Book Reviews

Reviewed by C. Prestidge, August 2019

P.S. I Still Love You is a sequel to the book To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Laura Jean got a job at a retirement home and is busy taking over Margot’s spot in the household. Laura Jean and Peter get back together but Peter’s ex Genevieve is making their relationship difficult. So when Laura… Read more

Reviewed by B. Wentz, August 2019

Coraline is a fantasy book with twists and turns throughout it. The beginning seemed ordinary but the climax was hit in the middle of the book where she lost her parents. She has to find them on the other side of the door, which is a parallel universe where cats can talk, Humans have buttons for eyes, and… Read more

Reviewed by W. Erickson, July 2019

Main character Cate attends an isolated boarding school on an island where the internet is very difficult to access and there isn’t much to do around the area. So, among the students at the school there is a tradition, a game called Killer is a tradition only few are selected to play. Members who are chose to play… Read more

Reviewed by D. Elsing, July 2019

The story Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs is the first book in the FunJungle series. The story picks up in the middle of the zoo the FunJungle where we meet the main character Theodore (Teddy) Fitzroy causing trouble by giving monkeys water balloons. Teddy is a strong headed, twelve year old who suspects that when… Read more

Reviewed by D. Elsing, June 2019

The story The Release by Tom Isbell is the final book in The Release trilogy. In The Release it picks up a couple of weeks after the events of the second book as the Less Thans try to survive a harsh winter up in the mountains. The three main characters come off as odd in this book as the second book… Read more

Reviewed by A. Klink, May 2019

In the novel What She Wants Cathy Kelly’s humor follows four diverse women linked to the quaint Irish town of Redlion.  Hope Parker, “Mrs. Tracksuit Bottom,” is the mother of two, and a wife of Matt, who is an ad executive/closet novelist and beneficiary of his uncle’s cottage in Redlion. Hope fears she… Read more

Reviewed by A. Klink, February 2019

The daughter of alcoholics who left her orphaned at 17, Jolene “Jo” Zarkades found her first stable family in the military. She’s served over two decades, first in the army, later with the National Guard. Now Jo’s stationed at home, taking care of her two daughters, Betsey and LuLu. Jo’s life is completely the… Read more

Reviewed by D. Elsing, January 2019

The book 9 From the Nine Worlds by Rick Riordan is a collection of stories following the side characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods Of Asgard series. The book follows the multiple stories of the Einherjar as they try and live their lives, but as they try to complete simple tasks, Thor appears. Thor… Read more

Reviewed by W. Erickson, January 2019

#murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil is a book where the reader is taken on a thrill ride through plot twist, dark humor, mystery, and survival while main character, 17 year old Dee is wrongly accused of murdering her step-sister. Now she is sent to Alcatraz 2.0, a sentence that is usually reserved for… Read more

Reviewed by W. Erickson, January 2019

You Will Be Mine by Natasha Preston is a book of a girl named Lylah and her group of college friends go out partying near the holidays with Valentine's day coming up. As they are about to leave the doorbell rings but nobody is there. An envelop sits there on the door mat. It's an anonymous note addressed… Read more