18 March 2016

Review #371: This is Not a Love Story by Keren David



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

----Anaïs Nin



Keren David, a British writer, has penned an uplifting tale about three teenagers set in Amsterdam in her book, This is Not a Love Story. This book explores the relationship of two individuals who move to Amsterdam and meet with another boy who changes their life completely. This book is going to remind you of The Fault in Our Stars a lot, as it is written is similar prose and offers lot of TFIOS kinda moments that are really enthralling to read about.




17 March 2016

Review #370: #PleaseRetweet by Emily Benet



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Tweeting is talking into the abyss, filling a void in your life by avoiding real human contact.”


----Jarod Kintz



Emily Benet, an English writer, has penned a heart-warming tale about twitter and it's minions in her book,#PleaseRetweet, that narrates the story of a woman who manages the C-listed celebs' twitter accounts and that's her full-time job. This story revolves around her life how twitter and celebs' lives dominate hers thereby forcing her to alienate her close friends, herself and her family.



16 March 2016

Author Q&A Session #57: With Leza Lowitz



Good Afternoon my fellow bookworms,

Today in an all new author interview session, we have award-winning author, Leza Lowitz,  whose new YA novel-in-verse, Up From the Sea has released in the month of January and has already bagged a literary award. Leza is here to talk about her books, the Japan Tsunami, and her life beyond books and all. So stay tuned and keep reading!


Read the review of Up From the Sea

Review #369: The Girl in the Mirror by Constance McKee



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”

----Emily Bronte



Constance McKee, an American forensic psychiatrist, pens her debut book, The Girl in the Mirror that unfolds the story of a woman psychiatrist who after the death of her beloved husband goes through near death experience (NDE) but soon her diagnosis maker her addicted to it and she gets a hang of it thereby finding a way to meet her husband again and again, before things get too risky and complicated for her.

15 March 2016

14 March 2016

Review #368: The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters #2) by Lucinda Riley



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.”

----Chögyam Trungpa



Lucinda Riley, an Irish international bestselling author, pens her second book, The Storm Sister in her series called The Seven Sisters. This soul-touching and engrossing book narrates the story of the second eldest sister, Ally after Maia, who embarks upon a journey to find her original roots after her adoptive father's sudden death.




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.