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Series Review: Flight & Glory by Rebecca Yarros

Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: Synopsis for Full Measures (from Goodreads): Three knocks can change everything… “She knew. That’s why Mom hadn’t opened the door. She knew he was dead.” Twenty years as an army brat …

Single Sundays: #16thingsithoughtweretrue by Janet Gurtler

Synopsis (from Goodreads): Heart attacks happen to other people #thingsIthoughtweretrue When Morgan’s mom gets sick, it’s hard not to panic. Without her mother, she would have no one—until she finds out the dad who walked out on her as a baby isn’t as far away as she thought… Adam is a stuck-up, uptight jerk #thingsIthoughtweretrue …

Single Sundays: Strangely Normal by Tess Oliver

Synopsis (from Goodreads.com): A unique summer job lands eighteen-year-old Eden Saxon into a lifestyle completely different than her own. She becomes a companion for nineteen-year-old Finley King, the daughter of a rock legend. Finley suffers from severe anxiety, and her father fears her being alone. Eden leaves her loving, but wildly dysfunctional, parents and dreary …

Single Sundays: He Belongs With Me by Sarah Darlington

Synopsis (from Goodreads.com): Two girls. One Leo. Identical twins, Maggie and Clara Ryder, both grew up with Leo Maddox, billionaire playboy, apparent alcoholic, and heir to his grandfather’s world-famous Maddox hotel empire. Their roles were cemented long ago: Maggie, as his best friend and Clara as his childhood nemesis. But when a simple twist of …

Single Sundays: Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill

Synopsis (from Goodreads.com): Meet Sloane Emily Jacobs: a seriously stressed-out figure-skater from Washington, D.C., who choked during junior nationals and isn’t sure she’s ready for a comeback. What she does know is that she’d give anything to escape the mass of misery that is her life. Now meet Sloane Devon Jacobs, a spunky ice hockey …

Movie Mondays: Life of Pi

Movie Mondays: On Mondays, I will review a book series or novel that has been made into a movie. I will then answer the question that everyone asks: which is better, the movie or the book? Here is this week’s offering: Book: Life of Pi by Yann Martel | Movie: Life of Pi (2012) Which …

Single Sundays: Trouble by Samantha Towle

Synopsis (from Goodreads.com): Mia Monroe is running. Running from a person she doesn’t ever want to find her. Running from a past she doesn’t ever want anyone to know. Desperate to find a future, that yesterday, she could only dream of having. Jordan Matthews likes easy. Easy women. Easy life. Then he meets Mia. She’s …

Single Sundays: You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Synopsis (from Goodreads.com): If someone hurts your sister and you’re any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother’s accused of a terrible crime but says he didn’t do it, you defend him, don’t you? When Mikey’s sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie’s brother is …