Reading challenge: 139/75 So back when I first began this blog, one of the challenges I wanted to do was set a goal in Goodreads, and then NOT CHANGE IT! I set my goal of 75 books based on how I did in 2016, and I ended up reading 139. It felt strange to me [...]
"It seemed like the smoke of those riots spread all across the continent, all the way to Boston." Green is a unique coming of age story, told from 12 year old David Greenfield, growing up in Boston in the early 90's. The year Green focuses on for the entirety of the novel, is the year [...]
"'Time is for burning, girl.' It's a familiar expression in the village - why hoard time when every day is dully brutal, the same as the one before and the one that will come after? To hear it from a man who's never known hunger or cold makes my fingers twitch toward a fist." Welcome [...]
"He'd locked up the monster but failed to notice: the monster had already won." Ellery Hathaway just wants to live a quiet life, in a quiet town, and be a good police officer. She'd prefer to keep her past in the past, and her secrets her own. But when people begin to go missing, one [...]
"Snow can save you and sustain you, crush you and kill you. Snow is a fickle bastard." The Wolves Of Winter is a phenomenal debut post apocalyptic novel! I devoured this incredible book in a day. From the moment I opened the pages it was impossible to put down. Gwendolynn, or Lynn, as she prefers, [...]
"Nothing stinks quite like a corpse." BAM! The very first words, after a brief reintroduction to the characters, slam us in the face with a reminder of the world we are re-entering. Mia is back, and after the ending from the last book, her list for vengeance has only grown instead of shrunk. There will [...]
"At the heart of it, two kinds of people live in this world or any other: those who flee and those who fight." Enter the world of Mia Corvere. The little girl who barely escapes with her life after her father plots (and fails) a rebellion. Now, she is grown and has vengeance in her [...]
"This will never be me, I promise my thirteen-year-old self as I watch my mother." In The Game is a memoir of a woman who fought through a career dominated by men. It isn't just that she managed to create a successful career in a boys club, but that she did it at a time [...]
"Because of an organ shortage, most of the patients were at death's door before they received a liver, and many died waiting." Cut is a medical mystery novel diving into the murky world of organ donation. Sarah Golden is a transplant nurse who loves her job. She is confident that people cannot manipulate the organ [...]
"Assume nothing." The Wife Between Us warns us on the very cover to assume nothing. It tells us explicitly to expect a ride where we can't see the road ahead. It tells us, and still, the assumptions came. Still I tried to see. There are three people involved in this book: Richard, his ex-wife and [...]
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