First of all, this book might just have the best first chapter I’ve ever read in my life. Secondly . . . this book is weird. I’m talking The Talented Mr. Ripley weird. And like THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, it’s better that you go into reading BRUISER knowing as little as possible. That being said, […]
People ask me all the time why I read young adult fiction. This book is definitely one of the reasons. I wish I had had this caliber of books to choose from when I was young, instead I ended up reading more than my share of Gothic mystery/romances. Not that they weren’t good, but there’s […]
First things first—I’ve been asked eleventy billion times where FLAMECASTER falls in the works-of-Chima lineup: it’s a spinoff from her Seven Realms series. You: Should I read Seven Realms before reading FLAMECASTER? Me: That’s a complicated question. Technically, you don’t need to. BUT. I think you should. B/c reasons: 1. It’s my favorite (finished) YA […]
Ye gods. I had difficulty with REIGN OF SHADOWS from almost the very first page. There were issues of clarity: From high in my perch, I listened. My hearing had long adapted to the darkness. What does that mean? Even knowing that Luna lived in a world covered with darkness (b/c seventeen year eclipse), this […]