Absolutely fascinating, all the more so because the story is true! Jho Low grew up in privilege in Malaysia, idolizing American pop culture and obsessed with gaining prestige. His combined audacity and financial genius enabled him to first make connections with powerful people (Middle Eastern ...
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Review of the Great Hunt: I love Wendy Higgins! While I've never yet read a series by her that rivals the "Sweet Evil" series, this was still quite engaging, and I ripped through it quickly. In a fictional country that's nevertheless basically medieval Ireland (the words are Irish, the main ...
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I've always been intrigued by the biblical story of Queen Esther, so it was really neat to see it brought to life in this novelization. The story in the Bible is pretty short, so the author necessarily had to take license in order to pad it out in novel format, but everything added seemed consistent ...
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I'm not usually a big crime drama fan, but this one sucked me in right away with a unique and intriguing premise. Rachel Holloway works at a floundering newspaper with the bright idea to boost readership by starting a podcast focused on a true unsolved crime story: what happened to little Molly ...
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I wasn't planning on reading ahead in this series after "Off to Be the Wizard," probably because while the concept was super original and therefore highly entertaining, I already knew it. And while the characters are all hilariously tongue-in-cheek, I couldn't identify with any of them because they ...
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Review of The Selection I love revisiting old favorites, and this is such a creative (at the time) combination of the dystopian genre with the reality TV phenomenon, and even a little bit of the Cinderella story. A very brief synopsis: in a post-WWIV world where people are separated into castes ...
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