Reviewsday: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes
Minnow has no hands. The leader of a cult ordered them removed, and now she’s on trial for almost beating a boy to death. Minnow’s story unfolds in both directions; with us learning about the trials of life in the Kevinian cult, run by a man whose rules change with the weather; watching Minnow grow […]
The Notorious Pagan Jones by Nina Berry
Pagan Jones knows how easy it is to lose everything. Nine months ago, she was a movie star, surrounded by her supportive family and head over heels in love with a man who possessed a voice like an angel. Now she’s trapped in a reform school, crushed by the guilt of having caused her father […]
Reviewsday: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
This is not your average fairy tale. Sure, it has handsome faery princes (kind of), a wicked witch (sort of) and an ancient curse that has ridiculous conditions that need to be met to break it, but Feyre doesn’t know any of this yet. All she knows is that if she doesn’t hunt, her family […]
Book-A-Like: Paper Towns & On The Jellicoe Road
Mystery abounds in these two great YA reads! Quentin Jacobsen – Q to his friends- is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, they’d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school, Q’s nerdy while Margo is uber-cool. One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his […]
