Book Review: Alyssa Day’s Atlantis Redeemed
An investigative reporter with the gift to see through lies discovers scientists experimenting on humans and shapeshifters. Her only hope is Brennan, an Atlantean warrior.
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Book Review: Betsy Byars’ The Summer of the Swans
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Summer of the Swansby Betsy Byars fiction in Hardcover edition that was published by Viking Books For Young Readers on March 30, 1970 and has 142 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A standalone fictional novel for young adults revolving around fourteen-year-old Sara, just hitting puberty with all the angst of it. In 1971, The Summer of the Swans won the Newbery Medal. My Take Puberty is hitting Sara hard, and Byars is absolutely brilliant in her depiction of the angst and drama of a young teen with the frustrations about her father and her impatience with her little brother — this rings so true of sibling relationships! Her intense sense of right and wrong as well as her desire to protect along with that so-very-thin skin. It’s the mid-1960s, and in just a few pages, Byars gives us a quick peek into a few days of the Godfrey family’s life with the focus primarily on Sara, and then Charlie, providing us with a lifetime of information […]
Book Review: Alyssa Day’s Atlantis Unmasked
A warrior scarred with two years of unspeakable torture and a descendant of Diana, deadly with her bow, are sent on a deadly mission. Failing will doom Atlantis.
Book Review: Timothy Zahn’s Cobra Guardian
Too deadly for their own worlds, the technologically advanced Cobras were “rewarded” with their own three planets where they fell into greater disrepute. Then the Troft invade…
Book Review: Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s The Boy Who Dared
When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. And truth will get you death.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Piety
With Bassett ill, the players must find work, and Joliffe finds it in a hospital with the ill-liked Mistress Thorncoffyn who insists someone is trying to kill her.
Book Review: Rachel Vincent’s Rogue
Faythe is the first and only female enforcer in her Pride and has made big decisions…and bigger mistakes, including one that may be coming back to haunt in a rash of missing human women.
Book Review: Carole Nelson Douglas’ Brimstone Kiss
Delilah and her partner, ex-FBI guy Ric Montoya, are busy solving a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ double-murder with plenty more to deal with: vampires, werewolves, and tigers, oh my!
Book Review: Sabrina Jeffries’ To Wed a Wild Lord
Drowning in guilt over his best friend’s death seven years ago, Lord Gabriel Sharpe, the Angel of Death, knows his only hope at redemption is a race against a shocking opponent.
Book Review: Shannon K. Butcher’s Burning Alive
Helen Day is haunted by visions of herself surrounded by flames, and then she meets the man, Drake, who watched. Attempting to flee, she awakens a powerful, enticing force.