Category: Reviews

Review: The Selection by Keira Cass

Title: The Selection Author: Keira Cass Release Date: April 24, 2012 Pages: 327, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.1 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Content Rating: PG (Some kissing, but that’s about it) Summary from Goodreads: For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince […]

Posted July 4, 2013 in Reviews / 11 Comments

Review: The New Hunger by Isaac Marion

The New Hunger as my June Random Read (I just barely got this read in June, but I did it!). This is a novella prequel to Warm Bodies and I honestly wasn’t that excited about reading it, but I’m very glad that I did! I think I liked the prequel better than I liked Warm Bodies because it really delved into what it felt like to live in Marion’s zombie world. This novella gave us […]

Posted July 1, 2013 in Random Reads, Reviews / 2 Comments

Review: Poison by Bridget Zinn

Poison is a delightfully cute and light fantasy novel. The book is published by Disney Hyperion, which makes complete sense because it fits right into their wheelhouse – I could easily see this as a Disney movie! The book was the perfect diversion from some of the darker fantasy and dystopian novels that I read and I loved it! The story centers around Kyra, a young potions master who is on the run after attempting […]

Posted June 29, 2013 in Reviews / 5 Comments

ARC Review: Viral Nation by Shaunta Grimes

Title: Viral Nation Author: Shaunta Grimes Release Date: July 2, 2013 Pages: 320, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.2 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Content Rating: PG Summary from Goodreads: After a virus claimed nearly the entire global population, the world changed. The United States splintered into fifty walled cities where the surviving citizens clustered to start over. The Company, which ended the plague by bringing a life-saving vaccine back from the future, controls everything. They ration the scant food and supplies through a lottery […]

Posted June 21, 2013 in Reviews / 13 Comments

Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: Obsidian Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publisher: Entangled Teen Release Date: May 8, 2012 Pages: 361, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.36 stars My Rating: 3/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring…. until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up. And then he opened his mouth. […]

Posted June 11, 2013 in Reviews / 20 Comments

Review: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Title: Anna and the French Kiss Author: Stephanie Perkins Publisher: Dutton Release Date: December 2, 2010 Pages: 372, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.19 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris–until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, […]

Posted June 7, 2013 in Reviews / 24 Comments

Review: Parallel by Lauren Miller

Title: Parallel Author: Lauren Miller Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: May 14, 2013 Pages: 432, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.1 stars My Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She’d go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice—taking a drama class her senior year of high school—changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood […]

Posted June 3, 2013 in Reviews / 11 Comments

Review: The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2) by Julie Kagawa

If you haven’t read The Immortal Rules yet, go get it NOW (and then come back and read this review later—it contains spoilers from the first book in the series). Oh, Julie Kagawa, why do you torture me so? That ending, REALLY? REALLY?! Okay, I think I can calm myself enough to write a review now, but honestly it’s going to be hard. Let me start by saying, I could not wait for this […]

Posted June 2, 2013 in All-Time Favorites, Reviews / 10 Comments

Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

I picked this book up because I really wanted to read it before I watched the movie, which is coming out on DVD in June. The first thing that really struck me was that the book was written from the perspective of a zombie! This was something unexpected and new – I loved getting into R’s mind and I thought that this made the book much more interesting and enjoyable than your typical zombie […]

Posted May 28, 2013 in Reviews / 18 Comments

Review: The Program by Suzanne Young

Title: The Program Author: Suzanne Young Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: April 30, 2013 Pages: 408, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 3.93 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one […]

Posted May 23, 2013 in Reviews / 10 Comments