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By Andrzej Sapkowski This is the second prequel before The Witcher series begins. This is a small review because it is hard not to give too much away, and the book is basically character development for the series that I will start the first full book of soon! I liked this better than the first…
By Lara Prescott After WWII, women were told to go back to their homes and families after previously leading factories, corporations, and being covert operatives. In this book, we explore the typing pool at The Agency, where ladies with degrees and professional aspirations cooled their heels before getting their MRS. The Agency is the pre-CIA…
(Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #5) By Ransom Riggs If you haven’t read the series before now -STOP! – go do that, I’ll wait…okay so this is a continuation of the great Peculiar Children series. They need to be read in order, definitely not a series you can pick up anywhere in the middle. In this…
By Chloe Benjamin This tale is about four siblings, the Gold children, who visit a fortune teller in their youth in New York City. This fortune teller describes for each of them what the date of their death will be, individually and without accepting payment, lending veracity to her claims and increasing the creepy factor….
By Holly Jackson In this book, a teen takes on the city’s big murder as her senior project for high school. Pip’s town was shaken about five years ago when the town’s most popular, beautiful, senior coed is allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, who then commits suicide. Tragic, but tidy; all loose ends are knotted…
By Jeanine Cummins Can a book ever live up to its controversy and hype? This one came close. It is the tale of a woman enveloped in tragedy that must protect and nurture her son through an unimagineable journey for the frayed possibility of a new hope. The end of her journey bears no promise,…
by Abigail Hing Wen This book gives us a glimpse of another culture and it is sneaky about it. The reader is not aware they are looking at the beauty of Taipei, learning the language, the dancing, the artistry even in the fighting because we are following Ever and her journey to self discovery. Along…
By Andrzej Sapkowski This is a prequel to The Witcher series. It is a collection of short stories. The reason I rounded down to a 3 is due in large part to the fact that as soon as I started bonding with a character or storyline, it ended. I am hopeful that I will really…
By Marie Benedict This book is about Lady Clementine Churchill, wife to the Prime Minister of Britain during WWII. I have to say, I was hoping for a bit more from this one. I absolutely loved Benedict’s last novel about Hedy Lamarr, and was hoping for this to be in the same vein. It is…
By Tasha Alexander Lady Emily is back for the fourteenth time! I love this series – and recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good mystery series with a strong female protagonist. I have about a 50/50 record of figuring out who did it over the course of the series before Emily…but I…