Known as a brilliant mind that could hack her world’s darkest secrets, seventeen-year-old Sofi Snow is the most wanted teenager alive. She found her way to the icy, technologically brilliant planet of Delon to find Shilo, the brother everyone but Sofi believes is dead. But as she and Ambassador Miguel partner to find her …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: Reclaiming Shilo Snow by Mary Weber Read More »
Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of Japanese immigrants. Despite the scandal, it would cause and the fact that interracial marriage is illegal in California, Evalina and Taichi vow they will find a way to be …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill Read More »
In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. But they number only six–who …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan Read More »
Thousands of years after the destruction of the age of man and science, new races and magic now rule the world, but an imminent danger threatens. A horde of evil Demons is beginning to escape and bring death upon the land. Only Wil Ohmsford, the last of the Shannara bloodline, has the power to guard …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks Read More »
The house talks. It breathes. And it’s hungry. The Kings have been in the creepy old place, their new home, for only a few days, but they’ve experienced enough terror to last a lifetime. And the mystery is growing even more baffling. Shadowy and shifting, the big house conceals doors into other worlds that blur …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: Gatekeepers by Robert Liparulo Read More »
The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: Crooked House by Agatha Christie Read More »
Everyone dies once. But what if a chosen few were raised from the dead? Two thousand years ago Jesus resurrected his friend, Lazarus, who founded a secret organization: SOAR. Since then Jesus has added to the resurrected—The Awakened—to aid Lazarus in SOAR’s battle against Satan’s slaves, the UnVeilers. The threat is escalating. The UnVeilers …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Awakened by Richard Spillman Read More »
I’m finally getting to reading this sequel! I read the first book back in 2018 and bought this sequel last year at Realm Makers and I’ve finally gotten around to reading it!
This book is definitely the most challenging book I’ve read this year. It’s not really a book for pleasure but a book to make you think, so for a while, I had trouble liking it but by the end, I learned to appreciate it for its themes.
Aidan Thomas is miserable. And it’s much more than the strange nightmares he’s been having. Just when life seemed to be coming together for Aidan, his parents suddenly move the family across the country to take care of his wheelchair-bound grandfather. When strange events begin to occur, Aidan is drawn into his grandfather’s basement …
Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson Read More »
You must be logged in to post a comment.