Author: Lisa Mandina

Ascend (Trylle Trilogy #3) by Amanda Hocking

Ascend by Amanda Hocking My rating: 4 of 5 stars Again I got this as a great deal as an e-book before they were being published.  This will be published and available in a hard copy next Tuesday! Once again I was not disappointed. This book had romance, suspense, and even some new mythology about […]

Posted April 19, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 3 Comments

Fear (Gone series #5) by Michael Grant

This is a series I began reading back in 2009 when I was reading to help pick one of my state’s award nominee list for the 2010-2011 school year.  I believe it was the same year I read Hunger Games.  You can read my review of Gone here.  I would say it was probably my […]

Posted April 13, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments

Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson

Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I ended up waiting longer than normal to read this next book in one of my favorite series, and really the only mystery series that I read. Normally I would check it out when it first came out, but I was so busy […]

Posted April 11, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Ghost Whisperer: Revenge by Doranna Durgin

I enjoyed the tv series this book is based on, and saw the books at the bookstore where I work.  When they became strip cover books at the store, I took one or two of them home, and now that the series is no longer being filmed, I decided it was time to read them […]

Posted April 9, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments

In My Mailbox (3)

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.  I’m very excited to do this meme this week as I won some books from Lea at LC’s Adventures in Library Land in the Hunger Games Movie Premiere Giveaway.  I hardly ever win contests, but this was the 2nd one I’ve won, the first […]

Posted April 8, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 9 Comments

Swipe by Evan Angler

I want to say thank you to both Netgalley and Thomas Nelson publishing for letting me read an egalley of this book.  This was a very good story, I liked all the technology and the back story, and the characters were good too.  However, I picked this book to read because I am a huge […]

Posted April 8, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

A Million Suns by Beth Revis

I think it was winter of 2010 when I first saw Across the Universe by Beth Revis on a display at the bookstore where I work part time.  The cover was so great, but the title made me think it had something to do with the movie by that same title from a few years […]

Posted April 2, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 13 Comments