Book Review

Book Review | Graves for Drifters and Thieves | Sophia Minetos

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Book Review | Graves for Drifters and Thieves | Sophia Minetos

Jae is a girl on her own. A girl trying to find her father. Taken by ghosts, Jae thinks he’ll be in the Outlands. One problem… the Rangers are the only ones allowed access. Working as a bounty hunter in hopes of gaining the notoriety to become a Ranger herself, Jae stumbles on her biggest bounty when members from the Harney gang sit in her booth at a bar one night. She doubts her luck could be this great. Jae agrees to join them on their next heist in hopes that she can thwart their plan and drag them to the sheriff instead. However, nothing is as the bounty paints it and she learns the deadly gang is on their own hunt. A hunt that could possibly help her reach her father. But getting their help would be to become the very people that she hunts.

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Book Series | Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Laini Taylor

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Book Series | Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Laini Taylor

Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.
When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? - Goodreads

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Book Review | Sharks in the Time of Saviors | Kawai Strong Washburn

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Book Review | Sharks in the Time of Saviors | Kawai Strong Washburn

Three siblings. One born with a gift. The other two left to figure out their own place in life. After the collapse of the sugar cane industry in Hawaii, the Flores family tries to survive, even moving to a new island in hopes of better opportunities. Hope eventually comes when their middle son falls overboard and is saved by sharks. The story spreads, bringing a little wealth to the family, especially when that same son heals a friend’s hand after a bad firecracker accident. But one day, his gift seems to disappear, or at least his ability to use it. As he falls down a dark hole, his two siblings fight to realize their own place in it all when their parents only seem to have eyes for the golden boy. The three of them find their way to the mainland, where the touch of Hawaii is gone, and they struggle to keep on the paths that have brought them there until a tragic brings them running back to Hawaii.

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Book Review | Mexican Gothic | Silvie Moreno-Garcia

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Book Review | Mexican Gothic | Silvie Moreno-Garcia

Noemi is being sent on a crazy errand, or so she thinks when she’s whisked up to her cousin’s house after a weird letter that hints at more than the honeymoon bliss that should be happening between her and her husband. Noemi’s father fears it’s a hint of psychosis, or worse, she’s being miss treated, so Noami is to be his eyes and ears. What Noami isn’t prepared for is the rundown nature of the once prestigious High House. The walls are covered in mold, the electricity is all but nonexistent, and the restrictive rules are to keep the head of the house appeased as he suffers through his old age. Barely hosted, Noami is forced to barge her way into the family’s lives and her cousin's room to learn the truth. But when her cousin sends her for more medicine from the healer in town, Noami learns the sordid history of the house. Grabbing the help of her only ali, Noami tries to free her cousin from the family’s grasp.

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Book Review | The Tenth Girl | Sara Faring

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Book Review | The Tenth Girl | Sara Faring

Mavi has a second chance in life teaching at a remote boarding school recently reopened 60 years after it was closed. She’s not the only one running from her past, from the government that arrested her mother. The school is also running from the rumors around it’s original closure. About the sickness that swept it’s halls. As the weather turns cold, the house begins to morph and change, practically falling down upon the heads of its occupants, and the new students begin to complain of weird things happening at night. No one would question it if the staff wasn’t given a weird set of rules when they first arrived - no one is to leave their rooms at night. So who is visiting the girls? And who are the others Mavi is warned about? And why are there only nine girls when there’s meant to be ten? Compelled to help the girls and to figure out about her missing student, Mavi breaks the rules which tumbles her into the truth behind the school’s reopening.

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Book Review | The Year of the Witching | Alexis Henderson

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Book Review | The Year of the Witching | Alexis Henderson

Living in the shadow of her mother’s past, Immanuelle tries her best to abide by the rules of her society. But as the other girls grow into themselves and are marked as brides, Immanuelle still feels different. Then one day, walking home from town with her goat, the worst happens. She goes into the forbidden Darkwood where she stumbles onto the very thing that haunts it - the witches. And these witches have a gift for her. The diary of her dead mother. A diary that spells out a curse. When the first curse is bestowed upon her home, Immanuelle tries to find a fix that just ends up leading her down to a path of questioning the society she was born into.

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Book Review | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab

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Book Review | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab

Addie Larue just wants to live. To live beyond the borders of her little town. She can’t imagine living and dying in the same few square miles that her family and friends have done for generations. So when the night of her wedding arrives, she makes a deal with a god from the dark. A god that promises her life, but with a twist. She will never be remembered. For 300 years, Addie walks through life, always having a first meeting, but never being remembered beyond leaving the room. She steals and lies and fights to leave the tiniest impression of herself in the world until the day that she’s finally remembered by a boy in a bookshop.

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