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Rating: 4/5 Genre: Nonfiction “On May 1st, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas …
Continue reading “Book Review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson”
Rating: 4/5 Genre: Fantasy/ Young Adult “It was a dark and stormy night. Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure — one that will threaten their lives and our universe. …
Continue reading “Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle”
Rating: 5/5 Genre: Horror “In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his …
Continue reading “Book Review: The Institute by Stephen King”
Rating: 5/5 Genre: Mystery “First, there were ten — a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling …
Continue reading “Book Review: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie”
Rating: 3/5 Genre: Horror/ Young Adult “In this haunting, fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling photo-illustrated novel Asylum, three teens must unlock some long-buried secrets from the past before the past comes back to get them first. Featuring found photographs, many from real vintage carnivals, Sanctum is a mind-bending reading experience that blurs …
Rating: 4/5 Genre: Thriller *This is not a spoiler free review* “Maybe you don’t know your neighbors as well as you thought you did… ‘This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much…My son broke into your home recently while you were out.’ In a quiet, leafy …
Continue reading “Book Review: Someone We Know by Shari Lapena”
Rating: 4/5 Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult *This review contains spoilers for The Lunar Chronicles* “Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the cars that mark her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and …
I read five books in August, which is a lot less than I usually read, but life was busy and the books I choose were pretty long so it is what it is. My favorite was Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff, but I also really enjoyed Children of Ruin and The Return of the King. Next …
Rating: 5/5 Genre: Fantasy *This review contains spoilers for Nevernight and Godsgrave* “Assassin Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to …
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