After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who onlyContinue reading “Review: ‘The 5th Wave’ by Rick Yancey”
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Review: ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ by Karen Joy Fowler
Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. Now her adored older brother isContinue reading “Review: ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ by Karen Joy Fowler”
Review: ‘The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks’ by E. Lockhart
Frankie Landau-Banks attends one of the most privileged schools in the country. She is popular, cute and funny. Her main preoccupation is the gorgeous Matthew Livingston. But that’s not all there is to Frankie. She’s also smart. Then Frankie discovers Matthew has been keeping secrets from her. What will she do to get even? HowContinue reading “Review: ‘The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks’ by E. Lockhart”
Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ by John Green
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes – fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too.” Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, screwed up –Continue reading “Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ by John Green”
Review: ‘Church of Marvels’ by Leslie Parry
New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of TheContinue reading “Review: ‘Church of Marvels’ by Leslie Parry”
Review: ‘Illuminae’ by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warnContinue reading “Review: ‘Illuminae’ by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff”
Review: ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, ambitious wizard known only as the Dragon to keep the Wood’s powers at bay. ButContinue reading “Review: ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik”
Review: ‘Lumiere’ by Jacqueline Garlick
One determined girl. One resourceful boy. One miracle machine that could destroy everything. After an unexplained flash shatters her world, seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth sets out to find the Illuminator, her father’s prized invention. With it, she hopes to cure herself of her debilitating seizures before Professor Smrt—her father’s arch nemesis—discovers her secret and locks herContinue reading “Review: ‘Lumiere’ by Jacqueline Garlick”
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”
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