Summary (taken from the back of the book): When offered a one-way trip to the past, Isabel sacrifices everything for a chance to change the rapidly deteriorating present–and see her murdered lover one last time. When she arrives twenty years in the past, buck naked and mortally wounded, she has 24 hours to convince a Read More …
Summary Marcie Horton has a sixth sense. Not in the “I see dead people” way, but . . . well, maybe a little. She feels a sort of knowing about certain things that can’t be explained—an intuition that goes beyond the normal. Then there was that one summer four years ago, when she connected with Read More …
Brief Summary: Rin just didn’t want to be forced to marry a gross guy and finds herself in the midst of a war. Review Setting The Poppy War takes place in a fantasy land that are, to a point, modeled after Asian countries’ history and cultures. It’s told in third person limited point of view. Read More …
Brief Summary: Cecilia finds out her husband’s secret, Rachel just wants closure, and Tess just wants things to go back to normal…..kinda. Review Setting This book is told in third person limited point of view and shifts between three characters. It’s my favorite type of narrative perspective. The story takes place in Australia. Because of a Read More …
Brief Summary: Esme is picked by Khai’s mom to be his wife. He’s trying to fight it. He really is. Review Setting The book takes place in modern times and most of it is in California. The point of view is third person limited where it switches primarily between Khai and Esme (I’m using this Read More …
I was not tagged in this book tag but I saw it on the blog My Bookish Dream and wanted to give it a try. I’m not sure who has been tagged and am horrible at tagging people in the first place. If you want to do this tag, please do and let me know Read More …
Brief Summary: Zombies and the news can be deadly. Oddly, that doesn’t stop George the Newsie. Review Setting The book is set in the near future though the events that lead to people being turned into zombies happen in 2014. I wouldn’t call this book post apocalyptic as society is still functioning even if that Read More …
It may not be the wisest thing – getting into readathons when I’m just coming off a reading drought but I thought “What the heck. My FMLA is going to be ending near the end of May anyway.” There are three readathons I’ll be participating in May: Asian Readathon, Medieval-A-Thon, and Read-a-thin. I may not Read More …
Synopsis: Grumpy Monkey is about a monkey named Jim Panzee who tells people he’s not grumpy and yet…. My Thoughts: I originally got this book when my son was in the NICU. It’s the first book I read to him and, I admit, holds a special place in my heart. So, I can’t really say this is Read More …
Before I get into the review, I just want to apologize both to the Write Reads Ultimate Tour and Devri Walls. It was difficult to get to this review due to my son being in the NICU and the hectic schedule this led me to. Reading had not been a priority since my son was Read More …
