“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.” –Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, “Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.” Antigone by Sophocles I first read Antigone while in High School. While it felt… Continue reading Modern Antigone: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Trust in Adon with all your heart. He will sustain you. I have been so impressed by the attention to detail in the work of the Author’s I have read lately. R.A. Denny is no different. In Refugees, the first book in the (Mud, Rocks and Trees Series), three heroes from three very different cultures… Continue reading Review: Refugees by R.A. Denny
Hello everyone, today I am writing about a book that is a little bit different. Normally, I only talk about fiction on here, but there will probably be more poetry in the near future. I will admit that going into this I was already a little bit biased. I have watched Olivia Gatwood’s slam poems… Continue reading Review: New American Best Friend by Olivia Gatwood
“Dedication: For everyone who knows there was enough room for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door. And for England. We’re really sorry for what we’re about to do to your history.” Hello everyone, I am back as promised with the light-hearted My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. This book was such a pleasure to read. It’s one of those… Continue reading Review: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.” Wooooh I have been dying to read this one. The first book was so well written, I couldn’t wait for the second. This is a Sequel in a series of four books (I think?), so this review may spoil things that happened in… Continue reading Review: A Torch Against the Night by Sabba Tahir
“But some things are stronger than years of freedom. The draw of fire. A longing for freedom. Or a girl on a red horse.” Here’s another one from my stash. This is a new one for YA, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I believe that this is the direction that we should be going… Continue reading Review: Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
“I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.” I hope everyone is having a good holidays. In my desperate efforts to read 100 books by the end of the year (I am at 96, I am not sure if I will make it), I am… Continue reading Review: Confess by Colleen Hoover
“She was the roar and the whisper and the stillness. She was nothing. She was everything.” This is another pull from my large TBR pile from the library. It is based on Arabian Nights, including jinnis, magic wish granting, and decorative bottles. I thought I was getting myself into another retelling, but this one is… Continue reading Review: Exquisite Captive by Heather Demertrios
“First, though, she had to go back out there and smile at everyone. Fake her way through the rest of the night and another three days. Pretend to still be normal. When she was pretty sure she never had been.” You guys know how much I enjoy a good retelling. This is a Macbeth… Continue reading Review: As I Descended by Robin Talley
I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting. Hello Everyone! I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season. My apologies for being… Continue reading Review: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
“If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.” I picked this one up from my elibrary this… Continue reading Review: A Thousand Nights
“That was part of being a girl–you were resigned to whatever feedback you’d get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn’t react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke… Continue reading Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
“It’s our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.” I also picked this one up from my library via the online site. So for those of you that don’t know, I am in the Coast Guard. I see anything about ships and I am instantly intrigued. This story begins with… Continue reading Review: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
“Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.” I picked this one up from my library via the online site. I finished it in one day because it is that addicting. Once you are roped in, there is no getting out. This young adult novel is a twist on the lives of the young, beautiful… Continue reading Review: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
“She shouldn’t love me Asia that is I know I don’t.” I got this as an advanced reading copy via NetGalley. I was originally intrigued because of the horses, which is probably a strange reason to pick up a book about eating disorders. But as a child I absolutely loved horses, even tried to convince… Continue reading eArc Review: The Sky Between You and Me by Catherine Alene
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