Review: My Everything by Julia Rachel Barrett

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 164 Release Date: February 12, 2010Publisher: Cobblestone PressFormats Available:eBook(lit, html, pdf, mobipocket)Purchasing Info:goodreads, buy atCobblestone Press, Authors website, Authors Blog

Book Blurb:Security consultant Ben McCall is alone. His wife and unborn child are dead, victims of an assassination attempt meant for someone else. Grieving, he disappears. When his best friend is in danger Ben resurfaces, only to find his friend isn’t the target of a murderer, he is.

Grace Adams is one of the walking wounded. Her husband died two years ago. One night she is incapacitated. A man comes to her aid. He’s the man she fell in love with years before, Ben McCall. As the passion between them reignites, Grace too becomes …

Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Format Read: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 374
Release Date: September 13th, 2008
Publisher: Scholastic
Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Book, eBook

Purchasing Info: Suzanne Collins Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes&Noble

Book Blurb:

“In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place.”

My Thoughts:

The Hunger Games gives us a look in a possible future of the society and world we live in today. We follow Katniss about a century after environmental catastrophes have changed the face of North America and the former United States is now Panem, a nation divided into 12 districts and a Capitol.

Katniss lives in district 12 and has been taking care of her mother and little sister since her …