Review in Questions: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

“Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.”
“Okay.”
“Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?”
“Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?”
According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, [...]

Review in Questions: Royal Blood by Rona Sharon

In the Tudor Court of 1518, your friends and enemies can be one and the same…During the annual celebration of the Order of the Garter, Sir Michael Devereaux arrives in King Henry VIII’s court on a mission for his benefactor. The celebration’s endless feats and sumptuous women delight the charismatic newcomer, who becomes captivated by [...]

Review in Questions: The Hunger Games

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one by and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteeen to [...]

Review in Questions: I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You

The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls schools–that is, it would be if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school [...]

Review in Questions: Forest of Hands And Teeth

In Mary’s world, there are simple truths. 
The Sisterhood always knows best. 
The Guardians will protect and serve. 
The Unconsecrated will never relent. 
And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village.
 

But slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their [...]

Recommend Responsibly Part 2: A Book for Everyone

 
As promised, we’re discussing what books to recommend and to whom. Reading isn’t one size fits all and, as writers (or readers) who want to support the book industry, we know we need to recommend responsibly. We do that by encouraging so-called  ”non-readers” to read and thus, hopefully, converting them into at least occasional book-buyers. But, we [...]

Book Review: Ink Exchange

 
I read Wicked Lovely this past summer and loved it. I hadn’t been dying to read Ink Exchange, though. No particular reason except that there were other books on my “To Be Read” List calling my name. So I put off reading Melissa Marr’s second book. That is, until I started reading her blog.
Melissa has [...]

Book Review: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Sooooo tempting to write thirteen reasons why I loved Thirteen Reasons Why, but I’ve seen that everywhere, so I’ll resist…I promise.
First of all, SPOILER ALERT. Not a big one. I’m not going to reveal the “reasons why” or anything but if, like my boyfriend Nate, you freak out when anyone discusses the smallest detail of a book [...]

Can I Get An Amen?

There’s only one truly awful reason not to write: You’re scared.
But I get it. I do. I was scared to death to write. I thought, Who am I to write a book? More than that, Who am I to even think that I could write a book?
And publishing? Forget it!
But I want to share something that not [...]

Book Review: The Appeal

I decided to review John Grisham’s The Appeal last week, but I’m so glad I did because yesterday, this book just got a whole lot more timely.
 
WIthout giving too much away, The Appeal deals with the question of whether at some point (or perhaps even now), special interest groups will be able to buy positions on [...]