After police intervention, fifteen-year-old Joy has finally escaped the trailer where she once lived with her mother and survived years of confinement and abuse. Now living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a comfortable house, she’s sure she’ll never…
Book Review: ‘Kissing Ted Callahan (and Other Guys)’ by Amy Spalding
When two actresses wear the same dress, all those gossip magazines do a “who-wore-it-better” poll. When two book reviewers request the same book, they just collaborate and produce a brilliant (okay, I’m super biased) interview. I interviewed Stephanie Estrada on…
Book Review: ‘5 to 1’ by Holly Bodger
It’s 2054, and after decades of gender selection, India’s boy to girl ratio is now five to one. In other words, women are now even more valuable commodities than before. Tired of marry their daughters off, some women form the…
Book Review: ‘Neverland’ by Shari Arnold
To seventeen year old Livy Cloud, four months simply isn’t enough time to move on from her younger sister’s death, not even close. She’d rather keep spending her time at the Seattle Children’s hospital, keep reading to the patients and…
Read of the Week: Grace and the Guiltless by Erin Johnson
Grace Milton’s peaceful life with her family on a horse ranch outside Tombstone, Arizona is shattered in one devastating night. Her family is brutally murdered by the notorious Guiltless Gang, leaving Grace the only survivor. Trekking into the wilderness on…
Joyride by Anna Banks Blog Tour
Today’s stop on the Joyride Blog Tour brings us an interview with the author herself. Read below for the exclusive interview with Anna and the full tour list. How does it feel transitioning between writing fantasy, or magical realism, some…
Book Review: ‘The Truth About Jack’ by Jody Gehrman
Dakota McCloud has a plan. She’ll leave behind the artists’ colony of her childhood ― hippie dad, tofu since birth, yurt ― for the prestigious art school she has been accepted into. There she’ll join her boyfriend and best friend on the…