4 out of 5 stars Spoilers ahead, as the second installment of The Thousandth Floor series is as good as the first. Goodreads.com: The Dazzling Heights, by Katherine McGee (The Thousandth Floor #2) If you haven't read The Thousandth Floor, go away now and come back when you have! The Dazzling Heights picks up immediately … Continue reading Review: The Dazzling Heights
4 out of 5 stars Compulsively readable and gently futuristic, Katherine McGee pulls off an impressive feat: keeping teenagers from getting on my nerves! Goodreads.com: The Thousandth Floor, by Katherine McGee (The Thousandth Floor #1) The first book in The Thousandth Floor trilogy introduces New York, 100 years into the future, a more modern and … Continue reading Review: The Thousandth Floor
4.25 out of 5 stars In Fever Crumb's finale, the sassy smartypants finds herself racing toward an old tech future and a new traction world. Goodreads.com: Scrivener's Moon, by Phillip Reeve (Fever Crumb #3) Fever ends up with her mother, Wavey Godshawk, who turns out to be almost as detached as her Engineer father. But … Continue reading Review: Scrivener’s Moon
4.25 out of 5 stars Goodreads.com: A Web of Air, by Phillip Reeve (Fever Crumb #2) Fever Crumb meets a boy! Of course he's a wacky recluse genius dreaming of flight. They're perfectly imperfect for each other. [Spoilers Ahead] After fleeing London at the end of Fever Crumb, Fever and the Solent children join - … Continue reading Review: A Web of Air
4.5 out of 5 stars Goodreads.com: Fever Cumb, by Phillip Reeve (Fever Crumb #1) I love Phillip Reeve and wish a thousand books were set in the Mortal Engines world! Fever Crumb is a young orphan girl, raised in the no-nonsense (or emotion, or excitement...) world of the Guild of Engineers. Outside their confines, the … Continue reading Review: Fever Crumb
3.5 out of 5 stars Goodreads.com: Dune, by Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles #1) Look, there's no question why Dune is a legendary pillar of science fiction: it's an epic, acerbic, socio-political-religious examination of everything from corrupt government to environmental stewardship. The nearly uninhabitable, highly contested desert planet of Arakkis has a single natural resource: spice melange. … Continue reading Review: Dune
3.5 out of 5 stars Goodreads.com: The Woman in the Window, by AJ Finn Look (and listen): I'm not going to spoil anything. This book is a totally twisty page-turner, incredibly easy to read but thoroughly un-put-down-able. From page one, The Woman in the Window goes all-in for its big ending. Which I hated. Alas... Dr. … Continue reading Review: The Woman in the Window
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