I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Charity is not a bone thrown to a hungry dog. Charity is a bone shared with a dog when you are both hungry. And loneliness is a kind of hunger,” (Welch 242). After an earthquake shakes the Pacific Coast of North America, animals …
Paige Mahony finds herself in the free world of Venice, outside of the Republic of Scion with six months wiped from her memory. As she finds herself back in the Domino Programme trying to recall the lost months, she must also discover what Operation Ventriloquist is and look for Arcturus Mesarthim, who may be the …
“We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either,” (Gran). Strange things have been happening in Amanda’s life. There is a strange tapping noise in her apartment, a memo to her boss is filled with insults towards him, she’s started smoking …
“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift,” (Levine 1). When Ella of Frell is born a foolish fairy bestows her with the gift of obedience. From being told to stop crying or to hop on one foot for an entire day and …
“Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically. It’s just more and more things to go through,” (Rooney 245). Frances and her best friend Bobbi study together in Dublin while also performing spoken word poetry around the city. One night they meet Melissa, a well-known photographer, and her husband Nick, an actor. While Bobbi …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “What could he do if he let himself get lost in an image?” (Hartwell 75). Teenager Dieter lives with his grandfather in a small town in southern Quebec with only his best friend K to give him company. But when K abandons him …
“Love was love – in whatever shape it took,” (Läckberg 408). The town of Fjällbacka is shaken after a famous photographer is found murdered before an exhibition opening. His friend, the famous author Henning Bauer and his family, are shocked by the death of their friend, even more so when the violence follows them to their …
“Fuck. This was really gay,” (Reid). Shane Hollander’s whole life is hockey. He is famous for his skill, dedicated to the sport, and now that he’s the captain of the Montreal Voyageurs he’ll make sure not to jeopardize that, especially not by the captain of the Boston Bears, Ilya Rosanov. Ilya is just as talented and …
“Which one of us will outlive the others, who will become the face of this tragedy? It was always the youngest, the pretties, the whitest. There was no tragedy in being plain, no attention spared to girls who had it coming,” (Nolan). Delores “Lawrence” Franklin and her best friend Anastasia “Stasia” Lanes runaway to Mistaken …
“Some calculations are simple. Sons trump daughters. Three children trump one. Deep in my heart, I had already decided that nothing could be worse than the life I had,” (Stachniak 10). During King Louis XV reign, scouted teenager girls were sent to live in a nondescript villa in Versailles before being sent to the plaza to …
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