The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Wow, I am so conflicted with this book. On one hand, I love the worldbuilding. On the other hand this book felt like it dragged and as a result didn’t have a lot going on with it. So I found myself…
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Joonam. I seriously loved this book. This was a character driven story and I absolutely loved them all. Well, for the most part. I initially rrated this 5 stars, but after letting things settle this is more of a 4.5 stars.…
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Let me be upfront about this. I did not love The Kiss of Deception. I did not hate it. However I feel like when I think back on the year it’s not going to be one of those books that springs…
Under Their Skin by Margaret Peterson Haddix My rating: 4 of 5 stars Growing up I loved Margaret Peterson Haddix. She was the first author I knew was an author and actively sought out her books no matter what they were about. It all arose from my love of Running Out of Time, which I…
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton My rating: 4 of 5 stars Of course I’ve already seen Jurassic Park, though admittedly none of the sequels until the series revival Jurassic World. I wouldn’t be a 90s kid if I hadn’t. I have to admit, I haven’t seen it in a while. Long enough that I still…
Vicious by V.E. Schwab My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really enjoyed Victoria Schwab’s other works, or I should say work as I’ve only read The Archived. However, I fell so in love with The Archived that I knew I would love anything else by her. I’ve had Vicious since even before I read…
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson My rating: 4 of 5 stars It is rare that I fall so deeply in love with a novel so quickly. Within pages of starting this book I realized that Lucero-Elisa was a character I could really get behind. I loved her. With it, I loved…
The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars The only Rick Riordan book I read before this one was Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I love Greek mythology, so I wanted to love that series. Instead, I walked away from Percy turned off. I came to Percy Jackson way…
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani My rating: 3.75 of 5 stars I’ve got to say I quite like the way this book subverted typical fairy tale tropes. It was rather entertaining to see how things were twisted and how the girls came to accept themselves. The heart of this book was…
The TV show based on the series called The Expanse, premieres tonight December 14th, 2015 at 10/9c on Syfy. Watch for a review of the first episode later tonight and the second episode tomorrow. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey My rating: 4.75 of 5 stars Holy my Jesus, this was fantastic. It was exactly…
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman My rating: 4.75 of 5 stars I did a video review for this book, which you can find here. When you love a book, you love a book and this was one of them. Almost as soon as I started reading this book I knew I was going to like it.…
Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older My rating: 3 of 5 stars You ever go into a book hoping you’ll love it and you just don’t. Like you don’t even hate it, you just feel kind of meh. Well, that’s exactly what happened with this. I trudged through it over a week and a half…
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead My rating: 2.75 of 5 stars It has officially been a while since I finished the book (okay so 2 weeks isn’t that long). It’s always telling when so little of it can be recollected. Thankfully, as I’m writing this it’s coming back to me and honestly it isn’t that…
Frostfire by Amanda Hocking My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars This is one of those books that I knew was out there, but had no major drive to pick up. It was sitting in my library ebook collection and I figured why not. Time ticked down and I had to pick it up to read.…
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars What did this book do to me? I still don’t know. I do know that I fell in love. I didn’t know much about this book. I thought it was about time travel (wrong!) and was a revenge story (wrong again).…
So, I pondered... 