For anyone who loves books, The Reader is both horrifying (a world without books!) and thrilling. Sefia’s life is hard and sad without her parents but her guardian, Nin, has become the parent that she needs to survive the brutal world she lives in. Right away, there are signs that Sefia’s parents and Nin had […]
Category: Young Adult
Flawed By Cecelia Ahern
As with many main characters dystopian stories, the first thing you know about Celestine is that she is a good kid. She follows the rules, she doesn’t make waves, and she has her life sort of arranged and planned out the way she wants it. However, you also see that this world is one […]
Blog Tour: The Graces
There is always that one intriguing student, or set of siblings, that seems to be the social center of every school. The Graces tells the story of an entire family’s place in a town and the way that people seem to both worship and fear them. The Grace family is wealthy and rumored to be […]
Ex Libris Audio: The Serpent King
Having grown up in a small town, I tend to gravitate toward stories set there and The Serpent Kind definitely captured both the comfort and the frustration of living in a small community. All three characters have lives that do not go unexamined by the local townspeople, but I would say that the focus of […]
A Torch Against The Night By Sabaa Tahir
When a book like An Ember in the Ashes comes out, there is always so much pressure on the second book to be just as good. I have to say that A Torch Against the Night did not disappoint! It pretty much picks up right where book one stopped and you are right back in […]
Blog Tour: A Shadow Bright And Burning
I’m always up for a book about magic, but add a historical setting, and there’s no question that I’m in. The world building was very good. I was drawn into the deft way that historical society was melded with the fantasy elements. Henrietta is poor, but manages to make her way in he […]
A World Without You By Beth Revis
A World Without You was a departure for Beth Revis, who is known for her excellent sci-fi stories. The story opens as Bo is facing the suicide of his girlfriend, who suffered from depression and was a fellow student at a school/treatment facility. There is no big reveal about Bo, you know he is mentally […]
The Museum Of Heartbreak By Meg Leder
There are a lot of books about friendships breaking up and then coming back together again, but I like where The Museum of Heartbreak took this theme. Friendships change,and sometimes that change is messy. Sometimes that change means that things won’t go back exactly how they were, and that’s ok. I like the way this […]
A Week Of Mondays By Jessica Brody
One of my favorite movies of all times is Groundhog Day, which came out in the 90s. In that movie, a cynical and somewhat washed-up news anchor keeps repeating the same day over and over again. A Week of Mondays takes that same idea and sets in in high school in the life of Ellie, […]
Goldfish By Nat Luurtsema
It’s Olympics season and what better way to celebrate than to read a book about a girl who is good enough to get there. Goldfish might seem like your typical story about a girl who has Olympic dreams, but once you get into it you realize that it really starts at the point where those […]