The whole time I was listening to this, I just kept thinking, I can't believe this is a true story. Everything fits together so perfectly, it almost feels like it had to have been plotted out--and it would have been spectacular, even if it had been. But the fact that the story actually happened ...
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I'll review these together, since it's one continuous story and I raced through them, back to back... What a book hangover I have after this series! I miss the characters, and I wish there was more of Kate's story! It's action-packed, edge-of-your-seat action the whole way through, and it ...
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It's so rare that an e-book can capture my attention so much that I forget I'm reading! It's been a few months since I read "Timebound," but this novella between the first two books in the "actual" series sucks me right back in, and reminds me of the world, the characters, and the stakes. While the ...
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I love JK Rowling of course, so I had to give this a try. It's the second of her "for-adult" books I've tried to read, and the first that I've actually finished. "A Casual Vacancy" was so full of profanity and vulgarity that I stopped at the very beginning. "The Cuckoo's Calling" is a bit sneakier, ...
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I don't read all that much straight romance, so instead of listing my favorite clean romance reads of 2018, I'm going to broaden it to encompass all those I can remember. Most of these are classics and historical romance, because quite frankly, it's VERY hard to find clean contemporary romance... ...
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Another sweet romance by Heather Moore. This one is a loose Cinderella story: Jane, a beautiful but low income woman who owns her own cleaning business, meets Cameron, the son of one of the wealthiest families in town. Cameron's nasty fiancee Crystal (stepsisters, anyone?) hires Jane to clean his ...
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I almost stopped reading Scythe toward the beginning because the concept is so grim, but I'm so glad I stuck with it! Here's the concept: in a post-mortality world, everyone has every need provided for. There is no crime, and no disease: any predisposition to disease is handled by nanites, which I ...
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These aren't necessarily books that were published in 2018, they're just *my* top 10 favorite clean YA reads of 2018, in order of enjoyment. (I reserve the right to add to this list before the end of the year!) 1) The Sweet Evil Trilogy (plus one) I can't gush enough about the Sweet Evil ...
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This is a sweet, clean romance that doesn't get (too) cheesy -- which already sets it head and shoulders above most that I try to read! It follows Alicia, a girl in her late 20s who moves back home to help her psychologically disturbed mother. There she reencounters Jeff, her childhood best friend ...
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This one really surprised me! I feel like I've tried it a few times and I'm not sure why I stopped reading it then, because it's pretty fast-paced from beginning to end. It's a creative take on the dystopian genre in the sense that the male/female division is one I haven't seen done elsewhere. I ...
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