BOOK REVIEW: Where Have You Been Bobby Marr?
Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Where Have You Been, Bobby Marr? by Morris Dalla Costa. For this review, I received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. This book was published on August 30, 2021. I will begin this review with a confession. If I hadn’t been asked to review this book, I probably wouldn’t have read it. And, truth be told, I would have been at the losing end of that bargain. Looks are deceiving and this book is a perfect example of that. I admit that I have…
MARCH WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in March. This month I read 6 books and I DNF’d 1. In a way, I feel like I did rather poorly this month (I obviously did not complete my reading challenge) but I also think that I did pretty well if that is even possible. And this is because I completed The Faithful And The Fallen series by John Gwynne and these books are monumental. I feel pretty accomplished by that. The prompts that I…
FEBRUARY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in February. This month I read 8 books. It was definitely a slower reading month for me, and I did not complete my reading challenge this time. Some books were also longer than the ones I read last month, while others were not all that to my liking. In fact, I am going to start with a book I didn’t like and which I DNF’d at 60%. These reviews have spoilers. 1. BOTM: Half Sick of…
BOOK REVIEW: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffmann
Hello everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. Visit the author’s website here. The Rules of Magic is one of two prequels to this author’s very famous novel Practical Magic first published in 1995. This review has spoilers. The Rules of Magic are: Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can. But Franny, Jet, and Vincent have to follow another set of rules: No walking in the moonlight, no Ouija boards, no candles, no red shoes,…
BOOK REVIEW: Pulse by Judy G. Walters
Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Pulse, the first book in the Vital Signs Series by Judy G. Walters. To get a copy of this book, visit the publisher’s website here. For this review, I was contacted by the publisher and kindly received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. Pulse by Judy G. Walters is a fast-paced, gut-wrenching, and prone-to-tears (in some places), medical drama fiction book set in the emergency room of a hospital in Texas. Trigger warning for death of a child and drowning. The main character, Dr….
BOOK REVIEW: Atomic Love by Jeannie Fields
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Atomic Love by Jeannie Fields. Visit the author’s website here. This review has minor spoilers. I admit that I started this book several times. For some reason, it was hard for me to get into it, and I had to start over once or twice. Not that this book is hard, it isn’t. The writing is pretty straightforward and clear. The problem is that I wasn’t in the right mindset for it when I first started it. I read a lot of historical fiction, but surprisingly, I’m not…
BOOK REVIEW: Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian. Visit the author’s website here. This review has spoilers. Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian is a retelling of the poem The Lady of Shalott by Lord Tennyson. I confess, I have never read the poem, which is ironic because I am an avid reader of Arthurian legend. In fact, I started reading when I first picked up the first book of The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead, and I loved it. So when I first read the synopsis…
JANUARY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. In this post, I will be doing a wrap up of all the books I read in January. This new year though I want to try something a little different with my wrap ups. I am still going to list how many books I read in the month I am wrapping up and provide a synopsis for each one of them, but this time I want some of those books to be part of a reading challenge I set up for myself this year so that my reading includes various types of…
BOOK REVIEW: Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell, the third installment of The Saxon Stories series. Read my review for The Last Kingdom, the first book of this series, here. My review for The Pale Horseman is found here. Like all my reviews, this review has spoilers. “I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden….
BOOK REVIEW: The Fifth Indoctrinated City by Chris Sykes
Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Fifth: Indoctrinated City by Chris Sykes. For this review, I received an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review. This book was published April 16th, 2021. This review has minor spoilers. The Fifth: Indoctrinated City is a YA dystopian novel about how hatred on the top levels of Britain’s fascist government affects the lives of the country’s citizens. New laws are implemented, and certain people in the country are now illegal. Thus, they are hunted by the Patrol. Victor, an Iranian man living in York…