Crimson Bound is the second of Rosamund Hodge’s fairy tale inspired novels, though they aren’t sequels. This one is very loosely based on Red Riding Hood. Rachelle was the innocent young girl in the forest. The Big Bad Wolf is a creature called a forestborn. He charms her into letting down her cloak, a cloak with defensive charms sewn into it. The creature then marks her. Once marked, you must kill someone within three days or you die. After you kill someone, you become a […]
“Take it from one whose role has been, for years, The Girl I Knew Really Well Who Tragically Died One Day…”
Aza Ray is sick, so sick that they named her disease after her. The problem is that her body doesn’t breathe in air properly. Aza isn’t one of those saintly sick kids, though. She’s angry and snarky and I just love her. She spends all her time with her childhood BFF Jason, and they are adorable, from alligator suits to giant squid videos. When Aza sees a ship in the sky, she thinks she is hallucinating. Jason researches and finds out about Magonia, a city […]
Are you afraid of the dark (fairies)?
I picked up the latest YA release by Holly Black after realizing that this is same author who wrote “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, which I thought was a really fun twist on a traditional vampire story, thankfully having nothing to do with sparkling. This time, Black gives us a modern-day fairy tale, full of relatable teen characters mixed with beautiful, cruel fairies and other terrifying creatures. The story starts at a small town party, just your average group of teens drinking and dancing and […]
Rainbow Rowell Lite Edition
What a delightfully charming book to read in an evening. Reminiscent of Eleanor & Park with a touch of Fangirl, the Improbable Theory of Ana & Zak tells the story of two high school seniors with nothing in common who forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a crazy night. Zak is an intelligent, albeit lazy, student who would rather play card games than write health papers; this gets him in trouble and he is told to participate in Quize Bowl or take summer […]
More Than the Sum of Its Parts
I had no expectations going into this e-book checked out from my local public library. I didn’t know that it was originally published in England (with a slightly different title) and then republished in the US a year later. Though there are a lot of familiar elements in this YA urban fantasy, there are also some memorable twists, most involving Japanese mythology, that made this a fun read. A day before her 16th birthday, Mio Yamata ventures into the attic to find an old family […]
Yet another YA endeavor…
If you’re in the mood for another YA dystopian novel, this might quench your thirst. With so many to choose from, what Reboot offers is a quick, easy read with a twist on the zombie genre…but zombie novel it is not. Wren one-seventy-eight died five years ago. But, as is common with children who contract the mysterious KDH virus, she revived, or rebooted. As her name suggests, she didn’t reboot until 178 minutes after her death, a long time compared with other reboots. As a […]
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