Category: Book Review Tuesday

Hi again! Sorry about last week. But hey, cat memes fix everything, riiiiiiiiight?

Ha.

So here’s your review.

I hope you’re used to the huge book cover images by now.

Curiosity House- The Shrunken Head

 

Thomas, Phillipa, and Sam- three kids with strange abilities- live in Dumfrey’s Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, where weird objects from around the globe are housed, and where other strange people perform. But when Max, a knife-thrower who’s lived on the streets for almost her entire life, arrives there, a frightening series of events is set off. The newest attraction, the Amazonian shrunken head, has gone missing, and in it’s wake, many gruesome murders have been committed. Can the kids and performers solve the mystery and retrieve the shrunken head?

 

This was a very inventive book. Great illustrations, too!

Also, for those of you who have read this…isn’t Phillipa a whole lot like Lydia Deates (forgive me if I spelled that wrong) from Beetlejuice ?

She kinda dresses like her, too.

So yeah. Enjoy what’s left of summer, guys!

Hi again! This book was one of a few that I read in Alaska. Well, technically, I read and finished this on the plane to Alaska, but still. I really enjoyed it!

How to Outrun a Crocodile when your Shoes are Untied

Ana Wright has a much less than normal life. First, she has weirdo zooligist parents who named her after an anaconda. Seriously? And second, her best friend Liv just moved to New Zealand. And third, she and her family just moved to the local zoo in Denver. Plus, as if life couldn’t get any worse, the Sneerers (a trio of popular girls) are making Ana’s life even more miserable as it is. Can she survive the last week of junior high?

 

This book was hilarious, with a little animal factoid at the beginning of each chapter with a comment from Ana. Being a complete animal freak, this book attracted me like a magnet. Love!

P.S. As I’m writing this review, I’m listening to “Space Oddity”. *sniffles*

Yes, I’m still sad, and I will be for a very long time.

 

Well, hi again and sorry about last week. Unfortunately, you’re likely to get a post like that about three or four more times before the end of 2016.

But hey, here I am again with another book!

Twelve Mintues to Midnight

Penelope Tredwell is the secret owner and writer of the Penny Dreadful magazine, with a hired actor in case of public appearances. Her sudden rise to fame has gotten her (more like the actor, actually…) a huge audience, one of them being the Bedlam Mental Hospital. The inmates have begun writing strange messages and ramblings wherever they can-scrap paper, the walls of their cells, and even in their own blood-at exactly twelve minutes to midnight. Can Penny solve the mystery of the inmates? And what exactly do the strange spiders have to do with it?

 

I just finished this book about…maybe an hour or two ago. I was pleasantly surprised, and I’ll definetely read and review the other two books, Shadows of the Silver Screen and The Black Crow Conspiracy, at some point. Thank you for reading!

Hi guys! I’m really excited because SUMMER’S ALMOST HERE! This book is not at all sunshiny or summery, but nobody cares. Okay, WHY did I bring that up? Have I been possessed? Or has my *deleted for spoiler alert reasons*?

To escape from the WWII bombs in London, Kat sends her and her siblings Rob and Amelie to a castle in Scotland to stay until it is safe. But little do they know that the castle harbors a strange and dangerous individual…

When children mysteriously begin disappearing, Kat knows something is fishy. And, she has heard rumors of someone stealing the souls of these children and keeping them in charms on a chatelaine. Can she stop the mysterious soul-stealer before it’s too late?

 

I bought this a couple days ago at Tattered Cover (a.k.a. THE BEST BOOKSTORE EVER) and I didn’t know if I’d like it. The result- this would rate about a 6.5 to a 7 on the Madeline Todd Book Rating Scale. So yeah! This was a decent read! Hopefully the last days of school (or work) are good and your summer as well!

Hey guys, and  happy May! Sorry about last week. But hey-cat memes are life!

AAAAAANYWAY……….

I finished this book a couple days ago after it was recommended to me at least ten times on my kindle and on Goodreads. So yeah. Here you are:

 

(WHOA. THAT’S HUGE.)

Roller Girl

For Astrid, things aren’t exactly looking up. Her best friend has just dumped her for an old enemy, and now she feels alone. But after her mom takes her to a local roller derby match, her life changes. Now, she knows what she wants to do. The day arrives, and it’s way tougher than it looks. Astrid feels significantly worse than everyone else, and she seems really slow. Can she survive summer-and roller derby?

 

Although it isn’t as good as some other graphic novels I’ve read, I thought Roller Girl was great!

Thank you! 🙂

 

Oh wow-April’s almost over already! For this last Tuesday of April, I’m giving you an amazing book. At first, I just had it on my Kindle as a library book, but I liked it so much that I bought it! Pretty creepy, though. BE WARNED.

 

(GAH! HUGE PICTURE ALERT)

For years, unbeknownst to the inhabitants of Biltmore Estate, Serafina and her pa haved lived in the basement, undetected. Serafina’s only purpose up until now was catching rats-which she did quite skillfully and in stride. But after witnessing the kidnapping (and quite possible killing) of a child by a man (or maybe not a man at all…) in a black cloak, she realizes that something has gone dreadfully wrong. Soon, other children, many related to the inhabitants of Biltmore Estate. After joining up with Braeden, Biltmore’s owner’s nephew, she discovers shocking secrets that will lead her to the man in the black cloak-and to who her true parents were. Can Serafina stop the Man in the Black Cloak?

 

I totally loved this book, and I am currently restringing myself from spewing out the spoilers to you. But I have a heart, so for now I’ll keep my mouth shut. Enjoy the rest of your April!

Hi guys! Like my last post? If so, thanks. Here’s your book review! (HELP ME! I’M HAVING AN ATTACK OF CHEERFULNESS!!

Sky Jumpers (I think this might be a series. Sorry…)

Hope is a normal girl in White Rock, a city recovering from the horrors of World War III.The only thing that isn’t normal is that she has always failed at inventions. After failing again, she discovers that bandits will invade. The people of White Rock have invented a life-saving medicine, and the bandits want it for themselves. Can Hope save the medicine, her father, and White Rock before it’s too late?

I just finished this about a day ago. And the funny thing was that in the book, there’s a big blizzard that gets in Hope’s way-and there was a blizzard here that produced over three feet of snow at our house! How weird is that? Well, heck. It’s CO.

Thank you for reading!