Review: Beastly by Alex Flinn

Synopsis:  I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster .You think I’m talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is...

Review: Conjured by Sarah Beth Durst

Synopsis: Eve has a new home, a new face, and a new name—but no memories of her past. She’s been told that she’s in a witness protection program. That she escaped a dangerous magic-wielding serial killer who still hunts her. The only thing she knows for sure is that there is something horrifying in her memories...

Review: Recorder and Randsell Vol. 1 by Meme Higashiya

Synopsis: Miyagawa Atsumi and her younger brother Atsushi are your typical siblings - she’s a high school sophomore dealing with exams, he’s a 5th grader who only wants to run off and play with his friends. School’s hard enough as it is, but things are even tougher for these two: Atsumi is so tiny she’s still...

Review: Supreme Blue Rose by Warren Ellis

Synopsis: “You are not dreaming. We are trying to communicate with you. Local reality has been reinstalled. Things have gone wrong. The revision has corrupted. Finding Ethan Crane is your supreme priority. Do not trust Darius Dax. We are all going to die.” Supreme: Blue Rose re-introduces the central Image Comics character Supreme, in a multi-layered...

Review: Dark Hope by Monica McGurk

Synopsis: For years, Hope Carmichael, survivor of a shocking child abduction, has lived a sheltered existence under the protection of her fanatically religious father. Now, liberated by her mother, Hope prepares to start life over as a normal kid in an Atlanta, Georgia, high school.Normal, that is, until Hope meets Michael, a gorgeous emancipated teen with...

Review: Orchards by Holly Thompson

Synopsis: After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother’s ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There Kana spends hours under the hot...

Review: Med Head by James Patterson and Hal Friedman

Synopsis: How it FEELS to have a body that won’t stop moving, to be really different from everyone else, to be made fun of every day, to be totally reckless, to never relax, to be shut out of everything, to break FREE and TAKE CONTROL. James Patterson’s Against Medical Advice riveted adults with the page-turning drama...

Finding Time To Read

Life can get quite hectic at times, and it can be especially difficult to find time to sit back and read. Luckily, I have a few tips on how you can still find time to read a few pages of that novel that’s been on your TBR list for ages! 1. Read during your breaks...

Review: Fragile Bones by Lorna Schultz Nicholson

I actually just finished this book less than a half hour ago, and I want to get into my review before I forget any of it! I received a copy of this book from Clockwise Press via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review. Fragile Bones tells the story of Harrison and Anna, a boy with high-functioning...