by Michelle | Sep 10, 2021 | Audiobook, B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2021, K Author, Novel Nuggets, P Author, Review Copy, S Author, Y Author
When you have twenty-nine books to review, you cry uncle and resort to short reviews. Plus, after all this time, I’m not certain I remember enough about any of them to write a full-length review. We will be breaking these into five parts. This is part seven....
by Michelle | Mar 10, 2021 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy
While Rena Barron’s debut novel, Kingdom of Souls, failed to blow me away, its sequel Reaper of Souls did just that. Gone are the repetitiveness of the writing as well as the one-dimensionality of the characters I found most distracting. In their place is an...
by Michelle | Mar 9, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy, S Author
Game Changer is thought-provoking as well as timely. It is a fascinating study of cause and effect through which Neal Shusterman points out the every-day and, therefore, hidden elements of racism, sexism, and other forms of hatred that permeate our society. It is as...
by Michelle | Mar 8, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, K Author, Review Copy
I love Julie Kagawa’s books. If you have not had the pleasure of reading her Shadow of a Fox or Blood of Eden series, you are seriously missing out on two fantasy treasures. Up to this point, I would even include The Iron Fey series among that list....
by Michelle | Feb 12, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy, S Author
With more ink on my skin than my husband, I am a sucker for fantasy books that revolve around magic tattoos. Granted, they haven’t been the greatest stories I have ever read, but that doesn’t stop me from reading them. Kim Smejkal’s Ink in the Blood...
