“He was a king. This was the year he was going to die.” Author Maggie Stiefvater closes out her popular Raven Cycle series with the fourth and final novel, The Raven King. From the very beginning, readers knew death awaited Blue Sargent’s one true love. Gansey was slated to die from the very beginning, yet it was hard not to […]
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! […]
The Good…: The Raven Boys has been on my TBR list practically since it came out. I kept putting off reading it, because I was trying to finish reading the book series I’d already begun. This notion was stupid, I guess, since nowadays all YA books seem to be part of a series. I finally […]
The Good…: Esperanza Rising is a wonderful book about a young, wealthy Mexican girl whose family suffers a great tragedy as her country struggles to get back on its feet after the Mexican-American War caused dissension between the upper and lower classes. Forced to flee to California, Esperanza and her mother go from riches to rags working as […]
This Book Contains Spoilers From Shiver & Linger! Beware! The Good…: Maggie Stiefvater’s trilogy concludes in Forever. Sam and Grace are once again battling the odds, and proving they belong together. Now that Grace has shifted into a wolf, the bond between her and Sam has only grown stronger. Both of them have had a chance to […]
This Book Contains Spoilers From Shiver! Beware! The Good…: This book made me cry. I wasn’t prepared for my reaction to this book at all. Linger picks up a few weeks after the events in the first book. Sam is now human trying to figure out what that really means, while Grace is grappling with the fear […]