Wide-Eyed Reader

I'm very excited to share my March TBR! The Goodreads group I'm a part of, The Reading Frenzy , is running a "Travel-a-Thon" themed challenge each month this year, and for March, the "place" we are traveling to is Ireland! So all of the prompts are themed after Ireland or Irish things. I've got the prompts listed below, so you can check them out and see which books match which prompts! Brogue: read a book with a title that rhymes. For this prompt, I could only find My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows! That's just fine by me, as My Plain Jane  is a Jane Eyre retelling, and Jane Eyre is one of my all-time favorite books! Shamrock: read a book with a green cover. The first book that I found for this prompt was Splintered by A.G. Howard! I've heard lots of good things about this one, so I'm excited! Good Luck: close your eyes and randomly choose a book from your shelf. So for this one, I chose to only use my ...

First things first: I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for a review! I was pretty interested in this book, though I'll admit I didn't expect much. However, I'm a huge fan of fairytale retellings, and I've always loved Aladdin, so a gender-bent twist on the Aladdin story got my attention! And this book didn't disappoint! CHARACTERS Our main character in Thief of Cahraman  is Adelaide, a young orphan who just wants to live in peace with her best friend Bonnie and - maybe - discover where her mother came from. She's a former thief, and though she is trying to change her ways at the start of the book, she can't resist a shiny object or six. I found Ada to be a very interesting character - smart, resourceful, and not afraid to be both feminine (she wears stunning gowns through the ENTIRE book, and doesn't shy away from cooking!) and badass. She's a strong lead, for sure! However, I did think that sometimes Ada let her t...