Month: April 2016

Cover Characteristic: Circus

The Cover Characteristic meme is hosted at  Sugar and Snark.   Here are the guidelines: Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite covers with that characteristic. If you want to join in and share your 5 favorite covers with the weeks particular characteristic, then just make a post, grab the meme […]

Posted April 29, 2016 by Lisa Mandina in / 10 Comments

YA Review: The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine

I was lucky enough to get this book through the booksfortrade deal with another blogger, although I also originally downloaded it as an e-galley from Edelweiss thanks to Balzer and Bray.  It’s one I was really excited for.  I finally got around to reading it a little late though, I got behind on some review […]

Posted April 28, 2016 by Lisa Mandina in / 12 Comments

YA Review and Giveaway: Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey

Book Details: Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey Published by: Swoon Reads Publication date: April 19th 2016 Genres: Historical, Young Adult Synopsis: Juliana Telford is not your average nineteenth-century young lady. She’s much more interested in researching ladybugs than marriage, fashionable dresses, or dances. So when her father sends her to London for a […]

Posted April 26, 2016 by Lisa Mandina in giveaway / 14 Comments

Review: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

I was lucky enough to find an ARC of this sitting on the table in the breakroom of the bookstore where I work one day when I walked in.  The story idea peaked my interested when I first read the synopsis.  But after a while I began wondering if it was something I’d really want […]

Posted April 23, 2016 by Lisa Mandina in / 14 Comments