The Boundless Bookshelf

  About the Book: ✦ Title: The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest ✦ Author: Melanie Dickerson ✦ Genre: Christian YA medieval fantasy (Robin Hood retelling w/ romance) ✦ Series: Book #1 in the Medieval Fairytales series ✦ Recommend for: ages 16+ My Personal Rating 3.5/4 ⭐ 📖 Synopsis A beautiful maiden who poaches to feed the poor. A handsome forester on a mission to catch her. Danger and love are about to unite in Thornbeck Forest. The margrave owns the finest hunting grounds for miles around--and Odette Menkels spends her nights poaching his deer to feed the hungry orphans of Thornbeck. By day, Odette is a simple maiden who teaches children to read, but by night this young beauty has become the secret lifeline to the poorest of the poor. For Jorgen Hartman, the margrave’s forester, tracking down a poacher is a duty he is all too willing to perform. Jorgen inherited his post from the man who raised him . . . a man who was murdered at the hands of a poacher. When Jorgen and Odette meet a...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Bad Things, Small Packages ✦ Author: Perry Elizabeth Kirkpatrick ✦ Genre: Clean spy-comedy novella ✦ Series: Book #3 in The Accidental Cases of Emily Abbot (see reviews for prior two books here! ) ✦ Recommend for: ages 13+ My Personal Rating ⭐⭐⭐.5 📖 Synopsis Head colds are bad... but the contents of the memory card are worse. Emily has planned a quiet, restful evening at home, hoping to ward off the sniffles that might make her miss work. But the microSD card Brent stashed on her car is making more trouble than either of them expected. Getting it out of Phoenix and to the decryption genius before it self-destructs is going to take both of them. But someone is after them and the card, and Emily discovers an eerie connection to her first accidental mission. To make matters worse, ICS is in danger and someone's looking for Emily. It's going to be a long night. 💭 My thoughts I read this in one sitting and enjoyed it a lot, but I will say this one was al...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Truth Cursed ✦ Author: Angie Dickinson ✦ Genre: Young adult fantasy (marketed as Christian, but little to no actual Christian content) ✦ Series: Currently a standalone novel ✦ Recommend for: ages 15+ My Personal Rating ⭐⭐⭐.5  📖 Synopsis Cressida Hoth is alone in the world. Orphaned and unwanted, she is inflicted with a peculiar curse by her mischievous aunts and banished to a finishing school in the secluded kingdom of Dernmont. Students train in every accomplishment suitable for young ladies: music, dancing, etiquette…and strangely, poison-making, fencing, and lock-picking. The school is a front for a rebel spy ring, and when her training is complete, Cressida is selected to join a mission to infiltrate the kingdom’s royal court. She has been thrown unceremoniously into a world of ball gowns and espionage, but she is still under a curse, and it threatens to expose them all. Defending her teammates and her secret, Cressida discovers that the kingdom...