Category Archives: highly recommend
Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendare Blake
Cas leads a difficult life. He is the son of a ghost killer; ghosts that refuse to go quietly into the night but keep on killing. When his father is killed at the hand of a particularly nasty evil entity, … Continue reading
The Shadow Society – Marie Rutkoski
Darcy was abandoned in Chicago when she was 5 years old and spent time in many foster homes until she finally found a kind foster mother and created her own family of good friends. But her junior year in high … Continue reading
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock – Matthew Quick
Leonard Peacock is a kind, highly intelligent, high school junior. So why does he wake up on his birthday, intent on taking a gun to school to kill a former friend and then take his own life? Told in Leonard’s … Continue reading
The Bitter Kingdom – Rae Carson
The final book in the trilogy that started with The Girl of Fire and Thorns, followed by The Crown of Embers, wraps up with The Bitter Kingdom. In the first book, Elisa gains confidence following her arranged political marriage and … Continue reading
The Daughters of Mars: A Novel – Thomas Keneally
The Durance sisters were so much alike. They were beautiful, tall and graceful girls. Both were registered nurses. Naomi moved to Sidney and was a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Sally was the one who stayed on the … Continue reading
Fallout – Todd Strasser
What if the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to the point of nuclear war with both sides firing their missiles? That is the premise behind Fallout when Scott’s father has a bomb shelter built in 1962. We meet Scott’s friends and … Continue reading
The Unfortunate Son – Constance Leeds
A powerful and cruel nobleman throws out his newborn son because he was born with only one ear. The nursemaid raises the child as her own and calls him Luc. Hated by the man Luc thinks is his father, he … Continue reading
Rose Under Fire – Elizabeth Wein
Humanity is stripped to the basic levels of good and evil in this brilliant historical fiction novel that relates the horrors of Ravensbruck – a Nazi concentration camp. During WWII, women pilots flew fighting planes to airfields. The intent was … Continue reading
Tarnish – Katherine Longshore
This superbly well written novel is the second in a series set in the court of King Henry VIII. While Gilt covered Catherine Howard’s (wife #5) time at court, Tarnish focuses on Anne Boleyn’s (wife #2) arrival at court to … Continue reading
Far, Far Away – Tom McNeal
What an odd yet enchanting story! The author weaves a study of the Grimm Fairy Tales into a murder mystery. The ghost of Jacob Grimm wandered for years until he found a special boy, Jeremy Johnson Johnson, who could hear … Continue reading
The King’s Deception – Steve Berry
Gary Malone is one angry teenager. Not surprising, considering his mother has just revealed that he’s the result of an affair. That the man he has always called “Dad” isn’t really his dad. His mother has refused to tell him … Continue reading
Parallel – Lauren Miller
When parallel worlds collide, Abby is thrust from one world to another. The story opens when her plans for college and a journalism career take a wrong turn after she enrolls in a drama class her senior year that leads … Continue reading
The Caged Graves – Dianne Salerni
Set in a small community in Pennsylvania following the Civil War, Verity Boone, returns to her birthplace to be reunited with her father and meet her intended husband. Her mother died when she was a toddler, so she was sent … Continue reading
Kindness for Weakness – Shawn Goodman
When James’ older brother gives his mother an ultimatum, the boyfriend or him, he moves out leaving James alone to deal with the abusive boyfriend and a mother that has checked out long ago. James’s brother, whom he idolizes, has … Continue reading
Invisibility – David Levithan and Andrea Cremer
Stephen was born invisible. This was not an unexpected surprise for his parents. His mother was cursed by his evil cursecasting grandfather. His invisibility was too much for his father to bear so he left his wife and young son, … Continue reading
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