Showing posts from November, 2018

The Aviary - Kathleen O'Dell

Summary: Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the Glendoveer mansion, where her mother is a serv…

Eventide - Therese Bohman

Summary:  An astute novel following the life of an art professor at Stockholm University as she navigates the academic …

Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse

Summary: While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, DinĆ©tah (form…

What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty

Summary:  Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s sur…

11/22/63 - Stephen King

Forgive the Bonus Post on Thursday this week! It went against everything in my brain to try to post this review on ANY …

My Fair Godmother - Janette Rallison

Summary:   When you wish upon a star.... ...if you're Savannah Delano, you end up with a gum-chewing, cell-phone ca…

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus - Dusti Bowling

Summary : Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Ta…

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Summary :  An outrageously funny debut,   Crazy Rich Asians  is the story of three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese famili…

The Wolf's Boy - Susan Williams Beckhorn

Summary: An outcast boy and a young wolf have only each other against an Ice Age winter . . . Kai burns to become a h…

When Elephants Fly - Nancy Richardson Fischer

Summary: There are some battles worth fighting even if it means losing yourself. T. Lily Decker is a high school senior…

Nightbooks - J.A. White

Summary: A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling…

The Girl Who Smiled Beads - Clemantine Wamariya

Summary : A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us. Clemantine Wamariya …

A Taste For Monsters - Matthew J Kirby

Summary: It’s London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigur…

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Summary:  Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy s…