Sarah Lin hates Patrick Chevalier. She hates his golden good looks, his charming manner, the way he seems to be able to create magic with his bare hands and does absolutely everything flawlessly, without seeming to expend even the slightest bit of effort. She hates him because every time he brushes … [Read more]
Love and hate and chocolate in the City of Lights
3.5 stars Disclaimer! I was granted an ARC of this book by Kensington Books via Netgalley in return for a fair and honest review. Summer Corey hates Paris. It's a city where she was frequently abandoned to be raised by ever changing nannies while her parents were globe trotting or negotiating … [Read more]
In need of some trimming and a new ending
I picked this up because I remember my teenage self enjoying the movie (or at least Jeff Goldblum and Jeremy Sisto). That movie came out in 1995, and the book wasn … [Read more]
There’s a big ol’ angel war brewing in New York
This is book 6 in the series, and as such, not the best place to start reading. If you're really interested in the series, start at the beginning with Angels' Blood. During a terrifying five minute time period, birds and angels start plummeting from the sky, leaving almost half of the archangel … [Read more]
Someone: A Novel by Alice McDermott
It's hard to give a plot summary for this novel because I'm not sure there is a clear plot line. The narrator Marie gives us her life story, an ordinary life with love and loss, births and deaths, set in Brooklyn from her 1920s' girlhood through WWII, then marriage and family. It's about what … [Read more]
A girl is called to save a snow-covered magical kingdom populated by animals – no, it’s not Narnia, why do you ask?
Eleven-year-old Lindelin "Lin" Rosenquist is mourning the death of her pet vole, Rufus, and miserable in her new home away from her best friend and childhood haunts. One dark evening, she receives a mysterious package labelled "Twistrose" with a rose-shaped key inside. She discovers that the key … [Read more]






