Tag: book review

Mid-Week Muse: The Nightmare Affair

Mid-Week Muse: The Nightmare Affair

I LOVED this book.  Goodreads Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into […]

Posted March 13, 2013 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 3 Comments
TEMPEST

TEMPEST

Goodreads blurb: The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun. […]

Posted July 30, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 6 Comments
Under the Never Sky

Under the Never Sky

Goodreads blurb: Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland – known as The Death Shop – […]

Posted July 24, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 9 Comments
Third Person that’s Like First

Third Person that’s Like First

Have you ever read a book written in third person that feels like first? I have and it’s one interesting read. One of the reasons that most YA tends to be written in first person POV is because it’s immediate. You can connect to the character where as third tends to be distance. One of my […]

Posted July 21, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 9 Comments
Between Shades of Gray

Between Shades of Gray

This is not the Twilight fanfic or some smn spin off. This book will take hold of your heart and not let go until the last page. Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into […]

Posted June 28, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 4 Comments
ROOM

ROOM

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick […]

Posted June 25, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 12 Comments
Incarceron: Review

Incarceron: Review

This month we celebrate male authors and male protagonists. The Unread Reader and Logan E. Turner are hosting a mega contest with three-super-uber-prize packs. All you need to do is read and write reviews on any book written by a male or containing a male protagonist and post the review link here. INCARCERON Finn cannot remember his childhood. He cannot remember his life before Incarceron–a prison […]

Posted May 31, 2011 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
The Shadowmask: Stone of Tymora, Book II Review

The Shadowmask: Stone of Tymora, Book II Review

This month we celebrate male authors and male protagonists. The Unread Reader and Logan E. Turner are hosting a mega contest with three-super-uber-prize packs. All you need to do is read and write reviews on any book written by a male or containing a male protagonist and post the review link here. When it comes to my favorite authors, R.A Salvatore is at the top of the list. […]

Posted May 29, 2011 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Book Review: YOU

Book Review: YOU

This month we celebrate male authors and male protagonist. The Unread Reader and Logan E. Turner are hosting a mega contest with three-super-uber-prize packs. All you need to do is read and write reviews on any book written by a male or containing a male protagonist and post the review link here This week I’ll be posting a ton of different books. The first one […]

Posted May 21, 2011 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 8 Comments