Category: young adult

  • 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…

  • Review of “Raising Dragons”

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    Today’s book was honestly a bit of a surprise for me. I found it when browsing the young adult section at a local library and it kind of jumped out at me because of the name. Raising Dragons is the first book in the Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis and it tells…

  • Review of “Keep Close”

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    The book Keep Close by Kristen Wade was odd in that it doesn’t follow the stereotype for the typical story about an alien invasion. I say that because it doesn’t reveal the existence of the aliens right away and instead builds the tension for a while before the reveal. The story is about two teenagers,…

  • Review of “Virals”

    Accidental genetic mutation. That is the driving factor in Virals, the first book in the series of the same name, by authors Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs. This book is the first adventure of young Tory Brennan, great-niece to Temperance Brennan. It opens on her and a group of friends being curious and getting into…

  • Review of “A Map of Days”

    At the end of the third book of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, The Library of Souls, we saw Jacob finally return to the U.S. In the fourth book, A Map of Days, we see him and his friends continue their adventures in the world of the peculiar but in the U.S instead of in Europe.…