2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
hide

Book Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

About the Book

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, […]

Excerpt: News of the Air by Jill Stukenberg

About the Book

Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by […]

Book Review: Die Around Sundown by Mark Pryor

I’m a huge fan of Mark Prior and this latest series just reinforces that fandom. I’m not usually one for World War Ii-era historical fiction, but I found newly-occupied Paris to be a wonderful setting that offered tremendous opportunities for conflict in a way that suited rather than distracted from the overlaid […]

Book Review: Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

About the Book

The suburbs, right now . . . Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie […]

Book Review: Scarecrow Has a Gun by Michael Paul Koslowsky

That was… weird. Really weird. And also really amazing and somewhat aggravating and full of some seriously odious […]