12 February 2016

Review #341: The Sirens by Kiera Cass



My rating: 2 of 5 stars



“There’s always room for love. Even if it’s as small as a crack in the door.”

----Kiera Cass



Kiera Cass, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned a heart-breaking tale of love in the huge vast blue ocean, in her book, The Sirens that narrates the story of a young siren who lives in the depths of the ocean and has a beautiful voice but longs to have a life of her own instead of serving the ocean, unfortunately against the rules of the ocean. But when she falls for a human, things become so difficult for her to survive her solitude anymore.



11 February 2016

Review #340: The Travelers by Chris Pavone



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.”

----Raymond E. Feist



Chris Pavone, the New York Times best-selling author, pens yet another heart-gripping thriller, The Travelers, that unfolds the story of a travel journalist who travels to Argentina for his assignment where a beautiful Australian women makes him an undeniable offer that is surely going to change the course of his life by throwing him onto the face of a dangerous global agenda against one's country.



10 February 2016

Review #339: Twain's End by Lynn Cullen



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

 
----Mark Twain


Lynn Cullen, an American best-selling author, pens an interesting historical fiction about Mark Twain and his life around his secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, in her new book, Twain's End that narrates that journey of Twain's life when he ranted negatively about his secretary and her husband in front of the whole world, thereby shedding light to a love affair between Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan Macy and her husband, John Macy.



9 February 2016

Review #338: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens”

----Katherine Applegate



Katherine Applegate, a multiple award-winning American author, has penned a deeply moving tale about an adult gorilla living inside a glass cage in a mall in America, in her book, The One and Only Ivan. Inspired from real-life events, the author pens a heart-breaking yet thoroughly entertaining story about a gorilla and his friends and his mission to find freedom, and mind it, this book is not only for the middle-grade children, but can be enjoyed irrespective of any age of the reader, from young to old.


8 February 2016

Review #337: The Drowning Girls by Paula Treick DeBoard



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”

----Emily Bronte


Paula Treick DeBoard, an American best-selling author, pens a mystifying tale set in a modern, posh American neighborhood which haunts a new family by the buried lies and secrets behind the doors of their neighbors, in her upcoming book, The Drowning Girls. This story revolves around a family who just shifted to a nice and rich neighborhood but their happy days soon turn into nightmare by a fifteen year old girl whose plans for the summer is way too sinister.




7 February 2016

Review #336: Our Demons, Best Friends (Half of Me, #1) by Diana T. Scott



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“My demons love your demons like crazy”

----Diana T. Scott


Diana T. Scott, an American author, pens a heart-wrenching contemporary love story about two medical interns in her new book, Our Demons, Best Friends which is the first book in the Half of Me series, that unfolds a deeply moving blossoming love story between Ava and Sebastian, two broken souls beholding lots of pain and broken promises from their not so distant past, by highlighting how these two souls collide and how they unite under one cause.





5 February 2016

Review #335: Romancing the Dark in the City of Light by Ann Jacobus



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

----Albert Camus



Ann Jacobus, an American author, pens her debut YA psychological thriller, Romancing the Dark in the City of Light that unfolds a heart-wrenching and thoroughly riveting tale about a young teenage girl, with a problem of drinking and escaping her issues, who is trying to find love on her stay in Paris, while dealing with her mental tantrums.





4 February 2016

Review #334: Flight of Dreams: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“It’s fire and it crashing! . . . This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! Oh, it’s crashing . . . oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There’s smoke, and there’s flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!
. . . I can’t talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it’s just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage, and everybody can hardly breathe and talk . . . Honest, I can hardly breathe. I’m going to step inside where I cannot see it. . . .”


----Herb Morrison, Reporter


Ariel Lawhon, an American author pens a poignant and enthralling tale based on the world famous Hindenburg disaster that took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States, in her book called Flight of Dreams: A Novel.