KaetrinReading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsBest of 2020No Comments

Well, 2020 pretty much sucked. I suffered my way through a number of reading slumps and spent a long time doing something I hardly ever did before – re-reading. I turned to comfort reads for weeks at a time because things were just awful. I didn’t read as many new ... more >

January 14, 2021

What Sirius had been reading: Part 2

SiriusB Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Categorycats / dogs / fantasy m/m romance / ghosts / necromancer4 Comments

Marked by Death ( Necromancer #1 ) by Kaje Harper. Asking a necromancer for help is scary; falling for him may be downright terrifying. Darien Green’s afraid he’s going insane. The voices in his head are getting louder, weirder, and more numerous. But tattoos appearing on his skin say that ... more >

January 13, 2021

REVIEW: The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey

JennieB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book ReviewsDystopian England; teenage protagonist; sci-fi/fantasy3 Comments

Dear M.R. Carey: I was a big fan of The Girl with all the Gifts and its prequel The Boy on the Bridge, but was somehow unaware that you had a new series out set in a different dystopian world. (Thanks to Janine for letting me know!) The Book of ... more >

January 12, 2021

REVIEW: Halfway to Harmony by Barbara O’Connor

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsbrothers / Contemporary / family relationships / Friends / Georgia / grief / middle gradeNo Comments

Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, “Let’s you and me go see my world, little man.” But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn’t know how to see the world ... more >

January 11, 2021

REVIEW: The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / adaptation / Dwarf / English-Civil-War / First-Person / Historical / Historical fiction / Stuart-EnglandNo Comments

‘I want you to remember something, Nat. You’re small on the outside. But inside you’re as big as everyone else. You show people that and you won’t go far wrong in life.’ A compelling story perfect for fans of The Doll Factory, The Illumination of Ursula Flight and The Familiars. ... more >

January 8, 2021

REVIEW: Domesticating Dragons by Dan Koboldt

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArizona / Conspiracy / dragons / First-Person / futuristic / genetics / thrillerNo Comments

Noah Parker, a newly minted Ph.D., is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He’s eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian’s feature product: living, breathing dragons. Although highly specialized dragons have been ... more >