Ladies by the Lake

    Until recently, I had honestly forgotten about these series and I find it insane that I did. Throughout my early elementary years, the Geronimo Stilton series and its sister series, Thea Stilton (pun intended), entertained me most days.       The books themselves were easy-to-read chapter books that featured stories of Geronimo's or Thea's adventures in the mouse parallel of our universe. Based on Mouse Island, Geronimo is the head editor as well as publisher for his newspaper company, The Rodent's Gazette. From what I remember, the newspaper company was run by his family. He's a gentlemouse that seems to be terrified of absolutely everything.       His younger sister, Thea Stilton, is a journalist and the special correspondent for their newspaper. She works as an investigative journalism teacher at Mouseford Academy and in her books, she travels with her students Nicky, Pamela, Paulina, Colette, and Violet who she writes about when ...

I originally found this book (and the series it is in)  by reading Maggie Stiefvater’s earlier work in the Raven Cycle. I loved those books so I decided to read the spin-off series, which this book is a part of. And I have really been enjoying this series as it gets much further into the magic and world of the original, while also delivering enjoyable characters and an intriguing plot. Mister Impossible picks up a few months after the previous book, Call Down the Hawk, with three dreamers, people who can pull objects out of their dreams, facing off against the moderators, people who wish to prevent the end of the world by killing all of the dreamers. These dreamers are three of the main characters; Ronan, Bryde, and Hennessy. Throughout the book these three attempt to strengthen the source of their power, the Lay Line, to “wake up” all of the dreams that have “fallen asleep” due to their dreamer dying. Many of these dreams are seemingly ordinary people who might not even realize th...

Even though I had heard of Ace of Spades before, I had never picked it up- or given it a second thought. Even after I won the book from the Uni High library, I left it on my desk for at least 3 months. However, when I finally picked it up in the middle of summer, I found that it actually had a really good plot.  It starts off with Devon and Chiamaka; the only two black students at Niveus Private Academy, starting their Senior year. Devon is blunt, loves music, and has one friend. On the other side, Chiamaka is on top of the metaphorical high school food chain, saying "You have to make everyone wish they were you, wish they had your life." Living two different lives, they are forced to work together when a mysterious person who calls themself Aces starts to tarnish their reputations. At this point in the story, people start turning on them both, and you are left theorizing who, exactly, could be Aces. As the book progresses, life slowly starts to get worse for the both of them...