I'm really struggling to write this review. As we all know by now (or remember as again it's been a hot minute) I review from the heart, not the brain, and tend to have my best thoughts immediately after. However, this is yet another book that kinda sticks with you and requires some processing. So ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Daisy’s Search for Freedom by Bertha Schwartz
I had to sit back and remind myself that this was a middle grade book. I didn’t keep that in mind before I jumped in reading and I found myself getting frustrated that it was all too easy. But in reality it wasn’t. Yes, Daisy and David caught some lucky breaks but that’s not always the reality of ...
BOOK REVIEW: Year of Jubilee by Peggy Trotter
Imagine being 18 years old and starving, isolated, abandoned, and frightened of literally everything. Imagine being in that situation through only the actions of others. Being orphaned as a child, put out to work by the orphanage to learn life skills before you age out of their system and have not ...
BOOK REVIEW: The Revolutionary by Kristen Hogrefe
This book picks up right where 'The Revisionary' left off. Portia and Gath heading to a satellite to serve their sentences for the trumped up mess they found themselves in. I have to admit, I didn't love this book quite as much as the first. I knew the characters, I knew the lay of the land so to ...
BOOK REVIEW: Like Moonlight at Low Tide by Nicole Quigley
When I finished this book I felt sorta lost in the sea of what do I do now. I felt myself falling into the story and the characters right from the beginning. I was invested in the story. I lost a little bit of that along the way but I didn't lose the feelings. I was struggling between a 4 or a 5 ...