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The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry
The Giver – Now, folks, THIS is what a dystopia should be…complex, controlled, dysphoric and incredibly, believeably real. Jonas is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory of his drab, gray, deprived community. He seems to have a special … Continue reading
Posted in Children's, Dystopian, Fiction, Young Adult
Tagged Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry, Messenger, Son, The Giver
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The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Ok, I know I’ve been on a Susanna Kearsley kick lately, but this cover is SOOO pretty! I liked this one fairly well. Successful author Carrie finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Scotland’s Slains castle while writing her latest book. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Pretty Covers
Tagged historical fiction, Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
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The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
This wasn’t a terrible book, but I didn’t like it as much as I expected to after having just read The Shadowy Horses. This one was a more predictable time travel romance which is really not my thing. Eva’s sister dies … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Pretty Covers
Tagged Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden
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The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
Again, I was looking for something different, and found this. I guess you’d call it half archaeological mystery and half ghost story. (Hmmm, I wonder if that makes it fall into the magical realism category???) Narrator Verity Grey is hired … Continue reading
Centuries of June by Keith Donohue
WEIRD. Centuries of June is just plain weird, but compellingly so. At times, it is laugh-out-loud funny and at others, it is simply surreal and hallucinatory. And I loved it. The novel begins with our narrator landing on his … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary, Creepy/Weird, Excuse me, Fantasy, Fiction
Tagged Centuries of June, Keith Donohue, magical realism
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
Eh…this book was very nearly a DNF for me. And, to be honest, I’m not sure if that is the fault of Divergent itself or me as a reader. As you may have noticed in my earlier post, I am kinda … Continue reading
Posted in Dystopian, Fiction, Young Adult
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A rant…
I have decided… I do not want to read any more young adult fiction for awhile. I do not want to read any more zombie apocalypse books. I do not want love triangles. I do not want witches, warlocks, vampires, … Continue reading
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Sorta liked it: Seraphina is an original, clever, political novel about a medieval society in which dragons take human form and interact fairly freely with the rest of the population. I found the world of Goredd fascinatingly real and well … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult
Tagged dragons, fantasy, Rachel Hartman, Seraphina, YA
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The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
I LOOOVED this book! (Well, most of it…) And how could I NOT love a book that describes love like this: “Before long they had formed into a circle, and neither of them could imagine being a straight line again, … Continue reading
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
In this fast-paced sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts, Moose Flanagan realizes he now must pay back the favor he asked of America’s number one incarcerated gangster. Uh-oh! The danger factor really amps up in this one when a … Continue reading
Posted in Children's, Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Tagged Al Capone Shines My Shoes, Gennifer Choldenko, kit lit
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