YA Fantasy Book Review: Small Favors
Stand-Alone Type of Fantasy: Magical Realism Synopsis Ellerie Downing lives in the quiet town of Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range--five narrow peaks stretching into the sky like a…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Wide Starlight
Stand-Alone Type of Fantasy: Magical Realism Synopsis According to Arctic legend, if you whistle at the Northern Lights, they'll swoop down and carry you off forever. Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis knows…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Six
1st of the Gateway Chronicles series Type of Fantasy: Portal Synopsis Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no true friends, crushing social anxiety, and…
YA Fantasy Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Type of Fantasy: Portal, Historical, Magical Realism Synopsis In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke,…
Adult Sci-Fi Book Review: The Book of M
Type of Sci-Fi: Post-Apocalyptic Synopsis One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like…
Middle Grade Fantasy Book Review: Willa of Dark Hollow
Sequel to Willa of the Wood duology Type of Fantasy: Historical Synopsis Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Shadow and Bone/Siege and Storm
Shadow and Bone 1st of the Shadow and Bone trilogy Type of Fantasy: Heroic Synopsis Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Ignite
1st of the Ignite Duology Type of Fantasy: Superhero Synopsis What if superhumans weren't considered heroes? When Scarlett Marley is attacked by an illegal super with fire powers, she doesn’t…
YA Sci-Fi Book Review: The Ones We’re Meant to Find
Type of Sci-Fi: Dying Earth Synopsis Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any recollection of how she arrived, or memories from her life prior.…
YA Fantasy Book Review: Namesake
Sequel to Fable Type of Fantasy: High Synopsis (minor spoilers for Fable) With the Marigold free of her father, Fable and the rest of the crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived…