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  • Book Updates?

    Covert Affairs is a fun spy book that is a bit like a more modern Totally Spies as three young adult girls go around the world rescuing heiresses, foiling cults and going gun to gun with the Brazilian mob. I found it very enjoyable and great light reading. And apparently this is an update because…

  • Beautiful Little Fools Review

    With The Great Gatsby now in public domain, Jillain Cantor duly stepped in to provide the ladies of Gatsby their own story. Set in the years leading up to, during and after Gatsby’s death, the novel follows Daisy, Jordan and Catherine and shows the pasts they hide, the secrets they keep and the disillusioned view…

  • Book Highlight: KPop Confidential

    K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee is a great book for any K-Pop fan or newbie. I am one of those newbies, I haven’t really listened to it before because of the language difference but the passion and artistic achievement described in this book made me want to! Now we start with ou protagonist, Candace, your…

  • Author Highlight: Courtney Sheinmel

    I have already talked about one of her books that I have reread several times, Sincerely, but last year I decided to go on a binge of several of her middle grade books. None of them are connected, but each deal with the complexities of families and the young protagonists dealing with big changes in…

  • Book Highlight: El Deafo

    This graphic novel by Cece Bell is a loose autobiographical account of Cece’s childhood. After an intense bout of menengitis, she lost her hearing in bith ears thus sparking a long journey into the hearing-able/deaf world and the difficulties of growing pains alongside being considered “different” and disabled. Since this autobiographical, Bell obviously has a…

  • On the Come Up Reread

    I read this about three years ago I think, but I didn’t remember much of it as compared to its predecessor The Hate U Give. But to be fair, On the Come Up is a solid book, it’s just I had to read THUG about five times for three different classes so it just stuck…

  • One Woman’s Junk Review

    The first book in JB Lynn’s Psychic Consigment Mysteries allows the author to write what she does best, humor, mystery, psychic powers, and sisterhood.

  • Under the Jolly Roger Review

    The third book in the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer wastes no time in bringing readers back to the fold of Jacky’s wild adventures. We start with the classic, “Call me, Ismael” because lo and behold, Jacky is on the Pequod with Captain Ahab and Ismael!

  • Twisted Tales: A Whole New World Review

    This book was an excellent and dark take on the scenario of “What if Aladdin never found the lamp?” That turns out to be a bit of misnomer because Aladdin does find the lamp. Jafar just happens to snatch it out of Aladdin’s hands and leaves him to be buried under mounds of sands. In…

  • Twisted Tales: Once Upon a Dream Review

    Ah yes, this twist on Sleeping Beauty was the first Twisted Tales book in the series, and an excellent intro to any newcomer I believe. The book asks “What if Sleeping Beauty hadn’t woken up?”. In fact it pulls Prince Phillip to sleep too once he kisses the princess. For our story starts not as…