Month: August 2015
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Panic by Lauren Oliver *Stephanie’s Review*
[book-info] Panic by Lauren Oliver grabbed my attention with its blurb. Small town wracked by near poverty when the local factory closed? God can I relate to that! The area that I live in lost 3000 jobs alone when one of the major factories closed its doors and moved production to Mexico. The smaller factories…
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Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins *Stephanie’s Review*
[book-info] By now I’m sure you’re all aware that I am a Kristan Higgins fan girl. I have some of her back list to get through yet. I read her novels differently though I hoard them and don’t read them. I save them for when I need a case of the warm fuzzies. I know…
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Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas *Stephanie’s Review*
[book-info] Typically the second book in a series tends to suffer from “middle book syndrome”. Middle book syndrome is when a book spends half of the book rehashing the first book and the other half sitting up the plot for the third book in the series. Not so with Crown of Midnight by Sarah J.…
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Even When You Lie to Me by Jessica Alcott *Stephanie’s Review*
[book-info] I have to say I’m pretty curious to see how the book community reacts to Even When You Lie to Me by Jessica Alcott. Each month I’m trying to read an ARC that I picked up from ALA MidWinter. This month Even When You Lie to Me started calling from the stacks. It was…
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Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas *Stephanie’s Review*
[book-info] I decided that I wanted more historical romance in my life again. I also really, really loved the Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas. It’s been several years so I thought it was time to re-read the series. I remember being pretty wishy washy about Annabelle and Simon. Annabelle has so much on her shoulders…