Book Review: Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
Hallowed (Unearthly Trilogy #2) Cynthia Hand HarperTeen, January 2012 ISBN 978-0-06-199618-4 Hardcover (ARC) In the second installment of the Unearthly Trilogy (after Unearthly), teenaged Clara Gardner is learning more about her abilities and obligations as an angelblood, a human who is part angel by birth. She and her mother and brother, all angelbloods, had moved [...]
February 2, 2012
Tags: angels, dark fantasy, HarperTeen, mystery, paranormal, romance, Wyoming, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 
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Book Review: Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
Incarnate Jodi Meadows Katherine Tegan Books/HarperCollins Publishers, January 2012 ISBN 978-0-06-206075-4 Hardcover Eighteen-year-old Ana has spent her entire life abused and reviled because she is a nosoul, born without a past into a world in which everyone else has been continually reincarnated for 5,000 years. Those who are reborn remember all their past lives and [...]
January 4, 2012
Tags: dark fantasy, HarperCollins Publishers, Katherine Tegan Books, romance, science fiction, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes Ilsa J. Bick Egmont, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-60684-175-4 Hardcover (e-ARC) Three young people, strangers to each other, band together along with a dog named Mina for survival in the Waucamaw Wilderness after an electromagnetic pulse has destroyed all electronic devices. Unknown to them, billions of people have died but teenaged Alex, eight-year-old Ellie and [...]
October 8, 2011
Tags: Egmont, EMP, science fiction, trilogy, wilderness survival, young adult, zombies Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: The Shattering by Karen Healey
The Shattering Karen Healey Little, Brown and Company, September 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-12572-7 Hardcover Summerton is a lovely resort town on the west coast of New Zealand, a town that’s perhaps a bit too perfect. While other small towns struggle to remain vibrant and appealing and they watch their residents, especially the younger ones, move away [...]
September 28, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, Little Brown and Company, magic, mystery, New Zealand, teen suicide, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Ashfall Mike Mullin Tanglewood Press, October 2011 ISBN 978-1-933718-55-2 Hardcover (e-ARC) Alex, a fifteen-year-old living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is alone for the weekend, having browbeat his parents into letting him stay home while they take his little sister to visit relatives in Warren, Illinois. He’s looking forward to doing his own thing (mostly geek [...]
August 20, 2011
Tags: action adventure, dystopian, natural disaster, post-apocalyptic, science, science fiction, survival, Tanglewood Press, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, 2010 ISBN 0439023521 Trade Paperback Note: This reviewer read a non-US edition. Katniss Everdeen is a survivor. A reluctant heroine in a terrifying, post-war former North America, Katniss is 16 years old and has taken responsibility for her family after her father died. Every day she risks her [...]
February 10, 2011
Tags: mystery, Scholastic Press, science fiction, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Montooth and the Canfield Witch by Robert Jay
Montooth and the Canfield Witch Robert Jay Cloverleaf Corporation, 2009 ISBN No. 978-0615296456 Hardcover Carty Anderson and her “Crew” give the readers a peek into life in the fifties in Winter Free, Florida. Carty (Catherine “Carty” Andersson) is a 14 years old girl who has learned a lot from spending time with her Dad. Her [...]
February 2, 2011
Tags: action adventure, Cloverleaf, historical, mystery, witch, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Prisoners in the Palace by Michaela MacColl
Prisoners in the Palace Michaela MacColl Chronicle Books, 2010 ISBN 0811873005 Hardcover Elizabeth (Liza) Hastings has not gotten over the recent deaths of her parents in a carriage accident when the family solicitor writes to tell her that her father left her penniless. He’s managed to secure a position for her with Princess Victoria. Liza [...]
January 20, 2011
Tags: Chronicle Books, historical fiction, Victorian England, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Ghost Town by Rachel Caine
Ghost Town (Morganville Vampires #9) Rachel Caine New American Library, October 2010 ISBN 0451231619 Hardcover Ghost Town is the ninth book so far in the Morganville Vampire series. The basis is Claire Danvers, girl genius, who wanted to go to MIT on early entry, but her parents sent her closer to home to Texas Plains [...]
January 6, 2011
Tags: dark fantasy, New American Library, vampires, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Teeny 5 Book Reviews
To Hell in a Handbasket Beth Groundwater Five Star, 2009 ISBN 1594147590 Hardcover To Hell in a Handbasket by Beth Groundwater was good, but if you’re looking for a crafty mystery, this isn’t the one to pick. Now if you’re a skier or a mom with a daughter that’s leaving the nest, then this book [...]
November 22, 2010
Tags: adult mystery, Brown and Company, Five Star, kids, Little, middle grade, Scholastic Press, Scribner Book Company, traditional, young adult Posted in: Guest Reviews, Teeny Reviews No Comments
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