Tag: young adult
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Review: The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh
** I came to be in possession of an ARC, but the ARC was NOT provided to me by the publisher. In good faith, I’ll write a quick review anyhow. 🙂 ** 4 stars Renee Ahdieh’s newest work, The Beautiful, has been hailed as the book to bring vampires back to YA. There are vampires.…
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Review: The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy
3 stars ** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** Lauren Mansy’s novel, The Memory Thief, follows a teenaged girl, Julietta, in a world where memories are used as currency. Memories can be traded, stolen, sold, and more. The Gifted have varying…
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Review: The Sin Soldiers by Tracy Auerbach
4 stars ** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** In The Sin Soldiers, author Tracy Auerbach, utilizes her background as a science teacher to bring the dystopian science fiction tale to life. The world that Auerbach creates is one in which crystals…
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Review: All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
3 stars This book is actually difficult for me to review because I have such mixed feelings about it. A majority of my mixed feelings about it likely come from my existing thoughts about Maggie Stiefvater as a writer. Let me start off by saying that I’ve read the Raven Cycle and The Scorpio Races.…
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Review: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
4 stars Jonathan Stroud has done it again. I was first introduced to Stroud, like most, through his Bartimaeus books. I loved Stroud’s accessible and witty flair to writing then, and I still love it now. Stroud creates an additional alternative modern London with the Lockwood & Co series. “The Problem”, as the paranormal activity…
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