The Boiling Season

The Boiling Season, by Christopher Hebert. She continued to look out the window, seemingly deep in thought. And then she turned to me with a puzzled expression. "I'm surprised that you don't have more compassion. These are your people, after all." "My people?" I said. Could...

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What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?

What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?, by The Buried Life. (Jonnie Penn, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn, and Ben Nemtin) This book is a little more unusual than others I've reviewed here, in that it's more of a collection of pictures, with some short stories weaved in, rather...

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Out of Sight, Out of Time

Out of Sight, Out of Time, by Ally Carter (Gallagher Girls book #5). It wasn't like we talked a lot. But then again, it's not like there was all that much left to say. We'd seen things. We'd done things. And I wasn't the only one who was still waiting for me to come home from...

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Ship of Souls

Ship of Souls, by Zetta Elliott. Right after Christmas a blizzard hit the city. This lady on our block went into labor, but the streets weren't plowed, so she couldn't get to the hospital. She tried walking through all that snow but only made it as far as our building. She...

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Inception: The Shooting Script

I was given copies of three movie-based books to review: Inception: The Shooting Script, Red Riding Hood, and Cowboys and Aliens. What I thought the books were going to be was a novel adaptation of the films, all of which I have seen; what I got, however, was entirely different,...

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Keepsake

Keepsake, by Kristina Riggle. The sun was climbing higher. I reckoned it was probably sixty degrees or so. The women and girls coming from the church wore pastel dresses and pretty delicate shoes. The men wore suits, or at least natty ties and dress shirts. I wondered how many...

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Lone Wolf

If you had told me when I was eighteen that I would be back in Beresford, I would have laughed in your face. Back then, all I knew was that I had to get away from here as fast as possible. As a teenager, I never realized that the thing I was running from would still be here,...

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