My Thoughts: I am totally in love with the original His Fair Assassins trilogy. (Grave Mercy – Dark Triumph – Mortal Heart) When the Courting Darkness duology was announced I may have had a minor (read: MAJOR) freakout! I could not wait to be back in the world LaFevers crafted. I was a little nervous that I would… Read more »
My Thoughts: In general, I am not much of a story collection reader. However, when the collection has a list of contributing authors like this one it goes on my TBR pile so fast. But we all know how unmanageable TBR piles can get. Thankfully, I was able to get my hands on an audiobook of… Read more »
My Thoughts: I finally read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe last month. It’s one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking books I’ve ever read. I actually listened to it on audio and it was perfection. (Can Lin-Manuel Miranda narrate ALL the YA audiobooks?!?) When I got the opportunity to listen to the audiobook of The… Read more »
My Thoughts: I was familiar with the term “Typhoid Mary” and knew a very basic bit about where it came from. This book filled in a huge knowledge gap for me. And the best part? It did it in a quick and interesting story! Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America has multiple… Read more »
My Thoughts: When I made my 2015 reading goal of reading one nonfiction book a month I knew Kids on Strike! was one of the books I wanted to get to. Somewhat embarrassingly, my desire to read it stems from one of my very favorite movies: Newsies! After recently re-watching the movie I wanted to know… Read more »
Book One: Enchanted My Thoughts: I’ve been meaning to read Hero for sometime now. I adored Enchanted and was excited to see where another Woodcutter sister would take us! And of course I had to read it before Dearest (book three) comes out. However, I am terrible at keeping up with books in a series so Hero languished on my shelf, unread. Thankfully… Read more »
My Thoughts: Pardon me while I have a fangirl moment: THESE BOOKS!!! AHHHHHHHHH! They are just… I cannot even. I LOVE THEM! Grave Mercy was amazing. But then Dark Triumph came out and was even better. And now! Now, we have Mortal Heart and it may be my favorite of the three. How does Robin LaFevers do it?!?! So…. Read more »
My Thoughts: Enchanted. What a perfect title for this book. It’s exactly how I felt listening to the story! I absolutely adored it! What to even say about this one… First, I’m a sucker for fairy tale retellings. I’ve read everything I can get my hands on by Robin McKinley, Donna Jo Napoli, Gail Carson Levine,… Read more »
