Tag: book review
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Book Review: The Aurora Cycle Trilogy Review
Rating: 3.5 Stars Book Blurb for Aurora Rising: The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would…
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Book Review: hello, summer
Author: Mary Kay Andrews Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: It’s a new season… Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position…
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Reading Reviews: Three Books By Fave Rom-Com Authors
So I put together a TBR of books by authors whose RomComs I have really enjoyed in the past. Did I love them? Were their loved books one-hit wonders for me? Let’s dive right in… The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood 4.5 /5 stars I had previously read Love on the Brain and really liked…
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Reading Update: Reviews, Reading Plans and the Like…
Happy Friday! It has been a busy week again. I did get some reading done but didn’t have a lot of time to post reviews and updates so I am condensing it all in one post… First up, I finished The Circus Train: This book was about two kids raised around a circus who come…
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Book Review: Sold on a Monday
Author: Kristina McMorris Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter…
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Book Review: And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Author: Fredrik Backman Rating: 5 stars Book Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, and Anxious People comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even…
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Book Review: Someone Else’s Life
Author: Lyn Liao Butler Rating: 2 stars Book Blurb: A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance studio goes bankrupt. Her mother and beloved…