Tag Archives: young adult

Requiem – Lauren Oliver
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<– this girl on the cover is looking progressively manlier with each book. I’m not really sure I have much to say about Requiem. I didn’t like it. I just feel rather blah about the whole thing, and I’m really … Continue reading

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Pandemonium – Lauren Oliver
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Here are some random thoughts I have about Pandemonium, some taken from notes on my kindle while reading. It’s kind of ridiculous that, now that the “bad guy” (the Invalids) from the first book doesn’t really exist anymore, now there’s … Continue reading

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Delirium – Lauren Oliver
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Summary: Lena lives in a future USA in which the government has decided that all the problems of the world were caused by love  – amor delirium nervosa – and has figured out a way to remove the ability to … Continue reading

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Two Dorks, One Book: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
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  Michelle says: BLARGH. I hate when a series I love goes beyond the expected mid-series slump into boring and even begins to disappoint… I love love loved The Lost Hero, the first book in the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. It made me go … Continue reading

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Princess of the Midnight Ball – Jessica Day George
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Wellllllll, this one was a fail for me. I mean, fairy tale retellings, yay I love those! But this was a fairy tale that I’m not very familiar with – The Twelve Dancing Princesses. And then there was the problem … Continue reading

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Wither – Lauren DeStefano
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Awww, man. This is a review that I really don’t want to write. Not because I feel bad about writing a bad review – some people like books, some people don’t, oh well. It’s because I feel like there’s something … Continue reading

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
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Oh no. It hurts me to have to say I didn’t like a John Green book, because I, like everyone else ever in the entire universe, adore John Green. But…yeah, I hated it. Still, this is John Green. JOHN GREEN. … Continue reading

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Chaos Walking series – Patrick Ness
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The Chaos Walking trilogy starts with The Knife of Never Letting Go, and it’s apparently geared toward the young adult market. Basically, Todd is our hero and he’s a settler on a planet where everybody can hear the thoughts of … Continue reading

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The Alchemy of Forever – Avery Williams
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Seraphina has been alive since the 1300’s, made immortal when the boy she was beginning to love back then, Cyrus, saved her from death with a strange liquid – a method of alchemy that lets them swap bodies with any … Continue reading

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The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater
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I basically agree with everything Michelle said about this book, but I’ll expand by complaining about some other things as well. This was a good enough book. If I was the type to give ratings, I’d give it a 3…which … Continue reading

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