Does anyone else feel guilty giving bad reviews? This is the first actually bad review I’ll make for CBR and I feel strangely guilty. Anyway, with that over with: I thought this book sucked. I mean it just plain sucked (I’m channelling Homer Simpson here). Meant to be a satire examining overcommunication, technological obsession, the constant connectedness of modern society, AND romance and sci-fi novels, the book overshoots and manages to be mostly a satire of itself instead. On top of that, it’s also just […]
The Invasion increases the fear in the already terrifying Call series
Please check out my last review for a more detailed description of the plot of The Call series, of which this is the second and final book. In short, this series is set in an Ireland where humans and fairies (or Sidhe) are mortal enemies, and teenagers are called to the land of the Sidhe to die horrible deaths or face mutilation as vengeance for the crimes of all humanity. The sequel follows Nessa, our main character from the first book, and fellow survivor Anto, in […]
The Most Grim Series That I Still Love
I had just started a new book when I remembered that the sequel to The Call, The Invasion, came out for Kindle soon, so I abandoned what I was reading (sorry, The Sparrow, I’ll get back to you soon) to re-read The Call in anticipation. I used to read a lot of young adult novels. I still read a fair amount of them. But it’s rare that I find a young adult series as brave about being grim and dark as The Call is. I […]
How come no one told me about the Wayward Children series ages ago?!
I read all three of the Wayward Children series books in a week. It would have been more like four days, but I was on a trip for three of those days and didn’t have a lot of time for reading. The last book, Beneath the Sugar Sky, I started at 1pm today and finished at 7pm, and I was working for part of that time. So yeah, I loved these books. This isn’t a linear series, but instead three interconnected, stand-alone novellas, though I […]
Social justice YA is my new favorite YA genre
Like The Hate U Give, this book is absolutely necessary. So we’re all lucky that it also happens to be very, very good. The book follows a very similar plotline to The Hate U Give: a young person of color makes discoveries about racial injustice and how it relates to them personally due to shocking and tragic circumstances, and figures out how to navigate that while also navigating the usual teenage issues. In Dear Martin, Justyce McAllister begins to wake up to just how racist […]
Heavier Than You’d Think
Lighter Than My Shadow is an exploration of what it is to live with eating disorders and trauma in graphic novel format. In content it’s not all that different from any other memoir on this subject matter, it’s just a different format. But the art both adds and subtracts from the story. The good is the brutal honesty Katie Green uses to describe her childhood issues with food, her descent into disordered eating, her varied experiences with relapse, and how trauma was woven into so […]
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