I think I stumbled upon this book while fighting insomnia one night. It must have been in an email from Amazon, and after I read the sample chapter, I was intrigued and bought it, hoping for an interesting apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic YA novel. Angelfall has a few problems, but overall? I got… Read more »
Magic? Check. Victorian setting? Check. Complex female protagonist? Check. Eldritch monsters bent on destroying the United Kingdom? Check. This book is basically everything I wanted in a novel but didn’t realize until I’d started reading. The story itself doesn’t tread a lot of new ground; the plot is a familiar one,… Read more »
For a while, I thought I wasn’t going to really like this book, but I’m glad I stuck with it because it turned out to be way stronger in the character development department than many books I’ve read lately. Feyre, the heroine, is stubborn as hell and starts out intensely… Read more »
Somehow, I managed to go into this book with zero expectations and very little knowledge of the plot. I blame my recent book slump for being totally oblivious to pretty much everything but the title. But going in blind actually worked out quite well for me, based on some of… Read more »
Sometimes stuff for kids–books, movies, television–is either too dumbed down or too blowing-sunshine-up-their-butts for me. I can understand the desire to shield kids from the bad stuff that happens in life, but at the same time, kids are much smarter than a lot of adults give them credit for. I’m… Read more »
Scarlet is the second book in Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, and it picks up right where the first book, Cinder, leaves off.  Cinder is a futuristic, science fictiony retelling of  the Cinderella story, with a cyborg heroine and an increasingly sinister plot led by the Lunar queen against the leaders of Earth.  Scarlet,… Read more »
Holy amazing book, Batman. I absolutely loved Cinder. It’s a science-fictiony retooling of Cinderella, complete with a downtrodden cyborg, a terrible plague, a handsome prince, and an evil queen from the Moon. I mean, how could this story not be awesome with a description like that? The best fairy tale… Read more »
This is a difficult review to write because even a few days after finishing this book, I’m not quite sure what I think about it. The concept is interesting, and I like the setting, but the plot is uneven and heavy-handed and there are almost too many characters to really… Read more »
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Dark Souls. The book’s summary makes it sound like a ghostly paranormal teen romance, but it’s really not that at all. It’s more of a straight ghost story with little hints of romance, full of believable characters, macabre history, and gorgeous prose…. Read more »
If constantly changing points-of-view are not your thing, you’re not going to like Wisdom’s Kiss. The story is told through eight (yes, I said eight) separate points of view: Wisdom’s diary, letters from Tips, a later-written story about Fortitude (Trudy), a showman’s memoir, a dowager queen’s letters, an evil duchess’s… Read more »
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