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Author: Andrea Rittschof
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How to Train Your Dragon Live Action: Thrilling Ride
I was excited about the news I’d heard about the live action version of How to Train Your Dragon but there have been many live versions of animated films that have missed the mark. So while I wanted to see it in theaters, I also tried to keep an open mind. And genuinely it is…
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Ballerina: Vibrant and Intense
From the World of John Wick, Ballerina is exactly what you expect, vibrant and intense. Exploring the world from the viewpoint of a different character, Eve Macarro played by Ana De Armas, the film fits perfectly with the franchise, offering the violent action of the previous films and a character that is emotional and charismatic.…
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life: Funny and Endearing
I was expecting a romantic comedy when I went to see Jane Austen Wrecked My Life but I wasn’t expecting such a funny and endearing film. While it does have romance and comedy, it is unexpectedly human and honest with performances that are real and nuanced with a beautiful ending. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life…
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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh: Sharp and Brilliant
“Look at you, eating magic like you’re one of us.” Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school’s boundaries from demonic incursions. Walden is…
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The Sun Blessed Prince by Lindsey Byrd: Intriguing Story
SEPARATED BY WAR, UNITED BY FATE… Prince Elician is a Giver. He can heal any wound and bring the dead back to life. He also can’t be killed, so is cursed to watch his country wage an endless war. Reapers can kill with a single touch. When one attacks Prince Elician near a hotly contested…
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Modern Divination by Isa Agajanian: Complex and Emotional
Twenty-three-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human life with her secret magical one. With a place at an elite Cambridge university college, she almost has everything she could possibly want within her grasp. Just so long as she follows the rules: Make no promises. Tell no one what you are.…
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Overgrowth by Mira Grant: Riveting Characters
This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one…
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The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke: Creepy Gothic
In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women…
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The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig: Powerful and Complex
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears. Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared.…
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Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin: Horrifying and Absorbing
“Do you mind me asking—what kind of help do you need?” After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the gig, and…
