Beautiful Secret by Christina Lauren

3 stars I received a copy of this book through Shelf Awareness in exchange for an honest review. So I usually avoid any books even remotely related to sex because I’m a bit uneasy around that sort of thing. But the cover of this one really drew me in. The plot itself is highly predictable…

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Wuthering Bites by Sarah Gray

4 stars For a mash up, this one was actually pretty good.I’ll admit it has been a few years since I read Wuthering Heights and there are some parts that I only vaguely remember, but Gray does a decent job of seamlessly inserting vampires into the original text. At times I found myself questioning what…

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Rosie Revere, Engineer (Questioneers Picture Books #2) by Andrea Beaty

Illustrated by David Roberts 4 stars A wonderfully whimsical, silly, sweet story. I reread this recently for this first time in years and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. Smooth, rhythmic narration with engaging rhymes and wonderful messages about perseverance, failure, and doing your best. Nice examples of creative thinking, problems solving,…

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The Lost World by Michael Crichton

4 stars Very similar to Jurassic Park in its set up. Obviously there’s dinosaurs, but also strangley the formula of a bunch a men on an island along with one female scientist and two children, who experience one dino mishap after another. Despite the fact that this is basically a rehash of the first book,…

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Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark, and Boring by Rob Reger

1 star Lost, Dark, & Boring is a pretty accurate title. The book is dark, but boring, and I was lost through most of it.There are some creepy and creative things about this book, but overall it’s a jumble of stuff with no coherent story. It contains a bunch of mini-stories that I found fairly…

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Seriously… I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres

4 stars Love it! Reading DeGeneres’ books is always a good time. Funny, silly, and positive with a bit of advice thrown in. I love it.This book is more developed than her previous two books and is a good mix of advice and humor. This was by far my favorite of her books. DeGeneres has…

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