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The Family Fortuna is the YA debut novel for Lindsay Eagar. It tells the story of Avita, the youngest member of The Family Fortuna which runs the circus of the same name. Avita is the star of the circus due to her rather feathered and monstrous status. Having been born with a beak and feathers…
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If you ever want to read a book that makes you question reality than Devil in the Pale Moonlight by D. Hollis Anderson might just fit the bill. It tells the story of Tomahawk O’Murtaugh, a young man living in a futuristic Texas, after they have seceded from the United States. He works as a…
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How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold is a pretty great horror story. The story opens with a group of authors being invited to a will reading for Mortimer Queen, a legendary horror author and acquaintance to each of them. However, in order to attend the reading the seven authors must spend the…
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We are coming into October now and thus we are coming up on my all-time favorite holiday, Halloween. Because of that I have decided to share three books that I have read in the last year that should help you get in the mood for the holiday. Now I know that not everyone is as…
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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman is the book that launched the series and tells the story of Sally and Gillian Owens. Starting when they are young girls they come to live with their aunts, Jet and Frances, in their big rambling house where they help people out with their love related problems. While living with…
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Secrets are something that can hold a lot of power. It is also a rather defining theme in Gregor and the Marks of Secret, book four of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The book opens on Gregor preparing for a trip to the Underland. This time though it is a little different as he…
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Have you ever read a story that was just incredibly inspiring but also incredibly heartbreaking and sad at the same time? Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides was just that as it tells the true story of the army rangers that were sent to rescue the soldiers in Cabanatuan camp in the Philippines during WWII. These…
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No Man’s Daughter by T. H. Abram is the first book in The Oath of Woe series and is also an extremely unusual book in many ways. It tells the story of two young people, each starting a different journey. Sadia lives in the city of Qasira with several other children, her adopted siblings, doing…
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Time to revisit the futuristic dinosaurs with Dinosaur Planet Survivors by Anne Mccaffrey. It is the sequel to Dinosaur Planet and opens with Kai being woken up from cold sleep by the thek Tor an unknown amount of time after the events of the first book. The thek immediately starts investigating the mystery of the…
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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher is not exactly what the title implies. Mona is a young girl, only fourteen, when she finds a dead body in her family’s bakery first thing in the morning. Despite her age and her having immediately reported the body the man in charge of the investigation,…
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