Review #446: Bullet Catcher by Joaquin Lowe

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

----E.E. Cummings

Joaquin Lowe, an American author, pens a thrilling and heroic western-themed tale in his debut YA book, Bullet Catcher that unfolds the journey of a young teenage girl who escapes her small town into the deadly desert on the footsteps of an unidentified bullet catcher, in memory of her childhood dreams as well as her dead elder brother's wish to become a bullet catcher. But this journey turns out to be challenging so will she make it?

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Review #436: Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story by Jonathan LaPoma

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it”

----Nicholas Sparks

Jonathan LaPoma, an award winning American author, has penned an heart-wrenching and a thoroughly enlightening story about two teachers in his book, Developing Minds: An American Ghost Story that unfolds the story of two twenty-something men trying their luck in the department of teaching in Miami but their journey to educate young minds turns out to be extremely challenging as sex, drugs and alcohol become their escape. But why would two teachers want to escape the world of teaching and education? What is the challenge that is making them stay back?

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