Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., so we wanted to share a review not of a Civil Rights-era historical novel, but a novel that explores many of the issues still facing the African-American community, and therefore should be of importance to all Americans. –Sandie Shhhh. Don’t tell…
Books We Adore: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Trilogy
The To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before books are the first Jenny Han books I’ve read, and I have to admit I’m in love. I don’t know if I’ve read any other book that feels so real. Like the reader is peeking into Lara Jean’s life. There are so many mundane everyday moments mixed…
Heroines Who Rock: Nameless Queen from A Thousand Nights
Heroines Who Rock: Nameless Queen from A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston Who She Is: She is the daughter of a desert trader, and the younger, less beautiful sister to his firstwife. She is her village’s sacrifice to the demon king Lo-Melkhiin. She is the latest in the hundreds of wives who slake his thirst. But…
Review: This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills
In THIS ADVENTURE ENDS, Sloane Finch has moved to a small Florida beach town, just in time for her senior year. Not much for friends, she plans to happily pass the time rereading her dad’s cheesy romance novels. But then, she falls in with the twins Vera and Gabe Fuller and their friends Remy, Aubrey,…
Editor’s Pick: Zero Day by Jan Gangsei
Eight years ago Addie Webster was kidnapped straight out of the Governor’s Mansion. Now she’s back, escaped from her captors, returned to her family who now live in the White House. At exactly the same time a terrorist group has begun attacking Washington, D.C.. Zero Day is a engaging Tom Clancy style spy novel seen…
Watched Blog Tour: Author Marina Budhos Guest Post
Today we bring you a guest post by author Marina Budhos about her relevant and excellent new book, WATCHED. Now, more than ever, it’s important we embrace the diversity that literature has to offer. As Gene Yuen Lang has challenged us all, this book, for many, will be a way to Read Without Walls. WATCHED…
Editor’s Pick: The Call by Peadar O’Guilin
A thousand years ago, the Irish banished the twisted faerie race to the Grey Lands. A millennium later, the faeries have enacted their revenge. Before they turn seventeen, every child in Ireland will be spirited away to the Grey Lands, to try their best to survive a day against the Sidhe. In the real world,…
Stealing Snow Giveaway & Launch Recap
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Danielle Paige (Dorothy Must Die series) and Kami Garcia (Caster Chronicles) at One More Page Books to discuss Danielle’s new book, Stealing Snow. Which should come as no surprise is a fantastical take on Hans Christen Anderson’s The Snow Queen. We also got a little sneak…
Heartless Blog Tour: Review and Facebook Live Event
So here’s the deal: Marissa Meyer has a royally raucous imagination. Her retellings are so inventive, it’s hard to not think of them as originals. It’s the way a chef takes a classic recipe and adds an unexpected combination here, a new twist there. Like hot chocolate with chili or clementine and cod potpie. The…
Editor’s Pick: Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick
I don’t know how, but Jordan Sonnenblick has the mind of a 13-year-old girl. In Falling Over Sideways, eighth grader Claire has a lot going on. Her friends are skipping ahead of her in dance, her nemesis is taunting her with his first chair saxophone status, her science teacher has it in for the entire…