Category Archives: Reviews

Review: Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Synopsis for Tell Me Three Things Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets

Review: The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Synopsis for The Evolution of Mara Dyer The truth about Mara Dyer’s dangerous and mysterious abilities continues to unravel in the New York Times bestselling sequel to the thrilling The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past.She can’t.

Review: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Synopsis for Steelheart Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary people extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. Epics are no friends of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule

Review: Stay Younger Longer by Ryan Hyatt

Synopsis for Stay Younger Longer By 2046, California has emerged from a catastrophic earthquake as a shining star among nations, providing sustainable technology and hope to a dying world. The breakout Republic is caught in a power struggle between China, triumphant in the Oil Wars,

Review: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Synopsis for Ruin and Rising The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a

Review: Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

Synopsis for Red Country They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back,

Review: The 52nd by Dela

Synopsis for The 52nd Not one of the sacrifices chosen over the long history had survived–until now. On the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, the immortal Castillo family gathers in Tulum. Weary and haunted, they receive the names of fifty-two human sacrifices chosen once every

Review: Lock In by John Scalzi

Synopsis for Lock In by John Scalzi Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent – and nearly five