Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Review: A Study in Charlotte – Brittany Cavallaro

Review: A Study in Charlotte – Brittany Cavallaro

A Study in Charlotte is a very clever re-telling, where Sherlock is a young girl, Watson is a young boy and they end up across the Atlantic in the same, small boarding school in Connecticut. My A Study in Charlotte review: It has been a very long time since I read anything Sherlock Holmes connected, and A Study in Charlotte was a great way of entering this detective universe from a completely different angle. Because Charlotte and James are the great-grand-children of the famous Holmes and Dr. Watson, their story appealed to me in a different way than the original did. I also enjoyed that Charlotte was Holmes’s descendant, she was a very smart, sharp-minded young woman, and her power […]

Posted 11 December, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 25 Comments
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Review: Rules for Stealing Stars – Corey Ann Haydu

Review: Rules for Stealing Stars – Corey Ann Haydu

Rules for Stealing Stars is a poetic story about four young sisters, and how they, and their family, deal with the difficulties life sometimes throw our way. Beautifully written, with a lot of imagery and a fairy-tale like feel, it was a solid story that left me satisfied. My Rules for Stealing Stars review: Rules for Stealing Stars follows Priscilla – Silly – and her sisters during a summer. This summer, their mother is not doing so well, and the four sisters need every distraction they can find, especially because their father is not always fully present, even when he is physically with them. Silly is feeling left out, especially because she is the youngest, and her older sisters all […]

Posted 25 September, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: A Madness So Discreet – Mindy McGinnis

Review: A Madness So Discreet – Mindy McGinnis

A Madness So Discreet is utterly chilling! Grace is in an asylum for the insane, but she really doesn’t belong there. The abuse she suffered before getting there, and how that abuse continued by the hand of the people supposed to take care of her made me cringe! Little by little, things changed as she was moved to another asylum, and she could use her sharp mind to help catch a killer on the lose. My A Madness So Discreet review: A mix between a historical mystery and thriller, as well as a very deep look at society and how easy it was to get rid of a woman in those times, A Madness So Discreet chilled me to the […]

Posted 18 September, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 36 Comments
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