The first time I tried to read this, I stopped very early on because I couldn't get into it. I felt the same way listening to it for quite some time, but I kept going because in general I have a longer attention span for audiobooks... yet I still gave it 3.5 stars because the end I felt redeemed the ...
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Review of Till We Have Faces
I'd say that this was an utterly unique story, except that it is meant to be a retelling of the myth of Psyche and Cupid. In this version, Maya and Psyche are both daughters of a king, though Maya is so much older than Psyche that she thinks of Psyche as her daughter. Maya is as hideous as Psyche is ...
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Review of My Dear Hamilton
After listening to and practically memorizing "Hamilton: The Musical," and then reading Hamilton's biography, I couldn't resist this version of the story from Eliza's POV. It absolutely did not disappoint, and it also filled in lots of additional details that I didn't get from Hamilton's ...
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Review of The Sheik
Apparently this is one of the first modern romances, written in something like 1919, and it was considered quite scandalous at the time. And I can see why.
The story follows Diana Mayo, beautiful but haughty and frigid, immune to all romantic attention. She was raised by her much older brother ...
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Review of Sometimes I Lie
I'd call this a mystery/thriller--it reminds me a lot of "Gone Girl" in its pacing, style, and themes. It's definitely dark, and paints a bleak picture of humanity in general. At the end of the story, there's really only one person I still liked--and he turned out to be the very person I'd suspected ...
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Review of See Me
I absolutely adored the Sweet Evil trilogy, so I tried this one too--curious to know how Higgins would pull off a romance between a human girl and a leprechaun! But it gets better: the human girl and the leprechaun are betrothed from childhood, even though they've never met before. How in the world ...
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Review of Tell Me Three Things
This was a straight up YA novel, no fantasy or sci fi or anything else, but it hooked me right away with the concept of a secret penpal writing to the new girl in school. Jessie moved to her new LA private high school after her mother died and her father remarried. The school is cutthroat, the girls ...
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Review of Ella Enchanted
I can't believe I missed this one as a kid! I love fairy tale retellings. As you might imagine from the title, this one is a retelling of Cinderella, with a twist: Ella was cursed as a baby by a good but clueless fairy with the gift of obedience. This creates all the conflict in the ...
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Review of Redeeming Love
I read this once before in college, and at the time I thought it was heavy-handed in its overtly Christian message, cheesy, and unrealistic. I reread it now, though, because so many other people regarded it as the standard for romantic fiction. One thing I've noticed about a lot of romance stories ...
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Review of Sweet Temptation
LOVED this one! Which is a strong endorsement for the series, since it's literally the entire Sweet Trilogy over again, only from Kaidan's perspective instead of from Anna's. As an author, this was a fabulous character study, getting into the mind of a bad boy through his character arc. Most of the ...
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