SYNOPSIS A dangerous quest, a lost treasure, and the card game that started it all. It’s 1881, and a newfangled card game called Mythic is sweeping the nation. Twelve-year-old Jason “Shuffle” Jones doesn’t like it. He and his father created the game for themselves, before his father went missing. Mythic should have disappeared with him….
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REVIEW: Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
SYNOPSIS From the show’s creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen, Today’s going to be an amazing day and here’s why… When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the…
REVIEW: To Wake the Dead (Dead Dreamer #2) by Sarah Lampkin
SYNOPSIS Brenna Whit teeters the line between the living and the dead. Now that she’s back for her sophomore year at Nephesburg College, she’s determined to focus on the waking world. But when her own soul is trying to kill her and a new Dead Dreamer is fighting for power, Brenna is dragged back into…
Book Blitz and Review: Lineage by Carla Lewis
BOOK BLITZ! LINEAGE by C. Vonzale Lewis Publication date: July 16th 2019 Genres: Adult, Fantasy SYNOPSIS Smart-mouthed Nicole Fontane has a way of getting herself into trouble. She’s been fired from every job she’s had but still refuses to work in her father’s apothecary shop because of his practice of Earth Magick. On Tulare Island where Nicole grew up,…
Takeover Tour: Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault (Glass Vault, Book 1) by Candace Robinson @literarydust @parliamentbooks #coverlove #tbr #ireadya #bookishgiveaway
Publisher: The Parliament House Book Title: Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault Series: Glass Vault (Book #1) Purchase Links: https://amzn.to/2MI2WTH Author: Candace Robinson SYNOPSIS Some see it… Some don’t… People in the town of Deer Park, Texas are vanishing. There is a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault, that appears overnight. Perrie Madeline’s best friend…
REVIEW: The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle
SYNOPSIS When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, who has Asperger’s, she’s intrigued—Abelard seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn’t hurt that he’s brilliant and beautiful. When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual affinity for ancient love letters…
REVIEW: Dream Keeper (The Dark Dreamer Trilogy #1) by Amber R. Duell
SYNOPSIS The Sandman is seventeen-year-old Nora’s closest friend and best-kept secret. He has to be, if she doesn’t want a one-way ticket back to the psychiatrist. It took her too long to learn not to mention the hooded figure in her dreams to her mother, who still watches Nora as if she’ll crack. So when…
REVIEW: Arrival by Ted Chiang
SYNOPSIS Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. In Story of Your Life, which provides the basis for the film Arrival, alien lifeforms suddenly appear on Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge…
REVIEW: Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez
SYNOPSIS In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you—your life, brown lives—don’t matter. Juan has plans. He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship…
REVIEW: Watching Glass Shatter by James J. Cudney
SYNOPSIS The wealthy Glass family lost its patriarch, Benjamin Glass, sooner than expected. Benjamin’s widow, Olivia, and her 5 sons each react to his death in their own way while preparing for the reading of his will. Olivia receives a very unexpected confession from her late husband about one of their sons that could shatter…
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