Here’s the next big YA trilogy, the first book of which has already been released to the big screen. It has all the sexy elements a YA dystopian thriller needs to be successful…hot teenagers (going off of the movie trailer a bit on this one)…Ok, wait. Did I just say “hot teenagers”?!? Creepy. I’m way too old to be saying things like that. (I was going to put “waaaaaaaay too old” but no, I’m just “way” too old). Which brings me to my next point, […]
It’s all about Manchee
Anyone who read my reviews regularly last year will be aware that I have developed something of a book crush on Patrick Ness. He’s a brilliant author and, as some have said of Rainbow Rowell, an author I wish had been around when I actually was a Young Adult, as it would have made my teenage years that much more bearable. He is also bloody good value for money on Twitter, so if you don’t already, you should totally follow him. His live tweeting of […]
A Novel to Help Overcome Vampire Fatigue
This is the first audiobook I’ve ever read/listened to, and I think in this case the narrator worked well for the story, since she didn’t distract me. In Tana’s world, vampires are real. When she was only six, a vampire decided he was tired of living in the shadows, and infected many people, leading to a worldwide epidemic. In Black’s world, you don’t have to drink vampire blood to switch over, but you are infected once they bite you, and if you drink human blood while infected, you […]
A Promising Start That Turns Into One of the Worst Love Triangles Ever
Alyssa Gardner, the narrator, is descended from Alice Liddell, of Alice in Wonderland fame, and as one can imagine this has led to a certain amount of teasing in school. However, Alyssa has also inherited the family madness that led to her grandmother’s death, and her mother’s placement in an asylum. Like the other women in her family, Alyssa can hear bugs and flowers speaking to her. It actually serves as the inspiration for her art, as she makes mosaics of dead bugs to keep […]
Murder By Ghost
This is, I think, exactly what I expect out of a Fear Street book. Or maybe a Goosebumps book, since they seem to have a lot in common in this case. Lea and her family have just moved to Shadyside. Her parents bought a house on Fear Street, despite the fact that the attic contains a boarded up room that’s been closed off for the last hundred years because there was a murder committed inside it. That right there? That’s the Fear Street I know […]
Also Not A Fear Street Book
Lights Out opens in familiar territory–we get a narration from a killer, this time in the form of a letter addressed to Chief. Then it immediately yanks us away from Shadyside to Camp Nightwing. Yup, like Ski Weekend, we’ve got another book that’s only related to Fear Street in that the main character lives there. There’s a practical joker who no one thinks is funny because of course there is, and he lampshades Friday the 13th pretty quickly. How many Shadyside High students have lived […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 109
- 110
- 111
- 112
- 113
- …
- 120
- Next Page »