Category: {Book Review}

{The Yearbook: Carol Masciola}

{The Yearbook: Carol Masciola}

{Synopsis} – Misfit teen Lola Lundy has every right to her anger and her misery. She’s failing in school, living in a group home, and social workers keep watching her like hawks, waiting for her to show signs of the horrible mental illness that cost Lola’s mother her life. Then, one night, she falls asleep […]

Posted October 19, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{The Gathering: Dan Poblocki}

{The Gathering: Dan Poblocki}

{Synopsis} – Some houses are more than just haunted… they’re hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don’t know this at first. They each think they’ve been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there’s nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing — and nobody — can be […]

Posted October 11, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{11.22.1963: Stephen King}

{11.22.1963: Stephen King}

{Synopsis} – WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot – unless …King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a […]

Posted July 13, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Local Girl Swept Away: Ellen Wittlinger}

{Local Girl Swept Away: Ellen Wittlinger}

{Synopsis} – Stark, uncompromising, seductive, beautiful – this describes the tourist town of Cape Cod, where a young woman’s body remains to be found. Three friends struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavor to hide. Set in the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, this is the […]

Posted June 23, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Identity Crisis: Melissa Schorr}

{Identity Crisis: Melissa Schorr}

{Synopsis} – Annalise’s audacious freshman-year hookup with Cooper Franklin has a trio of friends thirsting for revenge. So they catfish Annalise by creating the perfect virtual guy, with Noelle playing along reluctantly only because her lifelong crush, Cooper, is in love with Annalise. As Annalise falls for it, even scoring tickets to the concert of […]

Posted June 18, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Gargoyle Hall: Angie Sage}

{Gargoyle Hall: Angie Sage}

{Synopsis} – When Araminta throws cold water over her best friend, Wanda, to disperse a crowd of panicked bats, it s decided Araminta has been helpful one too many times, and she is packed off to boarding school. On arrival, Araminta is surprised to discover that Gargoyle Hall makes her home, Spook House, seems positively […]

Posted June 15, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Ghostsitters: Angie Sage}

{Ghostsitters: Angie Sage}

{Synopsis} – When Aunt Tabby and Uncle Drac head off to Transylvania, Araminta is upset — they’re going to be away on her birthday. However, when it turns out that her almost-grown-up cousin, Mathilda, will be babysitting, it seems things couldn’t get any better. But Mathilda’s brought along trouble: two rowdy teenage ghosts, Ned and […]

Posted June 10, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments