Some books you read in great gasping gulps. You devour them. Each word a gluttonous indulgence that you cannot get enough of. Other books demand patience. They require you to slow down. Rather than devouring the words, you sip them, you taste them. They force you to savor each letter. To let them seep into [...]
Girl on the Verge by Pintip Dunn My rating: 3 of 5 stars "My cheeks burn. A foreigner. I may be the daughter of Thai parents, but I was born and raised in America. Which means I'll never be Thai enough. I'll never be good enough." Kan lives in between two cultures. She isn't Thai [...]
There are some books where the synopsis cannot possibly prepare you for what you are about to read. Where the synopsis cannot begin to encompass the words contained within the covers. Where words like shocking and breathtaking are inadequate to describe the experience. Block 46 is one of those books. It's been one week since [...]
The Owl Always Hunts At Night by Samuel Bjørk My rating: 4 of 5 stars I admit, I am always a bit nervous when sitting down to start a new crime thriller. I'm afraid it won't be thrilling enough, or compelling enough, or shocking enough. I am especially nervous when reading an author I haven't [...]
Jasmine tapped under his chin and made him draw his eyes back up to hers. “Listen, I get it. The could haves will drive you nuts, though, so I suggest you let it go and focus on the now. It doesn’t matter what the angels did wrong or what they did right. It matters that [...]
"There is evil in the world. There is definitely evil in this world of ours." Two sentences never summed up a book more appropriately. Six Stories is a phenomenal psychological thriller. It's also so much more. There is so much to love about this book! The first thing I love about it, is the format. It's [...]
She continued toward the sidewalk, taking in all the small shops that lined Main Street. Each side looked the same. Blood splatters. Broken windows. Glass sprinkling the street. She saw another body sprawled face down on the sidewalk, a puddle of crimson soaking into the concrete, turning dark brown. It seemed like she was walking [...]
"Only living things are able to capture energy from the land and use it, but somehow, more than forty thousand years after her death, that Neanderthal was able to capture me." A scientist may explain life in simplistic terms of energy. Living things capture energy. Non-living things don't. But, that description doesn't account for the [...]
Living with anxiety is no easy task. First, you have to actually live with anxiety. Then you have to try and help everyone in your life understand what that means. Maeve is a teenage girl living with anxiety. The one person who understands her, and can help her fight through the panic is her mother. [...]
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