A little late on the monthly wrap up post, but in March I read 26 books and DNF-ed one. 📱 The Black Kids* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📱 A Most Unusual Demise* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎧 Bloodmarked ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫📗 Beyond That, the Sea* ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫📕 The Sanatorium ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫🎧 My Dear Henry* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫📘 The Monsters We Defy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📗 Forager* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📱 Flint and Mirror – DNF📕Continue reading “March wrap up”
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REVIEW: Where Darkness Blooms
“There are a lot of strange things in this town,” Evan said slowly, “It’s best to keep the strangest one close to be safe.” Delilah, Jude, Whitney and Bo are teenage girls who live together and are desperately trying to find their mothers who went missing. The town seems overall disinterested in solving the mystery.Continue reading “REVIEW: Where Darkness Blooms”
Pub Day REVIEW: The Writing Retreat
“The few times I’d timidly given her one of my stories to read, she’d found pleasure in pointing out any improbabilities. This would never happen.” ——————————— Yeah, that quote says it all for me. It’s a bit like Nanowrimo if a maniacal Willy Wonka type ran it. The Plot meets The Finalists meets The Hunting Wives.Continue reading “Pub Day REVIEW: The Writing Retreat”
REVIEW: Picture in the Sand
Alex is a young Muslim boy who has disappeared from his American home only to end up overseas supporting a fanatical sect. When his grandfather finds out, he begins emailing, opening up about when he was a youth and had a similar experience as a youth being attracted to fundamentalism. His story takes place onContinue reading “REVIEW: Picture in the Sand”
REVIEW: Come True
“I’m not paper. Today, I am a tree. And all the misogynistic huffing and puffing in the world won’t blow me down.” ——————————— Dolly has made some recent bad choices in life and has been living a year of atonement. Quiet, reserved and restricting herself from anything that she deems as indulgent. When she buysContinue reading “REVIEW: Come True”
REVIEW: Reset
“They are both stuck like rats on the tar of this life.” ————————— Imagine you only have 4 years to live your current life and then you get all your memories wiped with a chance to start over. That is the world Aris is living in. In a future world, there are 4 connected citiesContinue reading “REVIEW: Reset”
REVIEW: All Hallows
It’s Halloween night in a small town and many of its residents are gearing up for fun and revelry. One family is running a haunted trail through the woods, another is hosting a block party and lots of teens and kids are getting ready to trick or treat. But, no one will make it throughContinue reading “REVIEW: All Hallows”
Pub Day REVIEW: The Spice Road
“The soul is neither static nor finite; we feed it our entire lives through our choices. Injustice shrinks one’s soul; generosity expands it. Acts of selflessness fortify it.” ———————– Steeped in Arabian myths with djinn and spice enhanced magic, Imani and her siblings are all training in different ways to defend their city. Their family isContinue reading “Pub Day REVIEW: The Spice Road”
REVIEW: Sixteen Souls
Charlie is a teenager who had a brush with death and now he can see and communicate with ghosts. He thinks he knows everything about the world beyond until he meets Sam, who is another seer. Then one of his ghostie friends goes missing, and then another… suddenly Charlie realizes that there is a lotContinue reading “REVIEW: Sixteen Souls”
REVIEW: Belladonna
Signa is an orphan who has lived in several homes, each touched by unfortunate deaths. As she is coming towards the end of her youth, and about to come into her inheritance, she is once again in a new home. She moves in just as the matriarch of the family has died and the daughter, whoContinue reading “REVIEW: Belladonna”
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