by Michelle | May 28, 2020 | Did Not Finish, Review Copy
After reading some spectacular books earlier this month, I have hit a spate of bad ones. I know it happens; not every book can be amazing after all. Still, it depresses me because I have not been able to finish a book in over a week, and I was on such a good streak....
by Michelle | May 22, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, G Author, Review Copy
I thoroughly enjoyed The Women’s War by Jenna Glass, but the same cannot be said about its sequel, Queen of the Unwanted. In fact, I did not enjoy the reading of the sequel so much that I did contemplate marking it as a DNF. The only reason I did not do so was...
by Michelle | May 20, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, L Author, Review Copy
It would be easy to dismiss Goldilocks by Laura Lam as a space drama. To do so, however, would mean ignoring the most interesting aspects of the novel, at your detriment. For, the power of the novels lies not in the fact that a majority of it occurs in space but...
by Michelle | May 15, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, C Author, Review Copy
In an author’s note at the beginning of my review copy of The Betrothed, Kiera Cass mentions that the 1500s era is one of her inspirations for her latest book. I mention this because it is an important note. The Betrothed is not a rewrite of The Selection...
by Michelle | May 12, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, Review Copy, S Author
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin is another one of those books I could not stop discussing with my family. Every time I stopped reading the book, I had to make a comment to whichever family member was nearest to me, if only to help dispel that creepy-crawly feeling...
by Michelle | May 1, 2020 | Book Review, Books Read in 2020, P Author, Review Copy
At the fifteen percent mark of Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie, I was all set to mark it as a DNF and move on with my life. To be fair to the author and publisher, I vowed to read until the twenty-five percent mark and see if I felt the same way. Happily, I...
