Books, Beauty, and Lots of Fun
The Basilwade Chronicles by Dawn Knox has been reviewed by me for Reader’s Favorite. What a stress buster The Basilwade Chronicles by Dawn Knox has been! The hilarious ride began with Derek going to a speed dating event. Soon, his tactless remarks to the ladies’ appearances signaled that he would not find any date. And…
Reviewed by me for Reader’s Favorite. To Dream Is To Die (The Dead Dreamer Series) by Sarah Lampkin is a supernatural fiction that follows Brenna, who calls herself dead. Ever since Brenna met with an accident, her life hasn’t been the same. The moment she goes to sleep, she leaves her body and enters the…
When Farzad Abed entered Alessandro’s Cucina with a gun, six very different people found themselves in the same fatal predicament. Up until this moment, they had been going through regular life problems. However, when Farzad shot a woman without so much as blinking his eyes, none of that mattered. Jack forgot about his parents being…
Reviewed by me for Reader’s Favorite. Hair in All the Wrong Places by Andrew Buckley is more than just another book on werewolves. Colin Strauss has been moving around from one relative’s place to another. His parents did not wish to take the responsibility of raising their boy. Finally, at the age of thirteen, his…
If pain could reveal the depth of its intensity, the words would match very closely with Fall of the Raven by Thymournia. Raven is the center of this photo-book. Each black and white picture inspires ever-consuming loneliness, and each pain-infused passage produces a detachment from the world. In the beginning, the heart of the narrator…
Reviewed by me for Reader’s Favorite. Acting homicide chief Lieutenant Nick Cisco is up to his eyeballs with unsolved homicide cases. Dead bodies are showing up left and right, and the slow pace of the investigations has made him a laughing stock in the media. When mutilated dead bodies start showing up with tattooed swastika…
Right from meeting the Chemical Drones, aka a group of five friends (Sasha, Tanny, Raj, Debbie, Sam), I knew The Chemical Drones – The Doozie Rockers by Hashwrite was going to be a delightful read. These five friends are fourth-graders, and each one of them is talented in their unique way. When Tanny plays a…
Instead of transporting humans into the world of strange creatures, Requiem, Changing Times by R. J. Parker brings them into our world — more precisely, into the world of Clint Holden, his family, his best friend, Corbin, and the whole city. For the seventh-grader Clint, the list of problems consisted of quite a few issues:…
Reviewed by me for Reader’s Favorite. Little Tea by Claire Fullerton takes the readers on a journey of betrayal, young romance, friendship, and racism in the ’80s. Ava, Celia, and Renny had been friends since they were thirteen years old. Years after, when Ava struggled with her decision to leave her twenty-three years of marriage,…
If you do not pay enough heed to the profound wisdom of the book, then The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho is just a fiction written in a documentary style. We follow the life of Athena as told by people who knew her: her mother, her ex-husband, a lover journalist, an actress who despised…
