13 March 2016

Review #367: Your Voice is All I Hear by Leah Scheier



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.”

----Nathan Filer



Leah Scheier, an American author, has penned a heart-rending YA tale, Your Voice is All I Hear which unfolds the story of young high school teenager who meets and falls for a newcomer boy and gradually when this unpopular girl's love story takes up full course, that sweet, innocent boy's ghosts from the past surface up, thereby, making him miserable and depressed with fear, which finally leads to institutionalization. Whereas on the other hand, this girl won't give up on her boyfriend whom she loves more than everything in her universe.


11 March 2016

Review #366: I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

----Eleanor Roosevelt



Heather Demetrios, an American author, has penned a heart-wrenching tale about love, broken dreams in her YA novel, I'll Meet You There, that narrates the story of two teenagers- one with ambitions and goals to get out of a stuck-up small town and the other with lost dreams and a lost leg spending his uncertain days in that same stuck-up small town.





10 March 2016

Review #365: Bone by Bone by Sanjida Kay



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”


----Michael J. Fox



Sanjida Kay, a British author, pens her debut psychological thriller, Bone by Bone that unfolds the story of a recently divorced mother and her nine year old daughter, who recently moved to Bristol and started their life there. What they never expected that a childish innocent bullying would become something so life-threatening and the neighbors and rest of the townsfolk would turn against this mother-daughter duo.


9 March 2016

Review #364: Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

----Michael Caine



Leigh Bardugo, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, pens her new YA fantasy novel called, Six of Crows that marks the first book in the Six of Crows series. This book unfolds the story of a world where notorious criminals roam its streets taking care of dirty businesses. Among these blatant herd of criminals, there is a rising star, who wants to pull of an impossible mission along with five others that will change his life forever.

Review #363: Reading the Sweet Oak by Jan Stites



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”

----Nicholas Sparks



Jan Stites, an American author, has penned an evocative and deeply moving tale of love in her new book, Reading the Sweet Oak that is centered around five women- Ruby, Tulsa, Pearl, BJ and Jen, who lives near the Sweet Oak River and this story tells how their lives changes along with the course of the river by indulging themselves in the world of romance novels while dealing with their love life, friendships, business, financial problems, social issues, family secrets and marital problems.

8 March 2016

Review #362: Old Money by Bobby Cole



My rating:
3 of 5 stars


“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

----Mahatma Gandhi



Bobby Cole, an American crime-fiction writer, pens his new thriller, Old Money, which is the third book in the Jake Crosby mystery series. This book features Jake Crosby, a stock trader turned game warden in Mississippi, who is asked by the Judge to keep an eye on two con-artists, whose father have left a large sum of money hidden somewhere in his estate, who are now trying hard to find that hidden money.




7 March 2016

Review #361: The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Be so good they can't ignore you.”

----Steve Martin




Kathy Parks, an American author, pens her debut novel, The Lifeboat Clique that narrates the story of a high school girl who is an outcast among her friends circle, thus listing her among the unpopular kids in her high school, but when she sneaks into a party into a beach house party with the cool kids, little did she knew that her her status of being unpopular i soon going to be challenged by those uppity popular kids.




6 March 2016

Review #360: The Darkening Dream by Andy Gavin



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Don't underestimate the allure of darkness, even the purest hearts are drawn to it."

----Klaus, The Vampire Diaries TV series



Andy Gavin, an American best-selling author, has penned an intimidating tale about vampires in his book, The Darkening Dream that unfolds the story of a soon-to-be-eighteen-years-old-teenage girl, who lives with her parents in Salem, which has recently been invaded by dark mysterious forces in the wake of finding Gabriel's trumpet that will mark the end of the world. This young girl along with her friends must traverse the dark path to stop the world from getting destroyed because this girl is gifted as she can premonite death.