Book Reviews

The Colony is coming to Earth. The 100 initially started with one hundred under 18 year old “convicts” being sentenced to Earth to find if it was inhabitable since they were indispensable. Day 21 brings forth Earthborns and conflict on Earth. Catch up on The 100 and Day 21 . Homecoming picks up on one of the drop ships as […]

Day 21 is book two of four in Kass Morgan’s The 100 series. The book picks up right where The 100 lets off, with the one hundred acclimating to life on Earth. Catch up on the details from The 100 here. Initial Thoughts I’m not going to lie, I thought that Day 21 was going to be a bit […]

Today is the first day of a four day The 100 blog series! I got the full box set for Christmas last year. I finally started them a couple of weeks ago and was hooked! Originally, I watched the first two seasons of the show on Netflix. Turns out I’m at least two seasons behind. Whoops! […]

Well, we’re back around for another Book Club pick. For April, we decided on Ember by Brock Adams. I actually was the deciding vote on this one. It seemed pretty interesting because of it’s apocalyptic nature. It was intriguing, or so I thought. Initial Thoughts Don’t read this book. It was not good. I was on […]

I’m kind of weird about taking book recommendations from other people. My mom has given me a couple of books that I’ve read where I just wonder “Why did she recommend this?” However, in most of those cases, it turns out that she was just giving me a book once she finished it. My sister […]

I strongly advocated for Brain on Fire to be selected for March in our work Book Club. My picks never win, so I was glad when this one did. I mean, the snippet is gripping: An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is […]

456 pages. 105 chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue. Dan Brown’s novels are never an easy feat. However, they are engaging and entertaining. I read Origin in just under two weeks, though I did have two four hour fights to make some real dents in the book. Initial Thoughts At first, I was intrigued by the […]

We’re wrapping up the full Shades of Magic series now. A Conjuring of Light is the third and (so far) final novel in the series, picking up immediately where A Gathering of Shadows left off. We’re following the same characters through a continuation of the same plot line. Initial Thoughts For starters, I would be so upset […]

Phew! Got this one in right under the wire. Reading through The Chronicles of Narnia took longer than I expected. A Gathering of Shadows was our next book club pick, and the second in the Shades of Magic series. Before starting it, my coworkers (who read it before me) told me that they liked the second book […]