Tag: book review
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Book Review: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
I was craving a good steampunk read not too long ago and this one came recommended by an entire hoard of fellow authors. I’d read Westerfeld’s other books and enjoyed them, so this was an excellent choice. The Story This is a story of two very different children on very different sides of an alternate…
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Book Review: The Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes
The Giver of Stars is yet another book recommended to me by my fabulous fantasy fans on Facebook. You can totally join and hang out there with us, we’re pretty cool. It goes to show how important book recommendations are to authors. Psst … if you’ve read my books and liked them, please recommend them!…
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Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
After about a million (no, not really. I wish!) of you told me that I had to read this book, I finally snatched it up last week and consumed it whole. I might have mentioned before how much I like books that excel at beautiful language, where the images and ideas are presented in beautiful…
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Book Review: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Every year I try to read at least one book that’s considered a literary masterpiece. Anything that ended up as an Oprah’s Book Club pick as well as a author that won a Nobel Prize should have been a magical choice. It’s true, there are lots of fascinating things going on in this book, but…
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Book Review: Folded Notes From High School by Matt Boren
I picked up this quick read off of a recommendation and for the life of me I can’t remember exactly where … I’m thinking it was a writing group and we might have been talking about character voices. No, this isn’t a fantasy book. It’s an epistolary novel, meaning that the entirety of the prose…
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Book Review: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill
When it comes to book recommendations, I always take them with a grain of salt. What might be magical and wonderful for one, might be lame and boring for another. So, when someone recommended The Girl Who Drank The Moon, I was hesitatingly hopeful. And, it was wonderful. Sweet, yet profound. Childlike, yet complex. After…
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Book Review: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
How perfect is this? A book by two of my favorite authors which was later made into a TV series starring two of my favorite actors. It’s like a gift from the universe specially made for me. And even better, it’s pretty amazing. The Story There is a lot going in in Good Omens. We…
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Book Review: Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor
Beautiful prose, an amazing story, fascinating characters, Strange the Dreamer delivered an experience above and beyond my expectations. When a fellow writer, who also loves all the pretty words, gushes about a book, you know you have to go read it. A huge thank you to Candace for recommending it, you can go check out…
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Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
This book has been on my “to be read” list for ages and I finally got my hands on it. There has been a lot of hype about it in my writer circles, so I was eager to see what all the fuss was about. Initially, I thought that this might be a steampunk story…
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Book Review: The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm, by Christopher Paolini
The full title of this book is as follows (this is important later, so pay attention): The Fork, The Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaesia, volume 1: Eragon Pretentious much? Not only does this title promise that there will be more of these, but from differing characters as well. This book is a tiny…