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Book Giveaway: Dark Innocence: Book One of The Star Seer’s Prophecy, by Rahima Warren
Giveaway Info Rahima is giving away prizes, including an e-copy of her book at each blog stop on her tour AND a Grand Prize Giveaway of a Custom Jumbo Tote Bag with your…
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Guest Post: What I Love About Writing Fantasy, by Rahima Warren
Rahima Warren is the author of Dark Innocence: Book One of The Star Seer’s Prophecy. In honour of Dark Innocence coming out as an e-book, Rahima is doing a blog tour, which includes this guest post…
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Review: The False Princess, by Eilis O’Neal
Princess Nalia has just turned sixteen. Her royal world is about to be turned upside down. All her life, Nalia has believed that she is the heir to the throne of Thorvaldor until…
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Interview with Sandy Lains
Earlier this week, I got a chance to interview Sandy Lains, author of The Magic Deep Within. She was kind enough to answer my relatively simple questions fully to give a bit more insight…
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Review: Princess Academy: Palace of Stone, by Shannon Hale
This book is a sequel to Princess Academy, which I reviewed here. As such, this review might contain spoilers. When Miri and a few of the girls from Mount Eskel’s princess academy travel to the…
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Review: LARP: The Battle for Verona, by Justin Calderone
Sometimes even a geek can become a hero. Dennis and his friends have been LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) since high school. Now, in his 20s, Dennis is seriously considering giving up LARPing…
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Review: Smudge’s Mark, by Claudia Osmond
“With a shaky hand, I laid the brass key on the paper, flat side down, and slid it over the top of the sketch. It fit the shape exactly. Then the line circling…
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Book of the Day, Week 4 & 5
Every day on Facebook we’ll be posting a short description of novels that may not be very well-known. We forgot to post last week’s compilation of our Books of the Day, so this week’s…
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Review: Lotto’s Super-Awesome Unbelievable Park Adventure, by Jan Ellen Ferrigan
Fantasy meets travelogue in an adventure novel for middle grade readers. Eleven-year-old foster kid Lotto Lewis is gifted, but he wants to be cool and watch more TV. Lotto also wishes that his…
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Book of the Day, Week 3
Every day on Facebook we’ll be posting a short description of novels that aren’t very well-known. Be sure you check them out daily on our Facebook page or get the compiled list every Saturday here.…
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Book of the Day, Week 2
Every day on Facebook we’ll be posting a short description of novels that aren’t very well-known. Be sure you check them out daily on our Facebook page or get the compiled list every Saturday…
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Review: Switch, by Tish Cohen
Good girl Andrea Birch is an honour-roll lifer — a Stanford-bound, mildly neurotic, high-strung twelfth-grader who just wants a bit more privacy. Oh, and perhaps a bit more of a social life. Or…
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Book of the Day, Week 1
Everyday on Facebook we’ll be posting a short description to novels that aren’t very well known. Be sure you check them out daily on our Facebook page, or get the compiled list every…
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Review: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater
Mr. Popper is a humble house painter living in Stillwater who dreams of faraway places like the South Pole. When an explorer responds to his letter by sending him a penguin named Captain…
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Review: Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
It was a lovely idea and Miri wished she could believe it, but she knew the lowlanders would never allow a crown to sit on a mountain girl’s head. High on the slopes…
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Romances in Books
Let’s face it, it’s pretty much omnipresent in literature; pick any given book, and the two main characters, or one main character and a side character, will strike up a bit of a…
