Monster High Book Review

Title: Monster High Author: Lisi Harrison Series: Monster High (book 1) Genre: YA/ SciFi Pages: 246 Review: So I started reading Monster High by Lisi Harrison, and when I say “started” I mean that I’ve inhaled all four of the original books. Ms. Harrison is the woman who brought us The Clique and Alphas. That being said, although I initially loved the …

Taking The Stage Book Review

Title: Taking The Stage Author: Paige Parsons Series: n/a (well, not yet anyway) Genre: Romance, Interracial Romance (BWWM) Pages: 134 Taking the Stage is the debut novel of Paige Parsons and I have to say I loved every second of it. I’ve never read a romance novel with the intention of  sharing my experience with the public, but I’ve decided to go …

The Invisible Library Book Review

Title: The Invisible Library Author: Genevieve Cogman Series: The Invisible Library (book 1) Genre: Sci-Fi; Steampunk; Fantasy Pages: 351 Review: I obtained this book as a part of some swag that I received at Phoenix Comiccon this year. I was totally drawn to this book and it was the first one that, based on the blurb on the on the …

Judy’s Trifle Cake

In Daddy-Long-Legs, Judy goes to to a girl’s college and meets many new types of people, makes life-long friends, travels to places she’d never thought she’d go and experiences incredible new things. Segue! I think that a poor orphaned girl (whose name was literally chosen from a gravestone and the phone book) would love any chocolate dessert that was presented …

Daddy-Long-Legs Book Review

Author: Jean Webster Series: kind of the sequel, Dear Enemy, takes place in the same world but not with our protagonist. Genre: YA Pages: 185 When I first saw this book, it was sitting sadly on the shelf at the library. The front cover was particularly boring featuring an ambiguously aged girl sitting with a pen and paper half smiling out of a window. …

What Goes Around

This time last year, I was sitting on a plane headed back to Phoenix when I struck up a conversation with my seatmate. She was a pretty black musician going home to Montana. We talked about  music, the gig life and other randomness. Then the man sitting next to my left begins to converse with us because he just had his …

Rules of Summer- Book Review

Author: Joanna Philbin Series: Rules of Summer (book 1) Genre: YA Pages: 368 I recently read Rules of Summer, the first book in a series of the same name, by Joanna Philbin. The story centers around two girls summering in the Hamptons. The girls are from two completely different worlds and are there for two totally different reasons. Isabel Rule …