Bookfessional: YA Recs Last week’s post on recommendations by genre started to get out of control, so I decided to split it into two separate posts, lest you become overwhelmed by choices and run and hide. Or maybe that’s just me. NA Fantasy: If I’m being honest, all of the YA fantasy options I’m pushing […]
I fell for the cute cover, and because Nora Snowdon’s humoristic writing style is supposedly comparable to that of Dakota Cassidy’s whose werewolf books I’ve enjoyed in the past. To my disappointment, JUST ONE BITE was neither funny nor quaint. Lucas had already accumulated three strikes by the halfway point, so when Rosie continued to […]
Over the course of the RED RISING trilogy, we learned of a Gold who didn’t meet the exacting standards of his peers. He wasn’t as tall, as bright, as shiny, as his gilded brethren, but rather than having the decency to die in the passage, he lived to become a peerless scarred. And turned their […]
Anne Bishop had her work cut out for her with this one. Her Others series was phenomenal and I couldn’t imagine a spin-off being quite as good. This is not a continuation of Simon and Meg’s story-even if I did go into this book wishing that were true. However, it is a continuation of the […]