Top 5 First Lines in Sci-fi and Fantasy

I judge books by their first line. When I can’t decide which book to read next I’ll go with the book that has the strongest first sentence. If a book has a memorable or quirky first line I know I’m Read More …

[Book Review] Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Rating:    Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night Read More …

Reading Roundup January & February 2018

    4.5/5 – The Extinction Trials – SM Wilson My first book of 2018 and what a book!  Intense, chilling, and filled with action. Plus there were dinosaurs, and you can’t go wrong with dinosaurs! (Book Depository / Amazon US / Amazon Canada Read More …

Top Four Books Published in 2017

Of all the books released in 2017, these were the standouts!  Of course, there are a ton of books released in 2017 that I unfortunately didn’t get around to reading yet. The four below are picked from the new releases Read More …

Why I started reading YA as an adult and the books that fuelled it

I was a book snob  If you scroll through my blog, you’ll see I read a lot of Young Adult novels. But it hasn’t always been that way. In fact, when I was an actual young adult I read almost Read More …