Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption."
Book Review – Under Central Park by D.W. Spinola
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "So, tell me about the white flakes that fall from the sky... do they taste sweet?"
Book Review – As The Fallen Rise by Sadie Hewitt
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "You have been tapped as the next Mage, like it or not."
Book Review – All The Gold Between Us by Jade Le Bris
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★ "I was the cute baby bunny surrounded by thirty hungry dragons"
Book Review – News of The World by Paulette Jiles
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★ "Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works."
Book Review – Zahara’s Gift by A.J. Walker
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "'So our plan hinges on the hope that this evil guy has his head stuck in the sand and doesn't notice a large army of elves and men marching on his gates? And if he is paying attention, he'll destroy us all and we will have come all of this way for nothing?' ... 'Yes'"
Book Review – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
Book Review – The Deep by Alma Katsu
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "We are all, men and women, creatures of desires both good and bad. But everything has a pirce, and the price of indulging in that which is bad for us is often guilt; and too much guilt results in a sickness of the mind. We have poisoned our conscience, and something poisoned will need treatment one day or it will rot."
Book Review – Liquid Shades of Blue by James Polkinghorn
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "This was a perfect example of the now-frequent problem at the swimming hole... Locals usually try to work things out, while hard-partying tourists tend to do their own thing without much concern for anyone not in their group."
Book Review – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Overall: 🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★.5 Writing Style: ★★ Character Development: ★★ Enjoyment: ★★ "Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them."