Reviews written by Samantha Randolph

JOYOUS BLOOMS TO COLOR is an adult coloring book (though it’s appropriate for most ages), featuring beautiful scenes of nature. Several pages also have quotes from writers like Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Emerson, which add heart and inspiration. The different styles used for the quotes are similarly swirly, but they...

The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency is on their next big case. This time, they are investigating a mysterious engagement, possibly a ghost, and a missing will. However, solving mysteries is a hard feat with both Lady Ada and Mary juggling sisters and society. They will use their brains, wit, and sneaky...

When Gretchen receives a phone call saying she’s to inherit an old mansion from a great-aunt, she is more than a little unsure. Her mother’s disappearance years ago made her think she would never hear anything more from that part of her family, but now she is being sent knee...

Red grew up using magic…badly. Now, she stays far away from it and only watches her Granny perform the wonders. When Granny gets sick, magic may be the only thing that can save her life. Red begins a journey to face her fears, along with the help of a chatting...

Though part of Kol’s life brings excitement in the form of hunting and gathering for his clan, his romantic life is nonexistent, given there are no young women his age around. When Mya and her family arrive from a nearby clan, Kol is hopeful something could happen between them. However,...

Now that Lois is at home in Metropolis, she’s started finding a rhythm: enjoying her reporter job, interacting with her friends, flirting with SmallvilleGuy, and diving into another unexpected mystery. Lois doesn’t know much about her friend Maddy’s twin (other than the twins don’t get along), but when Maddy’s twin...

When a father steals a rose from a beast, the daughter offers to stay with the beast forever to save her father. Little does Beauty or Beast know how transformative love can be until they open their hearts to each other. The story of Beauty and the Beast is known...

Young dragon Little Wing struggles to fly. After practicing and practicing, he finally gets the hang of it, but then he doesn’t know how to stop. When he flies too far away, he has to find a way back to his home and remember the dragon rules his mother taught...

Emelina Flores is out for vengeance and justice. Her people, the Ruined, have been ceaselessly slaughtered, and her sister, the one set to one day rule the Ruined, has been kidnapped. Though Emelina is considered a useless Ruined (not having any of the magic the others do), she will do...

In Imperial Russia, two enchanters train their magic, unknowingly preparing for a competition neither exactly agree with. The Crown’s Game is an ancient battle between enchanters; the winner earns the title of Imperial Enchanter and advisor to the tsar, while the loser is sentenced to death. Vika Andreyeva has power...

In the third and final book of the Luck Uglies series, Rye is locked right in the cross between the Luck Uglies and the Fork-Tongue Charmers as she fights to rescue her father. While venturing back to Drowning to help him, she finds her village full of Bog Noblins and...

In this third and final installment in the Age of Legends trilogy, Moria and Ashyn are desperate to defeat Alvar Kitsune and rescue the empire and their village’s children. While Moria must force a tentative alliance with Gavril in effort to take Alvar down, Ashyn is reunited with a grandfather...

Chloe Cho is fed up with the people around her automatically comparing her to Abigail Yang, not knowing the difference between Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, and crediting her intellect to her being Asian. She’s also angry at her parents who refuse to tell her anything about their Korean background,...

Benny Barrows is having a rough time. His best friend moved, and he’s having trouble finding a new one. His school is doing a project on small acts of kindness, and he hasn’t been recognized. His father had an accident while Benny was riding his bike, and his whole family...

George is known around his community for getting into trouble, and his antics capture the attention of the Pilfer Academy, a secret school for young thieves, crooks, and the like who promptly kidnap and enroll him. George learns the thrill of playing with new thieving gadgets and even finds a...