Week 41 Review: The Glass Casket

From Goodreads:

Death hasn't visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders' bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that whatever it was must have been brutal.

Rowan's village was once a tranquil place, but now things have changed. Something has followed the path those riders made and has come down from the hills, through the forest, and into the village. Beast or man, it has brought death to Rowan's door once again.

Only this time, its appetite is insatiable.

My Review:


Author: McCormick Templeman
Read: October 5th, 2024
Source: Own
Reason Why: I enjoy her writing (which I didn't realize that I'd already read a book by McCormick Templeman!) and it's a 2024 Retelling Reading Challenge 2024 Book, SAC 2024 Book and a Sophomore Challenge Book! 
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: January 25th 2014

5/5 Hearts

3/5 Books

5/5 Stars

21 Books to Read in 2021 Update 41

Yeah, I read my next book for the 21 Books to Read in 2021 Challenge! 

So I read The Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman from the Physical List, and Will the Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up? by Sara Hantz from the NetGalley Book! 

Yep. Happy reading!

Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.

But to recap, I wanted to do a version of These Books Will Self Destruct in 12 months without the self destruct. I wanted to read books that I've had for a while, that I really needed to get read, but maybe I forgot about them or that I had them. So I made 3 lists, one for each way I have them, as physical books, as an NetGalley ARC, and as an Edelweiss ARC.       

Week 35 Review: The Little Woods

From Goodreads:
Are the woods behind St. Bede's Academy really haunted, or does bad stuff just happen there? When Calista Wood, a new student, arrives midway through her junior year, St. Bede's feels like a normal school . . . until she discovers that a girl had disappeared a couple of months earlier. Some kids think she ran away, others think she was murdered, but it's only when Cally starts digging around that she finds the startling truth.

Watch as Cally enters a world of privilege, weekend-long parties, high school romances, and... well-kept secrets. This page-turner will appeal to teens looking for a fast-paced thriller. Written in a voice at once gripping and crystal clear, debut novelist, McCormick Templeman, will take readers on a twisting and turning journey as only a "new girl" can experience.

My Review:
This book was pretty creepy! And yeah, it was also pretty awesome to read! I didn't enjoy it as much as I was hoping for, but it was still a pretty great book! It's just that something felt off in the way that it was written, like a glitch in a song, skipping over something.

The cover, for me, is both really pretty, and just a little bit plain. The colours are just so awesome, but there's only trees happening in it, even if it's a book called The Little Woods. So I'm conflicted on liking this cover or note!

These characters fit right into this book so perfectly, the author wrote them very well! Callie, the new kid, who has connections to the area in that her older sister disappeared-and the school offered Callie a position at the school to keep quite about it. All the rich, entitled kids with secrets. So great!

I really enjoyed the mystery that was at the heart of this book, it was totally creepy, and totally easy to see happening in real life. There were those disappearances, and nobody did anything, until Callie. And oh, how it wraps up was really excellent!

I just enjoyed this book a good deal, just not a really great deal!

Author: McCormick Templeman
Read: August 31st, 2012
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded good and creepy, and it's a DAC book!
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Published: July 10th 2012

5/5 Hearts

1/5 Books

2/5 Stars