Insurgent Review
Rating: * * * * (of 5) Of the post-apocalyptic and/or dystopic YA I’ve been reading (and there is so much of it lately!), Divergent was probably the most promising start once the ridiculous premise is forgiven, and Insurgent is mostly also pretty solid— not in the least because it promises that the third book [...]
The Selection Review
Rating: * * * (of 5) Straight-up guilty pleasure. I thought I had already reviewed this and now I wish I had done so before reading the sequel, but basically someone came up with the idea of doing something like The Hunger Games, but without all that nasty violence and dialing up the romance angle [...]
Home from Sakura-Con
I just got back last night from Sakura-Con in Seattle, WA— it was nice to be back in my adopted home region, even briefly. I miss you, Pacific Northwest! Throughout the weekend we put on a variety of events revolving around the three PSYCHO-PASS guests: Katsuyuki Motohiro (Executive Director), Naoyoshi Shiotani (Director), and George Wada [...]
Throne of Glass Review
Throne of Glass is not a hard or especially deep read, but it’s a fun journey with a fiery (if occasionally impetuous) young heroine. Celaena is a famed-assassin-turned-mining-slave who gets a chance to earn her freedom by competing in a sort of reality-style competition (sans cameras, because this is a semi-medieval fantasy world) to become [...]
Divergent Review
Let me say up front that I enjoyed Divergent quite a lot. The main character is fun, feisty, and also (mostly) relatable, the setting is interesting, and the story goes a direction that I wasn’t anticipating easily in its first few chapters. THAT BEING SAID…I suspect your enjoyment of this book will depend entirely on [...]
