Month: April 2015

  • Alienated by Melissa Landers | Book Review

    In Alienated by Melissa Landers. We follow the story of top high school student Cara Sweeny as she is chosen to be the host to a exchange student from an alien race.  Two years ago, aliens made contact with Earth and now Cara will have to share a bathroom with one. The alien race of…

  • Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard | Book Review

    Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard will cause emotional turmoil and destroy all the trust you once held. We follow the tale of seventeen-year-old Mare Barrow’s, a common girl whose magical powers draw her into the dangerous world of the king’s palace. Mare’s world is divided by blood – those with Red blood are the commons,…

  • Spring Tea

    Tea has been part of my life for a couple years now. I don’t exactly remember when I became infatuated with tea…probably around age 14/15. I also don’t remember what came upon me to start liking tea….maybe it was because I did not like coffee? Who knows…what’s important now is that tea is part of…

  • Hollow City by Ransom Riggs | Book Review

    Hollow City is Ransom Riggs’ sequel to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Hollow City was a really wonderful book that is creepy, mysterious and thrilling and it has photographs that are usually found in antique fairs. The photographs being one of the key factors that makes this book and it’s predecessor so unique. These…

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | Book Review

    There are many reasons why a book is special, for me the book has to have a way of making you see things in a way you have never even thought of before. Whether it is spiritually, intellectually, or mentally. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak hit the nail on mentally. The last book that…

  • The Blood of Olympus | Book Talk

        Warning: this review contains spoilers. The Blood of Olympus is the final installment in Rick Riordan’s series Heroes of Olympus. I have been following Rick Riordian’s Greek mythology series from its humble Percy Jackson and the Olympian beginnings. Year after year I have been following the stories of Percy and his fellow demigod…

  • A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

    A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schwab, stole my heart. The story follows a guy named Kell who is a rare traveler-magician with the ability to jump between parallel Londons in different universes connected by one magical city. V.E Schwab creates four different Londons: Gray London, Red London, White London, and Black London; each…