Review: The Sixty-Eight Rooms

The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Cute, somewhat charming tale about 2 young besties who encounter magic in a museum, go on a magical learning journey, and gain some tools of knowledge they end up using in their "real" lives. I get that this book is intended for a much younger audience. But some books, like, (ahem) Harry Potter, make the crossover. This didn't. I was bored by it. Maybe I have to re-review this after my own kids read it and I can see what they think?

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Review: The Sixty-Eight Rooms

The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Cute, somewhat charming tale about 2 young besties who encounter magic in a museum, go on a magical learning journey, and gain some tools of knowledge they end up using in their "real" lives. I get that this book is intended for a much younger audience. But some books, like, (ahem) Harry Potter, make the crossover. This didn't. I was bored by it.

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Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

As someone who has thought something was "wrong with me" all my life because I have so many "shy" tendencies, this book is very reaffirming. I'd recommend this to other introverts, but it's maybe even more important to extroverts or anyone who doesn't recognize the introverts around them. Lots of great insights, research, and even advice. It's about what it means to be introverted and how these personality types can actually be an asset in cultures and businesses (and families)) that seem so extrovert-driven. I wish this was a required textbook for business students, actually, because i'm sure it could solve a lot of workplace tension.

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Review: Sisters Red

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Yeah, I did actually like the somewhat "horror-story" spinoff of the Little Red Riding Hood tale. What can I say, I'm into fairytales. But I like that there's 2 sisters, both telling their sides of the story, and that there's some conflict and dysfunction. Also plenty of action. The supernatural world living alongside the mundane world could have been even MORE original. And even though I like that Pearce exercised some self control and confined his story to ONE novel, thereby not forcing it to compete with other trilogies of its genre, this story could have been fleshed out even more into a series. At the end, I felt like there could be...more.

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Review: Born at Midnight

Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Eh, I'm not sure I'm intrigued enough to finish it. Another formulaic story of a girl discovering a supernatural community and that she might be one of them. Falling for one teenage guy after another, or several at once, or at least just getting excited about kissing all of them. She's kind of a hussy, actually. And I'm kind of over it.

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