Tag: adventure
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Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Because of this, I was kind of nervous going into it, but since I was reading it with a book club, I figured it would be a good opportunity to read outside of my comfort zone…
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Book Review: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Coyote and Rodeo have been living on the road for the past five years. They don’t and won’t talk about the past, the tragic event that led to this new lifestyle. But lately, Coyote has been feeling the loneliness that comes with living campsite to campsite and gas station to gas station…
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Book Review: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
After years of feeling intimidated by this book, I finally felt I was in a place where I wanted to pick up this book and give it a try. My grandmother loved this book and toward the end of her life, we connected a bit through books. I regret not picking up Don Quixote in her lifetime,…
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Book Review: The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games is my guilty pleasure series. It’s so wild and something I wouldn’t normally enjoy, alas, here I am for the fourth installment. Though this wasn’t my favorite in the series, it was still a fun time by the end…
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Book Review: Truly Devious (Books 1-3) by Maureen Johnson
When Stevie Bell is accepted into Ellingham Academy, a school for gifted students, she thinks it’s the chance of a lifetime to solve the ‘Truly Devious’ murders. What she doesn’t anticipate is a classmate turning up dead…
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Book Review: The Man Without Shelter by Indrajit Garai
Another interesting work of fiction from Indrajit Garai. I recently read The Bridge of Little Jeremy and despite it being a different kind of story, I enjoyed this one just as much…
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Book Review: The Strange Courtship of Kathleen O’Dwyer by Robert Temple
It’s been so long since I’ve read a western that I’d forgotten how exciting they can be. Even though I haven’t read a bunch of books in this genre, I’ve never read one with a female protagonist. For this reason, I was particularly curious…
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Book Review: The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Once again, I have managed to become completely invested in the Hawthorne (and honorary Hawthorne) riddles and games…
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Book Review: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Immersive, personal, and adventuresome, Jon Krakauer brings his readers to Mount Everest to recount his disastrous trek up the infamous mountain in 1996…
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Book Review: The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Having felt somewhat let down by the ending of the first book after so much build-up, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself liking this book even more…