Tag: the cinderella society

Catching Up: eBooks Bought and Read Recently

September 14, 2015 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews
Catching Up: eBooks Bought and Read Recently

Hi guys, I’m playing a little catch-up with some highly anticipated (for me, at least) eBooks that I bought and read recently. Have you read any of these? Let me know what you think! Tina Chen is a college student who is barely scraping by with her job, her loans, and schooling. Her dad lost his job when she left for college, and it’s been up to her to be the responsible one in her family for a long time. When she and Blake Reynolds, the son of a technology mogul, end up sparring in class about socioeconomic status, it’s […]

Mini-Reviews: In Which I Read & Love My First Sarah Ockler Book

June 16, 2015 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews, Review
Mini-Reviews: In Which I Read & Love My First Sarah Ockler Book

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids Author: Sarah Ockler Publisher: Simon Pulse Source/Format: eARC provided by publisher via Edelweiss Publication Date: June 9, 2015 My rating: 4 out of 5 stars This was my first Sarah Ockler book, and I’m glad that it lived up to expectations. Ockler paints a gorgeous West Coast landscape to bring to life a story of finding the power and strength to make your voice heard. Elyse, the main character, is a Tobagonian girl who has had her beautiful singing (and speaking) voice ripped away from her in an accident. Elyse was destined to be a […]

That One Book…

February 6, 2015 / 10 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Discussion, Personal
That One Book…

Everyone has that one book. You know, that book that you absolutely loved but no one else seems to know anything about. The book that almost seems like your best-kept secret, even though you’ve told a ton of people to read it. And maybe it was a series that didn’t get the best pick-up so it might have been shelved. Or maybe the people around you don’t read in the same genre. Or maybe they do and they just didn’t like it as much as you did. And you don’t know why people don’t love it as much as you […]