manicpixiedreamgirl by Tom Leveen Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Goodreads Published by: Random House Review by: Dani Hoots Full of emotion, teenage chaos and angst, love, friendship, and heartbreak, Leveen does a great job bringing together all of these things and make you feel you as if you are in the shoes of the main character. The dialogue is great…
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Dani Hoots’ review of The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse
The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Goodreads Published by: Clean Teen Publishing Review by: Dani Hoots Magic can do a lot―give you flight, show you mermaids, help you taste the stars, and… solve the budget crisis? That’s what the grown-ups will do with it if they ever make it to Neverland to steal its magic and…
Dani Hoots’ Review of Conspiracy Boy by Cecily White
Conspiracy Boy (Angel Academy #2) by Cecily White Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Entangled: Teen Review by: Dani Hoots Release: April 4th, 2016 All’s fair in love and war. Let the games begin. Nobody said senior year was going to be easy, but I wasn’t expecting pure hell, either. That’s right. HELL. Demons attacking. Cheerleaders…
Dani Hoots’ Review of The Passion of Dolssa
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry Amazon/Barnes & Noble Release Date: April 12, 2016 Published by: Viking Books for Young Readers Review by: Dani Hoots *Was given a copy through First to Read for my honest review* I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the…
Review of Kate Morton’s “The Lake House”
Simon & Schuster/ IndieBound/Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Kobo Check out the following enticing synopsis of the book, provided by Simon & Schuster: From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on her family’s idyllic…
Review of “The Sweetheart: A Novel,” by: Angelina Mirabella
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Simon & Schuster/Goodreads Angelina Mirabella’s aptly- titled historical ficiton novel The Sweetheart, set around the era of the fifties in America, is an exciting, identity-confused perspective of a female wrestler, in a time in America which many attribute as being one of the most idyllic eras in our history. When you read the…
Review of “The Buried Giant” by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” –William Shakespeare: Hamlet- In my undergrad years (my idealist, wanderlust years as an English undergrad), I wrote a Shakespeare essay, analyzing the dichotomous relationship between “light” and “dark,”…
Review of “We Are Not Ourselves” by Matthew Thomas
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/ Goodreads Let me preface this review, by saying that Matthew Thomas’ We Are Not Ourselves is not escapist fiction; this is gritty, unsparing realistic fiction that is done magnificently well. It has taken me approximately three months to read this novel, more from the difficulty of some of the later subject matter (not…
Review of Les Miserables Manga/Graphic Novel
Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Series:Manga Classics Hardcover:336 pages Publisher:Udon Entertainment (August 19, 2014) Language:English ISBN-10:1927925150 ISBN-13:978-1927925157 Reviewed by Paula Tupper September 21, 2014 I grew up in the Silver Age of comic books. My clothes were in a messy heap under the bed because my closet was stacked four feet high with the entire lines of Marvel,…
#28DaysofLestat-Anne Rice Week-Anne Rice’s Creation of the Facebook Fan Page/The Flourishing of “Bibliophile’s Reverie”
Dare to click the book cover below, to pre-order your copy, because this is a book you will not want to miss, if you view yourself as a serious fan of the Vampire Lestat… Without Anne Rice and her amazing Facebook fan page (and all the wonderful people I’ve met through there), this blog would have…
Review of “The Zone of Interest,” by Martin Amis
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Yes, a novel centered in the cruel, almost starkly surreal nightmare of the Nazi concentration camps is about the most unsavory setting for any book. And, you’ll feel like some of the characters in this story, who Martin Amis has a remarkable ability to show their apathy, denial, yet their serious…
Review of “China Dolls,” by Lisa See
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads In ninth grade (a time that seems eons ago..), I wrote a report on Japanese Internment camps, since the topic completely fascinated me. This was at a time, where history lessons were becoming increasingly more divisive, thus featuring more critical thought and response as a result. Most of my education has…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 