In Anna Bright’s The Beholder, “once upon a time begins on nights like tonight,” nights of music and revelry and hopeful expectation. But for Selah, those fairy tale notions of happily ever after come crumbling down after she’s rejected by…
Book Giveaway: Win ‘The Brightest Stars’ and Alex & Ani Bracelet
We are excited to team up with bestselling author Anna Todd to give away The Brightest Stars prize pack to one lucky reader. Enter for a chance to win below. GIVEAWAY Shine bright! One (1) winner receives: Anna Todd’s The Brightest Stars And…
Book Review: A Cowboy’s Sweetheart by Crista McHugh
We’re heading to the country, folks, as we dive into one of this summer’s upcoming romances: Crista McHugh’s A Cowboy’s Sweetheart. McHugh’s novel throws us into the upper-class and highly accommodated world of Kensington “Kensi” Pope, a spoiled rich girl…
Book Review: Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Meet Penny, a young, quiet, and firmly independent woman heading to college to begin paving the path towards her goal of becoming a writer, as well as escape the exhaustion of parenting her own mother. Meet Sam, a college dropout…
Adrift Movie Review: Strong Directing and Performances Keep a Basic Premise Afloat
Adrift opens with a beautifully choreographed single take sequence where Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) finds herself stranded on the remains of her sinking sailboat after it has been struck by a wave that would make Poseidon blush. As she wades…
Movie Review: Lady Macbeth
The period drama is best identified by it swoon-inducing romantic subplots and heavy melodrama. If the characters in Lady Macbeth stumbled upon the figures from a Jane Austen novel, a fistfight would probably ensue. William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth undoes all…