The Book Shire

Favorite Books

The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King

I wasn’t expecting to love this as much as I did (which is saying a lot because I was expecting to love it), and now all I want to do is FLAIL UNCONTROLLABLY [...]

The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

Last year, Carrie Firestone’s The Loose Ends List was definitely on my top books of 2016 list. It was uproariously unrepentant and unprecedented in its [...]

Roar by Cora Carmack

What a gorgeous freaking book! I loved pretty much everything about it from cover to cover and here’s why you will too: There is STORM MAGIC. Storm magic [...]

One Hundred Spaghetti Strings by Jen Nails

I loved this book so much that I ran out and pre-ordered myself a hardback copy the second I finished reading it. It is such a cute and heartfelt read - the [...]

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

I finished this book two weeks ago, and it’s taken me this long to have anything articulate to say about it. What I wanted my original review to say was [...]

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

I’m not sure that anything I say can do justice to this poignant and heart-breaking book. I’ll assume you’ve already read the synopsis. So you’re [...]

A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi

This book might just be my favorite read of 2017. I know it’s still early in the year for such a declaration, but I am dead serious – I devoured A Crown [...]

Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese

I am so glad that this book ran across my radar earlier this year. I am a huge fan of historical fiction, and I’m always looking for a new and interesting [...]

Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

I should preface this by saying that I have never seen Labyrinth so that did not in any way influence my reading experience. I was drawn to this book [...]