Featured photo and art photographed by Isabella Saavedra. ASHLAND – On Friday March 6 at 5pm, the Center for Visual Arts galleries will run SOU’s Art Department’s First Friday. Numerous new art shows will be installed in the Marion Ady…
Category: Print
4 Stars for the “Enjoyable” Fantasy
The Smoke Thieves was a cleverly plotted and constructed fantasy filled with intrigue and many active storylines. From its vast array of POVs to its wide range of participating characters, it is not a story to to read passively. Instead, it insists…
Top Recommendation for new Romance
Filled with a delicious combination of witty charm and ambivalence, Arrogant Devil thrilled from the first page. With a delicacy only skilled writers have, Grey balanced their every exchange with perfect amounts of unwanted lust and volatility. Using the dynamic of a…
4.5 for Whelan’s Debut Novel
My Oxford Year is as tender and heartbreaking as it is charmingly witty. Whelan’s debut novel draws on the subtleties of relationships: both romantic and otherwise, and it expounds their effects in great detail. Told with boldly captivating characters and the…
6 Stars for the Christina Lauren’s newest novel
Love and Other Words, which was officially released yesterday, was a beautiful and emotional journey of exploration, first love, and the crucial moments that can long effect you into adulthood. After finishing it last week, it took me a few days…
Siskiyou Review: Another Romance, Unique and Touching in its own right
Only You was a touching and sweepingly romantic tale of a woman falling for a man as he falls for parenthood. With Melanie Harlow’s magnetic writing, this story and its characters were evocative and vivid in their portrayal from the very…
Siskiyou Review: ‘Getaway Girl’ get 5 Stars
Getaway Girl by Tessa Bailey was the quintessential friends-to-lovers romance with an angst-filled and wonderfully written lead-up from friendship to beyond. Most crucial to this story was the friendship between Addison and Elijah. Bailey took her time with it, creating and…
‘More Than We Can Tell:’ Engaging and Additive
More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer was a heartbreaking and distinctly visceral look into teenage realities and its issues. As with Kemmerer’s first novel, she again beautifully converged two characters’ separate but moving stories into one powerful and hard-hitting…
‘Hello Stranger:’ A Boldly Beautiful Romance
Historical Romance is often a genre I forget that I absolutely adore until I’ve jumped back in, and Hello Stranger was just the one to remind me. Both smartly written and tightly structured, it had the perfect blend of charmingly witty characters to keep…
“Midnight Valentine”: Beautiful Read with a Cliff Hanger Ending
Uniquely powerful and oddly fantastical, Midnight Valentine by J.T. Geissinger told an unusual love story with heavy undercurrents of heartbreak and second chances. In working with two characters with an abundance of loss– a widowed heroine and a hero who lost himself after…