So many genres, so little time
Kit Kat is a fifteen-year-old adoptee who writes letters to her favorite literary character, Jane Eyre, as a means of surviving a violent childhood in Greece and a harrowing adoption in New York that requires her to silence her memories and her voice. In writing letters to Jane, Kit Kat discovers a connection to literature… Continue reading Dear Jane by Marina Delvecchio
Title: Unlikely FriendsAuthor: Sahar AbdulazizGenre: Contemporary Fiction/ Humor/ SatireRelease Date: February 19, 2019Cover Designer: Patrick Knowles (Patrick Knowles Design)Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC. Irwin is not only the local Librarian; he’s also a book snob and an all-around grouch. There’s nothing he values more than his privacy. As a loner, he’s happy to be… Continue reading Unlikely Friends by Sahar Abdulaziz
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. This was my second review on my blog posted in February 2009. I was still new to the blogger role and was thrilled to find such a… Continue reading Prime Choice (Perry Skky Jr. Series 1) by Stephanie Perry Moore
Publication date: February 5, 2019Genre: Fiction/Young Adult/Action and AdventurePages: 244 Finn Jupiter lives in the idyllic mountain town of Victory, Colorado. She’s a smart, daring, and fiercely independent young woman. She also has a gift for seeing the small things that others can’t. Connecting lines that, for most, don’t exist.While happy to live out a quiet life, hiking,… Continue reading My Name is Finn Jupiter by Gareth Crocker
Publication date: March 5, 2019Genre: Fiction/Literature/LGBTPages: 368 As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Faced with the college recruitment process and unsure of where her skill will take her, Nancy is not prepared for meeting Raina Webber, an All-State shooting guard whose… Continue reading The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr
Title: Wesley (The Son Series, #1) Author: Leanne Davis Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: March 15th Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC. ~Wesley~ Yeah, I don’t trust them. Who are they? The family who takes me in after they catch me making a rare mistake. They offer me a deal that allows me to make… Continue reading Wesley (The Son Series, #1) by Leanne Davis
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in June 2012. Leverage's message of tragedy, courage, and justice sticks with me almost 7 years after discovering this amazing story. A must… Continue reading Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in September 2009. The review is short, but I will never forget Gaiman's unique story about a young boy named Nobody Jones. I… Continue reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Welcome to my blog stop on the fabulous mega blitz tour by R&R Book Tours for four outstanding YA books with GIVEAWAYS. Up first is my review on Hannah R. Goodman's Till It Stops Beating. There are more excerpts and giveaways for three other books below. Good luck and I hope you enjoy my review! Till… Continue reading Till It Stops Beating (The Maddie Chronicles #4) by Hannah R. Goodman
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch. -Wynonna Judd SYNOPSIS On the outside, I look like the All-American teenage dream. I'm pretty, popular, and athletic. I have the right family, the right boyfriend, the right kind of friends. If you only knew... Every day I… Continue reading Saving Me by Sadie Allen
As long as Ellis Sayre could remember, he wanted to know his real parents. He was Native American and had the brown skin to prove it. Which exact tribe was a mystery; he didn’t have the luxury of that information. It was hard for him to gauge why he was the way he was. Awkward.… Continue reading Right Handed Lefty by Ryan Coughlin
Grandpa used to be the one to make demands of me. Now he’s almost completely gone. His brain is, anyway. His body’s as strong as the day he stormed the beach at Normandy. Maybe stronger. Gabe LoScuda is no ordinary 18-year-old. After his parents die in a car accident, he's the caretaker of his eighty-year-old grandfather… Continue reading No Sad Songs by Frank Morelli
I am delighted to kick off my first blog tour with YA Bound Book Tours and introduce The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy. Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction Release Date: September 28, 2017 ABOUT THE BOOK Meet Sadie MacPhearson. She’s seventeen and lives in a ritzy, artsy beach town called Mariposa Beach, California.… Continue reading The Teenager with a Chameleon Soul by Cindy McElroy
We all hold a beast inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed. Aaron Ryland, aka Rain, lived on the streets of Houston assuming his "typical defiant, don't-give-a-shit teen thug persona", but all he wanted was to stay in one place and have a normal life. Regrettably, his chance came when his… Continue reading Haven by Mary Lindsey
Bethan Jones lives alone with her grandmother, Gran, who is the drabarni (magical practitioner) of her clansmen. To Romany people, the drabarni is the wise women of the clan and Bethan is next in line. To Bethan's disappointment, Gran says she is not ready to learn spellcraft yet and insists she go to the local… Continue reading The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan
Ashley is an artist and has become accustomed to being ridiculed for simply being herself. Would she feel differently about herself if her mom thought differently of her? Does she make choices based on how she perceives how others expect her to behave, and does she subconsciously draw their attention to her flaws? She'll never… Continue reading Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter
Beauty's life is good, she lives with her father, her two sisters, and her brother-in-law in a small cottage. However, when her father comes back from a trip, she finds that he has to sacrifice a daughter to the Beast that lives in the enchanted castle. Beauty sacrifices her life for her father's life and… Continue reading Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
This is an unusual and disturbing story about mental illness. The attractive, new guy at school, Brad Johnson, has taken an interest in Tracy Lloyd, but what does he really want from her. If it only could be so easy. His story is heart-wrenching and frightening and her fate is in the hands of this… Continue reading The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan
Words matter--how we use them and how we don't. Chelsea learned the hard way. Her words almost ended up killing a fellow classmate. When she outed a boy at a party, her "friends" decided to beat him and send him to the hospital. Her conscience made her rat out those friends and all hell broke… Continue reading Speechless by Hannah Harrington
It is good to see a young male protagonist in a young adult fiction novel. I was beginning to wonder if they existed. Stephen Quinn, 15, and his father are living in a post apocalyptic world which was devastated by an unknown plague. They travel around the country as salvagers who trade their wares to… Continue reading The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch