Reviews by Teresa L. (Lake Elsinore, CA)

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The Magician of Tiger Castle
The Magician of Tiger Castle
by Louis Sachar
Adult Debut? (5/16/2025)
I loved Louis Sachar's Holes as a kid, so I was super excited to read his adult debut The Magician of Tiger Castle. This book was fun to read and had a few surprises, but it took a bit to get into the story and characters. This has a lot of fairy tale undertones and once …more
The September House
The September House
by Carissa Orlando
The September House (6/13/2023)
This is one creepy book! The way the author described the house really made the house a character in its own right. I did have a hard time liking the main character Margaret (who kept lying to her own daughter) and found it hard to relate to her. She was so dissociative to …more
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
by Vesna Goldsworthy
Life Behind the Curtain (2/14/2023)
Its always so interesting to me to read a story from outside the "Western" world and Iron Curtain: A Love Story delivers!

I'm not really sure I would call this a "Love" Story, more a story of a naïve privileged sheltered girl who lives a life in a Golden cage...when she …more
Ariadne
Ariadne
by Jennifer Saint
Ariadne - Not just another Greek Mythology Retelling! (3/31/2021)
Firstly, you had me at Greek Mythology retelling!

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint is a compelling reimagined Theseus myth but from the point of view of Ariadne and her sister Phaedra, princesses of Crete.

I loved that the Minotaur tale is only a fraction of this book. It dove …more
The Sun Down Motel
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
Ghostly Creepy Goodness! (11/10/2019)
Do not read this book alone in the dark...like I did! Ghostly, creepy supernatural with a mystery thrown in...all the good stuff you have come to expect from a great Simone St. James book! The interwoven timelines of Carly Kirk looking for her missing aunt, Viv Delaney, at …more
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