@ohbrekker: A book you used to love but don’t anymore? The easy answer is Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, but everyone’s heard that story, so I’m going to go a different route. When I was a freshman in high school, I loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, but when I tried to […]
Archive | January, 2020
Ordinary Grace Review
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Summary: “From “New York Times “bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson’s Drug […]
Emergency Contact Review
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Summary: “For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, […]
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns or Forest of a Thousand Screams of Boredom (A Review)
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Summary: “Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs […]
Sadie Review
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Summary: “A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial―like podcast following the clues she’s left behind. And an ending you won’t be able to stop talking about. Sadie hasn’t had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated […]