Continuing my hot streak, I got lucky and managed to find a book I was trembling in anticipation for well before its release date. And we won’t talk about how many times a week I visit how many bookstores to make that luck happen, because it’s embarrassing. Let’s just say I work hard for this…
My relationship with this book is long and sordid. Reading through the advance copy was not the first time I’ve read the story of orphan Max Quick, his lost memory and the day time stopped. Or, well, technically it was the first time I’d read it. Max Quick – The Pocket and the Pendant was,…
Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay. Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one…
On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity’s deepest fears: dragons. Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she’s breaking the law by rock climbing near the border, but she’d rather have an adventure than follow the rules. When…
Last year, Katie (I think I should start going by Brumhilda to avoid confusion because our names on this site are ridiculous) reviewed Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder, which, by the way, I had recommended to her. Because I managed to buy Desires of the Dead first (another early shelf find), I laid first claim…
I was lucky enough to find Saundra Mitchell’s The Vespertine in my local Barnes & Noble several days before its release. Usually, this excites me because it means I can review things the day they come out, which I swear I’d planned to do in this case. But this whole being a lawyer thing is…
**Warning! I think I may get a little spoilery in this review. Â It’s not anything that you couldn’t work out for yourself by reading the blurb, but I thought I’d put in a warning anyway. Just in case!** I hadn’t heard anything about this book until its release date, when Twitter was suddenly all a-twitter…
If you like Gossip Girls, Lauren Conrad books and MTV’s The Hills- but more to make fun and/or due to a sick fascination with that kind of lifestyle, The Real Real is the book for you. The reality begins in the offseason of the Hamptons when XTV (designed to represent MTV) comes to the local…
So, a couple months ago, I started following Aimée Carter on twitter because she was 2011 debut author, and I feel we must support our debut authors. But then she turned out to be really nice. And her book sounded sooooo good. And then it got a gorgeous cover! And suddenly I couldn’t wait to…
It is the summer of 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. On break from boarding school, he is staying with eccentric strangers—his uncle and aunt—in their vast house in Hampshire. When two local people die from symptoms that resemble the plague, Holmes begins to investigate what really killed them, helped by his new tutor, an…