The Book Shire

2016 Reads

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha Trilogy #3)

***WARNING: THIS REVIEW IS SLIGHTLY SLIGHTLY SLIGHTLY SPOILERY***Β  Let’s start this show off by dealing with the creepy Rasputin-priest-Asparant situation. [...]

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha Trilogy #2)

The second book in any trilogy is hard to pull off - there has to be a cliffhanger of some sort, to leave fans aching for the final book, but it needs to also [...]

Falling into Place by Amy Zhang

I don't know if there are enough feels to describe this book. It was very clearly trying to destroy me, and it succeeded. By the end I was literally yelling [...]

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Grisha Trilogy #1)

I'm a sucker for a great new fantasy world, so I've no idea why I waited so long to get into the Grisha Trilogy. Seriously, you would think it would be a [...]

My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul

I had very high expectations for My Kind of Crazy... Probably because the blurb marked it as a book that was great for fans of contemporary YA by the likes of [...]

Kissing in America by Margo Rabb

Β Wow. This book was not at all what I expected it to be. Going into to Kissing in America, I fully expected to be bombarded with feminist messages on every [...]

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

When I started this book, I was less than impressed. It wasn't that it was a bad book... on the contrary, it was well-written and mildly engaging. But after a [...]

The Heir by Kiera Cass

Honestly, I think I was afraid to read this book for a long time. Despite getting my hands on it a week before it came out last May, I just kept pushing it [...]

Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass

Because I love The Selection Series, I knew that this was a collection I wanted to get my hands on. I had already read two of the stories when they were [...]