Category: Book Review

  • Book Review: Nettle & Bone

    Book Review: Nettle & Bone

    “This isn’t the kind of fairy tale where the princess marries a prince. It’s the one where she kills him.” -Nettle & Bone Description That’s all it took for me to know Nettle & Bone was jumping the TBR line. Really, what more could you need?

  • Book Review: June in the Garden

    Book Review: June in the Garden

    June is a neurodivergent young adult suddenly facing the world alone after losing her mother. As everything changes around her, she realizes that to maintain her peace—and her beloved garden—she must take the initiative to seek help.

  • Book Review: Black Cherokee

    Book Review: Black Cherokee

    Black Cherokee tells the story of a girl caught between multiple communities, only to face rejection from them all. Ophelia grapples with understanding why her family faces such widespread dislike—even from their own relatives.

  • Book Review: Life, & Death, & Giants

    Book Review: Life, & Death, & Giants

    Life, and Death, and Giants was a captivating read following the story of Gabriel Fisher, who was born weighing 18lbs and grew to nearly 9 feet tall. More importantly than being a story of one extraordinary man, this is the story of how certain events can affect an entire community, and how no life is…

  • Book Review: Bittersweet in the Hollow

    Book Review: Bittersweet in the Hollow

    A few years ago, the GPS took me down a wild route through the mountains of Appalachia on a one-lane, switchback packed road that seemed to go on forever. I was left with so many questions about the people who lived there. Bittersweet in the Hollow filled in the gaps in the stories I told…

  • Book Review: The Lost Bookshop

    Book Review: The Lost Bookshop

    The Lost Bookshop was magical from start to finish. I was so drawn into the romanticized world of book trading with its highs and lows, as well as the stories of absolutely darling Opaline and Henry, that I was ready to drop all my own ambitions to assist them.

  • Book Review: The Bad Ones

    Book Review: The Bad Ones

    This story reminded me of my childhood and friends spending countless hours in the woods. We had our own version of the goddess game that was played on recess behind the soccer field.