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Review: Like Moonlight at Low Tide by Nicole Quigley
Like Moonlight at Low Tide by Nicole Quigley Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: YA, drama Publisher: Zondervan Publication Date: September 4, 2012 Missy Keiser isn’t thrilled about moving back to Florida. She lived there when she was thirteen and it wasn’t a pleasant time. Nicknamed Messy, everything about Missy was fodder for the bullies in her class. When her mother met a man and moved to Pennsylvania with him, it gave Missy a chance to escape the horrific situations she was in at school and start fresh. Now, three years later, she’s back again and praying that people don’t remember Messy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t turn out quite that easy. She soon runs into the…
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Review: The Soul Saver by Dineen Miller
The Soul Saver, by Dineen Miller Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Supernatural Drama Publisher: Barbour Publication Date: May 1, 2012 Lexie Baltimore is a sculptor with a mission from God. Each time she dreams a face she goes to her studio, sculpts that face into a bust and then watches for where and when she will meet that person. God nudges her to the right place at the right time and then her mission is done. This time though, things get a little more personal. The face that she sculpts is that of a handsome man name Nate who is a pastor of a local church. When she meets Nate, it’s…
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Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Delirium, by Lauren Oliver Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: YA Romance/Dystopian Publisher: HarperTeen Publishing Date: February 2012 Love is not a feeling. It’s not a simple emotion. Rather, it’s a disease called amor deliria nervosa. It’s not contagious, but you can be infected. When you are infected, everything breaks down. You stop eating. Sleeping. The world revolves around love. That’s why it’s so dangerous and sometimes, fatal. And that’s also why society decided that love needed to be stopped. It was outlawed and a few years after that, a cure was developed. Now, at the age of 18, everyone is forced to have the procedure. You know by the mark on their neck…
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Review: A Midsummer Tight’s Dream
A Midsummer Tights Dream, by Louise Rennison Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: YA Comedy Publisher: HarperTeen Publishing Date: June 26, 2012 Tallulah Casey is back at Dother Hall studying performing arts and she’s not a newbie anymore. She knows most of the people, the layout of the school and understands (for the most part) how things run. So this time, she’s ready and there’s a lot more at stake. One of the girls has gotten discovered by a Hollywood producer and is off to find fame and glory. A couple of the other girls have boyfriends and Tallulah has gained some of her own “additions” that look like they’ll make this semester…
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Review: Withering Tights
Withering Tights, by Louise Rennison Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: YA/Comedy Publisher: HarperTeen Publication Date: June 26, 2012 Tallulah Casey is ready for the rest of her life to begin. At fourteen and a half she feels she’s stumbled through the opening lines and now she’s on the track to become a brilliant actress, or dancer, or something theatrical. That’s why she’ll be spending six weeks at a performance theater college saying goodbye to Tallulah and hello LULAH! There are some dicey moments when she arrives that lead her to believe it might not be nearly as perfect as she imagined. First, she finds out that she doesn’t have a bed…
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Review: The Mother Road by Jennifer AlLee
The Mother Road by Jennifer AlLee Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Fiction/Drama/Humor Publisher: Abingdon Press Publication Date: March 6, 2012 Natalie is a professional on marriage. She’s written several books on how to keep your marriage alive and she has speaking engagements all over her calendar to prove her worth in that arena. Unfortunately, this doesn’t stop her from having marital difficulties. When her husband leaves her for another woman, Natalie is devastated. And not only does it destroy her marriage, it takes her career down with it. It’s not exactly what Natalie was planning, but when her father calls to tell her that her mother is slipping further and…
