Review: Pure

by Ikhlas // 1 August, 2012 // 3 Comments

In Pure, Pressia lives in a world that has been ravaged by Detonations and massive wars. She doesn’t remember much of Before, except that it was better and that she was not one of the chosen ones who were privileged...

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Review: The Finishing Touches

by Ikhlas // 25 July, 2012 // No Comments

In Hester Browne’s The Finishing Touches, Betsy is only a few days old when she’s abandoned on the steps of The Academy, a modern day finishing school. There she is taken in by Lady Frances, who takes care of her as...

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Review: Juliet

by Ikhlas // 15 July, 2012 // 4 Comments

In Anne Fortier’s Juliet, Julie Jacobs, a young American woman, loves Shakespeare’s iconic play and knows it by heart. But she never imagined that she herself is related to the iconic tragic lover. It is only when her aunt dies that...

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Review: The Reckoning

by Ikhlas // 22 June, 2012 // 4 Comments

In the sequel to the hit The Taker, Alma Katsu returns in The Reckoning with another heart-wrenching, spellbinding, and evocative story of immortals Lanore and Adair. Lanny thought she had seen the last of Adair some 200 years ago. She hasn’t seen...

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Review: The Flight of Gemma Hardy

by Ikhlas // 17 April, 2012 // 2 Comments

Ten-year-old Gemma is an orphan and lives with her cruel aunt and merciless cousins in haunting Scotland in the 1960s. Tortured daily, Gemma is eventually sent to a boarding school where she works to maintain her status as a student,...

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Review: Pure

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Review: Juliet

Review: The Reckoning

Review: The Flight of Gemma Hardy