Orson Scott Card just became one of my favorite authors, I think. Such an incredibly creative idea! Ezekiel is one of a number of high school kids with a "micro-power," or an unusual and apparently useless gift. In his case, the gift is that he finds lost objects, and inherently "knows" who they ...
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I can't believe that I'd never actually read the original Peter Pan before! Such a delightful story, and a wonderful retelling, with a full cast and sound effects. The British children (Wendy, John and Michael) during the WWII siege of London were reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia. That was ...
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2nd Review: Jan 2020 I remember loving this the first time around, but in retrospect I think what I actually loved was probably just the ending (which was still quite satisfying). It took a VERY long time for me to feel like Scarlett was really the same character that she was in GWTW this time ...
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2nd review (read Dec 2019): Wow. This second time through I gritted my teeth from the moment Scarlett tells Rhett that she doesn't want any more children until the end, anticipating all the awful things to come. I would never have suffered through the vicarious misery a second time if not for the ...
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A fun middle grade listen reminiscent of Nancy Drew! (Not that I've read those in several decades, but this makes me want to revisit a few of them.) Viva is 14, and visits her grandmother in New Orleans for a summer. She's not at all excited about it until she stumbles across a newspaper article ...
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I was very pleasantly surprised by this one! It's not my usual genre, in part because thrillers like this are often also full of violence, language, and sexual content that causes me to put it down early on (or never pick it up at all.) I only downloaded this one because it was one of Audible's ...
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What a pleasant surprise! I loved Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles and liked Heartless a lot too, but I was less than impressed with the first two in this series (Renegades and Archenemies). They just didn't strike me as all that original. The superhero thing has been done into the ground at this ...
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The Tuscan Child bounces back and forth in time between father (in the 1940s during WWII) and daughter (in the 1970s just after her father's death, trying to piece together his history.) The father, Sir Hugo Langley, is shot down over a tiny village in Italy called San Salvatore, which is ...
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I was so excited about the release of this book, because I absolutely LOVED Scythe and Thunderhead. I had high expectations, which might be part of the reason for my disappointment. But I was disappointed, for several reasons. First, while Scythe followed Rowan and Citra almost exclusively, and ...
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I absolutely loved this! Such a unique voice, and a whimsical story! From the very beginning, the narrative voice makes it clear that this story is set in a fantasy world. Clara, the main character, finds that her sister Maren is developing scales on her body, turning into a mermaid. Their auntie ...
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