The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are…
The fourth book of The Mortal Instruments series released yesterday, and Caitlin and I were chomping at the bit to read it. We got through it in one day so that we could talk about it with y’all! So join us as we discuss what we liked and didn’t like about City of Fallen Angels….
Kate: So this is exciting, because it’s the first time you and I have been able to talk about City of Fallen Angels. Katie: Yes, and I nearly died waiting on you to finish it yesterday. Stupid work and having commitments outside of reading our favorite books! Kate: I know. Being a lawyer is a…
I’m having flashbacks to the Mockingjay pandemonium right now. City of Fallen Angels has finally made its way into our hot, desperate, fangirling little hands. Much like Mockingjay fever…I can’t think of a single book besides City of Fallen Angels today, and I’m pretty sure no one else can either. See: Twitter, the blogosphere, and/or…
This week starts what is pretty much going to be the most exciting YA book release week that I can remember. We’ll have City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare, the next book in Michael Grant’s Gone series, Plague, Where She Went, the follow-up to one of the best YA books I’ve ever read, Gayle…
I am beyond excited for so many books this month! Let’s skip the pleasantries and get right into the things that matter. Books! April 5th Plague (Gone series) by Michael Grant This is a blood-pumping, white-knuckle sci-fi thriller of epic proportions. The FAYZ goes from bad to worse…The darkness has been foiled once again and…
I had eyed the Plain Kate cover for quite a while before I bought it. Every time, I’d pick it up, think “Ooooo, pretty” and then decide that it wasn’t what I was in the mood for right then (read: angsty teenage romances). Because I’m an idiot. And then when I finally bought it, I…
I will fully fess up to buying Heather Dixon’s Entwined because this is by far one of the prettiest covers I’ve ever seen. As soon as I saw it, I knew that I wanted to read this book. I really think this cover captures the whimsy of Entwined while still seeming a little foreboding. Foreboding…
Eron De Marchelle isn’t supposed to feel a connection. He is a Sandman, a supernatural being whose purpose is to seduce human charges to sleep. While he can communicate with his charges in their dreams, he isn’t encouraged to–after all, getting too involved in one human’s life would prevent him helping his other charges get…
**Just a brief warning, that while this review holds no spoilers for The Last Little BLue Envelope, it does have spoilers for 13 Little Blue Envelopes. Proceed with caution.** So, 13 Little Blue Envelopes was my very first Maureen Johnson book. It is what made me fall in love with her writing. It was such…