Happy Launch Day to Finn Flanagan and the Fledglings, the first book in The HALO Series by Kip Taylor! I am thrilled to be reviewing it today. Kip is my critique partner, and she has given me so much support this past year. She is truly an awesome person, and I am honored to call her my friend. I am so excited...
You’ve spent months writing a novel. You’ve revised it, cherished it, dreamed about it, hated it, formatted it, and fallen in love all over again. You’re ready to send it out to your first readers. And it’s like cutting out a little piece of your soul, knowing it will come back chopped to little bits. Like Andy in Pretty in...
Happy Book Birthday to Counting Backwards by Laura Lascarso! I was lucky enough to read Counting Backwards this weekend through a Southern Book Bloggers ARC tour. The summary, adapted from Ms. Lascarso’s site: When sixteen-year-old Taylor Truwell is caught with a stolen car and lands in court for resisting arrest, her father convinces the judge to issue an...
I can’t believe I’ll be at the SCBWI conference in Los Angeles by the end of this week. This has been one of my busiest summers ever, with ups and downs more powerful than the Atlantic waves my kids love to ride. I feel excited, nervous, and under-prepared. I can’t wait to learn and grow...
Book Review: Something Strange and Deadly Today I’m reviewing Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard, as a part of an ARC tour hosted by the Southern Book Bloggers. In Philadelphia in 1876, Eleanor Fitt must partner with the supernatural-fighting Spirit Hunters to find her missing brother, dodge her mother’s desperate attempts to find her a husband, and...
Lately I’ve purchased most of my books online. I almost couldn’t remember the last time I’d been in a book store before I read about Lisa Burstein’s giveaway to celebrate the release of her book Pretty Amy. The summary intrigued me, and I knew I wanted to read it. But one of the entry tasks was...
My grandfather passed away last week. His passing was not entirely unexpected, but still, losing a family member always comes as a blow. I had so much respect for my grandfather. He was married to my grandmother for 71 years. He was a preacher, and honestly, my expectations for preachers were set unrealistically high because of him....
It’s Road Trip Wednesday again, and YA Highway asked, “What was the best book you read in June?” June has been so busy that I’ve fallen behind on my reading and blogging. But the best book I read this month was so good that I had to jump in and rave about it. My best book in...
YA Highway RTW: The Best Book in May May is always a huge month for new releases, and this year all the titles I’d been waiting for lived up to the hype. I read the 5 YA titles above and a few adult books as well. You can check out my reviews of Bitterblue, Insurgent, and Reunited for more info. I’d have to...
YA Book Club is hosted by Tracey Neithercott at Words on Paper. Thanks for bring us all together, Tracey! This month we’re discussing Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Insurgent is the second book in the Divergent trilogy. It’s difficult to discuss a sequel without giving away the secrets of the first book, but I’m going to...
