I think this book was on several best of YA lists last year and it ended up on my TBR list without me knowing much about it. When I got it from the library and realized it was a pioneer story, I honestly didn’t expect much. My parents were mormons and therefore obsessed with tales of pioneers, so my childhood was inundated with it. I was definitely not into it. Anyway, all this to say that I wasn’t really excited for this book, but decided […]
An Embarrassment of Riches in a Debut Novel
I’m not sure there could be a better time than now for this impressive debut novel from Kaitlyn Greenidge. She addresses racism, white privilege, female relationships, family strife, and loneliness in a novel that centers around a scientific experiment spanning some 60 years. Greenidge’s narrators are four African American girls and women who are intelligent but alone and lonely. Each is searching for a missing connection, for a love that has been missing and might even be considered forbidden or unnatural; each has felt alienation […]
This Will Make a Great Lifetime Movie–That’s Not A Slam
On the night of their high school graduation, Kathryn’s best friend Jennifer says that she’ll be right back and never returns to the bonfire. She’s never heard from and no body ever turns up. She simply disappeared from the woods, leaving questions and secrets behind. Ten years later, Kathryn is returning home after a divorce to stay at her childhood home and regroup. Everything that was never dealt with that night will be, as Kathryn is asked to write a follow up article on […]
A mostly good story with a lovely soundtrack
(For maximum review enjoyment, please listen to the video!) One of the benefits of listening to the audiobook for this was the presence of the music. Incendio is the waltz that is central to the book, and in the audiobook you can hear it throughout the narration. It was not until I was finished with the book that I saw that the author had composed Incendio! (So to all the people who claimed that the music “detracted” from the story, you suck. Because here, […]
Ok, I think I Get It Now
This review is for the audiobook version of Magic Burns, by Ilona Andrews, the second book in the Kate Daniels series. After the rough start I had with the first Kate Daniels book, I decided to start the second one before I could forget everything that had happened. I don’t think this was actually necessary, as the authors did a good job of refreshing my memory in the first couple of chapters, while also moving the plot along. This time Kate is once again working […]
Australian Gothic
My local secondhand book shop told me they had a run on requests for this book in the last six months – a waiting list for copies in the double digits. Not too shabby for a book published in 2000, right? Obviously, getting made into a movie starring Kate Winslett and basically every Australian actor ever (short of Hugh Jackman) doesn’t hurt. This was a read for my book club. As locating a copy through my local or through the library was virtually impossible with […]
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