My Reviews of Books

Shared below are some of the books I’ve read and how I’ve rated them. I hope this will help you find your next favorite book.


Truly Devious

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in th...More

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a...More

The Old Willis Place

Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a de...More

Scritch Scratch

A ghost story about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the t...More

The Girl in White

Sweet Molly once lived in Eastport Sweet Molly once loved the sea Sweet Molly lost Liam to the shado...More

This Side of Murder (A Verity Kent Mystery)

AUTHOR: Anna Lee Huber SERIES: A Verity Kent Mystery, 1 REVIEW: 3-Stars This side of Murder, by Anna...More

Something Whiskered

AUTHOR: Miranda James SERIES: Cat in the Stack Mystery (book #17) REVIEW: 4-Stars “Something Whisk...More

Waste of Space (Moon Base Alpha #3)

New York Times bestselling series Tensions are running high when multi-billionaire Lars Sjoburg is p...More

Spaced Out (Moon Base Alpha #2)

The moon base commander has gone missing and Dash Gibson is on the case in the second mind-boggling ...More

Space Case (Moon Base Alpha #1)

It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author...More

Spy School Project X

Ben Ripley’s longtime nemesis, Murray Hill, has put a price on Ben’s head and accused him of bei...More

Spy School at Sea (Spy School #9)

In the ninth addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley faces his neme...More

Spy School Revolution (Spy School #8)

Ben Ripley faces the Croatoan—a new evil organization that’s so mysterious, the only proof it ex...More

Spy School British Invasion (Spy School #7)

Superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all in this l...More

Spy School Goes South (Spy School #6)

Ben is taken to Mexico by his nemesis in the hopes that he’ll finally be able to take down SPYDER ...More

Spy School Secret Service (Spy School #5)

Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the p...More

Spy Ski School (Spy School #4)

Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow-...More

Evil Spy School (Spy School #3)

When Ben gets kicked out of the CIA’s spy school, he enrolls with the enemy. From New York Times b...More

Spy Camp (Spy School #2)

School may be out for summer, but top-secret training continues for aspiring spy Ben Ripley—and so...More

Spy School (Spy School #1)

Can a normal, average kid become a superstar secret agent? Maybe not, but it’ll be fun to watch hi...More

Traitor’s Chase (The Last Musketeer #2)

Greg Rich is beginning to get the hang of things in 1615 Paris. Having assumed the identity of a you...More

Double Cross (The Last Musketeer #3)

The past, present, and future are all at stake in this final book in the thrilling time travel adven...More

The Last Musketeer (The Last Musketeer #1)

The first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Spy Sc...More

By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone

Small town murders. Big time thrills. A suspenseful, modern update of the classic mystery TV series ...More

Eye of the Crow

Sherlock Holmes, just 13, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family...More

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

Margaret’s mother takes her and her little sister Sophie out to an old abandoned mansion, and ...More

Finding Gilbert

May knows she is different — she can see ghosts. She just didn’t expect to meet one in her s...More

Deep Strike

The U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine–funded by ISIS–en...More

The Bin Laden Plot: A Novel

A U.S. destroyer is torpedoed by an Iranian submarine and Captain Murray Wilson of the U.S.S. Michig...More

Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code

Unbreakable is the true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis’ infa...More

Can You Keep a Secret (Fear Street)

How many nightmares begin in the Fear Street Woods? Eddie and Emmy are high school sweethearts from ...More

Throwback

2019 Bank Street College of Education’s “Best Children’s Books of the Year” ...More

Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade (Enola Holmes #8)

Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working...More

The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye (Enola Holmes #6)

In the series conclusion, Enola searches for missing Lady Blanchefleur while her brother Sherlock se...More

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (Enola Holmes #5)

“The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline” (Enola Holmes, #5) by Nancy Springer was another interesting...More

The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (Enola Holmes #4)

When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it peculiar....More

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Enola Holmes #3)

Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes’ right-hand man – so when he goes missing, ...More

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes #2)

Enola’s name backwards spells “alone,” and alone she is, in the world’s bigg...More

The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes #1)

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has di...More

Unsportsmanlike Conduct (Harlow Brothers, #4)

Edward and Nicholas Harlow thought the charity cricket match would be a casual affair—until a bold...More

Deadly Decorum (Harlow Brothers #3)

