Category Archives: Review

Mx3 Review: The Girls’ Ghost Hunting Guide by Stacey Graham

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9 and up Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (May 1, 2012) ISBN-10: 140226612X Source: Publisher With Halloween just around the corner and weekend sleepovers are being planned, the topics of ghost stories and the supernatural are … Continue reading →

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Mx3 Review: Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Jenn

Today I’m pleased to welcome my thirteen-year-old son, John, for a guest review. As you may have seen my seven-year-old, Justin, reviewed a book earlier this week. Of course his older brother had to get in on the action! The … Continue reading →

Posted in Bloomsbury USA Childrens, Kid-Lit/Middle Grade, Murders, Monsters, & Mayhem, Review, Tales of A (Formerly) Reluctant Reader | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Mx3 Review: Horrid Henry’s Monster Movie by Francesca Simon

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 7 and up Paperback: 112 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (September 1, 2012) ISBN-10: 1402277377 Source: Publisher Today I’m pleased to welcome my youngest son, Justin, as a guest reviewer. Justin is seven years old and an avid … Continue reading →

Posted in Kid-Lit/Middle Grade, Murders, Monsters, & Mayhem, Review, Sourcebooks | 5 Comments

Mx3 Audiobook Review: Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection by Don Roff and Chris Lane

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Jenn

Publisher: AudioGO; Unabridged edition (September 18, 2012) ISBN-10: 1620643758 Listening Time:1 hour and 41 minutes Source:Publisher The year is 2012. An infection has hit the Seattle area. The infected die and quickly reanimate. One of the survivors is Dr. Richard Twombly, a … Continue reading →

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Mx3 Review: All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 8 and up Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Sandpiper; Reprint edition (August 17, 2009) ISBN-10: 054724878 Source: Personal Copy Twelve-year-old Travis and his sister Corey are sent to spend their summer vacation with their grandmother at her Vermont … Continue reading →

Posted in Horror, Kid-Lit/Middle Grade, Murders, Monsters, & Mayhem, Review | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Mx3 Review: Ten by Gretchen McNeil

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 13 and up Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Balzer + Bray (September 18, 2012) ISBN-10: 0062118781 Source: Publisher Best friends Meg and Minnie have been invited to an exclusive house party on Henry Island. The two friends are … Continue reading →

Posted in Harper Books, Harper Teen, Murders, Monsters, & Mayhem, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller, YA | 4 Comments

Mx3 Review: Haunted by James Herbert

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Jenn

Paperback:240 pages Publisher:Pan Macmillan (May 4, 2007) ISBN-10: 033045157X Source: Personal Copy David Ash is called to Edbrook, an isolated English house, to investigate an alleged haunting. An investigator from Psychical Research Institute, Ash is a psychic…and also a skeptic. … Continue reading →

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Mx3 Review: Red Rain by R.L. Stine

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Jenn

Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Touchstone (October 9, 2012) ISBN-10: 1451636121 Source: Publisher Lea Sutter is a travel writer, struggling to make a name for herself. She heads to a small, isolated island off the coast of South Carolina. The island, … Continue reading →

Posted in Horror, Murders, Monsters, & Mayhem, Review, Touchstone Books | 7 Comments

Mx3 Review: The Devil I Know by Jackie Barrett

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Jenn

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Berkley (August 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 0425250423 Source: Personal Copy Fans of horror are familiar with devastating killings that took place at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, NY. 23-year-old Ronnie DeFeo was subsequently convicted and … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkley Prime Crime, Murders, Monsters, & Mayhem, Review, True Crime | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Review: Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard Von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Jenn

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 9, 2012) ISBN-10: 0547567847 Source: Publisher (via Netgalley) At the age of eight, Hildegard von Bingen was offered to the Church. Starting at an early age Hildegard saw visions, mainly white orbs … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Fiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Review | 3 Comments