2.5 out of 5 stars Predictable fluff, but really cute nonetheless. Goodreads.com: Five Feet Apart, by Rachael Lippincott, with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis Rule-following girl with incurable disease meets bad boy with same incurable disease. Dislikes him for as long as it takes her righteousness to show him what to live for and his wild … Continue reading Review: Five Feet Apart
3 out of 5 stars The action and story go up in this series finale, but the heroine of Book 3 drags like an anchor. Goodreads.com: Their Fractured Light, by Aime Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #3) The galaxy-spanning, dimension-crossing culmination of the Starbound series, Their Fractured Light brings the two main characters from each … Continue reading Review: Their Fractured Light
3.5 out of 5 stars A Book 2 with more grit and less googly-eyed staring = +.25 stars. Goodreads.com: This Shattered World, by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #2) I love series that spin-off internally, then allow the characters from multiple books to encounter each other. I don't mean dusting off Jace & Clary … Continue reading Review: This Shattered World
3.25 out of 5 stars Crashing space ships and intergalactic conspiracies? Don't mind if I do. Goodreads.com: These Broken Stars, by Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner (Starbound #1) Lilac LaRue, deubtante of the galaxy and heiress to the fortune of her father's deep space tech company, is not the cossetted twit we expect. Well, she … Continue reading Review: These Broken Stars
DNF (Did Not Finish) #1 of 2019 Goodreads.com: Alex and Eliza, by Melissa de la Cruz (Alex and Eliza #1) I don't read a lot of realistic fiction, but I do love historical fiction, so I was moderately excited for this book. That turned out to be 100 x more exciting than anything that happens … Continue reading DNF: Alex and Eliza
3.5 out of 5 stars A little time apart does Jamie and Charlotte good. But what does it do for the story? Goodreads.com: The Case for Jamie, by Brittany Cavallaro (Charlotte Holmes #3) A year has passed since the end of The Last of August, and the murder that left our Holmes/Watson/Moriarty triumvirate a gaping … Continue reading Review: The Case for Jamie
3.5 out of 5 stars Just the second installment this series needed. Goodreads.com: The Last of August, by Brittany Cavallaro (Charlotte Holmes #2) What is it about Germany that makes it a perfect setting for gritty crimes, spy games, and art forgery? That's where Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson end up in their second adventure. … Continue reading Review: The Last of August
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