★★★★ ½ ...your author brand is how and why readers fall in love with you and decide to read your book. Writing is a solitary sport, but marketing? That one needs a few hands on deck. Face it, you can write the world's greatest book...but if no one is around to read it, you're stuck up… Continue reading The 10 Commandments of Author Branding -Shayla Raquel
P.S. I Still Love You – Jenny Han
★★★★★ "Let’s go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it." Lara Jean fell (unexpectedly) in love. Well, she always expected to fall in love...just not like this. It started with Lara Jean's younger sister (Kitty) mailing out a series of secret love letters (well… Continue reading P.S. I Still Love You – Jenny Han
Family Cookbook Recipe Journal – Rockridge Press
This is a customizable book. So, this review will be a little different from usual...mostly cause there's so little to this book. It does not include predetermined recipe sections for breakfast, appetizers, entrees, and so on. You choose the categories you'd like to include. This is a completely (and utterly) blank family cookbook. Everything that goes into it… Continue reading Family Cookbook Recipe Journal – Rockridge Press
Save Me a Seat – Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan
★★★★ Things are very different here in America. Ravi moves to America after his dad gets a promotion and he thinks things are going rather well at first...but things change after he goes to school. "Yes, ma'am," I say, standing at attention. Everyone laughs. Meanwhile, Joe's best friends moved away, his dad is now a… Continue reading Save Me a Seat – Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan
Celtic Mythology for Kids – Christopher Pinard
★★★★ The good woman was horrified by the cost of her shortsightedness and realized that the old woman was not a woman at all, but an evil fairy/ This lovely little Celtic Mythology book traverses through so many tales that will delight and astonish you! A hushed silence fell upon Finn and his comrades as they… Continue reading Celtic Mythology for Kids – Christopher Pinard
Corduroy – Don Freeman
★★★★★ Corduroy is a bear who once lived in the toy department of a big store. Corduroy is a sweet little stuffed animal ready to move to his forever home. Day after day he waited with all the other animals and dolls for someone to take him home. But it seems like he will never leave his little shelf.… Continue reading Corduroy – Don Freeman
Fribbet the Frog and the Tadpoles – Carole P Roman
★★★★ Cayla tipped over the bucket, spilling dirty water onto the clean deck. The day is not off to a good start - the nice, clean deck of the Flying dragon immediately gets messy thanks to Cayla the youngest crew member's clumsiness. But, that is far from the only problem the crew will have to deal with… Continue reading Fribbet the Frog and the Tadpoles – Carole P Roman
The Songstress – Joshua Killingsworth
Her fate was sealed the moment she stood... Kari is alone in a foreign land - she sings in a teahouse and spends her night with her sister-of-a-kind, Suying. But then...Kari sings for the wrong person. ...I can infuse my voice with spirit energy...I can influence their emotions and how they feel. Enamored with her… Continue reading The Songstress – Joshua Killingsworth
Under Wildwood – Colin Meloy,
★★★★ Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right? Prue McKeel saved her brother, led Wildwood to freedomand fought her way back to the normal world. But somehow, even though all she wanted to do was return to her parents...things just don't feel the same. School holds… Continue reading Under Wildwood – Colin Meloy,
The Bromance Book Club – Lyssa Kay Adams
★★★★ “You guys read romance novels?” “We call them manuals.” Gavin Scott, second baseman to the Nashville Legends, seems to have it all under control. His career has taken off like crazy, he has a gorgeous wife and two twin daughters - everything is coming up aces...or is it? He loses his cool when he learns… Continue reading The Bromance Book Club – Lyssa Kay Adams
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