Synopsis: Imagine finding your first love, only to be ripped apart by the apocalypse. Peyton Anderson will never forget the day she was forced to make a choice–between her family–and Chris Parker, the boy she’d given her heart. Now, four years later, as she steps from the fallout shelter and into a dead and broken […]
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What Miri Larendaughter Means To me
Warning: This post contains spoilers from both Princess Academy books. You can find my review of Palace of Stone, here. In celebration of the release day of Palace of Stone, the second Princess Academy book, I wanted to talk a bit about what the main character Miri means to me. There has never been a […]
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Synopsis: Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city seems a thrill beyond imagining. When Miri and her friends from Mount Eskel set off to help the future princess Britta prepare for her royal wedding, she is happy about her chance to attend school in the capital city. There, Miri befriends […]
Read the rest of this entry »The City’s Son- Tom Pollock
Synopsis: Running from her traitorous best friend and her estranged father, graffiti artist Beth Bradley is looking for sanctuary. What she finds is Urchin, the ragged and cocky crown prince of London’s mystical underworld. Urchin opens Beth’s eyes to the city she’s never truly seen-where vast spiders crawl telephone wires seeking voices to steal, railwraiths […]
Read the rest of this entry »Throne of Glass Release Day!
I almost never do release day posts (this may be a first) but Throne of Glass has a special place on my bookshelf. So, needless to say, if you haven’t read this book yet then you really, really need to. You can check out my review here, and for today I leave you with the […]
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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 »Bitterblue- Kristin Cashore
Synopsis: Eight years after Graceling, Bitterblue is now queen of Monsea. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisors, who have run things since Leck died, believe in a forward-thinking plan: Pardon all who committed terrible acts under Leck’s reign, and forget anything bad ever happened. But […]
Read the rest of this entry »Ashes, Ashes- Jo Treggiari
Synopsis: Epidemics, floods, droughts–for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she’s rescued from a pack of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Spark (Amy Kathleen Ryan) Discussion
This is a discussion post and therefore absolutely contains spoilers. Consider yourself warned. Earlier this week I reviewed Spark, the second novel in the Sky Chasers series but was left feeling like there was a lot more I wanted to say. The romantic arc in this series has been a little unpredictable, which is always […]
Read the rest of this entry »Review: Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan
ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review. Synopsis: Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean. Kieran has led the boys safely up to this point, and now that the girls are back, their mission seems slightly less impossible: to chase down the New Horizon, and save their […]
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