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The Memory Thief Book Review

Fantasy / Standalone / YA

The Memory Thief Book Review

Julietta Lark is desperate. Desperate to escape her past. Desperate to protect Rhen, an orphan who’s become closer than a sister. And desperate to save her mother from a cruel death. When an opportunity to preserve all that she loves arises, she must return to the Shadows of her past. In a world where memory is currency, turmoil is rising and a revolution is gathering strength.

Blood of Kings Trilogy / Fantasy / YA

To Darkness Fled Book Review

Categories: Blood of Kings Trilogy, Fantasy, YAAuthor: Jill WilliamsonSeries: The Blood of Kings TrilogyPublisher: Enclave PublishingPublished: 2010*Warning! This review may contain spoilers for the first book in the series, By Darkness Hid! Proceed at...

Fantasy / The Weaver Trilogy / YA

The Story Raider Book Review

Categories: Fantasy, The Weaver Trilogy, YAAuthor: Lindsay A. FranklinSeries: The Weaver TrilogyPublisher: Enclave PublishingPublished: 2019This is your warning! This review contains spoilers for The Story Peddler!!! Proceed at your own risk!!! Tanwen and Gryfelle...

Children of the Blood Moon Trilogy / Fantasy / YA

Scarlet Moon Book Review

Categories: Children of the Blood Moon Trilogy, Fantasy, YAAuthor: S.D. GrimmSeries: Children of the Blood MoonPublisher: Enclave PublishingPublished: 2016Jayden’s biggest concern is her nearing betrothal to her childhood best friend, Ryan. But after “Feravolk”...

Mystery

Cards on the Table Book Review

Category: MysteryAuthor: Agatha ChristieSeries: Hercule PoirotPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 1936Mr. Shaitana is a  collector — of fine art, antiques, trinkets, and as he tells Poirot, people. But Mr. Shaitana is fascinated most by the art of...

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Happy Guy Fawkes Day!!!

Greetings fellow bookworms! Happy Guy Fawkes Day!!! Today is the day the famed “Gunpowder treason and plot” was to take place! A day shrouded in mystery and conspiracy. Guy Fawkes (and other conspirators) hid...

Fantasy / Steampunk / YA

To Best the Boys Book Review

Categories: Fantasy, Steampunk, YAAuthor: Mary WeberPublisher: Thomas NelsonPublished: 2019Rhen Tellur is desperate to find a cure for the disease ravaging her sector of town…and most recently her mother. But nothing seems to be working...

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Fantasy / The Weaver Trilogy / YA

The Story Peddler Book Review

Tanwen En-Yestin is a young story-peddler who spends her days telling “crowned” stories that form crystallized figurines to be sold. Traveling from town to town, she dreams of the day when she might become the Royal Storyteller. But one day, words of treason sip into her story and Tanwen becomes a fugitive.

Dystopian / Science Fiction / YA

Skyward Book Review

Spensa Nightshade is the daughter of a coward. So it’s more than a test that keeps her out of flight school. But when her father’s old wingmate offers her a spot, her life changes. Everything she believes is challenged. In a society where “Defiance is Survival”, the only humans are survivors and their descendants from the spaceship, the Defiant. Spensa finds a crashed ship named M-Bot, and with the aid of Doomslug and childhood friend Rig, she brings it back to life. Spensa uncovers the truth about her father and what they share, but finds it may not be the curse she believes it is.

Allegory / Fantasy / Middle Grade

The Bark of the Bog Owl Book Review

Categories: Allegory, Fantasy, Middle GradeAuthor: Jonathan RogersSeries: The Wilderking TrilogyPublisher: Rabbit RoomPublished: 2004As Aidan Errol is pronounced Wilderking, a pact is signed between Corenwald and the Pyrthen Empire, but as Aiden shoulders the weight...