★★★★ "I can see I'm going to have my hands full with you," he said. "I'll see to it, sir." Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has it all - the fame, the riches, the glory. Her life is so tied up in the Kennedy legacy, that she hardly knows where they end and she begins. And now, as she's entering… Continue reading The Kennedy Debutante – Kerri Maher

★★★ ½ She didn’t cry out. If she did the slavers would hear and they would find them all. Due to a "fortuitous" shipwreck, the Roman Empire has (yet again) found something it must have...and that something is the people of Nabara. While Kingdom of Nabara has dealt with slavers in the past, the Roman Empire poses a… Continue reading Of Captivity & Kings – E.Y. Laster

★★★★ Why does everything have to be so hard? [Eragon] wondered. Because, said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten. This book makes my heart happy. Eragon has graduated from isolated farmboy to savior of the kingdom. Along the way, he's faced trials, tribulations and terror.  He's fought the shade, the… Continue reading Inheritance – Christopher Paolini

★★★★ One thing was sure: This was not the fairy tale she had been looking for. Life dealt Cady Drake a rough hand. Orphaned nearly at birth, she bounced from foster home to foster home throughout her childhood - each time growing more and more jaded. Cady was a bad seed, through and through. ..that is until… Continue reading The Lost Carousel of Provence – Juliet Blackwell

★★★★ So long, Boston. Hello, Shadow Valley. Really? REALLY MS. MAIN CHARACTER? Do you think anything good will happen when you move to Shadow Valley???  Ok, now that my rant is over, I really enjoyed this novel! It was witty, fun and engaging - and everything in between. Calina "Callie" Thompson inherits an old property (the Calhoun Place) through a distant deceased… Continue reading Haunted Hearts – Kimberly Dean

★★★★ This isn't my story. I'm telling this for the lost souls. I've been told that I am safe now, but my heart still pounds... Peri, her sister Emma, and Grace are escaping from The Kingdom of Glory - an extremely dubious polygamous cult that buys women for breeding purposes. But (of course) when you first join,… Continue reading The Treasure of Cedar Creek – Brenda Stanley

★★★★ We should manage joy in the exact opposite way that we manage money. We should spend it all, at every chance we get. Ever look around a room - a doctor's office, a school hallway, the dentist lobby - and think, something is missing here? Spoiler alert: It's the joy. Ingrid Fetell Lee takes a close… Continue reading Joyful – Ingrid Fetell Lee

★★★★★ Faith in humanity Young Adult Lit restored “Blue,” he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey. She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.” I would normally poke fun at YA for… Continue reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater

★★★★ "I promised I would never see you again." "So this is good-bye, then?" "No." Elisa Perez, daughter of a sugar baron in Cuba, lived a vastly different life from her granddaughter, Marisol Ferrera. Elisa's world is of wealth, and intrigue. Tabloid newspapers and quiet, refined lives. She knows what to expect in her life - courtship, marriage and then… Continue reading Next Year in Havana – Chanel Cleeton