Category Archives: adventure
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has … Continue reading
Seven Black Diamonds – Melissa Marr
Seven Black Diamonds, book one Lilywhite Abernathy is a criminal. Her father’s “unconventional” business has meant a life of tightly held secrets, concealed weaponry, and a strict code. But Lily’s crime isn’t being the daughter of a powerful mob boss. … Continue reading
Guile -Constance Cooper
In the Bad Bayous the water is thick with guile, a powerful substance that wreaks unpredictable changes on objects, animals, and even people who soak too long. Sixteen-year-old orphan Yonie Watereye scrapes a living posing as someone who can sense … Continue reading
Firstlife – Gena Showalter
Everlife, book one ONE CHOICE. TWO REALMS. NO SECOND CHANCE. Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to … Continue reading
A Drop of Night – Stefan Bachm
Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she’s been looking for—she’s been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs … Continue reading
Watership Down: The Movie
I’ve got a review for The Girl Who Played With Fire in the works, but I thought I’d give you something to munch on while you’re waiting. So…how about this? Betcha didn’t know it was a movie! Some dear, generous soul uploaded … Continue reading
Fire Bringer – David Clement-Davies
Because I’ve got to sneak in at least one re-read… Young buck Rannoch was born on the night his father was murdered and into a herd of deer where hunger for power has gradually whittled away at all that is … Continue reading
The Stand – Stephen King
Here we go, as promised! And if anyone is keeping track, this makes book three of the TBR Tackle 2015. Twelve more to go! Also, if anyone else has read this, PLEASE feel free to start a conversation! I’m dying … Continue reading
Shadow Kiss – Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy, book three (First review of 2015!) It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She’s having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, … Continue reading
Child of the Prophecy – Juliet Marillier
Sevenwaters, book three Magic is fading… and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing is done, Ireland will lose its essential … Continue reading
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