All the Books.

"Lowen Ashleigh, a middling-author who's struggling to make ends meets, is offered the dream of a lifetime. Outline and finish the last three books in a best-selling series, since the author, Verity Crawford, no longer can. Verity was involved in a car accident that has left her incapacitated.When Lowen goes to Verity's home and starts combing through her notes for research, though, she comes across an "autobiography" that paints a far darker picture of the grieving woman who currently lives just upstairs. Lowen is soon questioning everytihng, including her own sanity. This was a dark, intense but engrossing read."  ⭐⭐⭐ Pros:  It definitely had an eerie feel at times/Verity is certifiably, terrifyingly insane/Hoover has an easy flow to her writing/It had a good hook, caught me right from the start.  Cons:  I was more interested in the thriller aspect of this romantic thriller so the romantic plot was predicable/Lowen felt flat as a character, I felt like Hoo...

"Red, an operative of The Agency and Blue, an operative of Garden are able to travel through time and space, making corrections, deletions, all manner of alterations that will affect time in past, present and future. When Red stumbles upon a letter in the aftermath of a battle that says, "Burn before Reading" she rises to the bait and that's when she "meets" Blue and their correspondence will be the thing that changes everything."  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros: It was definitely an interesting read, told mostly through correspondence between two enemy agents in the Time War/Red and Blue's differences in beliefs first made them enemies but as time progressed and their letters, first taunts and jeers changed to friendship and love, they too, changed as people.  Cons: The times between the letters, when Red and Blue complete assignments and try to keep their correspondence a secret, could be a little confusing/Since they could travel back and forth through different ...

"Essentially, it's the story of six Astronauts, working and living on the International Space Station that orbits the Earth. Though the author tried to give the characters background, the book was too short to make any one character stick out and the lack of a cohesive plot made it so the book just kept going, around and around, much like the Space Station in its continuous orbit of the Earth." ⭐⭐ Pros: There were moments of true beauty at the beginning, seeing Earth from the vantage point of Space.   Cons: The author tried to give the characters background but they all kind of blurred together, none of them really stuck out/The narrative, since there was no real plot, just ended up going around and around in circles, meandering and pointless.    Full Review: This book follows six astronauts who are on the space station that’s orbiting earth. To be perfectly honest, none of the character stuck out to me enough to remember their names or their places of origin. ...

​ “I initially believed that this would be an off-shoot of Stoker's Dracula and an exploration into the three mysterious "women" that Harker finds when he's roaming Dracula's castle but unfortunately, that was not the case. It had its interesting moments and some potential but in the end it devolved into smut.” ⭐⭐ Pros: It started out with potential, since I thought it would tie into Stoker's Dracula and be an interesting offshoot but it wasn't. Cons: Since the back of the book says that Constanta was Dracula's first bride, I was led to believe that the Vampire in the book, since he's never given a first name, was, in fact, Dracula, but, I was wrong/The timing of everything was just hilariously wrong, let's plot out this whole, dangerous, betrayal, all while the villagers are storming the castle. I guess when you're immortal, your time management skills falter.   Full Review:  Amidst the burning wreckage of her village, Constanta lies on th...

"We're back with Douglas Spaulding, who's dead set on not letting the Summer end. He'll soon learn though that everything is finite and yet not every end has to necessarily be an ending."  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros: A quick but powerful read/Douglas Spaulding finally realizes what it's like to grow up.  Cons : I had to laugh at the reason the war comes to an end, women are always the villains.  Full Review:  Even though it's creeping into October, Douglas Spaulding isn't willing to give up on Summer yet. He decides to gather up the troops and go to War against the men who make the rules, basically, the School Board. They hassle old Calvin Quartermain, are generally a nuisance but it gets serious when theft is involved.  Douglas's eternally reasonable and practical Grandfather lays down the law and they return to stolen chess pieces. All the boys are wracked with guilt but Douglas can't stop thinking. He obsesses and frets, as boys will do and though he think...

"Halloween comes a week early to Green Town, Illinois. In the form of "Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show". It's a Carnival, led by the delightfully terrifying Illustrated Man and when Will and Jim stumble upon its secret, things go from hypnotizing to horrifying. The epitome of good versus evil told as only Bradbury can tell it."  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Pros : Bradbury's writing is truly immersive, you are right beside Jim and Will through the whole insane story/The Illustrated Man is one of my all time favorite literary villains.  Cons : Bradbury does have a way with words but sometimes, that way can be very long and a little bit rambly/The ending when read at face value is simply silly.  Full Review:  Tom Fury, the seller of Lighting Rods, can feel the storm brewing. He can tell, it's going to be a monster. He happens upon two boys, lounging in their yards and decides to warn them of the danger.  They are William Halloway and Jim Nightshade. Will, born...