Book Trailer Check out the exciting book trailer for Two Dark Reigns, out now! Praise for the Series Praise for ONE DARK THRONE ★ “Blake’s already pitch-dark tale shades even darker. Exquisitely restrained prose, deliberate pacing, paying off in a tumultuous climax that piles one shocking twist upon another. Achingly gorgeous and gruesomely fascinating.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred […]
My Thoughts Wow, this book was not at all what I was expecting! But I kind of love that because I really liked what it was. Colleen Houck is a YA author I’ve seen around a lot but never gotten to read. The one thing I love about her style is the visceral experience she […]
Chapter Spotlight Ash fell from the sky, blanketing the charred ground like cascading snow. Amelia stretched out her fingers, finding the burnt residue cool against her pale skin, lacking the heat responsible for the land’s horrific transformation. As she searched the valley for the conflagration’s source, or any living being, toxic particles coated her lungs […]
“The sentence-level beauty of this book often stunned me: There’s a smooth, understated loveliness to the writing that kept catching me off guard. In Chokshi’s prose, voices have substance and texture while light has color and flavor; never have I wanted to munch on books so much as after reading…Solidly crafted and very engaging, this […]
It’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl) the topic is: Top Ten Novellas & Short Stories Top Ten Novellas & Short Stories Jess Aleya The Library of Babel, short story by Jorge Luis Borges The Most Dangerous Game, short story by Richard Connell The Lottery, short story by Shirley Jackson The Tell-Tale Heart, […]
My Thoughts As soon as I read this book’s synopsis, I knew I had to get my hands on it. It just sounded so magical, even if there was lots of death and destruction of many characters’ psyche. I also have been watching a show about racketeering mediums, so that just added an element of piqued […]
It’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl) the topic is: Top Ten Series I’ve Given Up On/Don’t Plan to Finish Top Ten Series I’ve Given Up On/Don’t Plan to Finish Jess Aleya Court of Fives by Kate Elliott The Assassin’s Heart by Sarah Ahiers The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee The Iron […]
My Thoughts I was browsing Edelweiss one afternoon and came across My Plain Jane. I’m so glad to have the chance to review this one. I’d listened to the audiobook for My Lady Jane a while back and adored what the three authors did with that tale. I was even more excited for this one since it […]
My Thoughts When my coworkers got back from TxLA (the library conference for Texas), they brought back tons of YA ARCs and told me to choose from them. I saw Jay Kristoff in the bunch and immediately snatched it up. I really liked Kristoff’s Nevernight series so I was excited to see what he’d do with this […]
Shh, We’re Listening Reading! We’re back again with our feature called Shh, I’m Reading. We’ll be doing this wrap-up post to highlight the audiobooks we’ve read throughout the past month. Jess and I (Aleya) are audiobook fiends, especially Jess. Check out what we read for the month of May and see what we thought of them. […]