becca "For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet & her Romeo" ... until now, that is. Because the tale of Romeo & Rosaline is full of far more woe -- as proven by When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle, a modernized re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet told from the... Continue Reading →
Prom Week: Review & Contest for The Fashion Coloring Book
It's not often we feature a coloring book here at Novel Novice. In fact, we've never featured a coloring book here before ... but as they say, there's a first for everything. And as it's Prom Week, it's fitting that The Fashion Coloring Book from our friends at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the first coloring... Continue Reading →
The Fashion Coloring Book
It's not often we feature a coloring book here at Novel Novice. In fact, we've never featured a coloring book here before ... but as they say, there's a first for everything. And as it's Prom Week, it's fitting that The Fashion Coloring Book from our friends at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the first coloring... Continue Reading →
The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
I firmly believe you are never too old for fairy tales, and The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy is the perfect book to support my argument. Though written for middle grade readers, this book's content is so hilarious, so universal, and so appealing that it transcends any age group. Healy's laugh-out-loud... Continue Reading →
Review: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
I firmly believe you are never too old for fairy tales, and The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy is the perfect book to support my argument. Though written for middle grade readers, this book's content is so hilarious, so universal, and so appealing that it transcends any age group. Healy's laugh-out-loud... Continue Reading →
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Deeply seductive, Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin is a dark romance in a haunting world wrought with temptation, disease, class warfare, and a mysterious prince. Drawing on elements of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, Griffin's novel is wholly unique and entirely addictive from the very first page. Everything is in ruins.... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Deeply seductive, Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin is a dark romance in a haunting world wrought with temptation, disease, class warfare, and a mysterious prince. Drawing on elements of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, Griffin's novel is wholly unique and entirely addictive from the very first page. Everything is in ruins.... Continue Reading →
The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell
Magic, historical fiction, romance, and the Old West collide in fantastic ways in The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell, a delightful companion to her previously released novel The Vespertine. Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell
Magic, historical fiction, romance, and the Old West collide in fantastic ways in The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell, a delightful companion to her previously released novel The Vespertine. Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt... Continue Reading →
Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn
A case of exorcizing old ghosts has turned into a stunning piece of historical fiction for young adult readers to devour with the release of Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn. Based on a true-life crime, Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls follows the story of Nora and her friends throughout the summer of 1956... Continue Reading →
