Vaclav and Lena are five year old when they meet in the Russian immigrant community in Brooklyn. Worlds apart, friendship blossoms between the two until they are ten and inseparable. Vaclav dreams of becoming a famous magician one day, with his faithful assistant, lovely Lena, by his side. Lena is afraid to dream. Parentless, she…
Tag: YA
Book Review: If I Stay
Seventeen-year old Mia has the perfect life. She has a warm and loving family, a great best friend, a super cool musician boyfriend, and maybe even a chance to get into Julliard music school. She thinks nothing can go wrong. But one day everything changes. On their way to visit some friends, Mia’s family has…
Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Karou is a regular human girl. She’s all of seventeen. She’s trying to get over her jerk of an ex-boyfriend. She goes to art school in Prague. She sketches in her spare time. Oh, and she is in close contact with the Other World. Before you roll your eyes about another world littered with sparkling…
Review: The Summer I Turned Pretty
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…
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…