Hyperearth by Marco Marek is a good read, beautifully written for young adult readers. The story starts with great dialogues and the reader is immediately introduced to the key characters. We find them in a castle, a hidden castle in the city of Lubena. But...

Sophia's Storm: The 1900 Storm is a young adult historical coming of age novel written by Cara Skinner. The highlight of Sophie’s summer was the week that her family would spend every year at the family beach house on Galveston Island. She loved watching the...

A quest is only as good as the journey involved and the characters that make the journey. I was satisfied on both counts as I read The City of Arches: Sitnata Series Book 3 by Alisse Lee Goldenberg. The writing style and the characters kept...

The Story of Evil by Tony Johnson is a heroic tale of epic proportions. Two gods preside over the world called Element. Element is populated by four races: humans, elves, giants, and dwarves. However, these races are not alone; they share their world with monster...

Be careful what you wish for, as it can haunt you even in your next life. In The Lost Fairy Tales of the Dew Drop Forest by Bianca Scharff, Lucy is a loner who works at the library and lives alone after the death of...

The Library of Illumination is in danger. Knowledge is power, and with each one having their own diversity there is a danger of one becoming supreme. Why should they not all be the same when uniformity would answer questions with one decisive stroke, and how...

The False Princess: The Sitnalta Series, Book 5 by Alisse Lee Goldenberg is the story of a princess who grew up a little too fast, but now she has to make some decisions that are making her question everything and everyone. Princess Sitnalta is finally...

The Song of Hadariah by Alisse Lee Goldenberg is the first book of The Dybbuk Scrolls trilogy. Carrie just wants a carefree summer with her friends, despite her parents' dismay, but everything changes when she rescues a fox from her dog. This isn't an ordinary...

The Before by Ben Jackson takes readers into a dystopian future in which a virus has wiped out most of humanity. The tragic part is that the virus was originally meant to benefit mankind. But all it did was leave a world in pieces. Small...

There is something mysterious about the invitation itself, both in the way it appears on paper and the strangeness of its content. It is a singular opportunity to embark on a journey to face her fears and have her most precious wish granted, and she’s...