Category: YA

  • REVIEW of The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    REVIEW of The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    It’s been four years since the Luxen invasion. At seventeen years old, Evie Dasher has vague terror-filled memories of hiding from the alien invaders and having her whole life turned upside down. Now that she’s a senior in high school, life is getting back to normal. TV shows are back on the air, hamburgers are…

  • REVIEW of Secrets of the Wild Wood by Tonke Dragt

    REVIEW of Secrets of the Wild Wood by Tonke Dragt

    Tiuri and two more knights are waiting for Sir Ristridin. The plan was to meet up at Ristridin’s castle when spring came, to see if any of them had discovered the identity and whereabouts of an evil knight who killed their friend in the previous book.  But Sir Ristridin, who ventured into the Wild Wood,…

  • REVIEW of The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy #1), by Lindsay A. Franklin

    REVIEW of The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy #1), by Lindsay A. Franklin

    Tanwen has a gift–when she tells stories, magical strands come from her hands and weave the colors of the tale into a beautiful glass picture…which she can then sell to a member of the audience. Tanwen’s lifelong ambition has been to become a royal storyteller and weave her stories for the king and his court,…

  • REVIEW of The Oddling Prince, by Nancy Springer

    REVIEW of The Oddling Prince, by Nancy Springer

    When a mysterious ring appears on King Bardaric’s hand, the king falls ill and approaches the door of death. Prince Aric is a true-hearted and faithful son, not yet ready to become king of Calidon. He rejoices when an elfin figure calling himself Albaric removes the ring with his magic and saves the king’s life.…

  • REVIEW of The Princess Search: A Retelling of the Ugly Duckling (The Four Kingdoms #5), by Melanie Cellier

    REVIEW of The Princess Search: A Retelling of the Ugly Duckling (The Four Kingdoms #5), by Melanie Cellier

    When Princess Celine asks Evie to come with the royals of Lanover on a tour of their kingdom, the young seamstress can hardly refuse. But even though she feels confident in her skills as royal dressmaker, Evie is hardly confident about her ability to remain calm as she revisits the places from her nomadic and…

  • REVIEW of East, by Edith Pattou

    REVIEW of East, by Edith Pattou

    Her mother was facing north when Rose was born…which means that that the girl will be a traveler, a wanderer. Add to that the prophecy that this Norwegian north child will perish in an avalanche of ice and snow, and you can see why Rose’s mother wants her to never go out of doors. But…

  • REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    Orphaned at age five in the Holy Land, Aladdin is found by a master thief and forced to steal from market goers. But when he tries to steal from a knight and gets caught, a priest takes pity on the boy, adopts him, and brings him home to the orphanage in Hagenheim. There he grows…

  • REVIEW of Sky in the Deep, by Adrienne Young

    REVIEW of Sky in the Deep, by Adrienne Young

    She killed her first man six years ago, and at the age of seventeen, Eelyn is on the cusp of being a full-fledged Aska warrior. But when she catches a glimpse of her brother in battle–the brother that has been thought dead for five years–she sets caution to the wind and ends up being captured…

  • REVIEW of The Letter for the King, by Tonke Dragt

    REVIEW of The Letter for the King, by Tonke Dragt

    All of his life Tiuri has wanted to be a knight, but on the night before his accolade, a knock on the door turns his whole world upside down. Instead of kneeling before the candles keeping vigil in the chapel, he opens the door and accepts the quest given to him by a desperate old…

  • REVIEW of Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell

    REVIEW of Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell

    A floating cello case, a missing mother, and a mysterious search across the rooftops of Paris.