I will say that what Felicia Day did was no small feat. She took a common misconception about gamers (overweight, introverted males), and actually shed light on the reality of the gaming community. There are gamers of all shapes and sizes, of all nationalities and religions, of all genders. Gamers are not, and have never been, confined to one gender or one personality type. I think Felicia did a fabulous job showing each character as an individual with their own quirks and problems, but also showing the passion they have for their game and their guild.
Some say Falling Kingdoms is meant to read like “Game of Thrones for teens.” That would be true, if Game of Thrones was simply written, with brief and unmoving battle scenes, and a cast of childish main characters who grate on the nerves. Maybe it’s your cup of tea, maybe it’s not. But if you’re waiting on GRRM’s Winds of Winter and you happen to pick up Falling Kingdoms, don’t expect to be wowed by this book.
In a futuristic Chicago, the citizens are broken up into five factions each with distinct characteristics, and a sixth group, the “factionless.” At age sixteen, every citizen must undergo a test that helps them decide which faction to choose. Beatrice’s test results are inconclusive, and from the reaction of the tester in the room, this result is not a good one…
In a world where the government regulates every aspect of your life and “cures” you of the disease commonly known as love, Lena lives a pretty good life. It isn’t until she meets Alex and develops feelings for him that she realizes how superficial her world really is. Lauren Oliver’s second novel is pretty good, but not amazing, but worth reading for YA fans.
After “sixteen years worth of research, writing, and rewriting,” Sean Pidgeon should have a good book on his hands. But between a strange point-of-view(third person, present tense), lack of a real plot until the last 100 pages, and long, rambling chapters and paragraphs, Pidgeon fails to bring the magic and mystery of King Arthur and the story of one man’s journey to find the truth about him to life.
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison–even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.
If you’ve ever read any of Philippa Gregory’s books before, you will notice this is a little different than her normal niche writing about English or French monarchs and their queens. Instead, this is a story of two mostly ordinary people in medieval Italy. I found Changeling uninteresting, formulaic, and simply uninspired. Having reading Gregory’s infamous [,,,]
Cinder is a cyborg in New Beijing with few memories of her past. Her entire life – her step family and her repair shop – will be turned upside down when she meets the handsome Prince Kai. She quickly learns that not everything in her world is as it seems. Through twists and turns she (and the reader!) cannot imagine, Cinder is forced to choose between protecting herself and saving the world.
When conflicted zombie R meets Julie, a human girl, he fights his instincts to eat her and kidnaps her instead. Warm Bodies is a love story unlike any other. Rife with zombie weddings, schools for zombie children where they learn to hunt humans, and an airport where R lives on a 747, it is a story that will have you laughing and crying as you turn the pages. Warm Bodies is like Romeo and Juliet meets Zombieland.
In Killmaiden’s Compendium of Uncommon Occurrences by James A Shapiro, Alex Drake is the youngest Scout to have an Entry in the history of the Compendium. He’s seen all sorts of things and gone on many missions with his father, Explorer Benson Drake, but nothing has prepared him for the adventure he embarks upon in this fabulous book.
When Lena moves to the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina, strange things begin happening. Ethan Wate, a 16-year-old on the basketball team, quickly realizes that the dreams he’s been having for months involve Lena. Soon they are desperately seeking any way to change her future. Will they find an answer in time?
When Althea Vestrit, the daughter of an Old Trader family of Bingtown, is denied her rightful inheritance of the family’s liveship, she will stop at nothing to reclaim what she sees as rightfully hers. This book tells the tales of a wide cast of characters, though its main concern is the Vestrit Family of Bingtown. It brings readers into the Liveship and Farseer universe tinged with mystery and magic unknown.
