entry »Kitty Steals The Show- Carrie Vaughn
Synopsis: Kitty has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world—and Kitty, Ben, and Cormac are right in the middle of it. Master vampires from dozens of cities have also […]
Read the rest of this entry »Shadow Bound- Rachel Vincent
Synopsis: If you live in the dark long enough, you begin to forget the light… Kori Daniels is a shadow-walker, able to travel instantly from one shadow to another. After weeks of confinement for betraying her boss, she’s ready to break free of the Tower syndicate for good. But Jake Tower has one final job […]
Read the rest of this entry »My favorite books: Growing Up Edition
Reading Princess Academy this week brought on a lot of memories of some of the favorite books I had as a kid that had the same effect on me as Shannon Hale’s wonderful novel. So, as a quick Saturday post, here are some of my favorite books from when I was growing up. I see […]
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