Book Review: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Title: Song of Achilles Author: Madeline Miller Description: Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into…

Book Review: Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Title: Red, White & Royal Blue Author: Casey McQuiston Description: First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have…

Book Review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Title: A Little Life Author: Hanya Yanagihara  Description: Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.…

Book Review: Find Me by Andre Aciman

Title: Find Me (Call Me By Your Name #2) Author: Andre Aciman Description: In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about…

The One Where I Cry My Eyes Out Because of a Book

This is not going to be the same type of post I usually do when I write book reviews. That is because this book deserves a special type of treatment. This summer I watched Call Me by Your Name. Thankfully the hype around it got to me and I just had to see what it's…

Book Review: May Day by Josie Jaffrey

Thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Title: May Day (Seekers, #1) Author: Josie Jaffrey Purchase: Amazon Description: If the murderer you’re tracking is a vampire, then you want a vampire detective. Just maybe not this one. It’s not that Jack Valentine…

Book Review: Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn

  Bloodraven by P.L.Nunn 4 / 5 stars        Goodreads description: A son of a forest dwelling people, Yhalen knows little of the world outside the ancestral forest, until he is captured by a band of ogres on a slave-taking mission. Only grim tales of the barbaric giants had reached the forest, but…

Top 10 Books I Read in 2015

Top 10 books I read this year | 2015 Soo, this year was pretty fun to me. Mostly because I've read many great books. So far I've read 103 books but the year's still not over so I'll see if I'll be able to surpass that number. I think I've read a lot even though…

Book Review: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan 3/5 stars Goodreads description: Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers are about to cross paths. From that moment on, their world will collide and lives intertwine. It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville,…