The Caffeinated Reader
It’s been ten months since Nami narrowly escaped the Four Courts and Ophelia’s wrath. – GoodReads My Review Buzz Week Post for Book 1: Review for Book 1: OKAY Now for the actual review. The ending of book one had me shook, so it was nice to get into this again. Or so I thought. […]
The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. – GoodReads My Review Book 1 Review: Well The world was going down in flames..or […]
Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. – GoodReads My Review I’m not crying. You are. Honestly…okay it’s’ me crying. Emily X.R. Pan probably has a barrel of reader tears, […]
The last thing Barclay Thorne ever wanted was an adventure. – GoodReads My Review Did you ever read a book that just restored your faith in books? This was kind of like that for me. I took forever to get to it but when I finally sat down and read it, I was so glad […]
The first daughter is for the Throne. The second daughter is for the Wolf. GoodReads As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose-to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he’ll return the world’s captured gods. Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power […]
GoodReads: Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of […]
GoodReads: From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we […]
GoodReads: In 1994 Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls off the side of a cruise ship. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone aboard fears for the worst. But Nainoa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the […]
GoodReads: Love and violence. In some families they’re bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha’s trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes […]
I know this book came out on the 18th, but I was having a ‘oops’ moment and had thought it came out the 28th, so that’s why this is late. GoodReads: From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite international boarding school, that’s […]
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