This 2014 National Book Award Finalist is a beautiful affirmation of hope in the face of devastating loss and upheaval. Station Eleven is often characterized as an apocalyptic novel, but I believe this term is too limiting and does a disservice to the author. While the destruction of civilization is at the core of the plot, Mandel is more concerned with the creation of a new world than the destruction of the old one. This is a novel about resilience, about knowing what to hold […]
Anyone Can Betray Anyone
This is why this review took me two weeks. This book was good, but I really wanted to LOVE it. It’s about a society where the people are divided by blood. Reds have red blood and are the bottom class. Silvers have silver blood that gives them abilities and they oppress the Reds. Mare is a Red who demonstrates an ability to control electricity in an arena full of Silvers. The King and Queen decide to hide her in plain sight by making up a […]
Between the Spark and the Burn
Second and final book to Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. It’s pretty good, but made me a little bit sad. You can read my full review here.
You’re a wizard, Peter. Well, an apprentice, anyway…
Peter Grant is a probationary officer with the London Metropolitan Police when he, one night takes a witness statement from an individual who just happens to be a ghost. Unusual as this is, it saves Peter from a life of tedium in the Case Progression Unit (basically doing other cops’ paperwork for them) and to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, who just happens to be a wizard. Peter becomes the first wizard’s apprentice in England for more than 50 years, but Harry Potter this is […]