Category Archives: 2012 Challenges
One Moment by Kristina McBride
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Review e-book from Netgalley Genre: Young adult, chick-lit, mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie’s life. Now it’s the one she’d do anything to forget. Maggie Reynolds remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a blowout [...]
Share on FacebookCookbook For a New Europe by Richard Segal
Addition: Paperback, review book Genre: Fiction, crime Rating: 1 out of 5 Synopsis: To serve society or humanity? It’s been fourteen years since the basketball-mad detective Fran Obrien captured the urban bomber Lavi, who has since moved to Spain and rehabilitated himself beyond recognition. Fran is fresh off a two-year sabbatical, during which he tended [...]
Share on FacebookTake One by Karen Kingsbury
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Paperback, borrowed from a friend Genre: Christian fiction, chick-lit Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: In the high-powered world of filmmaking, two unknown producers struggle to make a name for themselves. With millions of investors’ dollars on the line, they wonder if it’s possible to beat the odds and make [...]
Share on FacebookThis is Love by Max Lucado
Addition: Review e-book from Netgalley Genre: Christian, religion Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: HE WAS, AT ONCE, DIVINE AND HUMAN. COMMON YET EXTRAORDINARY HIS NAME IS JESUS. Come, follow his footsteps. Listen to his words. Hear them with your heart. JOIN MAX LUCADO AS HE TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY INTO THE LIFE OF [...]
Share on FacebookAn Offer You Can’t Refuse by Jill Mansell
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback Genre: Chick-Lit Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Nothing could tear Lola and Dougie apart, except his mother Seventeen-year-old Lola has no intention of accepting when her boyfriend’s snobbish mother offers her a huge bribe to break up with him. Then Lola discovers a secret that makes her think [...]
Share on FacebookMoonstone by Marilee Brothers
Addition: Review e-book from Netgalley Genre: Young adult, fantasy Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: A sickly mom. A tiny house trailer. High school bullies and snarky drama queens. Bad-guy dudes with charming smiles. Allie has problems. And then there’s that whole thing about fulfilling a magical prophecy and saving the world from evil. Geez. [...]
Share on FacebookWar Horse by Michael Morpurgo
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Paperback, borrowed Genre: Young adult, history Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: Joey is a warhorse, but he wasn’t always. Once, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came storming through and everything changed. Albert’s father sells Joey to [...]
Share on FacebookSilas Marner by George Eliot
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Illustrated e-book Genre: Classics Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned [...]
Share on FacebookYou Are Loved – Author Unknown
Addition: Review e-book from Netgalley Genre: Gift Book Rating: 4 out 5 Synopsis: Is there any greater gift than knowing you are loved? Through quotes and Scriptures, You Are Loved explores the unfathomable love of God and the beauty of human love when it is modeled after the Creator’s. Each page will touch the hearts of the [...]
Share on FacebookSwitched by Amanda Hocking
THIS REVIEW CONTAINTS SPOILERS! Addition: Review paperback Genre: Young adult, fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn’t until eleven years later that Wendy finds out her mother might’ve been telling the truth. With the help [...]
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