Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (Spoiler-free) Review

This is a world divided by blood - red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace.…

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Spoiler-free) Review

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat…

The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson (Spoiler-free) Review

The Beauty of Darkness is the third and final book in the Remnant Chronicles trilogy. This series just really blew me away honestly. I had no idea that I would love this series so much when I first picked up The Kiss of Deception. I am so so happy that I decided to give this series a shot! The Beauty…

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence (Spoiler-free) Review

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade…

The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson (Spoiler-free) Review

The Heart of Betrayal is the second book in The Remnant Chronicles. The first book in this series is The Kiss of Deception, which I have already read and reviewed. You can read that review here. In a normal book review, I would normally post the synopsis, but because this is a sequel, I felt that the synopsis was too spoilery…

Kitty Hawk and the Hunt for Hemingway’s Ghost by Iain Reading (Spoiler-free) Review

Kitty Hawk and the Hunt for Hemingway's Ghost is the exciting second installment in a new series of adventure mystery stories that are one part travel, one part history and five parts adventure. This second book in the series continues the adventures of Kitty Hawk, an intrepid teenage pilot who has decided to follow in…

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Spoiler-free) Review

A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let…

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Spoiler-free) Review

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.  But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now, Zélie…

19 Souls by J.D. Allen (Spoiler-free) Review

Private Investigator Jim Bean is a straightforward, to-the-point man. When his latest client, Sophie Evers, asks him to find her brother Daniel, Jim has no idea how complicated his life is about to become. Daniel is not Sophie's brother. He is her most coveted prey. Clinging to the belief that they belong together, Sophie kills…

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel (Spoiler-free) Review

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.…