In Pure, Pressia lives in a world that has been ravaged by Detonations and massive wars. She doesn’t remember much of Before, except that it was better and that she was not one of the chosen ones who were privileged enough to gain entry into the Dome. Instead, she lives life day to day, dreading…
Tag: adult
Review: The Finishing Touches
In Hester Browne’s The Finishing Touches, Betsy is only a few days old when she’s abandoned on the steps of The Academy, a modern day finishing school. There she is taken in by Lady Frances, who takes care of her as her own. Fast forward twenty seven years and Betsy is an accomplished young woman, with…
Review: Juliet
In Anne Fortier’s Juliet, Julie Jacobs, a young American woman, loves Shakespeare’s iconic play and knows it by heart. But she never imagined that she herself is related to the iconic tragic lover. It is only when her aunt dies that Juliet, or rather Giulietta, learns the truth of her past as she is sent to…
Review: The Reckoning
In the sequel to the hit The Taker, Alma Katsu returns in The Reckoning with another heart-wrenching, spellbinding, and evocative story of immortals Lanore and Adair. Lanny thought she had seen the last of Adair some 200 years ago. She hasn’t seen or heard of him since the night she entombed him, with the help of Jonathan,…
Review: The Flight of Gemma Hardy
Ten-year-old Gemma is an orphan and lives with her cruel aunt and merciless cousins in haunting Scotland in the 1960s. Tortured daily, Gemma is eventually sent to a boarding school where she works to maintain her status as a student, and is further bullied by working-students. She eventually finds a friend at Claypoole school, but…