Tag: standalone
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Book Review: Rune
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis Rune wants only one thing from the gods: the heart of a boy who already claims to love her. She wants it enough that she’s willing to make a deal with a god to keep it. The deal is simple: the heart of the boy, and in return, Rune will…
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Book Review: Love Unmasked
by Becky Dean publisher’s synopsis People pleaser Evie Whitmore can’t believe her art and architecture class trip has brought her to Venice—home of gondolas and crumbling palazzos, and the inspiration for both her art and her hidden passion, Elven Realms, a series of novels set in the very city she’s about to explore. Rumors about…
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Book Review: Truth Cursed
by Angie Dickinson publisher’s synopsis Cressida Hoth is alone in the world. Orphaned and unwanted, she is inflicted with a peculiar curse by her mischievous aunts and banished to a finishing school in the secluded kingdom of Dernmont. Students train in every accomplishment suitable for young ladies: music, dancing, etiquette…and strangely, poison-making, fencing, and lock-picking.…
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Book Review: Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith publisher’s synopsis All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she’s in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America…
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Book Review: The Mythmakers
by John Hendrix publisher’s synopsis From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic novel biography of two literary lions—C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien—following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks Through narrative and comic panels, Hendrix chronicles Lewis and…
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Book Review: A Curse Dark as Gold
by Elizabeth C. Bunce publisher’s synopsis Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family’s woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father’s death, the bad luck piles departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting He can…
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Book Review: The Nightmare Virus
by Nadine Brandes publisher’s synopsis Some viruses go after the body. But the Nightmare Virus goes after the mind. When dream technology goes wrong, a virus spreads across the globe, trapping people in a universal dreamscape. They call it the Nightmare Virus.Cain Cross is determined to find a cure . . . if he can…
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Book Review: The Burning Tree
by Helen Dent publisher’s synopsis There’s a secret growing in the woods. In Ellie Caster’s town of Bishop’s Gap, the Casters and the powerful Levy family have been feuding for generations. The families share just one thing in common—they both dread the mark, a scorch that appears at random on their doors, bringing a curse…
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Book Review: The Bletchley Ridde
by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin publisher’s synopsis Remember, you are bound by the Official Secrets Act… Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World…
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Book Review: The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater publisher’s synopsis Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning…
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