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Review: ‘Shattered Blue’ by Lauren Bird Horowitz

For Noa and Callum, being together is dangerous, even deadly. From the start, sixteen-year-old Noa senses that the mysterious transfer student to her Monterey boarding school is different. Callum unnerves and intrigues her, and even as she struggles through family tragedy, she’s irresistibly drawn to him. Soon they are bound by his deepest secret: CallumContinue reading “Review: ‘Shattered Blue’ by Lauren Bird Horowitz”

Review: ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ by Sarah J. Maas

A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers thatContinue reading “Review: ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ by Sarah J. Maas”

Review: ‘The Accident Season’ by Moira Fowley-Doyle

 It’s the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom. The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara’s life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara’s family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives toContinue reading “Review: ‘The Accident Season’ by Moira Fowley-Doyle”

Review: ‘Red Queen’ by Victoria Aveyard

This is a world divided by blood – red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.  That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace.Continue reading “Review: ‘Red Queen’ by Victoria Aveyard”