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Scythe by Neal Shusterman

March 18, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

Oh look! It’s another young adult trilogy set in a near-perfect future alternative United States! How perfect for me. Scythe is an awesome first entry in a new to me trilogy from Neal Shusterman. We are dropped into a future world where all diseases, accidents, and aging is no longer an issue. When people get too old, they basically press a button and become young again. All of society is controlled by the benevolent “cloud” which is an omnipresent internet collection that we are told […]

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Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, dystopia, Neal Shusterman, teen murder, Young Adult

Rachel's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, dystopia, Neal Shusterman, teen murder, Young Adult ·

Wilder Girls Seemed Tame

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

February 17, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

This book began with an interesting premise: there is some sort of outbreak on a small island off the coast of Maine. The only inhabitants left on the island are remnants of an all-girls boarding school, guarded by a fence, some guns, and their teachers. The girls slowly start to mutate with unexplainable systems, and so does the wildlife on the other side of the fence. This book felt similar to Lord of the Flies. Who is in charge? Why are they in charge? Is […]

Come for the Historical Lady Police Offer, Stay for the Cozy Mystery

An Orphan of Hell's Kitchen by Liz Freeland

February 16, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

Full disclosure, I requested this book based on its description and did not realize it was the third book in a series! It’s a testament to the author that I didn’t feel out of sorts reading this novel out of order as she did a good job ensuring any plot points from the first books were subtly explained or inconsequential. Louise, our main character, is a policewoman in New York City right before the United States enters World War I. Louise has German immigrant parents […]

Simply a Beautiful Memoir

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

January 31, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is simply a beautiful book. It is the memoir a young man who is the son of a Vietnamese immigrant single mother. The whole book is written as a letter to his mother, although she cannot read so he knows she will never read his words. The author describes his childhood in Hartford and touches on his mother and grandmother’s lives in Vietnam during the war years before they left for America. Their lives were full of intense pain and […]

Cleveland’s Steel Mill is a Great Place To Figure Your S*** Out

Rust by Eliese Colette Goldbach

January 21, 2020 by Rachel 2 Comments

Rust is a memoir of an ordinary person, but a person who has faced incredible personal challenges. It is the true story of the author, who was struggling in her post-graduate life to find her path in the world. Eliese finds herself back in her hometown of Cleveland, a place she never thought she would end up in as an adult. She rode out the Great Recession by enrolling in graduate school only to graduate and be faced with a pile of student loan debt. […]

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