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Title: Daughter of the Centaurs
Author: Kate Klimo
Genre: Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Fantast, Young Adult
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date: January 24th 2012
Hardcover: 384 pages
Malora knows what she was born to be: a horse wrangler and a hunter, just like her father. But when [...]
Author: Lia Habel
Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Steampunk, Alternate-Victorian, Speculative Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Zombies (THIS, this genre description! THIS is a large reason why the book was DNF’d)
Publisher: Del Rey
Publication Date: October 2011
Paperback: 470 Pages
Love can never die.
Love conquers all, so they say. [...]
The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In previous years, the Feats of Strength were a challenge in which we dared each other to read a book that we knew was so far beyond the other’s comfort zone as to put it in another galaxy altogether. This year, we [...]
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia, PNR, Young Adult
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication Date: October 15 2011
Hardcover: 342 pages
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one [...]
Author: Libba Bray
Genre: Satire, Humor, Adventure/Survival, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Date: May 2011
Hardcover: 400 Pages
The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate [...]
So, last week, Ana talked about a few books she tried to read this past month, but could not finish. I really, really loathe DNFs. I try to muscle through books as much as I can – but sometimes, sometimes one just has to accept defeat and do the unthinkable…putting the book down.
Such is [...]
I don’t finish all the books I start. There are several reasons why I do not finish a book and they vary wildly: it could be because the writing is uninspiring or the characters don’t ring true. Or because the world-building is not interesting or lacks inherent logic. I am not above pet peeves either, [...]
Welcome to another segment in our “A Dude Reads PNR” series, in which our delightful buddy Harry, from Temple Library Reviews joins us once a month to review paranormal romance from a dude’s perspective. Please give a warm welcome to Harry!
Harry: I’m the newest honorary [...]
Author: Ally Condie
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Publication Date: November 2010
Hardcover: 384 Pages
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen [...]
Being here and writing reviews almost every day, reading other blogs and other reviews often make me ponder about the act of reading itself, and how I approach books and eventually how I review them. It also makes me realise how much my life has changed and how it affects my reading and talking and [...]
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