Review: Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern #1)

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Started reading: July 10th 2020

Finished the book: August 4th 2020

Pages: 299

Genres: Fantasy

Published: July 1968

Source: Bought the book

Goodreads score: 4.09

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Synopsis

To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise—and take back her stolen birthright.

But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa’s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . .

Two Short Stories #14

Today I will be highlighting two picture books. One of them is a book in the Carefree Ollie series. The other one is a picture book about Sticky Brains...

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Review: Lost in Amber (An Out of This World Paranormal Romance #1)

Author: Esther Rabbit

Started reading: July 20th 2020

Finished the book: July 29th 2020

Pages: 364

Genres: Romance, Science Fiction

Published: January 17th 2019

Source: Digital copy from author

Goodreads score: 4.18

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Synopsis

She just wanted to mope over her breakup, but the universe had other plans for Zoey Mills.

Twenty-four year old Zoey is at that particular point in her life when everything seems to be going sideways. Over the course of one week her boyfriend breaks up with her and she finds out she’s been genetically altered with enhancements foreign to her world.
Jasper’s first earthbound mission seemed simple enough: clean up the mess the former Interplanetary ambassador left behind, retrieve the altered survivors and capture the scientist who went rogue.

Meeting her changed and challenged everything he’d ever known.

Review: Single in Southeast Texas

Author: Gretchen Johnson

Started reading: July 15th 2020

Finished the book: July 19th 2020

Pages: 203

Genres: Humor, Romance

Published: August 14th 2017

Source: Physical copy from the author

Goodreads score: Not enough ratings

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Synopsis

Gretchen Johnson gives a sensitive and humorous account of dating in Southeast Texas. Paige, the heroine of the novel, is a young, recently divorced transplant from Minnesota and a professor of English Literature at Lamar University. She's fascinated by the culture(s) of her adopted state and trying to find a suitable mate. Her "take" on singleness and the dating scene in Beaumont is alternately witty, hopeful, resigned, and philosophical. The dozen men Paige dates are as real as any of J.D. Vance's hillbillies and as individualized as the folks old Studs Terkel used to interview. Her attitude toward Texas is overall optimistic, though she's aware of the racism, sexism, and classism which her students, her would-be lovers, and at times she herself see as simply natural. Johnson has a poet's keen eye and ear, and something of Sarah Silverman's sense of humor.