The capital has fallen and Alina is hiding from the Darkling once again, this time in the depths of an underground series of tunnels and caverns. Unable to summon light, her recovery from fighting the Darkling is arduous and with the Apparat looming over her shoulders at all times and trying to control all that […]
Archives for 2014
Review | Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo
2014-08-11 · by ·
Despite Alina and Mal’s efforts to flee and disappear into an unfamiliar land, far away from the Darkling’s power, they find that making a new life together is not as easy as they’d hoped. For Alina, running away from her past and what seems to be her destiny becomes futile. The Darkling has emerged from […]
Book Review | Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac
2014-08-04 · by ·
I have no idea where I found Killer of Enemies. Something about the title caught my attention, I think, but by the time I had picked it up (from the library) I had already forgotten why. Somehow, though, I decided to read it, anyway. Despite a title that probably should have died in marketing (as […]
Hugo Nominee: The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal
2014-07-30 · by ·
One of the podcasts I listen to in my spare time (or rather, while I’m mowing the lawn or doing laundry or in the car, because really: who has spare time?) is Writing Excuses, which includes Mary Robinette Kowal. She is the author of the Glamourist Histories, which I hear is something like Pride and […]
Andy Weir’s The Martian Should Get a Hugo Nomination
2014-07-14 · by ·
If Andy Weir isn’t up for the Hugo next year, then scifi fandom doesn’t deserve good fiction anymore, because The Martian is pure awesome sauce. Left behind on Mars after a freak dust storm puts a hole in his suit and buries him, Mark Watney–astronaut, biologist, engineer–knows that the odds are against him returning back to Earth […]
Review | Cress by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles #3)
2014-07-12 · by ·
Cress is an extremely savvy techie that has been stuck in a satellite for years. When she’s not doing Queen Lavana’s evil bidding, she’s usually glued to Earth’s satellite feeds, gathering information or pining over the infamous human, Captain Carswell Thorne. Now that Cress has reached out to Queen Lavana’s nemesis, Linh Cinder, she’s flirting […]
Review | Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (The Reckoners #1)
2014-07-11 · by ·
As a boy, David had a terrible experience with the most powerful Epic of all: Steelheart. But through this experience, he may be the only person with a clue as to what Steelheart’s weakness is. All Epics have some sort of weakness, but Epics go to great lengths to conceal them. David hopes to join […]
Review | We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
2014-07-10 · by ·
Cadence Sinclair Eastman comes from some serious family money. Cady spends the summer months on her Grandpa’s private island with her cousins, aunts, and grandparents. The ‘Liars’ consist of two of Cady’s cousins that are her age and a boy who has been coming to the island every summer since Cady was eight. The Liars […]
Review | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
2014-07-09 · by ·
Lara Jean is a bit of a romantic; a pragmatic one though. Whenever she likes a boy with whom, for whatever reason it doesn’t work out, she writes them a love note. Lara Jean’s love notes are actually much more than just love notes, they are more of a purging of her love so she […]
A Two Minute Review: Nation by Terry Pratchett
2014-07-08 · by ·
I’ve never made a secret about my love of Terry Pratchett‘s writing. In the lottery of picking a good novel, choosing one with Pratchett’s name on the cover dramatically increases the odds of winning. Nation is no exception. Title: Nation Author: Terry Pratchett Genre: Young Adult – Fantasy Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: October 6, 2009 Format: Audio Pages: 396 […]
