I really liked this book. It reminded me a lot of Buffy, both in the storyline and in humor. Harper has a lot on her plate, between cotillion, being student body president, and cheerleading. She doesn’t expect to suddenly inherit super ninja powers that she must use to defend her arch nemesis, David. David is an irritating hipster who has been bugging Harper since preschool. The two have to work together to keep David alive, which becomes complicated because he is meant to die on […]
Great by Sara Benincasa
This is a rebooted version of The Great Gatsby set in modern-day Hamptons. Naomi is spending the summer with her mother, who desperately wants to fit in with the super rich vacationers. A mysterious girl moves in next door, a mysterious blogger named Jacinda. Everyone wants to be featured on her fashion blog. Jacinda invites Naomi to a party, hoping she will bring Delilah. Delilah is the it-girl of the Hamptons, and a constant presence on Jacinda’s blog. The two girls share a history and […]
Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott
This book is really sort of goofy. It’s The Hunger Games plus The Amazing Race plus Pokemon. The main character, Tella, gets an invitation to participate in the Brimstone Bleed. It’s a race through four environments. All of the contestants have a loved one who is terribly sick, all of them have the same horrible illness. Whichever contestant wins gets the cure. The competitors are aided in the race by animals that hatched from eggs, animals that have special abilities. In the first book, we […]
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
This story is about two cups of Beauty and the Beast, a dash of Rumpelstiltskin, and a pinch of Bluebeard. The mixture is then blended with a heaping tablespoon of fantasy (I don’t know, there’s this weird touch magic thing). A teenage girl named Nyx is forced to marry a horrible beast. Her future is to kill him, though she will also die in the process. I had some major issues with the main character at times. There are some inexcusable moments of stupidity. Overall, […]
“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
The furthering adventures of young Jacob and the island of misfit mutants. Not to be too spoilery, in the second book the peculiar children set off to find a ymbrne to help Miss Peregrine. On the way, they encounter more danger and a scary new threat that could destroy them all. The major draw of this series for me is the pictures, all old black and white pictures. There are plenty of new ones in Hollow City, so I was satisfied (Even though a lot […]
“The trick is not to mind”
Despite reading the description, I expected this to be a girly paranormal romance. It’s really nothing like that. Half Bad is like a grittier Harry Potter, though it doesn’t share much with the boy who lived other than the fact that both deal with magical peoples and are set in England. I really liked this book. It’s different from a lot of teen books I’ve read, and I appreciated the grittiness. My only issue is that it’s always a pain to have to wait for […]