Review: Knife by R J Anderson

By Kasey | April 18, 2016 - 7:00 am |August 11, 2016 Blogger's Favorites, Book Review and Content, Christian World-View, Fantasy, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

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Knife
R J Anderson
Enclave

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Knife, a young faerie confined within her kingdom inside a large oak tree, is determined to escape to the outside world. As a girl, she came face to face with a human, and survived. Since that day, her curiosity about the house and the strange creatures who live inside it only grows. When Knife finds an opportunity to get a closer look, she takes it. But with every new discovery she makes about the outside world, the strict rules and strange customs of her people only feel stranger and well, wrong. Maybe Knife can save them. If she can find out why her people … Continue reading →

Top Ten Authors I’ve Read Most

By Kasey | August 11, 2015 - 2:19 pm |April 14, 2018 Blogger's Favorites, Lists, Middle Grade 8-12, News and Fun, Young Adult/Teen 12-18
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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week’s topic is about which authors I’ve read most. I’m breaking my top authors into two categories: books I read as a child and books I read as an adult/reviewer. Obviously authors with big series that I followed have a huge advantage here, but there were a few that surprised me.

Top Authors I Read as a Child

1. Ann M Martin.

Okay, you guessed it. I was a total baby-sitter’s-clubber. I must have read over thirty of those books in my tween years. Mary Anne was my favorite, but … Continue reading →

Upcoming Summer Reviews

By Kasey | June 16, 2015 - 8:12 am |February 2, 2016 Blogger's Favorites, Christian World-View, Fantasy, Lists, Young Adult/Teen 12-18
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Seems like this time of year more than any other, my To Be Read list just explodes. It’s summer time! The perfect time to kick back and read a book or two. Or seven. Maybe thirteen…

Here are just a few of the books I’m most looking forward to this summer:

Storm Siren and Siren’s Fury by Mary Weber

Originally I’d requested to review Siren’s Fury via NetGalley, but as I started reading, I realized book two wasn’t going to be enough. While I could follow the story, I was too interested in the things that happened in book one: in Nym’s dark past, in her romance with Eogan, and in her part in a terrible war. I ordered the … Continue reading →

Review: The Key by Jennifer Anne Davis (Audiobook)

By Kasey | March 30, 2015 - 7:00 am |October 1, 2017 Book Review and Content, Clean Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult/Teen 12-18
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The Key
Jennifer Anne Davis
Clean Teen Publishing
Published November 15, 2013

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A bloody coup overthrows the king and wipes out nearly the entire family. Only a baby girl escapes with the help of a palace guard. Rema grows up knowing nothing of her past or who she really is. Her only clue is a necklace with a cryptic message inside.

Though she is raised as the daughter of a horse merchant, she catches the eye of Prince Darmik, commander of the king’s army. His jealous brother, the Crown Prince, sees Darmik’s affection for the girl and blackmails her to marry him instead.

Torn between her attraction for Prince Darmik and the … Continue reading →