Fiction
Searching for Normal – CJ Darlington
Shay Mitchell’s life has fallen apart. The trauma of losing your mother before you ever knew her really never goes away, but Shay and her dad had built a life for themselves together. Then he […]
Genre: Young Adult
Fiction
Easy Target – Tim Shoemaker
Easy Target is a good example of a novel that never quite understood the kind of tone it wanted to set. At the outset, we’re thrown into a world set from the kid-perspective, where parents […]
Children's Books
Millie Maven Trilogy – Rachelle and Ted Dekker
I didn’t know what to expect from a Dekker family team-up. Now I don’t know if I want them to do anything else. That was one of the concluding lines of my review of the […]
Children's Books
Millie Maven and the White Sword – Rachelle and Ted Dekker
The final volume in the Millie Maven trilogy picks up six days the completion of the trial in Millie Maven in the Golden Vial. This time there are no trials. This time is not a […]
Fiction
The Peasant’s Dream – Melanie Dickerson
“Love welled up inside her, and she stood to her feet. Her knees weren’t even wobbly. She picked up the bag she had packed, straightened, and held her head up, meeting his eye. She put […]
Fiction
Court of Swans – Melanie Dickerson
“Where there is wealth and power, there is also someone who is willing to do anything to take it.” In medieval England, there was very little middle class. You were either poor or rich and […]
Fiction
The Silence Between Us – Alison Gervais
TODAY WE DO SELF PORTRAIT, Kathleen signed as the art teacher spoke. DRAW WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE. Who was I? That was not a question I could answer very easily anymore. I had ambitions […]
Fiction
Blur – Steven James
Sixteen year old Daniel Byers didn’t really know freshman Emily Jackson, hadn’t even known her name until news of her drowning appeared in the newspapers. Yet here he was at her funeral, mostly because his […]
Fiction
Hurt (Solitary Tales #4) – Travis Thrasher
Travis Thrashers’ Solitary Tales is the story of Chris Buckley and the outright horrors he encounters when he moves with his mother to her hometown of Solitary, North Carolina. Those of you who had followed […]
Fiction
Temptation (Solitary Tales #3) – Travis Thrasher
Chris Buckley needs answers but he also needs his sanity. Given the events of Solitary and Gravestone, those two things just might be mutually exclusive. Ever since Chris and his mom moved to the supposedly […]