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“They don’t die in this one”

Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz

October 11, 2020 by Caitycat Leave a Comment

Sick Kids in Love boasts the tagline, “They don’t die in this one.” This snort-inducing line was a big selling point for me, along with how much I enjoyed Moscowitz’s Teeth. It sounded like a refreshing change of pace from weepy dramas about terminally ill teens from Five Feet Apart to vintage Lurlene McDaniel to The Fault in Our Stars (Although that book is amazing and I love it, and I will hear nothing bad about it or John Green). Isabel, AKA Ibby, is sixteen […]

Being a superhero can cause super problems in a relationship

Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

While this is a fun YA book about superheroes and the people who date them, it also brings up some relevant points about obsessions with celebrities. Switch out the superheroes with movie stars or singers and some of the issues that come up in this book can easily be seen in today’s society. Claire is a fangirl, no doubt about it. (She has good reason to be, up to a certain point.) She follows the Chicago branch of the Warrior Nation superhero team obsessively […]

Not too bad for a first novel!

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

To all of those naysayers who say that fanfiction is not legitimate, I present Exhibit A, The Other Bennet Sister, along with all of the other Pride and Prejudice “variations” or alternate stories. This is what fanfiction is, taking something and putting your own spin on it. The only difference is that the copyright has passed on P&P, so people can publish their stories, whereas you can’t really do that yet with Harry Potter or The Avengers or whatever. (Although if you talk to the […]

I keep singing the title of this to the tune of “Animals” by Maroon 5 for some reason…

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

We’re in superhero land once again! This time Marissa Meyer is taking a stab at it. Now, this book is at a bit of a disadvantage for me, as I’ve just re-read Super Powereds, so it will probably fall short. I’m also trying to read it in 2 days for a book club, and reading a book on a deadline always makes it feel more like an assignment to me. Ok, so we have people with superpowers, and they are called prodigies. They were […]

Every time I read the title of this book, I read it to the tune of “Helpless” from Hamilton

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This is a story of Wonderland before it became the broken thing that Alice encounters in the book. Residents are more or less happy and good natured. They don’t stay that way, however. Wonderland is a world of cards, and there are many fun and innocent games you can play with cards. But there’s another land through the Looking Glass, the land of Chess. And Chess is a battlefield. Some things from Chess have come to Wonderland, and they will never be the same. […]

A surprising twist on a fairly well-known story

A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Wow. I thought I knew where this was going, and then I didn’t. I had some doubts over some decisions that were made at the beginning, but then it turns out I was wrong! Looking back, of course those things were different! I’m going to try my best to avoid spoilers, but that’s going to be very difficult. The story starts off paralleling the Sherlock Holmes story of “A Study in Scarlet,” but with some slight twists. All right, you think, this is an […]

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