TW: Suicide, Mental Health Issues The Midnight Library left me in a highly dazed and somewhat philosophical state. This is one of those books that really makes you THINK. Our main character is Nora, a 30-year-oldish woman who feels dissatisfied and unrewarded by life. In the somewhat moderately sized opening section of the…
Warning: This book contains sensitive topics such as suicide and sexual assault. After the Ink Dries is a deeply moving, evocative novel that tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Erica Walker who is sexually assaulted one night at a party by her boyfriend and some of his fellow…
Life As We Knew It is your classic sort-of apocalypse novel. Its main character is Miranda, a 16/17-year-old girl, who must get through the array of extreme hardships brought upon by nature with her family when a large asteroid strikes the moon and alters its orbit. To give you the…
In The Game of Lives, I felt that Dashner really explored his creative side. The book is a literal rollercoaster ride in terms of its plot, filled with an endless stream of plot twists that will keep you hooked until the end of the novel. While the plot of the…
The Rule of Thoughts is the engrossing sequel to The Eye of Minds and features the same highly likable characters Michael, Sarah, and Bryson. Essentially in this part of The Mortality Doctrine series, the 3 teenage hackers have now escaped from the Path within the VirtNet simulation world that led…
You may have heard of James Dashner’s widely acclaimed dystopian Maze Runner series, but have you heard of his other series, The Mortality Doctrine? I didn’t know about it until I decided to randomly browse through some of Dashner’s books on Amazon, and I’m glad to say that Dashner once again does not…
Ready Player One, in my opinion, is a book everyone must read at least one point in their childhoods — not necessarily for the lessons it contains but because like Ender’s Game and Legend, it’s one heck of a book. I remember when I read this book around six years,…
The Disasters is a pretty well-written, engaging suspense/action novel reminiscent of the popular Ender’s Game and Space Case series. It takes place in the sort-of-distant future when humans have managed to terraform a wide variety of planets, and being accepted to a training school known as the Academy for space…
Please Look After Mom is a novel originally written and published in Korean by Kyung-Sook Shin, a South Korean writer. If you’d like to check it out, though, you certainly can, as it’s been translated into English! I was intrigued by the internationally best-selling novel and decided to check it…
The Light in Hidden Places is centered around a 16-year-old girl named Stefania in themidst of WWII and Germany-occupied Poland. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, this story is about Jewish people hiding from the Nazis, except in this book, a 16-year-old girl and heryounger sister are the ones…
