Lisa Kallisto is an overworked mother of 3, with a husband who often works nights as a cab driver. In a horrifying moment of not paying attention, Lisa realizes that her best friend’s daughter goes missing under her watch. Wracked with guilt and suffering the critical judgement from others around the community, Lisa attempts to [...]
Review + Giveaway: Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
I had featured Belle Epoque in a Top 10 Tuesday when the author, Elizabeth Ross, got in touch about it. What great timing, because I was just planning Paris Month at the time and thus came a whole slew of ideas and opportunities. This week will highlight a bit of this fabulous book from the [...]
Review: Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks
Superhero Girl can leap tall buildings (up to eleven storeys) while saving kittens and helping the elderly. Without the mask and cape, she’s an ordinary Canadian girl who lives in the shadow of her superior superhero brother and tries to deal with an annoying nemesis all the while managing day-to-day life of having to do [...]
Review: Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
When we last left off from the first book, Cinder has found herself now in prison after being captured at Prince Kai’s ball. While she is plotting her escape in New Beijing, Scarlet Benoit over in France is searching for her missing grandmother. During her investigations, she encounters a streetfighter named Wolf who apparently knows [...]
Blog Tour Review: The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Marie and Antoinette van Goethem are 2 of 3 sisters who live with their recently-widowed mother in the late 1800s in Paris. Antoinette, the eldest of the sisters, works as an extra in the controversial play L’Assommoir and is adamant to not become a laundress like their absinthe-drunk mother. Marie and Charlotte both begin ballet [...]
Reviews: 3 YA “minis”
I decided to finally get to these mini installments of popular YA series books and thought I’d combine the lil reviews all into this one post. All 3 of these digital reads included sneak peaks of the originating and/or upcoming main release books. Free Four (Divergent, #1.1) | Destroy Me (Shatter Me, #1.5) | Hana (Delirium, [...]
Review: Zoo by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Jackson Oz, a biologist/blogger, has been warning people for years about the increase in animal attacks on humans. To his dismay, nobody had ever taken him seriously until the attacks become more and more frequent. Animals are behaving out of character, brutally attacking people all over the world and yet Oz still faces a large [...]
Review: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Cas Lowood is a ghost hunter. Ever since his father died on the job, he has taken on the role of “killing” ghosts that won’t, or can’t, move on. After getting rid of a ghostly hitchhiker, Cas and his mother pack up and move to Thunder Bay, a city in northern Ontario, to chase a [...]
Review: This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel
A sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein spends his privileged life being home-schooled with his twin brother Konrad and cousin Elizabeth. Often accompanied by their family friend Henry, the foursome spend their days playing and exploring around the Frankenstein estate when not learning from their father. When Konrad suddenly falls seriously ill, the remaining three companions stumble upon [...]
Review: Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
Christine suffers from a rare form of amnesia after an accident from many years ago. Each day, she wakes up with no memory whatsoever of the days gone by. Each day, her identity and her past experiences are a mystery to her and each day her husband reminds her of what her life is like [...]
