Author: Kaye Gibbons
Rating: 4/5
Charlie Kate is a self-made healer and the matriarch of the family. Sophia marries a good-for-nothing man and has Margaret, a precocious and quiet girl who mainly keeps to herself.
Spoilers ahead.
Empire of the Dawn (Empire of the Vampire #3)
Author: Jay Kristoff
Rating: 2/5
Gabriel and Celene pick up where they left off, recounting their desperate attempt to end Daysdeath.
Spoilers ahead.
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Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire #2)
Author: Jay Kristoff
Rating: 3/5
Gabriel has made an alliance with the mysterious vampire named Liathe (aka Celene), and must take Dior to learn more about the Esani group.
Spoilers ahead.
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Wave Me Goodbye
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Rating: 3/5
10-year-old Shirley Smith doesn’t realise that she’s going solo on this holiday to the countryside. And also that she isn’t actually going on a holiday, just being evacuated from London because of the war.
Spoilers ahead. Continue reading “Wave Me Goodbye”
Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire #1)
Author: Jay Kristoff
Rating: 4/5
Gabriel de León is the last silversaint, imprisoned by the vampires who have conquered the world. He narrates his story to his captor.
Spoilers ahead.
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The Mythmakers
Author: Tamzin Merchant
Rating: 3/5
Gywn wants nothing to do with palace life and feels betrayed when her father drops her into Uther’s court to become a lady.
Spoilers ahead.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Author: Judy Blume
Rating: 4/5
Eleven-year-old Margaret Simon moves from New York to New Jersey and deals with a whole lot of preteen issues.
Spoilers ahead.
The Women
Author: Kristin Hannah
Rating: 3/5
Frankie McGrath wants to be on her father’s wall of heroes. So she enlists as a nurse in Vietnam.
Spoilers ahead.
Love You Forever
Author: Robert Munsch
Illustrator: Sheila McGraw
Rating: 5/5
A young mother holds her son and rocks him to sleep, singing a love song. She continues to do so even when her son grows up.
Spoilers ahead.
Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts
Author: William Hussey
Rating: 3/5
Jesse Sparks is diagnosed with a cardiac condition which requires open-heart surgery. He and his best friends Cas and Morgan aim to shoot their zombie movie in the four weeks before he’s due for his operation.
Spoilers ahead.
Earnestly Eccentric 