This book had me like… And then… And then… You know what part. If you’ve read it, you know exactly what part that one is for, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. I don’t even know what to say about this book. It is everything I’m not usually into: there are fantasy elements, long journeys through rough terrain, a boy and his dog – fine stuff, but totally not my thing. It somehow wound up on my Goodreads to-read list, and I […]
Well this was definitely… different and peculiar…Vintage Photos are Awesome
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: Jacob has always been ordinary, he’s lived an ordinary life though he yearns for the extraordinary. His grandfather used to tell him fantastical stories of his childhood and of kids with unique and peculiar powers. Jacob believes the stories until he watches his grandfather die in his own arms. After finding a mysterious letter, he knows that he must travel to the island of his grandfather’s childhood. What he finds there is even stranger than he expected and Jacob begins an extraordinary […]
You have to do more than just change the terminology to make it sound new
This is the first in a YA trilogy, and I’m not moving on to book two. I feel like that’s the whole review, but I’ll elaborate :) My book club friend recommended this based on my love of dystopian stories. Kayla and Mishalla are teenage GENs (Genetically Engineered Nonhumans) living on a future planet colonized after Earth became uninhabitable. Those who could afford and fund the move have become the planet’s top class, the Trueborn. The Lowborn were brought along for their inital indentured servitude. […]
The Last Time I Encountered Something Centred on a Male ‘Witch’ It was “The Covenant”: This is Much Better
Half Bad. Half Wild. Half Lost. It sets itself up to follow the usual young adult series storyline, yet there was something really intriguing about this series to me, and I absolutely devoured all three of the books as fast as possible. It might be that I’ve never really experienced the mythology of witches presented quite in the way this book does, which made it interesting to me. There is also such a survival instinct present in these books, and a connection to nature that […]