Where the Crawdads Sing is a beautifully written, poignant gem of a novel and is honestly one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s the debut book of Delia Owens, a zoologist whose background gives a unique spin on this novel. But before we get into discussing the nitty-gritty…
The Girl With The Louding Voice is a well-crafted, moving tale centered around a teenage girl named Adunni whose main dream is to become a teacher when she grows up and make her family proud and happy. Numerous barriers as a result of her living in a rural Nigerian village,…
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…
