This book made me wish I had children to read it aloud to. I made up for it by reading particularly wonderful passages aloud to my husband. September, a normal 12-year-old girl from Omaha, is visited one blustery day by the Green Wind. Being a clever, if somewhat heartless, girl, she of course says yes when the Green Wind asks her if she’d like to come to Fairyland. She’s not entirely sure why she’s in Fairyland, or what her quest might be, or how Fairyland even works, so she […]
What if Sam Winchester didn’t have a brother?
This review contains minor spoilers for the book. Nothing big, but if you like to approach a book completely blank, you may want to skip this. Like his father before him, Cas Lowood travels around the country and lays restless and malevolent ghosts to rest. He and his Wiccan mother rarely stay in one place for too long, and Cas makes very sure not to get too attached to any of the locals, as he’s just going to pack up and leave as soon as […]
Romeo and Juliet with zombies, oh my!
You can thank Nicholas Hoult and his pretty face for this review, which doesn’t have much to do with the Shakespeare inspiration and more to do with the differences between the book and the movie.
Son: A Beautiful End to a Beautiful Quartet
Having got a late start on The Giver, I decided to make up for lost time by reading the entire quartet. How beautifully wonderful it was! I don’t know what critics or readers think of it, but I thought it was the perfect ending to an original and piercing series. The story begins with a girl named Claire. A disappointing student, she is assigned the role of Birthmother. And then it all goes wrong. She feels things she cannot explain, things that no one else […]