by Michelle | Jan 29, 2019 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2019, G Author, H Author, Novel Nuggets, P Author
Ms. Hanover’s debut novel about clones is, simply put, fantastic. The Similars is everything I love about reading. The story is engaging; I could not stop reading it everything I predicted ending up not coming true. The characters may be archetypes, but I still...
by Michelle | Jan 2, 2019 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2018
With A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne is now one of my favorite authors and now has a place on my auto-buy list. His talent and creativity blow me away. Each of his novels that I have read is distinctively different, and he is just as comfortable and successful...
by Michelle | Dec 16, 2018 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2018
By all accounts, Ezekiel Boone’s spider trilogy was quite good. I wish the same were true of his haunted mansion novel. In fact, The Mansion is so far removed from being a decent novel that it is one of the few times I regret the time I spent reading a novel....
by Michelle | Nov 8, 2018 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2018
Initial Thoughts: “Elly Blake’s Frostblood series ended with a bang. I adored this series from the start, and I was eagerly anticipating the finale because I had no idea how it was going to end. Suffice it to say, Nightblood is everything I wanted in the...
by Michelle | Oct 25, 2018 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2018
Initial Thoughts: “Deborah Blum’s novel about the fight to develop food safety regulations and the beginnings of the Food and Drug Administration is fascinating if gruesome. To all the people concerned about genetically modified foods, I say that after...
by Michelle | Oct 18, 2018 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2018
Initial thoughts: “Robert Jackson Bennett became an author to watch with his stunning City of Stairs trilogy. With his newest series, he entered my automatic read list. Mr. Bennett’s world-building is superb, and his stories are intense and complicated and...
