My heart. Oh my heart! I was intrigued by this book after learning about it from The Orangutan Librarian’s mini reviews since it was pitched as a post-Narnia type of book but I did not expect The Light Between Worlds to spend its whole time breaking my heart. We all know what happens in Narnia.… Read More Book Review: The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
Recently, someone commented on an old review of A Shilling for Candles and recommended that I also read The Franchise Affair. Apart from My Brother’s Killer, I haven’t read a Golden Age mystery in a while so I was eager to do so. And wow, The Franchise Affair was intense! I pretty much gobbled this… Read More Book Review: The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Is this sixth story the end of the Six Stories series??? I would hope not but I have to say that this is a fitting end to a series that I enjoyed SO MUCH. Six Stories has never shied away from difficult “cases” – a girl who murdered her family, a pop star accused of… Read More Book Review: Demon by Matt Wesolowski
Although I had quite a few books to read, I couldn’t stay away from the Six Stories series. So I borrowed the third book, Changeling, and was BLOWN AWAY. I am going to be talking about the series so far in general, so I would recommend you click away from this page right now if… Read More [Major Spoilers] Changeling by Matt Wesolowski
I picked this up because I wanted something “easy” to read after a fairly taxing nonfiction read. Well, joke’s on me because Sweep was far more complex than what I expected from a Middle-Grade story and pretty much sucked me in and left me in tears by the end of the story. As you may… Read More Book Review: Sweep – The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
I’m not going to lie, I started Honor wondering if it was going to be similar to A Burning because topically, both books do look at the Muslim-Hindu tension in India (though Honor also looks at the question of gender) but by the time I finished this, I was convinced that this is going to… Read More Book Review: Honor by Thrity Umrigar
F I N A L L Y!!! I have been waiting for A Darkness At The Door ever since I read The Theft of Sunlight slightly more than a year and a half ago. And once again, I was not disappointed. Since this is book 2 of the duology, there will be spoilers for The… Read More Book Review: A Darkness At The Door by Intisar Khanani
“Instead of looking different in how we treated women, Christians looked just like everyone else.” With the news of how the Southern Baptist Convention failed victims of abuse in order to protect male leaders in the Church coming so soon after news of how John MacArthur shamed and excommunicated a woman who refused to take… Read More Book Review: The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
I’ve been hearing good things about Lonely Castle in the Mirror on Instagram and I’m so glad that I read it because it is amazing! Honestly, I was captivated from the first page! Lonely Castle in the Mirror is a touching fantasy about the power of community. Kokoro has been unable to go to school… Read More Book Review: Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Friends, this book was SO GOOD! I was crying at the end of A Monster Calls, which was not ideal… Read More Book Review: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness