Category: Teen

  • Review of “Circles of Seven”

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    Time for a little dimension hopping. In Circles of Seven, book three of the Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis, Billy and Bonnie do just that. The book opens with them traveling to England where they meet up with some contacts of Professor Hamilton in order to continue working on fulfilling Merlin’s prophecies.…

  • Review of “Code”

    We return to a world of teenagers with genetic mutations in Code, book three of the Virals series by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs. The book continues the adventures of Tory Brennan and her pack as they get drawn into yet another mysterious adventure, one with deadly consequences. When a geocache is marked on Loggerhead…

  • Review of “The Desolations of Devil’s Acre”

    I must admit I am a little sad about today’s book as it is the final book in a series that I have been working on. Finishing a series is always a little sad, at least until I remember that I can always reread the books if I want to. The Desolations of Devil’s Acre…

  • Review of “The Battle of the Labyrinth”

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    Today we are going back to the mystical world of Greek Mythology with The Battle of the Labyrinth, book four of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. It opens on Percy attending orientation at his soon to be new school only to be chased and attacked by a group of Empousa.…

  • Review of “City of Orphans”

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    City of Orphans by Avi takes place in New York City but in 1893. It tells the story of two young teenagers, Maks Geless and his new friend Willa. Maks is a newsie just trying to help his family make ends meet when he starts getting harassed by the Plug Ugly Gang. One day he…

  • Review of “Ink and Bone”

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    This is a little weird to say but I think I found a world where I would not want to live. Ink and Bone is the first book in The Great Library series by Rachel Caine. It is based in a world that is ruled, albeit indirectly, by the Great Library of Alexandria. Apparently here…

  • Review of “The Family Fortuna”

    The Family Fortuna is the YA debut novel for Lindsay Eagar. It tells the story of Avita, the youngest member of The Family Fortuna which runs the circus of the same name. Avita is the star of the circus due to her rather feathered and monstrous status. Having been born with a beak and feathers…

  • Review of “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking”

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    A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher is not exactly what the title implies. Mona is a young girl, only fourteen, when she finds a dead body in her family’s bakery first thing in the morning. Despite her age and her having immediately reported the body the man in charge of the investigation,…

  • Review of “The Candlestone”

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    I am going back to one of my favorite topics in literature with today’s book, The Candlestone, which is the second book in the series Dragons In Our Midst by Bryan Davis. It continues the story of Billy and Bonnie as they continue adjusting to their new world. Billy is still trying to adjust to…

  • Review of “Seizure”

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    Human-Wolf hybrids hunting for pirate treasure. That almost doesn’t sound like it could be a real book but in Seizure, book two of the Virals series by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs, there really are human-wolf hybrids hunting for pirate treasure. The book opens with Tory Brennan and her friends experimenting in order to figure…