The Harlow Brothers are back at Inglenook Resort, and not just because Edward is missing his long-di...More

Civility Rules (Harlow Brothers, # 1)

Everybody loves Aunt Civility’s etiquette books, but no one has ever met the author. That&#821...More

The Girl and the Ghost

I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother’s legacy....More

Faker

The story of a family of liars… and the son who wants to break the family tradition. Trey know...More

Linked

Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it’s woken up very quickly when someone snea...More

Masterminds

The first book in the action-packed trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is ...More

Operation Do-Over

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables, Gordon Korman, comes a hilarious new...More

Whatshisface

REVIEW: 5-stars I just finished reading WhatsHisFace. I think it might be Gordon Korman’s best wor...More

Shelter (A Mickey Bolitar Novel, bk#1)

REVIEW: 4-stars Shelter, by Harlan Coben was one of those reads that kept you guessing the entire ti...More

Mission Manhattan (City Spies #5)

The City Spies head to the Big Apple when a credible threat is made to a young climate activist who ...More

Forbidden City (City Spies #3)

In this third “thrilling” (Kirkus Reviews) installment in the New York Times bestselling series ...More

Golden Gate (City Spies #2)

After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies are gearing up for the...More

City Spies (City Spies #1)

Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose he...More

A Spinning Wheel of Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #8)

Frankie Chandler-now Bowers-is still adjusting to married life, but nothing feels quite right. Her d...More

Some Like Murder Hot (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #7)

When Frankie Chandler and Detective Martin Bowers finally embark on their long-awaited honeymoon at ...More

A Scape Goat for Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #6)

A gourmand goat. A mysterious woman. A phone call that will change Frankie’s life. Frankie Chandle...More

A Scaly Tail of Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #5)

A new fiancé, an old boyfriend, and a murder that will change everything. Frankie Chandler is final...More

What the Cluck? It’s Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #4)

A broody hen. A dead body. The ultimate test of a relationship. Pet psychic Frankie Chandler finally...More

An Almost Purrfect Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #3)

Frankie Chandler’s best friend, Penny, is getting married, which spells the end of Frankie’s soc...More

A Bird’s Eye View of Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #2)

What’s a pet psychic’s worst nightmare? A tarot card-reading aunt, a cranky cockatoo, and a very...More

Barking Mad at Murder (Frankie Chandler Pet Psychic #1)

Frankie Chandler is a pet psychic—at least that’s how she bills her services. Her “telepathic ...More

King of the Oilers – The Story of the U.S.S. Chiwawa AO-68

With entry into World War II, the United States of America faced a daunting task of delivering men a...More

Love, Stargirl (Stargirl #2)

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character...More

Stargirl (Stargirl #1)

A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of populari...More

Iceberg

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanic and as she explores, attempti...More

Rescue

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fre...More

City of the Dead (City Spies #4)

In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Po...More

Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves

In this moving and timeless story, award-winning author L. M. Elliott captures life on the U.S. home...More

The Badger Knight

National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine presents unique novel about a sickly boy’s epic jou...More

The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts

Kat Preston doesn’t believe in ghosts. Not because she’s never seen one, but because she saw one...More

Strike Three, You’re Dead

Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he’s no player himself (according t...More

The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5)

Five months after the events in THE CREEPING SHADOW, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and thei...More

The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co. #4)

After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring...More

The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3 )

As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout ...More

The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2)

In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in Engl...More

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1)

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty ye...More

Restart

Chase’s memory just went out the window. Chase doesn’t remember falling off the roof. He...More

The Fort

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school “band of brothers” ...More

Unplugged

From Gordon Korman comes a middle grade novel about a group of kids forced to “unplug” at a well...More

War Stories

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies —...More

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel

Hunting ghosts and solving the case before checkout? All in a weekend’s work. When JJ Jacobson...More

Hawking’s Hallway (The Accelerati Trilogy #3)

Nick Slate, in order to protect his father and little brother, reluctantly must help the Accelerati ...More

Edison’s Alley (The Accelerati Trilogy #2)

Both Nick and the Accelerati have learned that the strange objects Nikola Tesla left in Nick’s att...More

Tesla’s Attic (The Accelerati Trilogy #1)

Fourteen-year-old Nick moves with his father and brother to the house of their great-aunt Greta. The...More

Code Name Verity

Oct. 11th, 1943 – A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger...More

