Review: A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier

First, thanks to Netgalley and Houghton Mifflin for allowing me to read an e-galley of this back in December.  Second, I will admit that I didn’t read the description that well when I first requested it.  For some reason I had in my head that it was going to be a book about a Spanish […]

Posted February 4, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments

Cover Characteristics – January 31, 2014

Cover Characteristics is hosted at  Sugar and Snark.  Here are the guidelines for how it works if you want to join in: 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 […]

Posted January 31, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 14 Comments

Review: Docket No. 76 by Arita M. L. Bohannan

I received a copy of this book from the author, well her husband actually, who I was friends with in college, in exchange for an honest review.  This is her first published novel, I’m not sure if she’s written much in the past or this was her first attempt.  While it isn’t the type of […]

Posted January 30, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Review: And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard

First of all, thanks to Delacorte Press and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  I just finished reading it the day before it was published, also the day it would expire.  It was a quick read.  At first I was worried that it was going to suffer in comparison to […]

Posted January 27, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 6 Comments