Top Ten Tuesday: If You Like This, Read That

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Books to Read If You Love/Loved X. I love recommending books to people and I like comparing books to other stories, so this was such a fun prompt! If you like Jane Austen, read Dearest Josephine by Caroline George: love letters and historical England and impossible romance! If …

Top Ten Tuesday: Non-Fairy Tale Retellings

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Genre Freebie (pick a genre and build a list around it! i.e., best/worst romances, non-fiction for travelers, memoirs for foodies, classics that feel timeless, romance novel kisses, science fiction that feels too real for comfort, women’s fiction for newbies, etc.) It took me a while to pick a …

Book Rambling: Between Burning Worlds by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell

Lately, I've been a bit disappointed in YA retellings, but I loved Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell, a retelling of Les Mis, last year. So I'm so glad that the sequel, Between Burning Worlds, was even better. **Between Burning Worlds is book two in the Systems Divine series so spoilers for …

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books of 2019

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Favorite Books I Read In 2019. Because I read so many books, I'm only listing books that were also published in 2019. While these were some of the best, there were so many more that I read and enjoyed this year. Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne …

Book Review: Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell

I'm one of those crazy "book" people who has actually read Les Misérables in its entirety. All 1,200 pages of that bad boy. It took me six months of reading slowly, chapter by chapter so I wouldn't get frustrated, but I did it. And it was (mostly) worth it. Victor Hugo's novel is a masterpiece …