The Length of a String

Imani is adopted, and she’s ready to search for her birth parents. Anna has left behind her fa...More

The Book of Kings (Mister Max, #3)

In Act III of Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt’s Mister Max trilogy, the solutioneer sets off to res...More

The Book of Secrets (Mister Max, #2)

From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt, Book II in the exciting adventures of Mister Max—12-year-old ...More

The Book of Lost Things (Mister Max, #1)

Max Starling’s theatrical father likes to say that at twelve a boy is independent. He also lik...More

Two Degrees

REVIEW: I’m sure you’ll find that Alan Gratz’ Two Degrees is a heavier read than his other boo...More

Breathe: A Ghost Story

Jack is used to danger. His asthma has nearly killed him more than once. But his new home has a dang...More

The Right Fight

The author of the acclaimed Vietnam series sets his sights on World War II. There are few things Rom...More

The Voices of Silence

In 1989 Romania it’s unthinkable to criticize the country’s leader. Flora Popescu can&#8...More

Girl, Stolen

Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of the car while her stepmom fills a prescr...More

The Blackbird Girls

On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red...More

Paris on Repeat

GROUNDHOG DAY gets a hilarious French twist in this delightful upper middle grade novel about first ...More

Rome Reframed

Lucas Duran has been on the trip of a lifetime—six months traveling through Europe with his parent...More

Allies

A New York Times bestseller! Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of v...More

Code of Honor

Live by the code. Die by the code? Kamran Smith has it all. He’s the star of the football team, da...More

Grenade

A New York Times bestseller! It’s 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives on t...More

Ground Zero

It’s September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . ...More

Heros

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degre...More

Prisoner B-3087

Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, a...More

Projekt 1065

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O’Shaunessey, originally from ...More

Refugee

One mission in common: ESCAPE. Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of conce...More

The Rose and Crown (The Cozy Cat Bookstore Mysteries Book 2)

Bookstore owner Lucy Patterson is living her best life. She has a job she loves, the man of her drea...More

The Secret Circle (The Cozy Cat Bookstore Mysteries #1)

The Secret Circle: A Cozy Cat Bookstore Mystery #1. A wave of trouble is headed straight for the qua...More

How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries #2)

Bookstore owner Lucy Patterson is living her best life. She has a job she loves, the man of her drea...More

Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries #1)

Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession wi...More

The Hypnotists

An all-new, mesmerizing adventure from the masterful Gordon Korman! Jackson Opus has always been per...More

One is the Deadliest Number (Purrs & Personality Types Mystery #1)

67-year-old Constance Kincaid and her mischievous rescue cat, Mr. Cinnamon, are the newest residents...More

The Traitor in the Tunnel

Get steeped in suspense, romance, and high Victorian intrigue as Mary goes undercover at Buckingham ...More

The Body at the Tower (The Agency #2)

Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss ...More

A Spy in the House (The Agency, #1)

Introducing an exciting new series! Steeped in Victorian atmosphere and intrigue, this diverting mys...More

Heir Apparent

LOSE THE GAME, LOSE YOUR LIFE In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways...More

Bridge of Souls (Cassidy Blake, #3)

Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows … unless it’s the other way around? Cass t...More

Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake, #2)

Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual. She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob...More

City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

Cassidy Blake’s parents are The Inspecters, a (somewhat inept) ghost-hunting team. But Cass he...More

The Parker Inheritance

The letter waits in a book, in a box in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It&#82...More

Stratford Upon-Avon

A quaint and cute tourist town, Shakespeare’s Stratford was far from pleasant and the author r...More

The Boggart

“Centuries old and thousands of miles from home”. When Emily and Jess Volnik’s fam...More

Charlie Thorne and the Royal Society (Charlie Thorne #4)

Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is fearless. Charlie Thorne may have finally met her matc...More

Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3)

In this third book in the Charlie Thorne series from bestselling author Stuart Gibbs, Charlie tracks...More

Charlie Thorne and the Lost City (Charlie Thorne #2)

Charlie searches for Charles Darwin’s hidden treasure in South America. Charlie Thorne is a genius...More

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

The world’s youngest and smartest genius is forced to use her unbelievable code-breaking skills to...More

Guys Read: Thriller (Short Stories)

A body on the tracks A teenage terrorist A mysterious wish-granting machine The world’s worst priv...More

 

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