Partials by Dan Wells: Guest book review Genre: YA, Dystopian Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have… Read More Partials – Book Review
Endgame: The Calling by James Frey and Nils Johnson SheltonSeries: Endgame #1 Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Published: October 7th 2014 by HarperTeen Pages: 477, Hardcover Source: Library The Blurb: Twelve thousand years ago, they came.
More Than This – Guest Book Review My rating: 4.5/5 Genre: Young Adult Length: 480 pages A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place? As he struggles… Read More More Than This – Book Review
The Winter Knife – Guest Post Book Review My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good YA literature will stay with me long after I am finished with it, even as an adult. I would have been in the prime target audience for this book when I was a teenager, and I would… Read More The Winter Knife – Book Review
*Guest review post contributed by Ahouseofbooks* The Life of a Banana by PP Wong. When her mother dies in a freak accident, our 12-year-old narrator Xing and older brother Lai Ker move in with their domineering grandmother, disabled uncle, and wannabe-actress aunt.
by Em Does Book Reviews Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Anna has everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job, and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere… Until her dad decides… Read More Anna and the French Kiss – Book Review
Title: All the Bright Places Author: Jennifer Niven Publisher: Knopf Publication Date: January 6, 2015 Tara’s rating: 5 out of 5 stars My local bookstore has been promoting this book like CRAZY for weeks and weeks – so I finally bit the bullet and gave it a shot, only to be 100% captivated.
Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken Texas, 1905 Etta Spencer didn’t know she was a traveller until the day she found herself not just miles, but years from home. Now, Etta is stranded in time and separated from the boy she loves. At the mercy of a family she once thought her enemy, Etta learns of a… Read More Wayfarer – Book Review
Recently, I mentioned to an author that writing can sometimes seem a trivial and frivolous occupation. She replied that she never thought of it that way. It made me wonder if insecurity about writing is more of a male problem than a female one. Rather like male film actors who indulge in ‘manly’ excesses… Read More Raking the Dust – Book Review
In After The Fire by Will Hill, the story of how a cult community reaches a devastating crisis unfolds through the disjointed memories of one of its survivors, Moonbeam.
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