When a tragic accident takes the life of Raven Roth’s foster mom, and her memory, she ends up in New Orleans to recover and finish up her senior year of high school. But starting over isnt’ easy, especially when she starts to hear voices. As a huge Teen Titans fan, I knew I was going … More Review: Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia
This was an informative graphic novel that takes us through the history of national parks, with Bigfoot as the narrator. It starts with the creation of the very first national park, Yellowstone, and leads to the creation of the National Park Service (NPS). I enjoyed this graphic novel but it was a bit chaotic at … More ARC Review: History Comics: The National Parks: Preserving America’s Wild Places by Falynn Koch
Cheer Up is a very cute graphic novel. Annie is a smart, antisocial teen who is being pressured to join the cheerleading squad to increase her chances at college scholarships. While on the team she reconnects with her former friend Bebe. Bebe is a trans girl who is struggling to please everyone and still set … More Review: Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier
This book was fascinating! The Secret Lives of Bats is basically an educational memoir about Merlin Tuttle’s life learning and saving bats. His journey started when he was a child exploring caves with his parents and it led him to spend a lifetime educating the public on the good that bats can do. Like I … More Review: The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle
When princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted Sadie from her prison tower, she finds a beautiful friend and partner. They have to work together to stop a rampaging troll, bring down a jealous sorceress, and save a kingdom. This was an adorable story. Kay O’Neill really writes beautiful graphic novels. Sadie and Amira’s adventures were filled … More Review: Princess Princess Ever After by K. O’Neill
Clementine Waterhouse is determined to keep the witch hunter distracted and away from her family. Her plan quickly starts to fall apart when she realizes she is falling for the hunter. This was a good addition to the series. Clem and Gavin had a forbidden relationship that was instant and intense. Clementine was a very … More ARC Review: Boss Witch by Ann Aguirre
Arianna King is a rockstar with a reputation. Unfortunately the PR strategist that her manager employed to help is none other than the beautiful woman she hooked up with the night before at a club. This was a wonderful book. I adored Claire and Ari! They are complete opposites but they work beautifully together. Ari … More Review: Do It For the Prestige by Kaya LaSalle
Night is a memoir about Elie Wiesel’s experiences during the holocaust. It chronicles his journey from Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald as he and his father try to survive the horrors of these concentration camps. This is a heartbreaking and very emotional memoir. Night is not a book that you read for enjoyment but because … More Review: Night by Elie Wiesel
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories.” Clint Smith … More Review: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
It’s been five years since Charley and Reyes sacrificed themselves for their daughter. Garret Swopes is determined to keep their daughter safe but when she vanishes, he turns to the one woman who might be able to help him, Marika Dubois. This was a wonderful jump back into the Charley Davidson world. We finally got … More Review: The Graveyard Shift by Darynda Jones
The GEOX team is heading to find the Pangea Colony. The colony isn’t what they expected and Prado and Alix find themselves going against the aliens. This book picks up shortly after the previous books ends. Like the previous two books, there was a lot of action and suspense in this book. The fight against … More Review: Prado’s Choice by J. R. Pace
With this series we jump back in time to Hellboy’s early cases working with the B.P.R.D. These cases take place between 1952 and 1954 and are all little mini stories with Hellboy and the first group of agents he worked with. This was a great collection. I really enjoyed seeing a young and inexperienced Hellboy … More Review: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954 by Mike Mignola
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