I enjoy a good magical middle-school adventure story as much as the next reader, so I was excited to pick up The Kindling—and it didn't disappoint. With an interesting plot and unique system of magic,…
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…
What lengths would we go to justify our personal definition of family? Would we leave our children unattended to go to work if we had to? Would we rob, steal, or kill to save a child?
As Claire beg…
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Before picking up the book, I had read several reviews comparing The Rifts of Rime to Brian Jacques' popular Redwall series. Although the Redwall books are some of my fav…
THE SEVEN TALES OF TRINKET by Shelley Moore Thomas is fascinating in many ways. Although it is not stated, the story will remind the reader of medieval times. The heroine, Trinket, is…
As I began reading this book, I knew Barbara O'Connor had to be from the South because she writes with a knowing tone and sets the mood of one who has experienced living in a small Southern town.…
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig is oh so British in feel and the "editor" Russell Potter has a bit of high-brow fun. Quite leisurely in pace, the first person narrativ…
With the posting of the book review and content analysis of Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig by Russell Potter, Compass Book Ratings now has 500 books in our database. We fired-up the websi…
Criminal: A Novel is Karin Slaughter's dark crime novel. Criminal is interesting in many ways. First, the story is told during two different time periods--the story switches back …
In Peaceweaver, Rebecca Barnhouse creates a rich, vividly-imagined historical setting that I found easy to lose myself in. I loved immersing myself in the sparse, formal landscape of the Shylfing…
Books Can Be Deceiving combines many loved themes: libraries, books, small coastal towns, good friends and of course, a murder mystery. This story creates interesting characters and draws readers int…
