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Category Archives: book reviews
REVIEW: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine Books, Pub date June 3, 2025 350pp. The writer of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six has done it again! Atmosphere is so well done, it’s a gorgeous portrait … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Tale, by Tova Friedman
HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books, Pub Date April 1, 2025, 208pp. Tova Friedman here recounts her own story as one of the youngest children to survive Auschwitz’s during the Holocaust, framed as a retelling to a friend she has met and trusts … Continue reading
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Tagged Children’s Books, Holocaust, Middle Reader, young adult
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REVIEW: Never Gamble Your Heart
Never Gamble Your Heart (Forever (Grand Central Publishing), pub date Feb 4, 2025, 384pp, $17.99) Genre: Romance with mystery. A charming Victorian romance, updated for modern values regarding women’s independence, but quite lovely, well-told, and eminently readable. I tore through … Continue reading
Review: After Life by Gayle Forman
AFTER LIFE, Gayle Forman, Quill Tree Books (Harper Collins), ISBN 978-0-0633-4614-7, January 2025, $19.99, 272pp. After Life is a fine example of my long-held belief that one is never too old for a “Young Adult” book. The story begins with … Continue reading
Review: MEET ME AT BLUE HOUR, Sarah Suk
MEET ME AT BLUE HOUR, by Sarah Suk. Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins), trade paperback, 288pp. Price $19.99. Pub date: April 1, 2025. This young adult book (13 and up) is set primarily in South Korea, centered around one of the … Continue reading
Review: Such a Bad Influence
Book By: Olivia Muenter Review by: Mae Vincent March 7, 2024Mae’s rating: 4/5 stars Content warning: Eating disorders, abuse, death, trauma Such a bad influence is a thriller that follows Hazel, the older sister of prominent social media influencer Evie … Continue reading
Book Review: Supersymmetry
SUPERSYMMETRY by David Walton, 290 pp., $9.99, pub date Sept. 1, 2015 Following on its prequel, Superposition, this starts 15 years later with some of the original characters, including the family affected by the varcolac in Superposition. The varcolac is … Continue reading
A review: the new Margaret Atwood
THE HEART GOES LAST, by Margaret Atwood (pub date Sept 29, 2015) As noted in the flap copy for this title, the basic premise for this latest dystopian novel from Atwood revolves around a society that’s undergone some sort of … Continue reading
The Fire Children by Lauren M. Roy
THE FIRE CHILDREN by Lauren M. Roy (Rebellion, $9.99, pub date June 30, 2015) https://www.netgalley.com/re/1791244?r=f This quest-type YA pulled me in from the start with the unusual setting of a society that must retreat underground to historical tunnels beneath their … Continue reading
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Superposition: a book review
Another review for you: A book that will soon be in the store (next week!): SUPERPOSITION by Dave Walton (Pyr, trade paperback, $17.00) A cross between a whodunit and some of the best quantum physics SF I’ve ever read, this … Continue reading
