Reading Challenge: Goodreads Challenge

Review: Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick

Review: Heart and Seoul by Jen Frederick

Heart and Seoul is about the emotional journey of Hara Wilson. Hara was abandoned when she was just a baby, outside of a police station in South Korea. She was adopted and raised by Pat and Ellen Wilson in Des Moines, Iowa. She grew up being the only Korean in a sea of white faces […]

Lightning Review: Hauntings and Humbug: A Steampunk Christmas Carol by Melanie Karsak

Lightning Review: Hauntings and Humbug: A Steampunk Christmas Carol by Melanie Karsak

Set in Victorian London, Hauntings and Humbug is a Steampunk retelling of A Christmas Carol. I really enjoyed Ebony Scrooge and the way her backstory unfolded. The secondary characters were well-drawn and I thought Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future were interesting. This was an emotional retelling of A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed Ebony […]

Lightning Review: Goblins and Snowflakes by Melanie Karsak

Lightning Review: Goblins and Snowflakes by Melanie Karsak

Scarlette Rossetti is visiting her uncle for Christmas and secretly helping some dollmakers in the village, when she starts seeing a traveling caravan in the woods. She doesn’t think much of it until she realizes she’s the only one who can see them. They offer her the thing she most desires, in exchange for a […]

Review: Come to Me Softly by A.L. Jackson

Review: Come to Me Softly by A.L. Jackson

This is the second book in the Closer to You series. Toward the end of Come to Me Quietly, Jared leaves Aly. And the very end of the book, he knows that he can’t live without Aly. He knows he’s not good enough nor does he think he deserves happiness after the accident that destroyed […]

Review: Heart on a Leash by Alanna Martin

Review: Heart on a Leash by Alanna Martin

I adopted a husky puppy a few months ago, so the cover and blurb immediately caught my attention. I was a little sad the puppies didn’t play a larger part in the story (they were present, but I thought they’d have more on page time or play a larger role), but they were still cute […]