Susan

I received this as an ARC from Goodreads. This is an excellent book. It has a large millennial spin, which was difficult to get in to, but overall, the story was really really good. The characters were well developed and easy to relate to. Great plot and story once I was able to settle in and engage with the story.

A great overview. A bit wordy at times, repeating the same info over and over, but still written in such a way that it's easy to understand. As someone who has struggled to get my adhd managed effectively, the tips weren't detailed enough for practical applicability, but I'm hoping the follow up book will have more on that. A fantastic book for people just learning, or suspecting, that they or their child have ADHD.

An amazing fictional account of a terrifying piece of our history which will never be taught in schools.

Great book for children and adults to learn the basics about Rosa Parks.

The text is awkward and difficult. My kids replied “huh?” Many times during this short book. Good for awareness about Coretta Scott, but focused more on the lyrical text than giving information.

Absolutely amazing book. This gives me hope for the future of our public education system, as long as there are teachers like Esme. Reinforces that administration and burnt out teachers are the cause of our educational downfall, and that increased dry lessons will not improve test scores - but engaging, encouraging, creative lessons will. Imagine what could have been accomplished w the support of the administration and others within the school. So much going on at home distracts children from a good education. We need to look more at families and less at teachers for our failing students. A fast, inspiring read.

Fascinating read about American methods to teach reading. Amazingly, the whole word method is still widely used in public schools across the country despite the research and evidence against it. I'm glad to see that the teaching methods Flesch suggest are utilized by our homeschool curriculum, A Beka.

An interesting account of Darwin's personal life, but the writing was dry and slow. I'm glad I pushed through and finished it, but it took forever.

Good storyline but very apparent it's a YA (as opposed to, say Maze Runner, Ashfall, Divergent, which all have very developed storylines). It was a quick and good read. The amount of errors in the book drove me nuts though. Really? What do editors get paid for?!?

This whole series was just amazing! Sunrise was unpredictable for the most part and had many twists that took me by surprise. It's rare for me to find a book I can read 200 pages at a time without falling asleep. Amazing for a novice author. I hope to see more from him!!

The plot was a good one, and there were a few times I really got caught up in it...but for such a short book, it took me sooooo long to get through. The writing just doesn't flow as well as what I'm accustomed to.

Cute story, but a bit repetitive in places. Makes me want a golden.

This book is simply amazing. The story of something that could truly happen is terrifying, but it's laced w good moments in midst of horror. The book flowed so easily that I could read a hundred pages and feel like it only took five minutes. I can't wait to start Ashen Winter!

I dare say I liked this better than “The Fault in Our Stars”. Up until the last 50-70 pages it seemed like filler, going nowhere. Then the climax (about page 130). I was baffled how the next nearly 100 pages could be filled but the last half was my favorite part. Many deep and thought provoking questions and a good and satisfying ending in my opinion.

At first I hated the writing in this book. Choppy sentences, strange punctuation and capitalization, but it lent itself nicely to the tone of a teen. Thankfully most of the annoying writing only lasted the first couple of chapters. What a beautiful entanglement of characters, most fighting cancer or family members. Many funny moments where I found myself laughing out loud, but also many tearful moments. A good, quick, worthwhile read.

I'm a big chicken. The first 97 pages of this book terrified me so badly that I didn't dare leave my bed while in a dark house alone at 1:30 am. I vowed not to read it anymore at night. That lasted less than 24 hours. I was back at it the next night with all of the lights on (and was picked on dreadfully when my husband returned from work at 1 am).

The Winter People intertwines two stories from 1908 and today in such a marvelous way. I tend to be one that can figure out the ending from the beginning of a book, but this one had me leaning one way, then another, then another all the way to the end.

I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the early 20th century (which was my initial interest) but also anyone who likes a good mystery or light thriller. However, if you're at all wimpy like me, leave your lights on :)

Fascinating topic, but the writing was very non-fiction (I know it IS) and a but dry. Every other chapter follows the boy, Lee. These chapters are far more interesting than the alternate chapters that are more dry and just throwing facts out there. I'd definitely still recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn about this very un talked about period of American history.

Oh my gosh, this story is amazing. There are some reviews here that bash it's proper grammatical content but it's a modern story and is written in the way people speak and wrote nowadays as opposed to that of 1900. It was not a distraction to me and may have been just the opposite, allowing me to flow through the story easier than that of more properly structured books.

I am just amazed at how the story interwebs between two young girls many decades apart, in such a way that they are drawn together, yet the story isn't broken up awkwardly as many other books are. The research that went into the storyline was phenomenal and I loved that the edition I read had some info at the end about that research.

I was drawn to this book by randomly seeing it on the library shelf after watching an American Girl movie with my daughter, in which orphan trains were mentioned. I was horrified that such a thing even existed, I had no idea! I was glad to find a book that opened up a bit of history for me in such a great fictional setting.

I'd highly recommend this book to others. It was a pretty quick read for me, about 6 or 7 hours (with several distractions).