I loved this book! I was just feeling lost and didn’t connect with any of the books I was trying to read, so I looked at what was available on the library website, and checked this one out. The Solar family was cursed by Death. Every member of the family has one great fear, and that fear will be the thing that kills them. Esther started her Semi-Definitive List of Worst Fears because of the curse. She writes down anything that scares her even a […]
THUG gave me all the feels
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas deserves all the hype and awards. The story centers around teenager Starr Carter who lives in the African-American community of Garden Heights while attending an expensive private school on the posh side of town. She has two sides of her life, two faces she shows each environment. Her white boyfriend Chris has never met her Dad. Her friend Kenya, who she shares a half-brother with has never met any of her high school friends. The two worlds collide after […]
“There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers…”
I managed to make it through the long, but very entertaining, The Diviners. It’s set in the 1920s and follows Evie as she is sent to stay with her Uncle Will in New York. This is meant as punishment, but she’s a girl who loves excitement, so she has no problems trading her small Ohio town for the Big Apple. Unfortunately, there is a series of grisly murders. Uncle Will runs a museum of the paranormal, so the police bring him in to try to […]
Things I’m Seeing Without You
Things I’m Seeing Without You is about a girl named Tess. When we first see her, she is dropping out of her boarding school to go live with her estranged father. The boy she loved, Jonah, just killed himself, and Tess is (understandably) distraught. Her father has always pursued some outlandish career goal; the current one is funeral planning. Tess decides to help him, and they plan a great memorial for a beloved racehorse. They decide to become partners and form a new, closer bond. […]