by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 5, 2014 | Books, Events
This evening we went to see Joelle Charbonneau at Mystery One Books and then followed/stalked/accompanied her to the Hales Corners Library for an event there. We are already huge fans of Joelle, she’s a...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 9, 2014 | Books, Reviews
INDEPENDENT STUDY (Book 2 in THE TESTING series) Joelle Charbonneau 1/7/14 HMH Books Cia has survived the Testing, the ordeal of a lifetime to see if youths are worthy of the University. At the end of it all, several children are dead and those moving ahead...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 15, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Pub date: June 4th, 2013 The planet is decimated. The Seven Stages War has left little of civilization except some small scattered pockets of humanity. The world as we know it must be rebuilt by those left and the generations to come. The...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 6, 2013 | Films
Just finished talking with a very excited Joelle Charboneau. Joelle is generally a happy, sweet soul, but she is currently EXTRA happy. Paramount Studios have acquired the film rights to THE TESTING, her new young adult novel. It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 29, 2013 | Five Things
Les Miserables (the musical) – Okay, this isn’t technically an album in the pop culture sense of the world, but it is music so I’m going with it. The themes in the musical are incredible. I listened to the show for the first time when I was in eighth...
