Dani Hoots’ Review of In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund

Title: In the Hall with the Knife Author: Diana Peterfreund Review by: Dani Hoots Genre: YA Thriller/Mystery/Dark Academia   Rating: 4/5 Buy Here Back cover: Scarlet. Mustard. Green. Peacock. Plum. Orchid. One storm will change their lives forever…if they survive the night. When a killer storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled…

Dani Hoots’ Review of One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Title: One of Us is Lying Author: Karen M. McManus Review by: Dani Hoots Genre: YA Thriller/Mystery/Dark Academia   Rating: 5/5 Buy Here Back cover: Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.    Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.     Addy,…

Dani Hoots’ Review of Rogue: Untouched by Alisa Kwitney

Title: Rogue: Untouched: A Marvel Heroines Novel Author: Alisa Kwitney Review by: Dani Hoots Genre: YA Fantasy/X-Men   Rating: 5/5 Buy Here Back cover: Rogue’s frightening new mutant powers keep her at arms-length from the world, but two strangers offer a chance to change her life forever, in this exhilarating Marvel Super Hero adventure Young…

Dani Hoots’ Review of Hellworld by Tom Leveen plus an Author Interview!!!

Hellworld by Tom Leveen Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Changing Hands Bookstore/Goodreads Published by: Simon Pulse Review by: Dani Hoots In an effort to put her family back together, a teen struggles to discover what happened to her mother who disappeared during a ghost hunt in this haunting new novel from the author of Party, Sick, and Shackled. Five years ago, Abby Booth’s…

Review of Susan Dennard’s Truthwitch

General Blog Admin Note for Coming Year. 2017   Focus is the theme of 2017, and that is how things will be: a little more regimented, a little more symmetrical, making things more reliably updated in terms of content. That should hopefully appease those who may have been thinking rather this blog was perhaps a vanishing…

Review of Rebelwing by Tracy Banghart

Amazon (Kindle) / Barnes & Nobles/ Indiebound Reviewer: Lindsey The Dominion of Atalanta is at war. But for eighteen-year-old Aris, the fighting is nothing more than a distant nightmare, something she watches on news vids from the safety of her idyllic seaside town. Then her boyfriend, Calix, is drafted into the Military, and the nightmare…

Dani Hoots’ Review of manicpixiedreamgirl by Tom Leveen

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…

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 The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler

The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler Available June 21, 2016 Goodreads Publisher: Apex Book Company Reviewer: Dani Hoots Fifteen year old Jackson is different from the other children at the foundling hospital. Scales sometimes cover his arms. Tentacles coil just below his skin. Despite this Jackson tries to fit in with the other children….

Dani Hoots’ Review of White Raven by J.L. Weil

White Raven By J.L. Weil Amazon/Barnes&Noble Reviewer: Dani Hoots It only took one heartbeat to change my life–one chilling phone call in the middle of the night. And then, as if my life didn’t already suck, my dad sends my brother and me to some idyllic island for the summer to live with a grandma…