Review #532: One Half from the East by Nadia Hashimi

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ----C.S. Lewis Nadia Hashimi, an internationally bestselling author, pens a terrific and extremely heart rending yet enlightening tale of love,...

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Review #531: Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Whether it's men, women—it doesn't really matter. The human race is filled with passion and lust. And to coin terms like heterosexuality, homosexuality or even bisexuality makes no sense to me. You are human. You love who you love. You fuck who you fuck. That should be...

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Review #530: Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.” ----Charles Dickens Leigh Bardugo, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, is back with the exciting new sequel to her YA fantasy Six of Crows series, called, Crooked Kingdom and this time...

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Review #529: Thorn Jack: A Night and Nothing Novel by Katherine Harbour

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” ----J.M. Barrie Katherine Harbour, an American author, has penned a captivating and heart rending young adult fantasy fiction in her novel,...

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Review #528: The One Man by Andrew Gross

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?” ----Kurt Vonnegut Andrew Gross,...

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Review #527: X (Kinsey Millhone, #24) by Sue Grafton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ----Joe Klaas Sue Grafton, an American bestselling author, returns with her popular alphabetical mystery series of Kinsey Millhone and this time it's the 24th letter, X that welcomes the infamous and odd...

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Review #526: The Last of the Firedrakes (The Avalonia Chronicles, #1) by

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.” ----Erin Morgenstern Farah Oomerbhoy, an Indian bestselling author, has penned her debut engaging young adult fantasy novel The Last of the...

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Review #525: The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue

My rating: 3 of 5 stars "I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say." ----Nina Conti Keith Donohue, an American best-selling novelist, spins a thoroughly engrossing part-horror-part-mystery book, The Motion of Puppets where the author weaves a slightly...

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Review #524: Remember Death: An Arjun Arora Mystery by Ankush Saikia,

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” ----Rick Warren Ankush Saikia, an Indian author, pens his new crime fiction, Remember Death which is the second book in the Arjun Arora Mystery series, and this story welcomes the odd yet super...

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Review #523: Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.” ----Confucius Pierre Lemaitre, an award winning French author, has penned a riveting and brain twisting psychological thriller, Blood Wedding that narrates the story of a mid aged recently widowed woman...

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Review #522: The Muse by Jessie Burton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ----Pablo Picasso Jessie Burton, an English author, has penned a deeply moving and intoxicating historical fiction novel, The Muse that narrates the story of two women separated by a timeline of almost thirty...

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Review #521: It Must've Been Something He Wrote by Nikita Deshpande

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” ----Robert Fulghum Nikita Deshpande, an India author,...

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Review #520: For The Most Beautiful by Emily Hauser

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” ----Homer Emily Hauser, an English author, has penned a stirring debut historical fiction, For The Most Beautiful where the author...

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Review #519: Cuckoo by Keren David

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.” ----Jay McInerney Keren David, a Dutch writer, has penned a heart touching and an eye opening YA contemporary book, Cuckoo that narrates the story of a sixteen year old teenager, a talented...

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Review #518: Blog Tour of A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2) by Sabaa Tahir

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.” ----Beth...

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Review #517: An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) by Sabaa Tahir

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ----Nelson Mandela Sabaa Tahir, an American bestselling author, has penned a heart wrenching and an extremely gripping YA fantasy novel, An Ember in the Ashes...

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