Genre: Tropes: Type: “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” – Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give Overview Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old girl, lives a double life. Born and raised in a poor neighborhood, she now drives an hour away to go to a private high school. …
Genre: Type: Overview Shadow has spent the last three years in prison and is finally free. On his way back home, he runs into a mysterious man named Mr. Wednesday. Mr. Wednesday is convinced that Shadow will come work for him, but Shadow just wants to go home to his wife. Until he finds out …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “One day you’ll call me Death. For now, Wrath will do.” – Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked Overview Emilia lives in Sicily, Italy with her family and twin sister. They own a local restaurant and are also witches. When Emilia finds her twin murdered, within a week of other witches being …
Third Book in the Red Queen Series Genre: Tropes: Type: Overview: Mare Barrow has given herself over to King Maven to save the others. She is isolated, left alone, locked in a room with Ardens who silence her power. In the Archeon Palace once again, this time she must use any tactic to survive and …
Genre: Overview Rags the thief sits in jail awaiting his trial for being caught trying to steal the crown jewels. To his surprise, he gets tasked with stealing an object for the Crown. The journey will lead him to far more than riches for stealing a relic. Review I rarely DNF a book, but this …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “I was no one’s sacrifice. Not then. Not now. Not ever.” – Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove Overview Lou, a witch, hides in plain sight amongst her enemies. When the church catches her for being a thief, she is forced to marry the Captain of the Chasseur’s. The Chasseur’s enforce the will …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.” – Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom Overview Lira is the heir to the throne of the sea. As the princess of the sirens, she takes a princes’ heart every year for her birthday. Now she has …
Genre: Type: “The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.” – Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girl of Paris Overview The Lost Girls of Paris follows three different women through three timelines during WWII. Grace, NY 1946 finds a mysterious suitcase with photos of women. She goes in search of …
Genre: Tropes: Type: “We’re all monsters, Nadya, some of us just hide it better than others.” – Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints Overview Nadehzda Lapteva, Nadya, is one of the last clerics able to commune with the gods in Kalyazin. She is the key to winning a holy war that was gone on for a …
Genre: Type: “Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.” – Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House Overview Galaxy Stern is the sole survivor of a multiple homicide case in Los Angeles. Transforming from Galy, a drug dealer, and substance abuser, to Alex, an undergraduate student of Yale in New Haven Connecticut, she is given a second chance …