Magisterium was not quite like any book I've read before. Part futuristic dystopia, part dreamlike fantasy, this story weaves together a number of disparate elements into one intriguing whole. Reading…
Max Gordon's exciting adventure into Africa is a sure page-turner for readers who love survival stories mixed with some mystery and a lot of intense action. While there is violence, the book reads lik…
I love when a writer creates a world so richly detailed that it's easy to sink right into it every time I pick the book up—and difficult to put the book down again! That was my experience reading Rach…
So much of dystopian fiction shares similar plot lines--but this one is different from anything I've read before. Price tells an exciting, slightly creepy story and does it masterfully.
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For the lover of historical fiction and fantasy, this book is a winner! A historical setting is depicted as a magical society where vampires control too much, and the idea of power takes on …
The Golden Flute begins on an exciting note, and the fast pace and adventurous plot continues until the last page. Catherine Lanigan's teen heroes are likeable and easy to relate to, and her myst…
In Peaceweaver, Rebecca Barnhouse creates a rich, vividly-imagined historical setting that I found easy to lose myself in. I loved immersing myself in the sparse, formal landscape of the Shylfing…
The second installment in Patterson's 'Maximum Ride: The Fugitives' series picks up right where the first book left off. Almost right away the reader is thrown into the fast-paced action of the stor…
What teenage girl wouldn't die to be given the opportunity to be on a reality television show to potentially become prom date to the President of the United States' hotty son? Well, Addy, for one. She…
In this first book of a (completed) four book series called The Homelander Series, Andrew Klavan hooks the reader with immediate page-turning suspense. It became so intense in a few spots that I kept …
Laura Amy Schlitz is the Newbery winner for her brilliant Good Gentleman! Fair Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village. In Splendors and Glooms she turns her hand to England, 1860.At times eerie an…
Jordan Sonnenblick is one of my favorite authors for young adult fiction. He has some trademarks to his style that make his books so brilliant. Sonnenblick's voice is spot-on and his dialo…
