Tag Archives: Review

Title: Season of the WitchAuthor: Sarah Rees BrennanPublication: July 9, 2019Publisher: ScholasticGenre: Teen & YA Fiction, FantasyPages: 288 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) It’s the summer before her sixteenth birthday, and Sabrina Spellman knows her world is about to change. She’s always studied magic and spells with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda. …

Title: The Code for Love and HeartbreakAuthor: Jillian CantorPublication: October 6, 2020Publisher: Inkyard PressGenre: Teen & YA Fiction, RomancePages: 304 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Emma Woodhouse is a genius at math, but clueless about people. After all, people are unreliable. They let you down—just like Emma’s sister, Izzy, did this year, …

Megan and Kristin’s recent podcast about historical fiction films reminded me of a flick that is often admired by those who have seen it, if they have at all. On a not so scientific Facebook poll, about half of respondents (my friends) said that they had seen it. Nearly everyone …

Title: VerityAuthor: Colleen HooverPublication: December 7, 2018Publisher:  Hoover Ink, Inc.Genre: Romance, SuspencePages: 333 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete …

I was recently in a used bookstore in my hometown when I was browsing the fiction section of the store and saw laying on a shelf The Great Gatsby.  I immediately thought that it would be the perfect book to do a book to movie comparison.  I read the book in …

Title: Five Feet ApartAuthor: Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, Tobias IaconisPublication: November 20, 2018Publisher: Simon & Schuster for Young ReadersGenre: YA Fiction, Teens, Pages: 288 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have …

Title: Hearts AbroadAuthor: Skye McNeilPublication: February 2, 2019Publisher: Hot Tree PublishingGenre: Women’s Fiction, Romance SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) When a fun-loving American nanny turns a millionaire British single dad’s world upside down, it’s inevitable life is going to get complicated. Taking a break from screenwriting in New York City, Londyn Bellerose takes a nannying …

Title: Texan Hearts (Lines in the Sand #3)Author: Lindsay DetwilerPublication: August 11, 2018Publisher: Hot Tree PublishingGenre: RomancePages: 364 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Join hot cowboy Levi and quirky author Jodie this Thanksgiving in a fun short story of heat, cringe-worthy families, and dramas of the heart. “You’re out of control,” I say …

Title: ProtectedAuthor: Claire ZornPublication: October 3, 2018Publisher: Sourcebooks FireGenre: Teens, YA FictionPages: 292 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) I have three months left to call Katie my older sister. Then the gap will close and I will pass her. I will get older. But Katie will always be fifteen, eleven months and …

Title: One Small Thing Author: Erin Watt Publication: June 26, 2018 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Genre: YA Fiction, Teen Pages: 304