Don Tillman is not your average guy. He’s got his life scheduled and organized for optimal efficiency and zero time waste. He’s a brilliant professor of genetics, but socially he’s inept, and he’s smart enough to know it. He had written off finding a life partner, but from the encouragement of a few close friends, he’s […]
Book Review | Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Divergent Trilogy #3)
2014-09-16 · by ·
Well, friends, I finally read the concluding book of the Divergent series. It’s difficult for me to fully review this book without discussing spoilers. So…if you don’t want to know spoilers, stop reading this review right now. Sigh. I have mixed feelings about Allegiant. The things I liked: I liked seeing Four’s weaknesses. I liked when […]
Book Review | Ruin and Rising (The Grisha Trilogy #3) by Leigh Bardugo
2014-08-12 · by ·
The capital has fallen and Alina is hiding from the Darkling once again, this time in the depths of an underground series of tunnels and caverns. Unable to summon light, her recovery from fighting the Darkling is arduous and with the Apparat looming over her shoulders at all times and trying to control all that […]
Review | Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo
2014-08-11 · by ·
Despite Alina and Mal’s efforts to flee and disappear into an unfamiliar land, far away from the Darkling’s power, they find that making a new life together is not as easy as they’d hoped. For Alina, running away from her past and what seems to be her destiny becomes futile. The Darkling has emerged from […]
Review | Cress by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles #3)
2014-07-12 · by ·
Cress is an extremely savvy techie that has been stuck in a satellite for years. When she’s not doing Queen Lavana’s evil bidding, she’s usually glued to Earth’s satellite feeds, gathering information or pining over the infamous human, Captain Carswell Thorne. Now that Cress has reached out to Queen Lavana’s nemesis, Linh Cinder, she’s flirting […]
Review | Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (The Reckoners #1)
2014-07-11 · by ·
As a boy, David had a terrible experience with the most powerful Epic of all: Steelheart. But through this experience, he may be the only person with a clue as to what Steelheart’s weakness is. All Epics have some sort of weakness, but Epics go to great lengths to conceal them. David hopes to join […]
Review | We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
2014-07-10 · by ·
Cadence Sinclair Eastman comes from some serious family money. Cady spends the summer months on her Grandpa’s private island with her cousins, aunts, and grandparents. The ‘Liars’ consist of two of Cady’s cousins that are her age and a boy who has been coming to the island every summer since Cady was eight. The Liars […]
Review | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
2014-07-09 · by ·
Lara Jean is a bit of a romantic; a pragmatic one though. Whenever she likes a boy with whom, for whatever reason it doesn’t work out, she writes them a love note. Lara Jean’s love notes are actually much more than just love notes, they are more of a purging of her love so she […]
Review | Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
2014-06-20 · by ·
Bernadette Fox lives in yuppy Seattle and is surrounded by socialite moms who value image above all else. Her Microsoft big wig husband is somewhat vexed with Bernadette’s behavior. The woman who was once an architectural design wonder, has become a reclusive hermit of sorts. Title: Where'd You Go, Bernadette Author: Maria Semple Genre: Fiction […]
Book Review | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver
2014-06-19 · by ·
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is a story about a family who chooses to eat local foods (many of them grown and raised by themselves) for one year, for the purpose of minimizing their petroleum foot print. Their story is told from three different perspectives: mother, father, and teenage child. Each perspective […]
