Firefly Cloak

I spent a significant portion of this book trying to figure out how old Tessa Lee was (16), where exactly the book was set (North Carolina) and when the story was taking place. Tessa Lee was so innocent and naive for her age I honestly thought this story was taking place in at least the 1960s or 197......more

This is the second or third Sheri Reynolds book I've written and I still love her spare and beautiful ways of describing things. She can take even the most unredeemable minor character and make you wildly interested in them for a page or two. That said, this was darker than her other books - full of......more

This was a gem. More for book clubs or a fun english class. The premise is what pulls you. Mom abandons her 2 children at a campground to run off with some random guy. People find the little boy walking around in a diaper with a phone number in permanent marker on his back. The story unfolds very sm......more

Good book - Couldn't put it down. Quick, easy read. Sad, the crazy lives some people live. For some reason, I kept picturing the main character as a young girl, 8 or 10 years old, even though she's 16. I just couldn't get the image out of my head. Also kept picturing the story as taking place 50 or......more

It was okay. A couple of the characters (Rash, and the Grandmother) were pretty compelling but large swaths of the storyline felt pointless. A lot of plot threads were dropped, symbols (aside from the titular Fireflies) were introduced and lost. The ending was a long time coming. It was a fast read,......more