Category: young adult

  • 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…

  • Review of “The Conference of the Birds”

    This next book is the penultimate book in the series Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. The Conference of the Birds chronicles the continuing adventures of Jacob Portman and his friends. It opens with Jacob and Noor dealing with the aftermath of the attack on H as they try to figure out what is…

  • Review of “The Princess Bride”

    This next book is one that probably almost everyone has heard of and if you haven’t you probably have heard of the movie. I have to admit that I haven’t seen this movie and have only just now read the book for the first time. The book I am referring to is The Princess Bride…

  • Review of “The Castle In The Weeds”

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    The Castle In The Weeds by M.w Morganson is a somewhat typical but also somewhat odd tale of growing up. It follows a group of five friends in the small town of Westborough where everything is ruled by Baron Malsham and his fertilizer factory. A place where everything fun and adventurous is outlawed. Having received…

  • Review of “Eragon”

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    Eragon, book one of The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, set the stage for a great fantasy series. It tells the story of young Eragon, a boy who is only fifteen when the story opens. While hunting in the Spine, a mountain range near the farm where he lives with his uncle and cousin, he…

  • Review of “The Titan’s Curse”

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    As many of you are aware The Titan’s Curse is the third book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the halfway point. Both in terms of the series but also in terms of the character’s timeline as it is the only book to not take place over the course of a…

  • Review of “Hurt Go Happy”

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    Some books are just heartbreakingly sad and yet you still find yourself almost compelled to read them. Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby is one of them. It tells the story of Jess, a young girl who is about thirteen when the story starts. Jess is mostly deaf after an incident when she was seven…

  • Review of “Nothing But The Truth”

    Today’s book is one that I found really fascinating but one that is also rather disturbing in some ways. Nothing But The Truth is a young adult novel by Avi and tells the story of Philip Malloy. It opens with Philip finding out that he is unable to try out for the high school track…