If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. [...]
Tag: YA fiction
Review: I’m Nobody: The Lost Pages by Alex Marestaing
Emily meets Caleb, Caleb meets Iris, and a broken world feels better. Agoraphobic Caleb Reed is about to step outside for the first time in seven years, meet indie filmmaker Iris Elliott…and "definitely" not give his heart away. It’s all because of the notes, the weird and wonderful notes he keeps finding on his front [...]
Review: The Summer of Shambles by Ebony McKenna (Ondine #1)
Dive into this wonderfully witty young adult series from author Ebony McKenna, set in the far off European country of Brugel.15-year-old Ondine is struggling to fit in at Psychic Summercamp and doubts she possesses any of her family's magical abilities. She resolves to leave, determined to follow her own path and be a normal teenager. [...]
Roadtrip & Reading :)
For the next week, I'll be driving a car across the United States. My little brother and dad and some of their friends are on Week Two (a week each year) of their seven year bike trip across the United States. Me? Nah. I'm just going to be their driver this year. During this week-long [...]
Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a [...]
Dystopian Novels! Yay or nay?
Recently, I've found myself shying away from reading anything in the Dystopian fiction genre. I find that they echo the same sort of rough rubric and - though they're fun to read in moderation - I can't read one after another after another after another after... well, you get the point. The government is somehow [...]
Review: Annabeth’s War by Jessica Greyson
With King Harold away at war Lord Raburn has his eye on the throne. Those who dare to stand in his way fall beneath his power. All but one. A girl named Annabeth. Can a common, ordinary girl, with love for king, country, and her father, achieve the impossible? Trained by her father, a master [...]
Review: Harp’s Song by Cassie Shine
In just a few months Harp Evans will be officially coming of age and graduating from high school. She will be free from the mother that never wanted her, the house that never felt like home, and the disappointment of the last seventeen years. What she doesn’t know is that her mother has been holding [...]
Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from [...]
Review: Shattered Veil (The Diatous Wars) by Tracy E. Banghart
When everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become? Selection War has come to Atalanta, infecting its quiet villages and lush woodlands, igniting whispered worries in its glittering capital. All across the dominion, young men are being Selected for Military and sent to the front lines…and eighteen-year-old Aris Haan’s childhood sweetheart is [...]
"I Think I'm Obsessed" 