Belly lives her life for the summer. September to June are just months to wile away before the magic of summer begins. Summer is when Belly goes to Cousins house, where her, her mom, and brother go to spend the summer with her mom’s best friend, Susannah Beck, and her sons. Belly has grown up…
Category: Book Reviews
Review: Nevermore
In Nevermore, Isobel Lanley sounds like your typical ‘popular girl’. She’s blond, a cheerleader, and is dating one of the jock’s at school. Her normal world spins out of control when she is paired up with Varen, the school goth and mystery boy, in English class. The pair are presenting on Edgar Allan Poe, and…
Review: Sisterhood Everlasting
Lena, Carmen, Tibby, and Bridget have been friends since before they were born. Their mothers became friends while attending a prenatal class and the girls were all born 17 within 17 days of each other. Throughout life, they’ve stuck together. In Sisterhood Everlasting, ten years have passed since we have last seen the Sisterhood and its…
Review: Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Angel tells the tale of Tessa Gray who crosses the Atlantic to England in order to live with her brother, after her aunt dies. An orphan since she was a child, her brother is the only family she has left. But what she doesn’t expect when she lands in dreary London is that she will be…
Review: Divergent
Veronica Roth’s debut Divergent was marketed as a new Hunger Games, as it too deals with a dystopian future, a future in which sixteen year olds make difficult decisions. Beatrice Prior is one of those sixteen year olds. She lives in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, where society has dissolved all but into five factions. Candor represents the…