Title: The Portable Veblen Author: Elizabeth McKenzie Publisher: Penguin Press January 19, 2016 Genre: Literary Fiction A Veblen? I had no idea when I picked up this book what the heck a Veblen was, much less a portable one. I also wondered whether the content could possibly live up to the Veblenesque mystery and the…
Month: January 2016
Liar
Title: Liar Author: Rob Roberge Publisher: Crown Publishers Feb. 9, 2016 Genre: Biography, Memoir This book releases on Feb. 9th, 2016. The trouble with a talented writer writing about a real person with pain, hopelessness, despair, bad choices, terrifying experiences, bad people, risky behaviors, and all the rest, is that it is terribly compelling as…
Missing Pieces
Title: Missing Pieces Author: Heather Gudenkauf Publisher: Harlequin (US & Canada) Feb 2, 2016 Genre: Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller This book does not release until Feb 2,2016, but PUT IT ON YOUR LIST and don’t forget about it! What I loved most about this mystery is the way I was led to it….
Written In Fire
Title: Written in Fire Author: Marcus Sakey Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (2016) Series: Book #3 of the Brilliance Trilogy The choices have been made, and the players set the world on fire. Now the only question remaining is how much of it will burn, and who will survive the madness, much less win the war?…
A Better World
Title: A Better World Author: Markus Sakey Series: Book #2 of The Brilliance Series Publisher: Thomas and Mercer (2014) Read it! (Read Brilliance first, though) In the second installment in the trilogy, Nick Cooper is once again tasked with saving the world. This time, however, the moral dilemma he struggles with is even more complicated….
Black Moon
Title: Black Moon (audiobook) Author: Kenneth Calhoun Narrator; Neil Shah Publisher: 2014 Dreamscape Media Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Apocalyptic When the world becomes sleepless and insane, it falls to one man to dream for all. Biggs is a man who is surrounded by the chaos and fractured despair of a world filled with humanity wracked…
The Book of Ivy
Title: The Book of Ivy (audiobook) Author: Amy Engel Narrator: Taylor Meskimen Publisher: 2014 Listening Library (Audio) Genre: YA, Romance A young daughter raised to be driven by murderous hatred is forced to marry the son of mortal enemies in order to keep a historic peace. In a divided society walled off from the devastated…
Brilliance
Title: Brilliance Series: Book #1 of The Brilliance Trilogy Publisher: Thomas and Mercer (2013) Brilliance is a well-paced political thriller that reads like an action movie from cover to cover, which will appeal to many readers. Nick Cooper is an Abnormal in a nation where Normals are beginning to fear the small percentage of the…
City of Blades
Title: City of Blades Series: The Divine Cities Author: Robert Jackson Bennett Publisher: Broadway Books, January 2016 Recommended City of Blades is the second book in The Divine Cities series by Robert Jackson Bennett, but a reader does not have to read City of Stairs first to get the full measure of the story….
The Raven Cycle Series
Title(s): The Raven Boys (2012), The Dream Thieves (2013), Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014)(audiobook) Author: Maggie Stiefvater Narrator: Will Patton Publisher: Scholastic Audio Genre: Teen/YA speculative fiction/fantasy (literary) ♥♥♥♥♥ Great titles to add to your YA literacy booster lists This review combines the first three books of Maggie Stiefvater’s series, The Raven Cycle. Blue Sargent,…
A New Year and so many books to read!
I have lots of books on the shelf waiting to be reviewed, so I will be spending my time catching up! Check my book review page for new recommendations.
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