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…
Review: The Summer of Us
The Summer of Us is about three very different young women, all who happen to become housemates one summer when they rent a house on Martha’s Vineyard. Gincy is a slob who doesn’t care about anything. Danielle is a well-to-do girl who’s just waiting for Mr. Right…who’s right around the corner. And Clare is getting ready…
Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Who is Mara Dyer? She’s a 17 year old girl who’s been in an accident. Her friends died. She lived. And she doesn’t remember any of it. Thus begins the journey of Mara Dyer to remember exactly what happened that night, when her and friends went to the falling-down asylum and how she survived. She’s…
Review: The Sweet Far Thing
The third in the Gemma Doyle trilogy, The Sweet Far Thing wraps up the story of Gemma Doyle and her challenges with trying to control the power of the realms. After finding the Temple and binding Circe in the Temple in Rebel Angels, Gemma returns to Spence Academy for Girls only weeks away from her season…