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Pure Heroines, Struggling Heroes

April 1, 2014 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

I reviewed each of these books independently on my blog. The sequel reviews will contain spoilers for the priors. Overall, I give the series three stars. The world-building had great detail, but the plot and characterizations were too dense, convoluted, and inconsistent to really grip me. Pure (#1) Fuse (#2) Burn (#3)  

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: alwaysanswerb, Dystopian, julianna baggott, Post Apocalyptic, YA fiction, Young Adult

Every day isn’t exactly the same

March 18, 2014 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

Every Day is about “A,” a quantum-leaper who, every day, inhabits a new body and peeks in the window of a new life. A doesn’t have a full name or a true identity, but s/he does have a basic code for living and a pretty healthy sense of empathy. There are a few rules to the “jumps” that A makes; namely, A only jumps into the bodies of geographically nearby people who are about the same age as A is (about sixteen), and the jump […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alwaysanswerb, contemporary, david levithan, YA fiction, Young Adult

There will be blood… and angst.

February 20, 2014 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

The Vampire Academy series is as follows: 1. Vampire Academy (CBR5 review) 2. Frostbite 3. Shadow Kiss 4. Blood Promise 5. Spirit Bound 6. Last Sacrifice These are pretty mediocre books. I read the whole series because I’m a completist (sadist?) and at this point I’d be hard-pressed to describe exactly where in the overall plot each book began and ended. The whole story goes something like this — and I’ll be as vague as I can to avoid specific spoilers — Rose is a half-vampire who […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: alwaysanswerb, richelle mead, Urban Fantasy, vampires, YA fiction, Young Adult

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