Ten-year-old Star Mackie lives in a trailer park with her flaky mom and her melancholy older sister, Winter, whom Star idolizes. Moving to a new town has made it difficult for Star to make friends, when her classmates tease her because of where she lives and because of her layered blue hair. But when Star starts a poetry...
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Waiting on Wednesday (May 27)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson, which has an expected release date of September 22, 2015. Odea Donahue has been able to travel through people’s dreams since she was six years old. Her...
Top Ten Books in My Beach Bag This Summer
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “top ten books in my beach bag this summer.” Unfortunately, there isn’t a beach that’s too close...
Review | The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer...
Review | No Place Like Oz by Danielle Paige
After returning to Kansas, Dorothy Gale has realized that the dreary fields of Kansas don’t compare to the vibrant landscapes of Oz. And although she’s happy to be reunited with Aunt Em, she misses her friends from the yellow brick road. But most of all, Dorothy misses the fame and the adventure. In Kansas she’s just another prairie...
Mid-May Book Haul
I finally broke my self-imposed book buying ban, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Purchased: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Giveaway Wins: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley...
Be My (Fictional) Bad Boy
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed something interesting about the way I tend to react to love triangles – or, more specifically, the “choices” involved in the love triangle. I’ve found that I gravitate towards the “bad boys” when presented with an option between them and the boy-next-door/childhood best friend archetype. If given the choice, I’d choose...
Waiting on Wednesday (May 13)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on The Anatomy of Curiosity by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff and Tessa Gratton, which has an expected publication date of October 1, 2015. The follow-up to the acclaimed novel The Curiosities: A Collection of...
Top Ten Authors I Really Want To Meet
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “top ten authors I really want to meet.” I haven’t actually met any authors, so my list...
Review | The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast...