5 out of 5 stars Goodreads.com: Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir I loved this book. As we meet Project Hail Mary's protagonist, he doesn't know who, or where, he is. So basically anything about the book is a spoiler. SPOILERS AHEAD - setup only, not about the story's resolution. It turns out our hero … Continue reading Review: Project Hail Mary
3.5 out of 5 stars Just in time for Amazon's series adaptation: Why The Wheel of Time show could never be true to these impressive, fun, and astonishingly PG-rated books. Goodreads.com: The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time #1); The Great Hunt, by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time #2); … Continue reading Review: The Wheel of Time, Books 1-5
3 out of 5 stars A solid spinoff, but fails to capture the stark grit of its predecessor. Goodreads.com: The Girl the Sea Gave Back, by Adrienne Young (Sky in the Deep #2) In the first pages on The Girl the Sea Gave Back, Tova dies. A child of the Viking-esque Kyrr clan, her body … Continue reading Review: The Girl the Sea Gave Back
3.5 out of 5 stars :: CLUTCHES PEARLS :: This is in the Young Adult section?? Wowza. Goodreads.com: A Court of Silver Flames, by Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses #4) The fourth installment in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series centers on Nesta, the sister no one likes. Here's … Continue reading Review: A Court of Silver Flames
3.5 out of 5 stars If ever there were a porn movie turned down due to budget, it's every Sarah J. Maas novel. Goodreads.com: House of Earth and Blood, by Sarah J. Maas (Crescent City #1) There is always so much in a SJM novel, and her latest - and first foray into “adult” fiction … Continue reading Review: House of Earth and Blood
3 out of 5 stars A strangely calm existential crisis. Goodreads.com - The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig Thirty-something Nora Seed is miserable in her life, so she decides to end it. But before she can reach the great beyond, Nora is waylaid in a netherworld library full of autobiographies - her autobiographies. Each book … Continue reading Review: The Midnight Library
3.5 out of 5 stars Stubbornness and carnage. Goodreads.com: Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orisha #2) In Children of Virtue and Vengeance, the war for Orisha rages. The abused, disenfranchised maji have had their magic restored, and they plan to use it to avenge their year of hardship at the … Continue reading Review: Children of Virtue and Vengeance
3.5 out of 5 stars I feel that I should have loved this book, but I only liked it. Goodreads.com: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune It didn't take much for The House in the Cerulean Sea to sell itself to me: Barnes & Noble front table positioning, great cover quotes, accolades … Continue reading Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea
3 out of 5 stars Havenfall (Havenfall, #1) by Sara Holland (goodreads.com) Maddie's just a teenage girl... with a mom on death row for murdering her brother, and an uncle who runs a secret hotel at the crossroads of magical lands. The nearly unreachable mountaintop town of Haven, Colorado is home to the truly unreachable … Continue reading Review: Havenfall
4 out of 5 stars If anyone could make me care about a gothic ghost story, it would be Leigh Bardugo. And she does, from the first to last pages of Ninth House. Goodreads.com: Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern #1) Alex Stern is a California teen with a very troubled past, and an … Continue reading Review: Ninth House
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