The Owls Have Come To Take Us Away Review

                                                                 
The Owls Have Come To Take Us Away
By: Ronald L. Smith
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Children's Book Group
Clarion Books
Children's Fiction
272 pages
Publish date 19 February 2019
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This is a book I wouldn't normally read. I am not too much into sci-fi. I do have to admit that it was well done. I couldn't believe how quick I was able to read this book. Before I knew it the book was done. Ronald draws you into the story and you just can't put the book down. I did give this book 4 stars only because growing up in a military family and being married to a military man he didn't give honest details on the base housing and military life. Otherwise I really enjoyed this book.
The book is about a 12 year boy, Simon, who is into UFO's and aliens. He believes he is being used as experiments by them and can't believe that his parents won't believe him. He is able to confide to his friend and his brother's girlfriend. The story continues on and is really good. Is Simon truly being used as an experiment by the aliens? Do his parents ever believe in him? Why does he believe that he is seeing aliens whom he calls Grays.
I recommend this book for your middle schooler to read. You can even read it aloud to a 3rd grader and have some great talks about this subject.

Prosper Redding: The Last Life of Prince Alastor Review

                                                                
Prosper Redding: The Last Life of Prince Alastor
By: Alexandra Bracken
Disney-Hyperion
Children's Fiction                     448 pages
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I was lucky enough to receive this book as an ARC through Net Galley. I read the first book last year and really enjoyed it. This is the finally book in the duology. She did not disappoint me in this last book. I really can't go to much into this book because it is the conclusion to the series.
We continue our adventure with Prosper and Alastor. They are going after Prosper sister who was kidnaped by Alastor sister into the downstairs realm. We get to see how they continue how to work together and some new friends they make in this world. I gave the book 4 stars. I recommend that you read this duology to your children or read yourselves.

To Live Here, You Have To Fight Review

                                                                
To Live Here, You Have To Fight
By: Jessica Wilkerson
University of Illinois Press
Nonfiction (Adult), Politics            
Publish Date 30 December 2018              280 pages
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There is no way to sugar coat this book. This book was really boring. The author did a lot of research to back up her findings. In fact the last 22% of the book ha all of her sources.
At first I thought the book was going to be great because she started off with a story that got me hooked and I couldn't wait to find out more about the person and her life. Then it went into facts about the Appalachian Mountains and the miners and the women.
I struggled reading this book. I came real close to DNFing it. The only two reasons I didn't is because they wanted my honest review on this book and the author did a lot of research to write this book.
I gave this book 1 star and unless you are into a book that only really goes into fact then read it but otherwise I don't recommend this book.

The Lying King Review

                                                                  
The Lying King By: Alex Beard
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Children's Fiction  60 Pages
Pub. Date 4 September 2018
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I really like this book. The pictures are great and the story is cute. It is real easy to read and I think children will like this story. A child will learn a lesson from this story about lying.  Don't want to give too much detail because it is a short book. It is about a warthog who lies. I recommend this book for your personal library. I gave it 4 stars.

House of Dreams: The Life of L.M.Montgomery Review

                                                                    
House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery
By: Liz Rosenberg
Candlewick Press
Children's Nonfiction              352 pages
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This was a great book. It is already out for you to read. It was wonderfully done and I am grateful that I was given the chance to read this for review. It is a biography about the author of the Anne of Green Gable books. I learned a lot about the author that I didn't know much about. I didn't realize that she went by her middle name and had a rough childhood. I also learned that her books are based a lot on her life. I highly recommend that you read this book. I would have read this book in one setting if I didn't have a lot of other things happening this month.
The author of this book draws you in and you just don't want to stop reading.
I gave this book 5 stars and I will be buying this book to keep on my shelves.

Glitter Bomb Review

I received this book from GoodReads give away. I was actually surprised that I finally won a book from them. This book came out on the 2nd of October of 2018. I am a bit behind on giving a review on this book. I actually didn't finish this book until this month. It is  considered a cozy mystery and usually they are quick reads for me but the last few months have been real busy for me and I am trying to play catch up.
I have read most of her other series called Cackleberry Club Mysteries. This is the first book from her New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery series. I did enjoy this book even though it wasn't the first book. I was able to figure out who was who without too much trouble.
This takes place during Mardi Gras. Just before the big day during one of the many parades one of the floats explodes and kills someone. The main Characters Ex- Husband happens to be on this float so ends up being a suspect. He convinces her to help him out since she is engaged to the investigator.
She comes up with a whole lot of other people who could have wanted to kill the person who died.
I don't want to say too much about this book because it is a mystery and I don't want to give anything away. It is a good read and I recommend you read it. You might want to read the books in order so you can understand the main characters a little better but you really don't have to. I gave this book 4 stars.

Borrowathon Reads

 Here is another readathon that I just finished. This one was going on at the same time as the other I posted a few days ago. This readathon ran from November 4th-November 11th. It was called borrowathon. You could only read books that you borrowed. There were 6 challenges to try to finished. I finished 5 of them. The challenge I didn't complete was to read a book with a name of an animal in the title. Heretics Anonymous completed the challenge of a 2018 release. I gave this book 4 stars. It is a YA book and is about a boy who's father is always moving them around for his job. No he is not in the military. This last place the boy is going to a private school. This school is catholic and the boy does not believe in any religion.  He makes friends with four other students who have similar issues and they try to make changes. It was a little slow at the beginning but them starts to pick up. It was a good book and I recommend it.
 Anya's Ghost completed 2 challenges which were Read a book you've never heard of before and read a book that features a library. This is another YA book but really not a book but a graphic novel. This was a quick read for me which most graphic novels are. This is a little hard to describe because the book was a little weird for my taste. The girl befriends a ghost when she falls into a hole. When the girl is rescued she unknowingly takes a small bone of the ghost body with her. This is how the ghost is able to be with her outside of the hole. The book goes on with how the ghost helps her but then takes a turn. It wasn't bad and if you like that kind of stuff I would recommend that you pick it up.

 The 14th Colony completed the challenge a book you think you're going to love. Well it didn't. Mike recommended the book to me. I really liked his book the Jefferson Key. This book follows the same characters but for one was really slow and the President is leaving office and a lot of things take place. The reason I thought I would love this book is that Steve Berry adds a  lot of history into the story line. He did this time but it was more political and I don't really care about that in my reading because it is boring to me.

Saga Volume 3 also completed 2 challenges. First it also had a library featured in it and the book was under 150 pages. This is an adult graphic novel. I am slowly into graphic novels. Some are better than others but when there are a few readathons you want to do these are quick reads. I am not sure how to describe this graphic novel because it is the 3rd volume of an on going series. It is almost a Romeo and Juliet retelling but dealing with different forms of beings. That is the best way I can describe it. Again if you like this kind of thing I would recommend that you read it. There is violence and some nudity.
So for this readathon I read 4 books that totaled 1141 pages. Doing these readathons help me to one read more and widen my range of reading. I hope you decide to join this readathon next time. It happens about twice a year. Until next time keep reading.