The Immortal Heights is the final book in Sherry Thomas’ YA fantasy Elemental Trilogy, and brings to a very satisfying conclusion the story of Prince Titus of the House of Elberon and Iolanthe Seabourne begun in The Burning Sky and continued in The Perilous Sea. I don’t normally read Young Adult fiction, but I’m a…
I hate to be misled on a sales blurb. Of course I expect to be told how fabulous the book is when maybe it’s not so great, but I’m fine with that. What I don’t expect and very much don’t like is to be told the novel is about one thing only to find it…
I have a confession. A reading confession: I don’t like ensemble casts in books. Every so often it works because the story being told is just so darn epic it needs a whole host of heroes and heroines. Think Lord of the Rings. But for the most part I prefer that the story concentrate primarily…
I knew I was in trouble when I checked how much further I had to read and found out I was only at the 4% mark. I’m a huge fan of a number of Mercedes Lackey’s series so reading this novel was not my first brush with this author; it was however, one of my…
Over all, I found this book rather confusing and messy. I’m an old hand at time travel tales, I thoroughly enjoy them but in this case I felt like the author took too much of a laissez faire attitude towards her plot and it just didn’t work. There’s a mass murder, a forbidden love affair,…
Narrated by Amy Rubinate Flight, the first book in the Crescent Chronicles, is a Young Adult paranormal romance. As is typical of Young Adult romances, the intimate scenes are very tame and could easily be appropriate for listeners of junior high age on up. Additionally, the plot is mostly focused on the paranormal world and coming of…
Narrated by Amy Rubinate Every Last Word is the story of sixteen-year-old Samantha McAlester, a high school junior with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It’s a well-written and well-researched look at mental illness, and how it affects young people. Everyone who knows Sam thinks she’s got the world by the tail. She’s part of the popular crowd…
Narrated by Renee Chambliss Defiance is a book that has been on my radar for over a couple of years now. Of course, as with all things TBR list related, it got shuffled to the middle of the stack with each new release. However, when it came out in audio format this year, I didn’t…
Library Wars: Love & War is, quite simply, about fighting against censorship and the banning of books. In this fictional near-future Japan, the Media Betterment Committee was formed about 30 years prior to protect the population from unsavory materials. Unfortunately, the MBC took things to a whole new level, where it is a common occurrence…
This book has a beautiful cover, interesting description, unique fantastical beings, and should have been everything I love in a book. I read it mostly because I saw it compared to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, which is an all-time favorite of mine. Sadly, all of those elements didn’t combine into a great book. Echo…
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