Plot Summary My Review I have a quick and easy way of figuring out if a book is great. It’s not by analyzing the story or the characters or the pacing or the writing style. If I sit there and read and randomly burst into […]
Tag: Young Adult
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
You have no idea how much it pains me to write this review. This is the book I was looking forward to. The one that made me squeal like an excited 6 year old when it arrived in the mail. People raved about it (it […]
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Plot Summary My Review Note: If I could give this book 3.5 stars, I probably would. But I’m trying to stay away from half stars and fractions, so I’m going with 4 stars. I whipped through this book practically in one sitting! It was actually […]
The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
Plot Summary My Review Rick Riordan.. that guy has an amazing way of making characters come to life. Like the first book in the series — The Red Pyramid — the chapters alternate between two different points of view: Sadie’s and Carter’s. They both have […]
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife is the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. If you haven’t already, check out my review of The Golden Compass. Plot Summary The book starts off by introducing us to a new character, Will Parry. He’s a […]
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
There are so many reasons that I love The Golden Compass, I barely even know where to begin. I’ve always been a huge fan of the idea of parallel universes and I think that The Golden Compass executes this concept miraculously. It’s almost as if […]