Synopsis: Convicted assassin Celaena is offered a chance to leave the mines where she has been imprisoned, on the condition that she compete in a series of trials to find a new King’s Champion.
the almost moon.
Last year I didn’t finish four books which is an embarrassing number for me… I say that because I *struggled* to finish The Almost Moon- starting and finishing three books in the process… Another thing I try to avoid. I read Lucky when I was a sophomore in college and loved its gritty honesty. I read The Lovely Bones (along with the rest of the world) right before the movie adaptation came out. I was excited to see The Almost Moon at a library yearly […]
A book about books! Mr. Penumbra should be our CBR mascot.
This is one of those books I wish I had multiple copies of, so I could loan it immediately to everyone I know. It was so much fun! I listened to the audio book, and finished it on my drive home from work. By the next morning
If Harry Potter had an American cousin
I got this book for Christmas, and was so glad to kick off the Cannonball with a great book. Miss Peregrine
The One That Started It All
Here it is: the book that started it all. We open with a first person prologue from the point of view of a murderer gloating over his or her victim: Anna. I have a feeling a lot of these books are going to open this way. In the Shadyside High cafeteria, we meet Corey Brooks, a young douchebag on the gymnastics team who, despite being touted as the star gymnast, proves to be more clumsy than the average realistically flawed YA heroine. He glimpses the […]
PaulSiegel86 #CBR6 #1: The Confessor by Daniel Silva
Gabrile Allon is Daniel Silva’s Jewish Superspy, however in this novel he begins to show his age.