Ketchup Clouds was written by Annabel Pitcher and read by Julie Maisey. Zoe’s family members are each trying to deal with their own problems. Both of her parents are lawyers, although her mother has not practiced law in several years. Her dad recently lost his...

I have to admit that I am a LONG time Gail Carriger fan. I have three copies of her Parasol Protectorate series, and was thrilled to get a chance to review the latest in her young adult series, Curtsies and Conspiracies. We re-join Sophronia on...

Night of Cakes & Puppets by Laini Taylor is a lovely story and one that stays in your mind long after it's finished. It's magical, romantic, funny, and endearing. The characters are so well developed that they seem real and as if they are in...

The author uses a great beginning to start this outstanding story for older children. It will keep you glued to the pages and you’ll forget to breathe a few times. If you like faery people and where they come from…you are going to love this...

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in David Baldacci’s King and Maxwell. Tyler Wingo hires King and Maxwell to solve the mystery surrounding his father, a soldier in Afghanistan, who was reported as a fatality. The teen and his father had a secret code that...

It's the most intense Alex Cross thriller yet. In this latest novel by James Patterson, Cross is up to his eyeballs in murder and kidnapping and kitchen remodeling. Somebody is on a murder spree and the victims are massage parlor employees and patrons. Cross and...

What could be better than spending a snowy day cuddled up by a fire with a cup of hot tea and a Pendergast novel? White Fire by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child reunites my favorite detective Pendergast and his protégée Corrie Swanson. We first met...

Some people learn about themselves from self-help books or by getting through a tough situation or by talking with a friend. In We'll Always Have Paris, author Jennifer Coburn shows us that traveling and experiencing life through different eyes and ears can help us to...

Dreaming of a Highlander by Lily Conway is a historical romance novel which introduces readers to life, love, and tragedy in England and Scotland during the of Battle of Culloden in April 1746 to 150 years thereafter. Katrina Kelly is a highly respectable and hard...

The Emperor's Treaty by Chacelyn Pierce is about two races that were about to destroy themselves with war because of a bloodthirsty emperor that started the hatred between the two races. Shann is a Moekan princess who will wed Arryn, emperor of the Elves. Thanks...

Freedom Reins by E.M. Spencer gives us the story of eighteen-year-old Charlotte (Charlie) Logan. Charlie has suffered more than her fair share of loss, and often felt confined by the strict rules of the nuns at the Saint Vincent orphanage where her father's friend Big...

Imagine waking up and not knowing who you are, not know where you are, and not knowing what you are. Kwennsefulass is that kind of story. A young man takes the name Kwenn, short for Kwennsefulass which is written on a necklace he wears,...

G.R. Paskoff writes like an engineer. I say this as a compliment. A lot of engineers have become great writers of speculative fiction, starting with the late great Robert Anson Heinlein whose works enthralled me as a teenager. In Eden M51, G.R. Paskoff continues the...

In the book, Amity of the Angelmen written by T.C. Slonaker, a seventeen-year-old teenager named Amity gets followed and talked to by an angel. This has led to her knowing of the truth about her own identity: that she is not entirely human and that...

How to Play Overseas - 31 Rules Every Player Must Know to Make It Overseas by Acie Earl is an informative book which covers diverse topics from airline travel, banking, budgeting, food, lodging, language, level of play, money, post offices and many more topics. Coach...

Marie has been long overdue for a visit with her friend Ana Alvarez. Being Big Rock, Colorado's, Chief Detective, a personal life, let alone a vacation has not been an option. Marie puts her detective life on hold to explore Ana Alvarez's artistic life in...

In Anthony Szpak’s novel, Nick the Saint, Nick’s parents died when he was a baby and he was adopted by Fergus, an ambitious man who used to work for Nick’s parents. But instead of raising Nick as his own son, Fergus forced him to work...

A Path Toward Home (The Annals of Avonea) by Heather Lorenz is the story of a young girl, Constance, who is living with her uncle and aunt in Canada. She lives a normal, unexciting life until one day she finds herself in a dream world....

In Checking Inn by Emily Harper, neurotic Kate runs the Summerside Inn. Obsessively using checklists on her much-loved clipboards, she organizes just about everything in her life. Being the perfectionist that she is, you can only imagine how she reacts when a renowned hotel critic,...

Jess and his friends, Allah and Mhose, want to travel from their group of planets and find a new uninhabited planet where they can establish and create a world without wars and prejudices. They are sure they can do it if their parents will just...