When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, [...]
(Sorry, y’all. WordPress was beign totally LAME Thursday and Friday and wouldn’t let me post for some reason. So you get both reviews today.) With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness leads her [...]
Did y’all miss me? Did ya, did ya?? Bubba and I are back from vacation now (we actually got back this weekend but I was exhausted, so I extended my bloggy vaca by a couple days). We had a great time relaxing at the lake and catching up with family and friends. Not to mention [...]
Goodbye bloggy friends! Not that I am leaving forever or anything. But I am taking off to spend a week in the greatest place ever (admittedly, despite being a nomad for a few years, my travel experience is limited to my view might be biased). Tonight, I will turn my computer off…and then leave it [...]
I guess since it is Tuesday, and I have two things I am thinking about, I could call this a Two For Tuesday, but I’ll be honest…connecting the two things will be quite a stretch. So instead I will just ramble on about them (’cause that’s what I do best). First…it is a kind of [...]
In Beautiful Malice (I told you that book sticks with me – don’t worry, I will try my best to not be spoilery here), the main character hides who she truly is. She has her reasons–she wants to put her old life behind her and doesn’t want everyone to know what happened in her past. [...]
Is it possible to love someone too much? Is it possible to love them so much you wish them dead? Katherine Patterson wishes she could disappear. Instead, she does the next best thing. After the death of her talented younger sister, Katherine leaves her grieving parents to the media’s merciless scrutiny and moves to a [...]
I have a big confession to make. A sort of embarrassing big confession. Are you ready? Okay, here goes: Today, at work, a coworker and I watched the ending of the Lindsay Lohan Trial online. Ick. I can’t believe I actually watched it. But we just had to know whether she was going to be [...]
I had a really fabulous blog post planned for y’all today (okay, you got me – it was just your average run-of-the-mill blog post, but whatever), but the weather had other plans. See, Mother Nature thought it would be fun yesterday afternoon to send a bunch of ginormous hailstones through my kitchen windows. It was [...]
