Thoughts on 3 summer favorites : The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Crazy Rich Asians – Love & Gelato

Thoughts on 3 summer favorites : The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Crazy Rich Asians – Love & Gelato

I don’t review all the books I read – and too often, I end up not reviewing some of my favorite reads, too worried I won’t be able to do them justice. But really, it’s never too late to talk about your favorite books! And so, with a new summer beginning, I wanted to talk about three very different books I read and adored last summer. If you are looking for a great read this season, maybe one of these will work for you! *...

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Thoughts on : Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

Thoughts on : Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence Genre : Fantasy Series : Book of the Ancestor, book 1 About the Book  : I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin. At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of...

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Thoughts on : Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Thoughts on : Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone About the Book  : Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try. Then Wallace...

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Thoughts : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Feminism

Thoughts : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Feminism

Today I’m stepping out of my usual review format to talk about two recent reads that were instant favorites, which are We Should All be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. I was already familiar with the author’s Ted Talk, We Should All Be Feminists, from which the text has been adapted. (If you haven’t watched it yet, I strongly encourage you...

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Review : The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Review : The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin Pages : 468 Genre : Fantasy Series : The Broken Earth, book 1 My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS… FOR THE LAST TIME. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal,...

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Review : The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Review : The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Pages : 405 Genre : Fiction, Speculative Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl...

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Review : The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin, illustrated by Luis Royo

Review : The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin, illustrated by Luis Royo

The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin, illustrated by Luis Royo Pages : 121 Genre : Children’s, Fantasy Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she...

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Audio Review : You by Caroline Kepnes

Audio Review : You by Caroline Kepnes

You by Caroline Kepnes Narrated by : Santino Fontana Pages/Time : 422/11h06 Genre : Thriller Series : You, book 1 My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling...

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