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Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adventure. Show all posts
Friday, April 2, 2021

The Adventurers and the Cursed Castle by Jemma Hatt

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Rating: WORTHY! This was an audiobook that has 'series' written all over it, although there's nothing on the cover to indi...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Charlie Thorne and the Lost City by Stuart Gibbs

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Rating: WARTY! Not being a big fan of series, I don't normally ever get to volume two even if I started volume one. In this case,...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Night Night Norman by Marie Dimitrova, Romi Caron

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a hard-bound, large-format print book, with thi...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon

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Rating: WORTHY! This is the final volume of this five-book series known as the Vatta Wars or Vatta's War, and which consists of Tra...

Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon

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Rating: WORTHY! This is volume four of a five-book series known as the Vatta Wars or Vatta's War, and which consists of Trading In ...

Engaging The Enemy by Elizabeth Moon

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Rating: WORTHY! This is volume three of a five-book series known as the Vatta Wars or Vatta's War, and which consists of Trading In...

Marque And Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon

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Rating: WORTHY! Also known as Moving Target in some markets, this is volume two of a five-book series known as the Vatta Wars or Vatta...

Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon

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Rating: WORTHY! Here's another series, this one a part of a five-book set known as the Vatta Wars or Vatta's War, and which con...
Monday, May 25, 2020

The Adventures of Rockford T Honeypot by Josh Gottsegen

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This middle grade chapter book was a little long and invol...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien

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Rating: WORTHY! Fly Girls details the lives of a handful of early female pilots back when air travel was new, largely experimental, an...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

The Storybook of Legends by Shannon Hale

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Rating: WORTHY! Errata: On one page I read, "She treaded water" - the past tense of 'to tread' is 'trod' (an...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Let's Fly a Plane by Chris Ferrie

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Friends, red kangaroos, children, lend me your engineers! ...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Bonyo Bonyo by Vanita Oelschlager, Kristin Blackwood, Mike Blanc

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This begins a stretch of some seventeen children's non...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Princeless Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley, Rose Higgins, Ted Brandt

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Rating: WORTHY! Normally I would steer clear of a book, even a graphic novel, with a title like this, but I had come to this via its pr...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

My Kindergarten in 100 Words by Sophie Beer

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Yes, there are indeed 100 words, spread over ten p...
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Jackie Chan Adventures by Duane Capizzi, David Slack, Tomás Montalvo-Lagos

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Rating: WARTY! This was a small format graphic novel featuring two stories, "The Mask of El Toro Fuerte" by Capizzi, and ...
Friday, November 2, 2018

My Brigadista Year by Katherine Paterson

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Rating: WORTHY! Read charmingly and beautifully by Frankie Corzo, this was a very short audiobook (written by the author of Bridge to T...

The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

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Rating: WARTY! Neil Patrick Harris is an actor known for Doogie Howser, MD and How I Met Your Mother neither of which show I ever wat...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Hocus & Pocus by Manuro Gorobei

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. The subtitle: "The Legend of Grimm's Woods...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

City of Saints &Thieves by Natalie C Anderson

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Rating: WORTHY! This was another audiobook experiment and it's the one I wait for while wading through all the others! The story w...