Genre: Teen/YA Fiction

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Aug 01
Review: Angelfall by Susan Ee

Review: Angelfall by Susan Ee

Books, Reading, Reviews 1 ★★★½

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 »

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Sep 02
Review: Sparkers by Eleanor Glewwe

Review: Sparkers by Eleanor Glewwe

Books, Reading, Reviews 2 ★★★★½

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 »

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Sep 27
Review: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Review: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Books, Reading, Reviews 0 ★★★★

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 »

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Jan 23
Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Books, Reading, Reviews 1 ★★★★½

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 »

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Oct 10
Book Review: Dark Souls by Paula Morris

Book Review: Dark Souls by Paula Morris

Books, Reading, Reviews 3 ★★★★

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 »

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