Save Kate Karyus Quinn’s third book about weird stuff happening to and around teenagers is my favorite yet. She started with Another Little Piece, about an ancient spirit that bargains with teenage girls. They get their deepest desire, but at a very high cost. (Don’t You) Forget About Me was the story of a town so perfect that people live for centuries. If only there wasn’t the tiny problem of teenagers causing mischief, mayhem, dismemberment, and death. Down with the Shine is about a girl […]
“Better busy than bored…idle nerds become supervillains…”
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You is a YA retelling of Much Ado About Nothing. The story is set in a competitive high school for geniuses. Beatrice and Benedick are now Trixie and Ben, but they still fight with the same fervor. Trixie is particularly fierce. Hero and Claudio are now Harper and Cornell, and their new relationship is being affected by their best friends’ inability to get along. The characters are all super smart and into comics and Doctor Who and all […]
I’m just going to leave these links right here…
I’ve been really anxious and sad when I think of all the great book series (Is there a plural of that? Serieses?) that I started and never completed, all the many stories that I hoped to pick up again and left off after a second, third, fourth book was published. The struggle is real. At the end of last year, I decided to complete one of them: Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles. I previously read and enjoyed Cinder and Scarlet, then dropped the ball on Cress. […]
“Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society…”
The Dark Days Club combines regency era manners with supernatural action. Lady Helen starts the book preparing to be presented to the Queen, start her season, and marry well. She never suspects that soon she will be training to fight demons and save innocent souls. Soon, she is bending the rules of the time and risking the ruin of her reputation. It’s pretty good (Even though it is very exposition-heavy), and I’m interested in seeing where the series goes next. You can read my review […]