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 [...]
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 [...]
Oz Reimagined Review
Indoctrinated into the Wizard of Oz series of children’s novels as a young’un, it didn’t take much convincing for me to snatch up Oz Reimagined when it was available as a Kindle Daily Deal, and by and large I enjoyed the collection of Oz “remixes,” which vary from the expected (a demi-noir murder mystery with [...]
