The Moonflower Library

  Have We Been Here Before? by Sydney Lee Title: Have We Been Here Before? Author: Sydney Lee Number of Pages: 90 Publisher: self-published Publication Date: 21 April 2023 Genre: Horror, Paranormal Age Recommendation: 13 and up My Rating: ★★★★★      Hello, everyone! I am back with another book. This book is unsettling and spooky (which I am so here for!), so grab your popcorn, hug your pillows and pets close, and let's dive straight in. Blurb      Sydney Lee's Have We Been Here Before? experiments with the many boundaries of surrealist fiction through eight imaginative stories. Each narrative offers a new perspective of the inexplicable and the absurd, from childlike uncertainty to mundane acceptance. By coupling senses of dread, excitement, and uncontained curiosity, these carefully crafted stories prompt thorough exploration of every line. My Opinion (no spoilers)     I've recently been plunging deeper into the more spooky, scary books an...

Something in the Woods  by L. Crow Morgane Title: Something in the Woods Author: L. Crow Morgane Number of Pages: 82 Publisher: self-published Publication Date: 17 April 2023 Genre: Memoir, Nonfiction Age Recommendation: 16 and up My Rating: ★★★★★     Hello, fellow book lovers! This book was recently published and I was clicking through Amazon and found this treasure of a novel. It's Something in the Woods by L. Crow Morgane. Let's get started. Blurb      Something in the Woods is a collection of short stories and personal essays about the experience of growing up queer, trans, and mentally ill in the South. It details some of the mental processes and not-so-talked-about aspects of having an identity contradictory to everything you're taught to be "normal" as a child, and how being told that you aren't normal can affect a person. Something in the Woods includes lyric essays and bizarre concepts for short stories that hit on these strange aspects. My Opin...

  Seoulmates by Susan Lee Title: Seoulmates Author: Susan Lee Number of Pages: 309 Publisher: Inkyard Press Publication Date: 20 Sept 2022 Genre: Fiction, Romance Age Recommendation: 13 and up My Rating: ★★★★☆           Hello, friends! I'm reviewing the book Seoulmates by Susan Lee!     If you all think that the title is misspelled, it's not. Seoul is the capital of South Korea, a country in eastern Asia. This book's two main characters, Jacob and Hannah, are Korean-American. Blurb      Her ex-boyfriend wants her back. Her former best friend is in town. When did Hannah’s life become a K-drama?      Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out—the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends.      But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah’s life seems to do—he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in common. He and all her friends are newly obsessed...

  Scythe by Neal Shusterman Title: Scythe Series: Arc of a Scythe Author: Neal Shusterman Number of Pages: 460 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 22 Nov 2016 Genre: Science fiction, dystopia Age Recommendation: 13 and up My Rating: ★★★★☆           Hello, world! This is my first blog post on this website, so I will dive straight in and begin exploring the first novel I have read recently: Scythe by Neal Shusterman.      Scythe is part of a trilogy, and I will be posting reviews on the next two novels in the series after this one. I post every Saturday, so stay updated! Blurb      A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.      Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a s...