Tag: Review
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Wonder
After seeing Wonder in theaters with my third grade sister’s class, I felt compelled to read the book, and I’m glad I did. The movie, directed by Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, was a pretty good adaptation of the book and the casting was amazing, but I enjoyed the book…
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Emma in the Night
Psychological thrillers are my bread and butter these days, and I was not disappointed by Wendy Walker’s take on narcissistic personality disorder and a missing persons case that is cracked wide open.
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Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Before Love, Simon comes to the big screen on March 16th, 2018, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I wasn’t disappointed.
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Hello, Sunshine
Sunshine Mackenzie has it going on: she’s a top internet cooking sensation, but then she gets hacked, and her castle comes crumbling down around her
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With Malice
Jill Charron wakes up, unable to remember the past six weeks, and discovers her best friend is dead. Did she do it?
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Loser’s Club
oser’s Club is the perfect middle grade book for lovers of books, outcasts, people who are just trying to find their place, and all of us that have ever attended an after school program.
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One Dark Throne
The queens of Fennbirn are back in this sequel to Three Dark Crowns, and the drama of the Ascension Year is heating up
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Genuine Fraud
If you love mysterious heroines and trying to backtrack through a mystery, Lockhart’s latest novel, Genuine Fraud, is the book for you.
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Stronger
Stronger is the memoir of Jeff Bauman, a Boston Marathon Bombing survivor who is just that, a survivor
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The Distance Between Us
After a rough finals period, I needed a feel-good teen romance to keep me going, and I found that in Kasie West’s The Distance Between Us.
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Murder on the Orient Express
After seeing the Murder on the Orient Express movie starring Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Leslie Odom Jr, Penelope Cruz, Josh Gad, and many, many more, I was eager to read the novel it was based upon. I was happy to discover that it was one of the better book-to-film adaptations I have seen, at least…
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Holidays on Ice
If you’ve got a dark sense of humor and are trying to get in the holiday spirit, look no further than David Sedaris’s hilarious short story collection
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