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Review: Happily Ever Afters

February 18, 2022February 12, 2022Leave a comment

Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She’s rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she’s a true leading lady is in her own writing—in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted … Continue reading Review: Happily Ever Afters

Review: Called to Serve

February 16, 2022February 12, 2022Leave a comment

Passionate, stirring and faith-inspiring, this autobiography captures and transports the reader's mind and heart to a village in Transylvania beginning in the early 20th century. As the story unfolds, the struggles of a son born into a large family, the dividing effects of World War II, and the oppression of Christian believers in Communist-dominated countries … Continue reading Review: Called to Serve

Review: Tales From the Café

February 12, 2022February 12, 20221 Comment

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes Tales from the Cafe, a … Continue reading Review: Tales From the Café

Review: One True King

February 4, 2022February 1, 2022Leave a comment

Two kings now claim the throne of Camelot, but only one is the True King. Nearly every kingdom of the Woods has pledged their loyalty to King Rhian over the Storian; all but one. The ring of Camelot is the only ring that stands, keeping the Storian alive, and now that Tedros has it, the … Continue reading Review: One True King

Review: A Crystal of Time

February 2, 2022January 25, 2022Leave a comment

A false king has seized Camelot’s throne, sentencing Tedros, the true king, to death. While Agatha, narrowly escapes the same fate, Sophie is caught in King Rhian’s trap. With her wedding to Rhian approaching, she’s forced to play a dangerous game as her friends’ lives hang in the balance.All the while, King Rhian’s dark plans … Continue reading Review: A Crystal of Time

Review: Quests for Glory

December 24, 2021December 21, 2021Leave a comment

The students at the School for Good and Evil thought they had found their final Ever After when they vanquished the malevolent School Master. Now, on their required fourth-year quests, the students face obstacles both dangerous and unpredictable, and the stakes are high: success brings eternal adoration, and failure means obscurity forever.For their quests, Agatha … Continue reading Review: Quests for Glory

Review: My Life With the Walter Boys

July 14, 2021July 13, 2021Leave a comment

Moving in with twelve boys was not part of her plan.Jackie's goal is perfection--perfect grades, the perfect look, getting into the perfect school. If she can achieve that, then maybe her too-busy mom and dad will take notice. But when her parents die in a tragic accident, Jackie is shipped off across the country to … Continue reading Review: My Life With the Walter Boys

Review: Pure

July 10, 2021July 6, 2021Leave a comment

Tabitha and her four best friends all wear purity rings, symbols of the virginity-until-marriage pledge they made years ago. Now Tab is fifteen, and her ring has come to mean so much more. It’s a symbol of who she is and what she believes—a reminder of her promises to herself, and her bond to her … Continue reading Review: Pure

Review: The Juvie Three

June 26, 2021June 26, 2021Leave a comment

Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone.All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance. Douglas Healy, a former juvenile delinquent himself, is running an experimental halfway house in New York City, where he wants to … Continue reading Review: The Juvie Three

Review: The Rembrandt Conspiracy

February 8, 2021June 19, 2021Leave a comment

In this standalone companion to The Van Gogh Deception, Art and Camille team up once again to solve a large museum theft, using one of the biggest heists in history to help them solve the case.Something’s brewing at the National Portrait Gallery Museum in Washington, D.C. twelve-year-old Art is sure of it. But his only proof that a … Continue reading Review: The Rembrandt Conspiracy

Review: The Van Gogh Deception

December 10, 2020June 19, 20211 Comment

When a young boy is discovered in Washington DC’s National Gallery without any recollection of who he is, so begins a high-stakes race to unravel the greatest mystery of all: his identity.As the stakes continue to rise, the boy must piece together the disjointed clues of his origins while using his limited knowledge to stop one … Continue reading Review: The Van Gogh Deception

We Need to Stop Calling YA a Genre

December 5, 2020June 15, 202210 Comments

I'm guilty of doing this, so I'm not coming down on anyone. For the longest time, actually, I would just refer to Young Adult books as a genre of books. The problem with calling YA a genre is the fact that it's not really a genre. It's an audience target. Much like children's books are … Continue reading We Need to Stop Calling YA a Genre

5 Book Series Recommendations

August 27, 2020June 15, 20222 Comments

In order to get myself back in the groove of blogging, I'm here with some recommendations I had written up in a notebook but hadn't gotten around to typing up yet. We all love our books that come in a series because we get to stay with our beloved characters a bit longer. Most series … Continue reading 5 Book Series Recommendations

Review: Restart

May 7, 2020June 27, 2021Leave a comment

Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows he's Chase. … Continue reading Review: Restart

Review: The Printed Letter Bookshop

February 1, 2020June 27, 20214 Comments

One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles and her own bitter losses have hardened Madeline’s heart toward her once-treasured aunt—and the now struggling bookshop left in … Continue reading Review: The Printed Letter Bookshop

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