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Book One in The Starbound Trilogy Published in 2013 374 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive – alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a cynical war […]
Read More Book Review: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerPublished by Penguin Random House in 2018 317 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Kit Learmonth would rather die than grow up and leave Neverland … When she was twelve, Kit Learmonth watched her parents drown in a storm as their boat sailed over the Tranter Sink Hole. Now seventeen, Kit doesn’t remember […]
Read More Book Review: Neverland by Margot McGovernBook 3.1 in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series Published in 2018 228 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: The Winter Solstice. In a week. I was still new enough to being High Lady that I had no idea what my formal role was to be. If we’d have a High […]
Read More Spoiler Free Book Review: A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J MaasPublished by Puffin Books in 1965 212 pages 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Lucy and Edmund, with their dreadful cousin Eustace, get magically pulled into a painting of a ship at sea. That ship is the Dawn Treader, and on board is Caspian, King of Narnia. He and his companions, including Reepicheep, the […]
Read More Book Review: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS LewisPublished in 2011 by Bloomsbury Books 352 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as […]
Read More Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerPublished in 2017 by The Text Publishing Company 309 pages 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She’s a prankster and a risk-taker, and she’s not afraid of anything—except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge […]
Read More Book Review: Ballad for A Mad Girl by Vikki WakefieldBook 2 in the ‘Creekwood’ series Published in 2018 by Penguin Random House 343 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it […]
Read More Book Review: Leah on The Offbeat by Becky AlbertalliBook 1 in The Arc of a Scythe Series First Published in 2018 by Walker Books 442 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only […]
Read More Book Review: Scythe by Neal ShustermanBook 1 of The Folk of The Air Series Published in 2018 by Hot Key Books 370 pages 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. […]
Read More Spoiler Free Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly BlackPublished in 2017 by Pan MacMillian 125 pages 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads Sypnosis: Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of the UK with her compelling and powerful performances. Plum, her debut for Picador Poetry, is a wise, sometimes rude and piercingly candid account of her memories from childhood […]
Read More Book Review: Plum by Hollie McNish