Rating: 5/5 Summary: Elias is the best soldier in Blackcliff, he’s also their most reluctant. He hates what they carved him into and wishes desperately for freedom. Laia loses everything one night during a Martial raid of her house. Her grandparents are killed and her brother captured. She is scared and has no one. She turns to the underground Resistance in hopes they will help her free her brother. In order to get them to help her, she agrees to become a slave to the […]
Mermaids the Eat People & are Kind of Bitchy
Rating: 3/5 Summary: When three beautiful girls come to the small town of Capri, Gemma and her sister are suspicious. The girls are eerily beautiful and are completely pretentious. They don’t speak to anyone, but they want to speak to Gemma. Gemma is a swimmer and she goes out for nightly swims in the bay by her house. One night, the girls entrance her to join them and her life is never the same. This book had a lot of potential. It wasn’t bad per […]
This Lady Seems Crazy But I Like Her
Rating: 4/5 Summary (from Goodreads): Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when “being a writer” was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married […]
Fish Are Boring and I Don’t Really Like Them
Rating: 2/5 Summary: This is the history and almost everything else you could want to know (or not know) about cod. I mean cod as in fish not Call of Duty (sorry). Kurlansky explores the start of fishing cod and how the fleets fishing them evolved over time. Narratives of struggling fishermen and successful business men are woven into this fact filled book. There’s not much about the science of fish or genetics so I was sad. Cod is beautifully written and thoroughly researched. Truly […]