What if we lived in a futuristic world where conflicts between people are limited? What if everyone no longer bothered to question the quality of their lives? What if everyone… was just perfectly content? This is the world we are confronted with in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World– except we very soon discover…
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10194157-shadow-and-bone) Good against evil. Light against the dark. A magical world with characters who possess supernatural powers. These are all somewhat cliché in the world of YA fantasy, or just fantasy in general. And yet, Leigh Bardugo manages to make it feel fresh and captivating once again in her 3-part series that kicks…
(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101128-the-5th-wave) The 5th Wave has earned its place in my list of quintessential YA dystopian reads. It doesn’t beat books like Legend or Maze Runner, but it certainly is a shining gem of a literary work. As you may have inferred from the cover illustration, this book is an apocalypse story –specifically,…
(https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49169365-five-total-strangers) “As addictive as it is unpredictable,” said Natasha Preston, New York Times bestselling author of The Color on My Secret to Tell about this novel. Really, though, the word “addictive” should have been “strange” and the word “unpredictable” “improbable.” Five Total Strangers was a poor attempt at a genuinely good thriller; what…
I can’t help but be so very disappointed after reading this book; it just had so much potential! However, The Last Thing He Told Me ended up being a solid 3 out of 5 stars for me. I have to admit, the book had me hooked at its beginning with…
You Have Match starts off with the following highly intriguing sentence: “It starts with a bet.” Now, I have to admit that before I started reading this book, I thought it would be some plain romance story where 2 lovers find each other by chance, maybe through some online platform.…
Six Months Later by Natalie D. Richards is a thriller book centered around a high school senior named Chloe who “misses” 6 months of her life. At the end of chapter one, Chloe is falling asleep on her desk at school in late May, but at the start of chapter…
All of Us Villains is a captivating and engrossing tale that’s just about on par with highly accomplished dystopian novels such as James Dashner’s The Maze Runner and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The book takes place in the modern day, but in a world where magic (spelled “magick” in the novel) still…
Jeff Zentner. Jeff? Zentner? If these names ring any bells, that’s because they belong to the author of Into the Wild Light, another book reviewed on our blog. Zentner has yet again produced a masterpiece of a book with Goodbye Days. This book is centered around a high schooler named Carver Blade who has…
You’d Be Home Now is a story that revolves around Emory, the youngest of a rich family in the tight-knit community of Mill Haven. Emory’s always considered herself as and been the “good one,” her brother Joey the “rebellious one,” and her sister Maddie the pretty but successful one (she got accepted to…
