Tag: Jack the Ripper

Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard

Thanks to Edelweiss and Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for allowing me to read an e-galley of this book in June 2013.  I loved the idea of reading a book about boys who were genetically designed in a lab to be the clones of serial killers.  While I wasn’t quite sure what the […]

Posted August 3, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Renegade (Ripper #2) by Amy Carol Reeves

I will start by thanking Netgalley and Flux Books for allowing me to read an e-galley of this.  I also got to read the first in the series, Ripper, as an e-galley.  I was very into the first book because it was supposedly about Jack the Ripper which is a subject that has always fascinated […]

Posted March 8, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

A – Z Book Challenge

So, I really only did one book challenge last year, the Debut Author Challenge hosted by The Story Siren. And I’m now debating whether to do that one again this year or not. But this is a challenge that sounds really interesting and different. So I’m going to try it. I’m going to go with […]

Posted December 27, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson My rating: 4 of 5 stars So I’ve been a fan of Maureen Johnson since I first began following her on Twitter. I even got her to reply to me one time, a long time ago though. I hadn’t read her books yet, just knew her name […]

Posted November 13, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday – New Style

Okay, what I mean by “New Style” is that I know I’m not doing the exact correct thing here, but I’m so far behind on reading since school started back in August, that I kept thinking about how many new books were out that I’d been waiting on, but hadn’t had the time to read […]

Posted October 26, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments