Book Review: Gail Carriger’s Curtsies & Conspiracies
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?
Category: Young Adult readers
Book Review: Chloe Neill’s Biting Bad
As anti-vampire riots erupt all over town, Merit and her allies rush to figure out who’s behind the attacks, who will be targeted next, and if they can stop the it.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Bastion
Mags has been brought back to Haven to recuperate, but they soon set out again for the assassins won’t be giving up.
Book Review: L.A. Weatherly’s Angel Fire
It’s a lightweight drama with a gentle lap of shallow melodramas with an interesting premise: deadly, life-sucking angels with no conscience.
Book Review: Marie Lu’s Legend
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Book Review: Jennifer Estep’s Midnight Frost
Just when it seems life at Mythos Academy can’t get any more dangerous, the Reapers of Chaos manage to prove Gwen Frost wrong.
Book Review: Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds
Ruby turned ten and her parents turned her over to a brutal government rehabilitation camp. She had survived the disease killing most of America’s children, but she became something they couldn’t control. Now 16, Ruby is desperate to disappear, to avoid the people who want to use her.
Book Review: Veronica Roth’s Divergent
Society is divided into factions dedicated to a virtue. Beatrice/Tris must choose between family or brutal testing, true friends, and how romance fits into her new life.
Book Review: Chris Crutcher’s Period 8
Telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don’t know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst.
Book Review: Michelle Gagnon’s Don’t Turn Around
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her hacking skills to stay anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in a warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side.