Category: Books

  • These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner | Book Review

    These Broken Stars Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive – alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a cynical war hero. Both journey across the eerie deserted terrain for help. Everything changes when they uncover…

  • Mama Graciela’s Secret | Book Review

    This book by Author Assistant was given to me for an honest review Mamá Graciela’s Secret Written by Mayra Calvani Illustrated by Sheila Fein MacLaren-Cochrane Publishing www.maclaren-cochranepublishing.com Description: Mamá Graciela’s TENDER, CRUNCHY, SPICY bacalaítos fritos are the best in town… Local customers (including stray cats!) come from all over the island to enjoy her secret…

  • Super Graveyard | Watcha Reading Wednesday

      The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman I am currently reading this spooky read…even though spooky month just finished. Neil Gaiman is known for being a very illustrative story teller and so far I agree. After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural…

  • Comic and Graphic Novel Authors at the 2017 Miami Book Fair

    Penelope Bagieu, California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas In Mike Cavallro’s science fiction/fantasy, Decelerate Blue, a young woman is recruited into a resistance movement to resist a world in which speed and efficiency are everything, but can they succeed before the powers that be shut down their utopian experiment? In Nidhi…

  • Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer | Book Review

      I have given this book for free for an honest review.   A kingdom burns. A princess sleeps. This is no fairy tale. It all started with the burning of the spindles. No. It all started with a curse… Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king’s headstrong illegitimate daughter,…

  • Princesses, Turtles and Birds | Watcha Reading Wednesday

    Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer I have given this book for free for a honest review. I am currently making my way through the novel, but even though it is marketed as a YA it feels a lot as a Middle Grade. I don’t love but I don’t hate it so far. Stay tune for…

  • Turtles All The Way Down by John Green | Book Review

    Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is…

  • Demons and Thoughts | Watcha Reading Wednesday

    Turtles All The Way Down by John Green I am currently reading John Green’s new book, but with caution because his previous books feel like a copy and paste of the previous. This one sounds promising, so we will see. Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s…

  • YA Authors at the 2017 Miami Book Fair!

    In Anna Banks’ thrilling sequel to Nemesis, Princess Sepora of Serubel and King Tarik of Theoria have formed an uneasy truce–until traitors with powerful allies arise from unexpected places, challenging both their kingdoms forever. Julie Buxbaum’s What to Say Next Michael Buckley’sbest-selling The Sisters Grimmseries, featuring two orphaned sisters, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, celebrates ten years…

  • Spooky Halloween | Watcha Reading Wednesday

    The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken I am currently reading this spooky middle grade story of a 12-year-old Prosper Redding who’s life pretty much sucks because his ancestors made a deal with a fiend and then pissed the fiend off. Even though it is a MG, it doesn’t read like one. It…