First there was the world of Divergent, full of romance and breath-taking risks. And then came Carve the Mark, a fantastical, re-imagined world. Now, Veronica Roth introduces readers into various new worlds in her anthology The End and Other Beginnings. With disturbing and moving accounts of the effects of technology and life in the future, […]
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Victoria Lee’s The Fever King delivers a powerful, haunting, and inventive new perspective on a possible future for America, one filled with death and magic. From the perspective of a teen named Noam, Lee takes readers on a journey that is both relevant and otherworldly, a truly original and thoughtful fictional tale. Noam is alone […]
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Jennifer Brody, author of The Continuum Trilogy, was kind enough to meet me for an interview about her current young adult sci-fi series while also providing insight into her time in the film industry and her view on the writing world. Brody is sure to intrigue readers with her fast-paced novels and her true love […]
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About a year ago, I discovered the author Louise O’Neill. Her books, like Only Ever Yours, have become some of my favourites, and I’d like to share why — not only because they’re addictively good, but because of their importance. Only Ever Yours is set in a dystopian world where it has become impossible for women to […]
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You know how sometimes you find a book that clings on to you, and you just cherish the memory of it, afraid that it can be taken from you? For me, that book was Albert Espinosa’s Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I. This book was written five years ago, but […]
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Expected publication: February 10, 2015, by Orion Series: Red Queen Trilogy #1 A thrilling new fantasy trilogy for fans of DIVERGENT and THE HUNGER GAMES. The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers. To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it […]
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James Dashner’s The Maze Runner has run right off the pages of his young adult novel and onto the silver screen. In order to accurately describe the film, it must be understood that it features its own plethora of slang words. The Glade, where the majority of the movie takes place, is surrounded by a Maze, the pattern of […]
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Hey, Germs! Sometimes it’s really hard for me to pick which book to read and review. I got about 30% into one book this month, stopped being interested, and started reading Halo by Frankie Rose a few minutes later. I was hooked from the start. Halo was initially published under the name Raksha in 2013. The book […]
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