With the dubious announcement of a YA version of The Da Vinci Code yesterday along with all the political coverage going on within an election year, what better time is there to create a political thriller booklist of actual teen and ya books? The best thing is that political thriller books don’t have to stay in […]
Tag: historical fiction
Book Review: A Madness So Discreet
I was entranced with the concept of this book from the first, and I could not put down the eARC once I got approved for it- it was one of those books that I just had to read from start to finish. It’s a dark corner of history in which women were treated horribly and put […]
Book Review: Believarexic
In this second book by J.J. Johnson (This Girl is Different, 2011), readers catapult through time to a world where things are upside down, nothing seems solid, and things are strictly regimented for your own safety. No one believed that Jennifer needed help, even when she asked for it- they all thought that when she […]
Interview with author Gail Strickland
Today I’m excited to have an interview with author Gail Strickland, author of Night of Pan, for the Curiosity Quills’ blog tour! The book is described below: The slaughter of the Spartan Three Hundred at Thermopylae, Greece 480 BCE—when King Leonidas tried to stop the Persian army with only his elite guard—is well known. But just […]