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Cindy M
An accountant and CPA by profession, I found myself a book reviewer for Squeaky Clean Reads by happenstance. When the opportunity came to transform that website into Compass Book Ratings, I was excited to seize it and meld my business background with my love of books. As the mother of three teenage sons, I have read a large number of children and young adult books and I believe that there is great value in a content review service. As much as we would love to read everything our children read, there just isn’t enough time. I also appreciate being able to select books for myself that are really worth my precious and limited reading time. I believe there is a book out there for everyone–they just have to find it!
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman was a New York Times Best Seller a few years ago.  A novel that weaves the stories of three generations of women together and to their family history, it takes a c…
It is always fascinating to go to the origination point of literary characters that have become ubiquitous and iconic to a culture.  Sometimes the current cultural perception is leagues away from…
The Candy Shop War:  Arcade Catastrophe picks up where the first book left off.  There is no exposition on characters and hardly any reference to the first book; however, Arcade Ca…
Brilliant comedic writing is the jewel in Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom.  The author knows exactly how to describe a scene so that the reader can envision all the comical…
Brilliant and dazzling!  Kate Morton does it again in The Secret Keeper.  Employing all her distinctive stylistic traits, Morton interweaves eras, character perspectives, and locations …
Liar & Spy, Rebecca Stead's third novel, is completely different from her first two books, but the writing is just as good as When You Reach Me.  The dialogue is snappy and the interchanges are of…
Author Tyler Whitesides takes the janitorial concept so over the top that it becomes awesome!  Completely unfettering the imagination to the border of absurd really works for this series.  A…
The character P.K. Pinkerton had won me over by page 3!  A perfectly voiced protagonist with a Gift and a Thorn, P.K. is a breath of fresh air.  The Case of the Deadly Desperados i…
A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle is a short book that sweetly explores the connections among four generations of women in a family.  It jumps among the characters in time and in perspective.  It a…
What is your Fear Factor? Frankly, my fear factor is pretty pathetic.  I do not naturally gravitate towards scary books and I positively flee from horror movies.  I also don't generally e…
Brie's voice in The Catastrophic History of You and Me is so alive the reader almost forgets that Brie is really dead and that she is just a character in a book.  Wasting no time, autho…
  Win your own copy of Cinder and Ella by Melissa Lemon. This book is  young adult fantasy with a fun twist on the Cinderella story! Enter today to win a copy!  Giveaway runs 9/24/2012 thro…