First, this review is sort of temporary so I can get my thoughts out before they fade away. I’ll probably be re-reading soon. I want to have a better chance to digest it, since the first time I read it over Thanksgiving weekend, I had my mom and sister and their HGTV/Hallmark Christmas movie obsession as a constant in the background and it was very distracting. I always have these grand plans of reading and writing over Thanksgiving weekend, and it NEVER happens because my […]
“Broken people don’t hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten…”
I was a big fan of Francesca Zappia’s Made You Up, and was excited for her follow up, Eliza and Her Monsters. The book did not disappoint. It’s about Eliza, who is a loner misfit at school but secretly the mastermind behind Monstrous Sea, a phenomenally popular web comic. The trouble starts when she befriends the new boy at school, Wallace. He’s a very active member of her fandom. The closer that they get, the worse it will be when he finds out who she […]
Meant to Be
This is another speculative YA novel. Meant to Be presents a future where Names suddenly showed up on every adult’s chest. They continue to appear after every teenager turns 18. The names aren’t completely understood, but most people believe that it’s supposed to be your soulmate, or Meant to Be/MTB. Agatha “Aggie” does not buy into MTBs at all, preferring to call them empties. She gets a name on her birthday, Hendrix Cutter, but chooses to ignore it in favor of her own plans. She […]
“Silence is the only privacy…”
All Rights Reserved is an interesting dystopian/science fiction story. It’s set in a future controlled by lawyers. From the age of 15, everyone gets fitted with a cuff around their wrist. From that point on, the cuff charges for every word spoken, even most gestures. These forms of expression are protected by strong copyrights, upheld by the lawyers. Speth, our main character, is just about to give her big speech as she turns 15, when her friend kills himself at her party. His family is […]