Category: Book Reviews

The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine Pages: 387 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: February 16, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 2/5 stars In one month, I unintentionally read four Young Adult novels. Out of the three, I liked The Shadow Queen the least. I have not read a ton of YA since I am well past...

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter Pages: 396 Genre: Thriller Published: September 29, 2015 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that  you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were qualities that painted young men as smart and...

The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld Pages: 256 Genre: Psychological Thriller Published: March 4, 2014 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and shrink people to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.   4/5 stars The Enchanted is a...

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Pages: 383 Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Published: Feburary 10, 2015 Link: Amazon | Powell’s 3.5/5 stars When I saw Red Queen displayed in Powell’s for months, I thought it was some kind of new story about the red queen in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I was excited to...

The Shining by Stephen King Pages: 447 Genre: Horror Published: 1977 Link: Amazon | Powell’s I only ended up reading a few books, mostly short stories by Stephen King before I quit reading his books back in high school. The Shining was one of them and it was my favorite. Parts of it scared...

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Pages: 267 Genre: Literary Fiction Published: 2013 Purchase: Amazon 3/5 Stars I found The Silver Star to be disappointing. It was an okay, easy read but not one I would necessarily recommend....

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Pages: 152 Genre: Memoir Published: July 15, 2015 Purchase: Amazon But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones,...

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Pages: 752 Genre: Historical Romance Published: 1992 Link to purchase: Amazon | Powell’s “D’ye think I don’t know?” he asked softly. “It’s me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you–then I’m asking you to tear out your heart...

Persuasion by Jane Austen Pages: 260 Genre: Classics Published: 1818 Link: Amazon | Powell’s You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own...

Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan Pages: 416 Genre: Literary Fiction Published: 2002 Link: Amazon | Powell’s Gould’s Book of Fish has won many awards. It has been lauded with great praise for its magic realism, and while I did find Flanagan’s way with words quite lyrical,...