By Alice Hoffman ** Publication Date 6 October 2020 ** 5 stars It is the late 1600s and Hannah Owens has found a baby in a basket in a snowy, open field. The baby is wrapped in a blanket stitched with the name Maria. Perched on the basket is a crow. Hannah takes the baby …
By Alex Landragin ** Publication Date 28 July 2020 ** 4 stars What a unique concept and story. Crossings deals with a rare manuscript, supposedly written, in his own hand, by Charles Baudelaire. Tragedy follows anyone who has had hands on the manuscript. One of the wild concepts of this tale, is the fact that …
By Estelle Laure ** Publication Date 14 July 2020 ** 4.5 stars Mayhem Brayburn was 3 years old when her mom fled their home of Santa Maria landing in Taylor, Texas. Taylor and her mom’s second husband Lyle is pretty much all Mayhem has known. Lyle is a southern charmer on the outside and an …
By Stephanie Alexander ** Publication Date 14 April 2020 ** 3.75 stars Charleston Green is the magic color created by mixing black with another color to produce a very dark shade of green. The title and color have a prominent role in this story about a single mom with the ability to see and communicate …
By Emily A. Duncan ** Publication Date 7 April 2020 ** Nadya is a cleric from Kalyazi. Clerics are holy people who can speak to the gods. Only Nadya’s gods have stopped speaking to her lately. She is trapped in Tranavia with the young king Serefin, who is having trouble holding onto both his throne …
By Sam Hooker, Seven Jane, Alcy Leyva, Laura Morrison, Dalena Storm, Cassondra Windwalker ** Publication Date 5 November 2019 ** A Midnight Clear is a book of six short stories, all themed around the winter holidays. But these aren’t your “Hallmark” style of holiday stories. These are more likely to end up on Twilight Zone …
By Katie Lowe ** Publication Date 08 October 2019 ** Violet has been through a tragic experience of losing her father and sister in a brutal car accident. Her mother has withdrawn from the world, unable to cope with the loss. When the opportunity arises for Violet to attend a rather exclusive girls’ school, she …
By Jennifer McMahon ** Publication Date 30 April 2019 ** I used to love mysteries/thrillers/suspense novels. And then for a long time I couldn’t read them because I couldn’t sleep at night. Now I’ve delved back into them, and I am finding some amazing books out there. The Invited is one of those. It borders …
By Aubrey Hadley ** Publication Date 16 July 2019 ** What would happen if you found yourself all alone in a quarantined neighborhood where all your neighbors were dying of sleeping sickness, and your mother and brother and sister had escaped prior to the quarantine? What if you started noticing glowing creatures out in the …
by Gigi Pandian ** Publication date 08 January 2019 ** What a fun and exciting ride through a lesson in history and alchemy. This was my first venture with Gigi Pandian, and it won’t be my last. I want to go back in time and find out how Zoe ended up in Portland, Oregon …