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nikiflorica
Jul 4, 20202 min read
Counted With the Stars, by Connilyn Cosette: Review
Sold into servitude to cover her family's financial disgrace, Kiya's life of Egyptian luxury is replaced by enslaved humiliation. When...
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nikiflorica
Jun 27, 20202 min read
A Darkling Plain, by Philip Reeve: Review
London has been a ruin for decades, but when Tom and Wren Natsworthy discover rumours of stirrings in the wreckage, they can't resist an...
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nikiflorica
Jun 5, 20202 min read
Romanov, by Nadine Brandes: Review
Ex-princess Anastasia "Nastya" Romanov is the last hope for her family. As the Russian Revolution drives the royals into Siberian exile,...
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nikiflorica
Apr 24, 20201 min read
Predator's Gold, by Philip Reeve: Review
Since the Traction City of London fell, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw have lived happily for two years, flying the Bird Roads in their...
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nikiflorica
Apr 11, 20202 min read
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien: Review
Bilbo Baggins is a very respectable hobbit: he lives in a fine, cozy hobbit-hole and never does anything unexpected. So when the wizard...
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nikiflorica
Mar 21, 20202 min read
Mortal Engines, by Philip Reeve: Review
London is on the hunt—one of the great Traction Cities that prowls the desolate Hunting Grounds in search of towns to devour. To young...
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nikiflorica
Mar 14, 20202 min read
The Forgetting, by Sharon Cameron: Review
In the city of Canaan, seemingly peaceful life is overshadowed by the Forgetting—the terrifying phenomenon every twelve years in which...
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nikiflorica
Feb 21, 20202 min read
This Present Darkness, by Frank Peretti: Review
Ashton is a small town full of small-town people, the kind of place where life should be simple and neat. But to Hank Busche, the new...
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nikiflorica
Feb 7, 20202 min read
The Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle: Review
"In merry England in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood...
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nikiflorica
Jan 17, 20202 min read
"Rook" is Amazing. Here's Why.
Okay, I know I recently posted a review on Sharon Cameron's exceptionally masterful work of YA fiction, but since I was only able to...
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nikiflorica
Jan 10, 20202 min read
Miriam, by Mesu Andrews: Review
The children of Israel have suffered four hundred years of bondage to the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, clinging to El Shaddai's sacred...
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nikiflorica
Jan 4, 20202 min read
Rook, by Sharon Cameron: Review
The world has shifted on its axis. Technology and machinery have been destroyed and thrust into Ancient history, replaced by a world...
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nikiflorica
Dec 28, 20192 min read
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens: Review
Ebenezer Scrooge is a tight-fisted, hard-hearted, money-hoarding businessman who scoffs at Christmas and everything it entails. He is...
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nikiflorica
Dec 7, 20192 min read
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens: Review
Oliver Twist is born with no name between the walls of a government-funded shelter for the poor, and in minutes, he is an orphan. Named...
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nikiflorica
Nov 22, 20192 min read
Friday Not-Fave: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Dorian Gray is an exceptional young man who enamours everyone he meets with the air of innocence and purity belied by his beauty. And...
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nikiflorica
Nov 9, 20192 min read
Forest Born, by Shannon Hale: Review
Rin used to feel at home with the trees—as if they understood her, the way no one else could. But something has changed in the way the...
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