Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Wow. This was really good. I didn’t know where the book was going at all, but I had fun just hanging on for the ride. I wonder how do other readers think this book is going to end? I have some thoughts noodling around in my head. “Just Like Home” follows 30 something year old Vera Crowder. Vera has been gone from her family home for 15 years. Something drove her away. But now that her mother Daphne is dying, Vera is home to take […]
Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike
I am going to boo the heck out of the cover of the newest release, I loved the older version of the cover I had when I was a teen. I really did love this book ridiculously as a teenager, and I still enjoyed it. Pike really did just go all out with murder and really grown up topics. I thought this one did a great job with the horror and fantasy elements. “Bury Me Deep” follows Jean who is off to Hawaii to join […]
The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi
Persephone by Lev Grossman
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
Undercover by Tamsyn Muir
What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo
The Candles Are Burning by Veronica G. Henry
Out of the Mirror, Darkness by Garth Nix
Wow. I really wish this series of short stories had been released around Halloween, some of the stories are very good and the horror/fantasy elements are great. There are at least two stories I wish had been longer novels (The Six Deaths of the Saint and Undercover) because of how good they were and how much I didn’t want the stories to be over when I got to the end. “The Garden” by Tomi Adeyemi (2 stars)-This one compared to the other books in the […]
Many Waters by Madeline L'Engle
I am realizing that not many readers of the “Time Quintet” read book #4 of the series. I am also now realizing that my mom skipped this book when she got me the series when I was a pre-teen. I loved this series and had no clue til I got older there was a story about the fabulous twins I had a crush on, Sandy and Dennys. I didn’t understand why this book was so controversial, til of course I read it. “Many Waters” is […]
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
I honestly don’t know what to say about this book besides it did not hang together very well. I just could not get into it. I think the main character (Jade) was kind of insufferable for most of the book. And the interludes in between those chapters didn’t help me to stay engaged. I think this was what I said about the other books of Graham Jones’s that I read. Good thoughts, but bad execution. I put this book down several times this year because […]
Greek Myths: A Retelling by Charlotte Higgins
I thought this was so good. The cover was fantastic and I loved that as I read this one (I bought this in hardcover yesterday at a local bookstore) the cover sparkled. Higgins does a great job of following Greek myths through many of its famous women, but they are all linked by the loom and their weave depicting some of the terrible things the gods and goddesses have done. We start off with Gaia and Uranus and how their offspring where the Titans. And […]
