Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads Review written by: Jessica C. It has only been six weeks since the angels of the apocalypse fell to earth to destroy the world. A world that once taken over by the angels is now a world where fear and superstition co-exist. Families are divided and ripped apart, left to the whim…
Tag: youngadult
Review of The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads Review written by: Jessica C. One of the most refreshing things to find in a YA novel is a character that the reader can relate to, and an author that writes characters near her age. It was a pleasant surprise after reading Kody Keplinger’s biography that she was a girl in her…
Review of Death Runs in the Family by: Greg Wilkey & Tea Feature
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Greg Wilkey’s Author Facebook Page/Goodreads On Anne Rice’s Facebook page, Greg Wilkey is a very frequent contributor to the ongoing discussions that take place there, and he actively shares details about two of his supernatural-themed series. His previous series, the Mortimer Drake books, were concisely-written, action-packed, and had a very rich mythological origin story…
Interview with Mary Weber- Author of *Storm Siren*/ Giveaway of “Storm Siren”
Enter to win a copy of Storm Siren, by clicking the cover image below of the book (to access the Rafflecopter app)!! **Only those living in the USA are eligible to enter the contest to win a copy of “Storm Siren”** The amazingly talented writer of Storm Siren was gracious enough to take time of her busy schedule to respond…
Maria V. Snyder Wednesdays: Review of “Storm Glass”
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads After two weeks without any Maria V. Snyder-centric posts on this blog, the much-anticipated retrospective reviews of her books returns in fine form and flourish with the first entry of the Glass Trilogy, with the intrepid, often ruthlessly defiant Opal. Antithetically, I would say that Opal is more daring and…
Female Magic Wielder Month: Author Highlight: Maria V. Snyder
Duties in Life include- adept wordsmith (linguistic wizard), and part-time military strategist, as exemplified through the character of Avry from the Healer Series (not really, but it will prove to be an indispensable skill, when the zombie apocalypse rolls around.) Some of her noteworthy titles, featuring dynamic, powerful female magic wielder include: Click on…
Review of Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter
Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/ Kobo/Goodreads Gena Showalter continues the White Rabbit Chronicles with Through the Zombie Glass. The book picks up shortly where Alice in Zombieland left out and brings the reader right back into the strange and curious world that Showalter creates in the White Rabbit Chronicles with a whole new twist. While…
When He was Fifteen Years Old…
Golden Boy: A Novel Abigail Tarttelin Atria Books/Simon&Schuster Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo/IndieBound(Buy from local, independent bookstore!!) As it was in Jeffrey Eugenides’ brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex, the literary roots of Golden Boy can be traced to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book IV—the myth of the beautiful son of Hermes and Aphrodite. The “golden…
Monthly Book Blogger Double Dare: VC Andrew’s “Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind”
Information about this new monthly blog feature: Every month, I will dare myself to read a book series that has been maligned by many, scorned by many, stigmatized by many, or it is a series that someone of my demographic (twenty-four year old male) would not be expected, as dictated by societal and cultural norms, to…
Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet- a review by Jessica Curtis
Pills and Starships, written by: Lydia Millet Review Written by: Jessica Curtis Publisher: Akashic Books Release Date: May 19,2014 Amazon (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo If you could dream or really have a nightmare of a future where the population is controlled by the government you would be dreaming of the world portrayed in Lydia Millet’s…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 