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Talk About a Bittersweet Symphony

February 23, 2018 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

What would you do if you were informed that you had less than a day to live? This is a rhetorical question you may have heard at some point (or many) in your life, whether just posed as a discussion topic or perhaps something to truly face in the circumstances of life. In They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera explores this question through the eyes of two teenage boys, in a world wherein a new system called “Death Cast” will at midnight predict everyone […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Adam Silvera, they both die at the end, YA

Lisa Bee's CBR10 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Adam Silvera, they both die at the end, YA ·
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The more I think about it, the worse this gets

February 16, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The more I think about this story, the less I like it. At first read, The Cruel Prince is a pretty standard supernatural fantasy for teens. It’s got the Fey girl raised human and two human girls raised Fey, and all 3 are sisters. Taryn and Jude are the human twins, and VIvi is their slightly older Fey half-sister. Vivi of course prefers living as a human much to her Fey father’s annoyance, while Taryn wants to fit in with the Fey, and Jude isn’t […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Faerie, fantasy, Holly Black, The Cruel Prince, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Faerie, fantasy, Holly Black, The Cruel Prince, YA ·
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I Can Pretend All I Want to be Cynical, My Heart Still Melts Time and Time Again

February 14, 2018 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

I’ve definitely seen Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda reviewed a number of times by Cannonballers in the past few years, and was always interested to read it but for some reason never did. Enter my best friend who surprised me with an early birthday present of some books, with this among them. And immediately after receiving it we went to a movie and what do we see? A preview for the upcoming movie adaptation called Love, Simon. Talk about coincidence, especially since I was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: becky albertalli, lgbt, YA

Lisa Bee's CBR10 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: becky albertalli, lgbt, YA ·
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…so much more than that.

February 12, 2018 by Leedock Leave a Comment

There were 13 reviews posted of this book in CBR9. There isn’t much more I can say about this book that hasn’t already been said by all of those wonderful reviewers here. While my life experience could not be farther from Starr Carter’s,  I’m thankful to Angie Thomas for giving me the opportunity to spend some time with her. The basic premise of the story has been discussed at length here and just about everywhere, so I’ll just list some of the things that will stay […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, Angie Thomas, Fiction, YA, young adult fiction

Leedock's CBR10 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, Angie Thomas, Fiction, YA, young adult fiction ·
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“We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here…”

February 4, 2018 by Caitycat 4 Comments

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely…” It’s hard to believe that The Fault in Our Stars came out five years ago! I didn’t even realize how much I missed John Green until I started Turtles All the Way Down. Maybe I never mentioned this before, but I love John Green. All of his books are fantastic, as you can see from my reviews of: The Fault in Our Stars, An Abundance […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, john green, YA, Young Adult

Caitycat's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, john green, YA, Young Adult ·
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The MPAA rating of this book should be R(R).

January 30, 2018 by thewheelbarrow 10 Comments

I’ve been wanting to read this book for a few years and I was in between books so I finally checked it out.  As an aside, then four other books became available from my queue so I have quite the backlog of reading to do at the moment.  I digress. I loved this book.  I enjoyed it so much that while listening to it, I sought out the ebook so that I could read it in between commutes.  It was a fun and exciting read. […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Pierce Brown, Red Rising, utopia, YA

thewheelbarrow's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Pierce Brown, Red Rising, utopia, YA ·
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