Wow, I did not like this book. I believe it’s the first one I picked up and failed to finish all year — I made it about halfway through and gave up. Considering it was only 150 pages (and not as tall as your average book either), and that I HATE not finishing books, that’s pretty bad. “The wolf is at the door. I don’t know why you can’t hear it. But I hear it. And I know how hungry it is.” Splinterlands is set in 2050, […]
Wildly different from the first book and yet still so good
Oh my God you guys this book was so good. Like many of y’all mentioned, it’s very different from the first book, which seemed like really well-written Firefly fanfiction (not a bad thing at all!). This book is much more tightly written, focusing on just a couple of characters rather than the large crew from the first book. I think someone else mentioned Margaret Atwood in their review of it and I absolutely agree. And that’s a huge compliment coming from me! At the end […]
Sweet, if rather self-congratulatory
This book was written in 2015 about some events that started in 1997, when the main characters were 12. It’s written for probably a 12 to 15 year old audience. But something about the author’s voice makes it seem like a book written by a much younger person. Maybe she’s just really authentically capturing what it’s like to be a 12 year old girl, I don’t know. But I found it off-putting. I feel like the author, Caitlin, could have really benefited from making her […]
Andrew Smith & A.S. King lovers should try this one
More YA! Are you sick of me yet? I have 2 more reviews to post after this and then I promise to leave y’all alone. This is what happens when I bring six books on vacation and read every one of them… “To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality … I mean it’s prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don’t have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their […]
I rarely rate celeb memoirs so badly, but wow…this wasn’t good
Celebrity memoirs are also usually very helpful to keep my mind off turbulence, but unfortunately this one sort of… sucks. So, Clinton Kelly is the guy from What Not to Wear. He’s had a few other reality TV shows, too, but I haven’t heard of any of them. You may have. This may be one of the least interesting celebrity memoirs I’ve ever read. He basically picked like 10 stories from his life and wrote about them without connecting them in anyway or making them […]
Ignore the terrible puns — it’s really pretty good
More YA! Can you tell I recently went on a trip? YA gets me through the airport and onto the plane without losing my mind. Thank you, YA! This was a sweet and funny story about a girl who has literally done nothing but be a ballerina her entire life. Now, just short of graduating high school, she has discovered that it’s not something she can do for the rest of her life. In a panic over a ballet (and also a boy, because this is […]
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