Julie’s Review: I really liked Rippler, but then I didn’t like it as much as hoped I would. Let me explain, and start with what I liked. I really enjoyed the way the story unfolded, the way we were immediately throw into finding out what was special about Samantha, and knowing that Will knew all […]
Lynn’s Review: Warning: Get out the tissues before reading this book. Isla and the Happily Ever After is the third book in the Anna and the French Kiss series by Stephanie Perkins. Isla (pronounces EYE-LA) is a senior at the School of America in Paris. She’s at the top of her class, always follows […]
Julie’s Review: I have a whole bunch of mixed feelings about Rosemary and Rue, so let me just share them all with you. Firstly, being a fae book, there’s always the business of courts and queens and people being snobby. The majority of the book does not take place in a faery court, and I’m […]
Lynn’s Review: Prisoner is the second book in The Traveler series by Dennis W. Green. (You can read my review of Traveler here.) Trav Becker is back. Along with all of the other Travs. And Sams. A year has past since the first book in the series. A year in which Trav has moved […]
Julie’s Review: Unwind caught me by surprise and blew me away. Seriously, it tackles a very sensitive topic head-on (abortion) and creates a scary world where unwanted children can be “storked” (abandoned on someone’s doorstep) and can later be “unwound” rather than aborted. Unwinding is taking someone apart organ by organ to use for transplants […]
Lynn’s Review: If you’ve ever read a contemporary science fiction book and wondered why there is no mention of any other contemporary science fiction in the book, then Armada is the book for you. In Armada, Ernest Cline posits that for forty years, society has been enjoying science fiction in movies, tv, and books […]
Lynn’s Review: There have been numerous books (both fiction and non-fiction) and movies about Queen Elizabeth I. The Tournament takes a unique perspective by positing a story from Bess’s little known youth. In The Tournament, Bess, her tutor Roger Ascham and his colleague Gilbert Giles travel to Constantinople to the Sweet 16 of chess […]
Julie’s Review: The City Center is an interesting futuristic dystopia with sci-fi elements that I found very interesting. The people living in the City Center are genetically engineered to be a certain way, and only later do we realize the true sinister purpose for this. I thought the overall premise was great, the main character […]
Lynn’s Review: All Played out is the one where an introverted nerd meets and extroverted jock and they fall into instant love. Oh, read that one already? Yeah, me, too. All Played Out is about Nell De Luca and Mateo Torres. It is #3 in the Rusk University series from Cora Carmack. Nell is […]
Julie’s Review: My feelings on Red Rising have flopped back and forth from “woa this is awesome/shocking” to “ugh so slow”. Let’s back up – this book is praised all over, and is often compared to The Hunger Games (well, all dystopia books are anyway). I didn’t really think of this as a YA, and […]