Book Reviews

Title: Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived Author: Ron Franscell (Editor) Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pages: 272 ISBN: 1592334407 Received:  Purchased Synopsis: A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens…

Title: The Dark Heroine: Dinner With a Vampire Author: Abigail Gibbs ISBN: 978-0062248732 Synopsis: (Taken from GoodReads.com)The sexiest romance you’ll read this year… One moment can change your life forever… For Violet Lee, a chance encounter on a darkened street draws her into a world beyond her wildest imaginings, a timeless place of vast…

Title: The Great Unexpected Author: Sharon Creech Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 240 ISBN: 978-0061892325 Received:  Publisher Supplied  ARC (ebook) Synopsis: I had big thoughts to match the big wind. I wondered if we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered if we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or if we are drawn…

“TO YOU, PERCEPTIVE READER, I BEQUEATH MY HISTORY…” Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor,” and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s past…

Title: Etiquette & Espionage Author: Gail Carriger Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages:  320 ISBN: 978-0316190084  Etiquette & Espionage Book Summary It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old…