Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Publish Date: July 15th, 1994 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Battle Games Synopsis: In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his […]
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Review: Plague by Michael Grant
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books Publish Date: April 5th, 2011 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Flying Snakes Synopsis: It’s been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE. They’ve survived hunger. They’ve survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Time Cat- Lloyd Alexander
Synopsis: Gareth’s definitely no ordinary cat. For one thing, he can talk. For another, he’s got the power to travel through time. And the instant he tells this to Jason, the two of them are in ancient Egypt, on the first of nine amazing adventures that Jason will never forget. -Goodreads Review: Time Cat is about […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
Synopsis: For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks […]
Read the rest of this entry »Interview with Rachel Hyland of Geek Speak Magazine
Hello one and all, today I’ve got a special treat for you. As some of you know, I recently started writing for Geek Speak Magazine, an online zine of all things Nerdtastic. So, today we have an interview with Geek Speak’s Editor-in-Chief who will talk a bit about writing, editing and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Once Upon A Time Machine- Various Authors
ARC provided by the publisher via NtGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Synopsis: Fairy tales have fueled our dreams and fired our imaginations for centuries. Step inside a time machine built by a collection of today’s finest storytellers, and enter a range of futures where familiar tales are reimagined in an astonishing […]
Read the rest of this entry »Princess Academy- Shannon Hale
Synopsis: Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king’s priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year’s time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Guild: Knights of Good
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Synopsis: Set before the first season of the show, these hilarious stories delighted fans and newbies alike and introduced plots that influenced the show itself, including season 5’s backstory of Tink, originally hinted at in these pages. Featuring a huge […]
Read the rest of this entry »House of Night Legacy- P.C. Cast
Synopsis: Until recently, Zoey Redbird was an average high-school student worrying about grades, boys, and breakouts. But priorities have a way of changing when you are Marked as a vampyre, enroll in the vampyre academy House of Night, and have to figure out a whole new social hierarchy, affinities for elemental magic, and physiological changes […]
Read the rest of this entry »Dollhouse: The Epitaphs – Andrea Chambliss
Synopsis: The Rossum Corporation”s Dollhouse technology has gone viral with a synchronized phone call that wiped the minds of everyone it reached, turning them into mindless killers. Those who avoided the call – including show favorites Echo, Alpha, Mag, Zone, and Griff – must try to survive in the sudden apocalypse and be wary of […]
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