If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Buy Promise The Night by Michaela MacColl Special: $10.69 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Chronicle Books Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on January 25, 2012 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Beryl Markham may be young, but she has big dreams [...]

Buy The Whole Truth Regular price: $10.65 Publisher: Harper Collins Canada Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on October 11, 2011 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth may be the stuff of crime dramas, but in beloved, Canadian author, Kit Pearson‘s latest novel, they make up an [...]

Montreal book bloggers have been known to feel a little jealous of all the author events that happen in Toronto and the U.S., which isn’t surprising because they occur, comparatively, so less often here. However, since I’ve gotten together with a group of book bloggers over the last few months, we’re starting to notice more [...]

Buy Fiendish Deeds Special: $8.03 (Regular price: $9.64) Publisher: McElderry Books Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on Sept 1, 2011 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “From childhood’s hour I have not been / As  others were — I have not seen / As others saw” is the epigraph that opens P. J. Bracegirdle‘s Fiendish Deeds, and [...]

Are you familiar yet with The Familiars ? While most of the time I highlight YA fiction on my site, I occasionally make an exception for a middle grade novel that I absolutely love, and Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson‘s collaboration certainly makes the cut. For those of you who missed the review I [...]

Buy The Familiars Special $10.99 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Harper Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on September 9, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars When a clever alley cat named Aldwyn hides in an unusual pet store, he thinks that he’s escaped from present danger. He’s even willing to play along, pretending to be magical, [...]