Can I just start with: I absolutely loved this book? It’s not perfect, the pace is off, more heavily loaded in the back end making it feel rushed. The leads are a little too perfect and powerful at times. But there are pirates, and dragons, and psychic/magical powers, fae, and it’s all set in a […]
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Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
September 18, 2013When we last left Tally she valiantly volunteered to surrender herself to the Specials and undergo the process of becoming Pretty. See the big secret of the first book is that becoming Pretty is not just a physical thing, they also burn away bits of your brain that encourage free thought and independence. So Tally […]
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
September 11, 2013When Tally turns sixteen she’ll go under the knife, a tradition that will initiate her into the life of a Pretty where everything is possible, most of all acceptance and approval. But then she meets Shay, who lets it spill that she doesn’t want to be Pretty. She doesn’t want some committee deciding how she […]
Gates of Paradise by Melissa de la Cruz
September 6, 2013Okay, are you ready for the last one? Spoilers ahoy, because there is no way, at all, that I can talk about this without talking about everything. So below the cut… Tweet
Lost in Time by Melissa de la Cruz
September 4, 2013If you’ve been following my reviews of de la Cruz’s Blood Bloods series so far you know that they’re either completely irritating or completely lovely to me. The decision to split the point of view and the story into different facets is probably what kept me reading the series. Lost in Time is a perfect […]
A Bad Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand
August 30, 2013Oh, goodness, where to start? Is there any “good” day for voodoo revenge on a mean teacher who failed you just because he doesn’t like you? Or any good day to travel through the slums and get car jacked trying to undo a too-effective revenge spell? Over the top, hilarious and more than a little […]
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
August 28, 2013Enclave starts on the naming day of Deuce, a young woman who has been training her whole life to be a Huntress, a protector and food gatherer for her clan which lives in an underground enclave. The tunnels mean a hard life, snaring what food can be caught, scavenging what remainders of society can be […]
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
August 26, 2013In Fallout, the third book in the series that started with Crank, centered on meth addict Kristina Snow, Hopkins moves on to show the effect Kristina’s selfish ways still have on her children, and covers a wide spectrum of emotional and psychological problems. Fallout is told through three narrators: Hunter, Kristina’s first child, born of […]
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
August 21, 2013Glass is the direct follow up to Crank. Glass continues the story of Kristina Snow after she’s had her baby, and kicked meth and nicotine, shortly before her eighteenth birthday. It follows her relapse in her struggle with the meth monster and goes farther than Crank imagined. Sharp and painful, Glass is hard to read. […]
My So-Called Death by Stacey Jay
August 19, 2013Karen tragically died from a major fall from the top of the cheerleading pyramid. Even more tragically, she has discovered that she is a genetic zombie and now has to live out the rest of her days slurping down animal brains and fearing maggot infestations. She’s even transferred to DEAD high, where supposedly she’ll learn […]