The Elite Review
Rating: * * * (of 5) As worthy a follow-up as one might expect to The Selection, The Elite picks up right where the first book left off. America (“Mer”) is one of the remaining contenders to become the bride of Prince Maxon of Illéa and she surprises herself by feeling strongly for the prince. [...]
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 [...]
