3.5 out of 5 stars The Renegades trilogy finds it's stride, then has to sprint for the end. Goodreads.com: Supernova, by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #3) When we left Nova and company at the end of Archenemies (book 2), she had just robbed Renegades HQ of several iconic artifacts, including the helmet that allowed her presumed-dead, … Continue reading Review: Supernova
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Review: Renegades
2.5 out of 5 stars Goodreads.com: Renegades, by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #1) On the highest, tippy top of the upside: The Lunar Chronicles. On the lowest, bottom-scrape of the downside: Heartless. Marissa Meyer has done some of the best and worst work in recent YA fiction, so my hope for Renegades was wobbly. It doesn't … Continue reading Review: Renegades
Review: Dev1at3
4 out of 5 stars As good as the first book in the series, Dev1at3 turns the focus from Evie to her supporting cast, and they are well worth the spotlight. Goodreads.com: Dev1at3, by Jay Kristoff (Lifelike #2) At the end of Lifel1k3, Evie Carpenter, orphan and scrappy scavenger girl in a post-apocalyptic American future, … Continue reading Review: Dev1at3
Review: Aurora Rising
4.5 out of 5 stars Always having more fun than any reader, Aime Kaufman and Jay Kristoff are back at it with another spunky, action-packed space opera. Goodreads.com: Aurora Rising, by Aime Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (The Aurora Cycle #1) Space ace Tyler Jones, top of his class at Aurora Academy, is set to graduate … Continue reading Review: Aurora Rising
Review: The Towering Sky
4 out of 5 stars Ahoy, spoilers! The Thousandth Floor series ends with a twist that I think I saw coming. Or maybe I just really wanted it to happen. Goodreads.com: The Towering Sky, by Katharine McGee (The Thousandth Floor #3) It ends as it began: with a death. Sort of. The first book in … Continue reading Review: The Towering Sky
Review: The Dazzling Heights
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 Katharine 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
Review: The Thousandth Floor
4 out of 5 stars Compulsively readable and gently futuristic, Katharine McGee pulls off an impressive feat: keeping teenagers from getting on my nerves! Goodreads.com: The Thousandth Floor, by Katharine 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
Review: Scrivener’s Moon
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
Review: A Web of Air
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
Review: Fever Crumb
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