Shannon's Library

HERE IT IS! THE LONG-AWAITED, MUCH ANTICIPATED POST ON THE ENTIRE SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT BOOK SERIES!! If you’ve followed along with me on my Instagram page – you know I’ve been slowly making my way through the Skulduggery Pleasant books on audio. It’s taken about 2 years, but I’ve finally made it through all 15 books!…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done to help her child. But her brother-in-law, a physicist with a…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Prepare yourself for an education you’ll never forget! Welcome to the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts – a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder. Who hasn’t wondered what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! The year is 1867, and Verity Boone is returning to her birthplace, Catawissa, Pennsylvania. She knows that this small farm town will be a big change from Worcester, Massachusetts, where she’s spent most of her seventeen years, and she’s ready to face the challenge. She looks forward to a…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving her daughter, June,…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their parents are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin – its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink – a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor – understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that cause a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Brodie was a good dog. And good dogs are supposed to spend the afterlife in peace. It’s perfect: dogs as far as the eye can see, with endless room to run, huge ponds to splash in, and all the smells you could ever want to smell. But Brodie can’t…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Ernie Cunnigham, crime fiction aficionado, is a reluctant guest at his family reunion. Family reunions aren’t for everyone, of course. Three years ago, Ern witnessed his brother kill a man and immediately turned him in to the police. Now Ern’s brother is being released from prison and the family…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Early one morning in the remote hill country of Texas, a panther attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, a former slave. Samantha and her half-brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized and horribly scarred. Narrated in Benjamin’s voice, “The…