by Joanna Ruth Meyer *cover image and synopsis from Goodreads* The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one … Continue reading Book Review: Into the Heartless Wood
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Book Review: Seventh City
by Emily Hayse *Cover image and synopsis from Goodreads* “Let me tell you a story that happened so long ago that only the hills and rivers can remember the time . . . .” All her life, thirteen-year-old Maki has heard tales of the legendary city of gold, buried deep in the northern frontier. But … Continue reading Book Review: Seventh City
Writing Resource: Adorning the Dark
Writing Resources are sort of like book reviews, except that they're about non-fiction books related to writing! And todays's Writing Resource Highlight is Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson. *cover and synopsis from Goodreads* Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone. Over the last twenty years, … Continue reading Writing Resource: Adorning the Dark
Book Review: Of Fire and Ash
by Gillian Bronte Adams *cover image and synopsis from Goodreads* She rides a fireborn, a steed of fire and ash, trained for destruction. Ceridwen tal Desmond dreams of ruling like her father over the nation of Soldonia, where warriors ride to battle on magical steeds—soaring on storm winds, vanishing in shadow, quaking the earth, and … Continue reading Book Review: Of Fire and Ash
Book Review: The Means That Make Us Strangers
by Christine Kindberg *Cover image and synopsis from Goodreads* Home is where your people are. But who are your people? Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. Adelaide promises she'll return to … Continue reading Book Review: The Means That Make Us Strangers
Book Review: Silverblood
by Jamie Foley *Cover image and synopsis from publisher's website* The Jade Witch sacrifices everything to save her people from one enemy—by forging an alliance with another. A desperate chieftess. Brooke’s treetop city is a charred husk of its former glory. Her people demand revenge against the Emberhawk tribe, blind to the larger threat: the … Continue reading Book Review: Silverblood
Book Review: Emberhawk
by Jamie Foley ***Cover image and synopsis from Goodreads*** The elementals have decided they're gods, and humans are nothing but fuel for their fire. A starving trapper. Merciless drought withers Kira's ranch, leaving her family hungry—and desperate enough to cross the border into the forbidden forest to trap wild game. But the forest is infested … Continue reading Book Review: Emberhawk
Book Review: A Little Taste of Poison
by R. J. Anderson ***Cover and synopsis from Goodreads*** The city of Tarreton is powered by magic, from simple tablets that light lamps to advanced Sagery that can murder a man from afar. Isaveth has a talent for spell-making, but as a girl from a poor neighborhood she never dreamed she could study at the … Continue reading Book Review: A Little Taste of Poison
Book Review: Shadow
by Kara Swanson *Cover from Goodreads* Peter Pan and Claire have made it to Neverland--but it's not the island they were expecting. After arriving with Captain Hook, Claire finds herself a prisoner upon his pirate ship, forced to watch a shattered Neverland from afar and wonder where her brother is. When Claire manages to escape … Continue reading Book Review: Shadow
Blog Tour: Ignite by Jenna Terese
I am so excited to get to be a part of the blog tour for Ignite today! Ignite is a YA superhero novel by Jenna Terese, and it just released on July 2nd! Congratulations Jenna! I got to read an ARC of Ignite and do an interview with Jenna as well, but before I get … Continue reading Blog Tour: Ignite by Jenna Terese
