Wildcard is the sequel to Warcross, an engrossing story that takes place in the distant future and is centered around a teenage hacker named Emika Chen and her journey to hunt down a mysterious hacker by the name of Zero by Hideo Tanaka’s (the founder of Warcross and Neurolink glasses)…
Warcross is a captivating new tale from Marie Lu that takes place in the distant future and is centered around a teenage hacker named Emika Chen who is struggling to make ends meet as a bounty hunter. A new invention has swept the world –special glasses that allow you to…
Outlawed can be described using many words, but for me, it was one: strange. And to be honest, I’m not quite sure if I’m using the adjective in a positive or negative way; the book was just felt kind of off in so many ways. To give you a quick…
Skyhunter, a cool blend of science fiction and fantasy, was for me one of the best books of its genre. To give you a brief rundown of the story, it’s centered around a talented warrior named Talin Kanami sometime in the distant future when the civilizations of today have collapsed.…
Man, this book. What can I say? It was a masterpiece but in a unique way. Centered around an interracial family in 1970s America, Everything I Never Told You is the tale of how that family copes with the unexplained and sudden death of Lydia, one of the daughters of…
Alas, we have reached the true end of the Legend series! Rebel, like Champion, once again has the broad setting of the entire world but mostly focuses on Antarctica and the Republic of America. Instead of featuring June as a main character, she is replaced by Day’s younger brother, Eden,…
Dear Evan Hansen is a touching, pretty well-written novel centered around a unique plot. The story is centered around a high school senior named Evan Hansen, who digs himself into a huge hole when he decides to deceive everyone around him by telling them that he was close friends with…
Champion is the stunning sort-of-conclusion to the Legend series. Unlike Legend and Prodigy, Champion has the even broader setting of the entire world. Antarctica and Africa have now become formidable powers, China holds a substantial amount of influence, and the fragmented United States is now regarded as a fragile, unstable…
Prodigy is the second book in the Legend series, and it takes place in mostly the same type of setting. Before reading through the words that follow, however, it is highly suggested that you read Legend first, as spoilers are present in this review. Day and June are now sixteen-year-olds…
If Legend, along with its equal-in-par sequels are not the epitome of the YA dystopian genre, I don’t know what is. Taking place in a time when global warming has claimed many of the coastal areas of today, the United States has split into two main parts –the Republic of…
