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New Reviews!
Thirsty by Jas Hammonds My rating: 4 of 5 stars “We don’t fall in love with the worst versions of people.” I love how honest Jas Hammonds books are. Every time I am blown away by how gripped they have me and the way that ordinary life can leave me in a choke-hold. Being a…
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New Reviews: Flashtide and Castles in Their Bones
Castles in Their Bones by Laura Sebastian Genre: YA Fantasy My rating: 4 of 5 stars The sheer size of this book had intimidated me for years, but I was always really intrigued and am very glad that I finally pulled the trigger on reading it. There was a LOT going on here with so…
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Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Summary: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a…
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Books to read if you can’t get enough of The Hunger Games!
If you’re anything like me, after finishing all the Hunger Games books, you may be wondering what you can read next to fill the hole that they left in your heart. On my quest to find books to fit that criteria, I read a LOT of dystopians and have compiled a list with my favorites…
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Review: The Stranded by Sarah Daniels
My Thoughts: I bought this one after seeing the author speak on a dystopian panel at YALC last year but had put off reading in until now. I finally picked it up coming off the high of another dystopian I read and loved so maybe my expectations were just too high but regardless this one…
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Review: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
~My Thoughts~ This is without a doubt one of the weirdest books I have ever read and I’ve been having such a hard time deciding how I feel about it. I’d seen it around on a few different book-lists and was really intrigued by it. It isn’t very long, less than 300 pages if I…
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Review: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
~Summary~ Habia una vez there was a girl named Petra Peña whose dream was to become a storyteller, just like her abuela. But her dreams are shattered when Earth is struck by a comet and only a select few, Petra’s family included, are chosen to journey on to a new planet. But this means leaving…
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Review: The Extinction Trials
~Summary~ “Betrayal. Sacrifice. Survival.Welcome to the Extinction Trials In Stormchaser and Lincoln’s ruined world, the only way to survive is to risk everything. To face a contest more dangerous than anyone can imagine. And they will do anything to win. But in a land full of monsters – human and reptilian – they can’t afford…
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Review: Internment
~Summary~ It started when the new president announced all Muslims to be a threat to America. After that it wasn’t long before Layla and her family are stripped of their freedom when they and thousands of other Muslim Americans are taken and forced into an internment camp. But while her parents and others are willing…
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