The Demon Trapper’s Daughter was a souvenir from the gift shop/visitors center at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. I was excited not only that they had a gift shop, but that I was able to get a book there that partially takes place in the same cemetery. This book is extremely YA, and in a bad way. It could have easily been written in a way that would have included a wider age range, but either the author wanted to…
Night Shift is the final book in a trilogy based on the (fictional) paranormal town of Midnight, Texas. Its residents (Fiji, Bobo, Lemuel, Olivia, Manfred, Teacher, Madonna, Mr. Snuggles the cat, Diederik, Quinn, Joe, Chuy, the Rev, and newcomer Sebastian) are faced with mysterious suicides in the crossroads in the center of their town. Lemuel dedicates his nights to the daunting task of translating a werewolf-bound book written in a language that only 3 vampires know (excluding himself) to find out…
The President’s Hat is described by the author as a “modern fairy tale for adults” and he couldn’t be more right. Which is good, because it’s his book. This book, though timeless, is set in the 1980’s and Francois Mitterand is president. One night he leaves his hat in a restaurant, and it winds up falling into the hands of four different people. When each person acquires the hat, their lives are affected in such a completely transforming way, definitely…
The Red Notebook is Amelie in book form, perfectly. One morning on the way to a cafe, Laurent comes across a woman’s purse sitting on top of a dumpster. He quickly realizes that it must have been stolen from the owner, and from that moment he sets out to track down and get it back to her. Since the phone and wallet were (obviously) taken from the purse, the only piece of information he has about her identity is her first…
In The Book of Blood and Shadow, we follow Nora (hehe), a smart senior/Latin nerd at a prep school, and her three best friends. They land spots in a special study class to try to interpret a book that no one has been able to in the 400-some years since it was written. It turns out that an organization is keeping and eye on everyone who shows interest in the book, and once they start to make progress things start…
Magic is failing in The Autumnlands so Gharta creates a spell to bring the Great Champion to their world so he can restore their magic. They weren’t able to give the spell enough power so it took from the city’s reserves, thus causing it to fall from the sky. Many died, and an attack from Seven-Scars and his bison tribe cause even more destruction. Learoyd, the Great Champion, was successfully brought into the Autumnlands and helps save the city from…
Oakland Cemetery gets huge points from me for having a visitors center and gift shop. A GIFT SHOP. In a cemetery. This should be mandatory and I will work all of them. A few issues here. !!! Natural vignetting SNOW. It was freezing, raining, and snowing by the time we got here. We saw much of the cemetery by car except for a quick little run-around when I got out to visit the gift shop. I really hope I get…
I finished this book late one evening and went to bed soon after. As I laid in bed I digested the book and realized that I liked it so much because it made me feel happy. It also gave me the itch to travel, but if you must know one thing about the book, know that it made me happy. In The Winemakers, the reader is fed little bits of information along the way. This can either be done well…
On February 9th, 2016, the final book in the Red Rising Trilogy was released. This was a big deal. I read Red Rising last fall and really liked it. Then I read Golden Son and that book shifted something inside of me; it is a book that really means something important. So as you can guess, I had high hopes for Morning Star. It’s not at all like it was a bad book. It just didn’t get exponentially better in…
(source) Oh god I was so happy when this story was over. Dark Witch is the worst Nora Roberts book I have ever read; I didn’t even know she could write them this horribly. And the narrator, the narrator! What a grating voice in all of its forms. She sounds like an enthusiastic theater student on the verge of an orgasm. The bones of the story itself were good: an American woman moves to Ireland to meet her cousins. It…