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Page Count: 383 pages (hardcover)  Published: February 10, 2015 My Rating: 5 stars  Genre: Fantasy, Dystopian  Series: Red Queen  book 1 Amazon link for Red Queen   Norta is divided by blood. Those with silver blood rule with their special abilities while those with red blood are forced to be servants. Mare Borrow, a Red girl, lives as a street smart thief in her poor town of the Stilts. In a strange twist of fate, she finds herself wielding a dangerous power. Soon, Mare is living among the Silvers, the people she hates most. But behind the eyes of the public, Mare holds a secret that can get here killed. She has also caught the eyes of two brothers and struggles to chose which one to give her heart to. With a rebellion on the rise and the nation at the peak of the war, is this really the best time for Mare to live among the Silvers?   THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING!!! It also ripped my heart apart and might have destroyed me. There were so many plot tw...

Page Count: 288 pages  Published: March 26, 2019 My Rating: 4 stars  Genre: Contemporary  Amazon link for Maybe a Mermaid   Anthoni Gillis has always wanted a True Blue Friend. But it has been hard to find one when every year you're in a different city. Anthoni travels with her mom, selling Beauty & the Bee products. When Anthoni shows up in Eagle Waters, she might finally have a chance to find her Ture Blue Friend. She's come up with a foolproof plan to making life-long friends. And there are no maybes about it. When local rumors about the Bolay Mermaid surface, Anothoni's plans might just change. Now Anthoni will be roped into a summer full of mysteries, new friends, and maybe a mermaid.    This book had both hearts wrenching moments and happy memories. It's a great energetic and light summer read that made me wish I could go jump in the pool. The setting started out drab but as you read on, it started to sound like the most mag...

Page Count: 272 pages  Published: May 1st, 2018 My Rating: 5 stars  Genre: Fantasy Series: The Rose Legacy   book 1 Amazon link for  The Rose Legacy     In the kingdom of Coronam, horses died a long time ago from a terrible plague they carried. Since then, horses have been outlawed. Anthea had been orphaned for as long as she could remember. She's been bounced around from one family member to another. Her life goal is to become a Rose Maiden. But she soon finds out that she'll be moving- yet again- to a new place. Her Uncle Andrew is her next garden. There's one problem though. He lives in exile lands. Even worse, she finds that her uncle and his friends are breeding horses. When their beloved horse ranch faces a great threat, it's up to Anthea to save them.    This exciting start to The Rose Legacy series couldn't have been better! Jessica Day George created a wonderful story. I love that this middle-grade book had a bit of roma...

Page Count: 182 pages  Published: October 1968 My Rating: 1 star Genre: Contemporary Series: The Pigman  Book 1 Amazon link for The Pigman   It started with a prank. John and Lorraine would have never taken it this far if they knew the consequences. Or maybe they would have. When John and Lorraine end up calling Anglo Pignati, it turns into a blossoming friendship. It wasn't long before John and Lorraine started feeling more comfortable with Mr. Pignati than their own parents. Together, the three friends learn to love and lose in a series of events that ends with one's death.   This definitely isn't a series I'll be continuing. While Paul Zindel didn't wear out the polar opposites troupe too much in the book, you could definitely tell it had one of those "good girl, bad boy" things going on. Their parents were horrible and while Lorraine's mother may have good intentions, her daughter disobeys her time after time. It was clear that Lorraine...

  So before I begin I will just explain to you what the book club is. So I'm not sure what the name really is so what this book club basically is everyone reads different books each month. All the books we have to choose are ARC(advanced readers copy) books that come out in a few months. Since this was my first time at the club, I only picked up four books. So, here's my haul! A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier By the time I get to writing this post, I'm already around 50 pages into this book and so far, it's great! This book comes out in January of 2020, so keep your eyes open for this! So the rest of these books are already out, but the lady running the book club had ARC copies and gave them to us anyway.  The Beholder by Anna Bright Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron I first found this book at Target over the summer so while no one else wanted it, I took it.  We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal I could never find a...

  This is a recent tag, right? RIGHT?! Let's hope so...    Well, I'm currently watching this tag on Ariel Bassett's Book Tube Chanel... I don't that's spelled right but I'm getting no red line under it. So I will link her video and the original video for this tag below. 1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR pile. How in the world do you choose what to read?    I don't choose the book. It will choose me. OR the more common solution, I write down every book I want to read next on an index card and bug my friends until they vote for one. I will send pictures of the pile of choice to friends I won't see that day and I'll also go and ask teachers on a rare occasion. For example, last year, I had one list that included  Sherlock Holmes ,  Alice in Wonderland ,  Fairest of All  by Serena Valentino, and three others. In the end, I ended up reading  Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass  by Lewis Carrol.  ...

Page Count: 256 pages Published: April 1, 2014 My Rating: 1 Star  Genre: Fantasy  Series: Rose Book 2 Amazon link for Rose and the Lost Princess   Rose was nothing more than a lonely orphan. She has never known her parents. But when she leaves the orphanage to go work as a servant for Mr. Frountion, a rich magician, she quickly finds out that she also has magic powers of her own. While she works with Mr. Frountion and her new friend, Freddie, Princess Jane was kidnapped from the castle but then quickly returned. Now, Rose secretly serves as a bodyguard for the princess, working to make sure nothing could harm the princess.    One thing that I saw a lot of in this book was animal abuse. In the fair scene, an elephant is caged at the top of the hill. The cage is described as small and that reminds me of Stella's cage from The One and Only Ivan  if anyone has read that book. When learning magic with Mr. Frountain, they use mice and other househo...