Author Archives: EHL
Every Other Day – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Kali is a strong heroine in this riveting action adventure filled with paranormal monster hunting amidst high school angst. Kali appears like a normal teenage girl, but every other day at dawn, she shifts into something extraordinary. She still looks … Continue reading
Strinberg’s Star – Jan Wallentin
While exploring a flooded mine shaft in Sweden, seven hundred feet below the surface, cave diver Erik Hall, finds a well preserved body holding an ankh, the Egyptian symbol for eternal life. The press appears and for a few days … Continue reading
Blood Red Road – Moira Young
This dusty, gritty young adult dystopian novel is a fast 459 page read. The pages flip very quickly because the story is told in short sentences as the thoughts of Saba, the tough twin of her brother Lugh. Future Earth … Continue reading
Bitterblue – Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue picks up eight years after Graceling left off, when Katsa and Po rescued Bitterblue from her evil father, King Leck of Montsea. Queen Bitterblue is eighteen now and feels the enormity of repairing and ruling her country after Leck’s … Continue reading
The Lady of the Rivers – Philippa Gregory
Once again, Philippa Gregory has wonderfully recreated life among the royals in the fifteenth century. This is the third volume in the Cousins’ War series, but the first chronologically. It’s a prequel to The White Queen and tells the story … Continue reading
Someone Else’s Life – Katie Dale
Someone Else’s Life is a thoughtful story designed to keep the reader intrigued. Rosie, a British teen, loses her mother to Huntington’s Disease, a degenerative genetic disease that affects cognition and motor skills. Rosie begins the genetic testing that will … Continue reading
Froi of the Exiles – Melina Marchetta
Finnikin of the Rock is one of my favorite political fantasy books and I have listed it under the fantasy tab. I was thrilled to get the galley for the sequel, Froi of the Exiles. It is highly recommended to … Continue reading
Slide – Jill Hathaway
Slide will be a big hit in the young adult market. Twisty mysteries are always good and this one has a unique way of delivering the clues, the pieces to solve the mystery. Sylvia (Vee) suffers from narcolepsy. When she … Continue reading
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again – Frank Cottrell Boyce
I am a fan of the author’s writing, especially Cosmic, and I have such fond memories of Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, that I was eager to read this new book. Before reading it, I pulled … Continue reading
The Night She Disappeared – April Henry
Wow! Another book by April Henry that does not disappoint. Kayla is out at night making a pizza delivery and does not come back. Her panicked co-worker, Drew calls the police. It looks like the abductor initially targeted Gabie, another … Continue reading
Witchlanders – Lena Coakley
This fast-paced fantasy opens a generation after a devastating civil war. The Witchlanders are ruled by witches/sorcerers who brutally drove the Baen to barren lands. The arrival of an enemy is foretold by Witchlander Ryder’s mother. She instructs Ryder to … Continue reading
Ice Island – Sherry Shahan
Tatum’s father competed in the Jr. Iditarod in his youth and she desperately wants to follow in his footsteps. The story opens with Tatum watching for racers to cross the Iditarod’s finish line in Nome, Alaska, and being given one … Continue reading
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland . . . – Catherynne M. Valente
Twelve-year-old September is whisked away from her Nebraska home by the Green Wind and deposited in Fairyland. She goes on a quest to save Fairyland from an evil ruler, meets curious characters, and goes home. This book is getting rave … Continue reading
Ruby Red – Kerstin Gier
A family with a time travelling gene eagerly anticipates Charlotte’s first time travel excursion. Only a few people throughout the generations have inherited the gene and it was foretold that Charlotte would be the next so she has spent her … Continue reading
In Darkness – Nick Lake
I finished this book several days ago and it still lingers with me and will for some time. More than lingers, it haunts me. In Darkness weaves together two time periods in Haiti’s tumultuous history and is told through two … Continue reading
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