The Night Circus tells the story of a young girl and a young boy, who are bound together to participate in a challenge, which makes them use every bit of their wits to try and beat the other. But this is no ordinary challenge. It is a challenge of magical ability, and the Night Circus…
Tag: two stars
Review: Shatter Me
Shatter Me tells the tale of seventeen-year old Juliette, who hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. That’s because when she does, bad things happen. Like death and destruction. She was given up by her parents about four years ago to The Reestablishment, after she accidentally killed a child in a grocery store. Deemed a threat…
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: 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: Abandon
When Abandon first came out, I was super excited to read it, especially since I heard Meg Cabot talking about it on her blog. And you all know how much I love Meg Cabot, riiiight? Hahaha. Abandon tells the story of 17 year old Pierce and her life after returning from the ‘dead’, essentially meaning that she was…