Christina Dalcher - author of Vox - used to be a linguistic researcher at City University London. Her project focused on how children and adults produced the "r" sounds with the majority of her research focusing on how sound changes. In addition she taught post-graduate language-related courses. It was only later - after she had… Continue reading Seven Questions on a Saturday – Christina Dalcher
Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho
★★ It's never a good sign when it takes well over 150 pgs to get the story started....really...truly not. This book dragged. Nothing really worked for me. Nothing. If I could get that time back, I would. I want it back so much. THE PREMISE - aka not a bad start The British elite conquest consist of magicians (called… Continue reading Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho
Life and Death – Stephenie Meyer
★ I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to...what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me? BWAHAHAHA....wait....she actually published this? So, I reread the entirety of Twilight in preparation for this novel. I… Continue reading Life and Death – Stephenie Meyer
The Darkest Night – Gena Showalter
★ I wanted to love this one so much, but jeez Gena, why are you making this so hard? To channel my upcoming rant, I will focus only on: the Plot, the Complete Idiocy, the Insta-Insta Love, the Nipples and how Promiscuity is just Rape. The Plot - aka started from the bottom, now we here...still at the bottom. The premise to this novel was… Continue reading The Darkest Night – Gena Showalter
Glass Sword – Victoria Aveyard
★ Rarely, (and I mean rarely) do I abhor a book to its very core. In an effort to give some structure to my upcoming rant, I will limit myself to the things I disliked the most: The title, the writing and (of course) how our heroine is actually aterrible, horrible person. The Title I literally cannotget over this title. So… Continue reading Glass Sword – Victoria Aveyard
Seven Questions on a Saturday – Abbi Waxman
(Whoops, it's on a Sunday...but isn't Sunday a second-Saturday anyway?) Abbi Waxman - author, copywriter, dog-mom, and previous ghost-writer - began life in England, before settling Los Angeles with her husband and three kids. She worked for quite a while as a copywriter like her mother before her, then as a creative director at a… Continue reading Seven Questions on a Saturday – Abbi Waxman
Seven Questions on a Saturday – Wilmar Luna
Wilmar Luna graduated in 2008 with a degree in video editing and motion graphics design at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey. A longtime fan of the superhero genre, he began his editing career – with screen credits in many (many) indie films as well as freelance work for the NFL. He even worked… Continue reading Seven Questions on a Saturday – Wilmar Luna
Felix Yz – Lisa Bunker
★★★★ Twenty-nine days until ZeroDay. I'm counting down. Twenty-nine days to go. Thirteen year old Felix Yz has a somewhat...unusual life. ...when I was little there was an accident with a secret machine my dad was working on, and I got fused at the atomic level with a hyperintelligent being from the fourth dimension. Zyx, the… Continue reading Felix Yz – Lisa Bunker
Seeker – Arwen Elys Dayton
★ To My Fellow YA Readers: Can we all collectively agree that love triangles involving your third cousin will NOT be the latest YA trend? "Quinn, we're only third cousins, you know?" "Half third cousins." She whispered, her lips close to his ear, "Hardly related at all." I'm sorry but the MOMENT there's any familial relationship - I don't care how… Continue reading Seeker – Arwen Elys Dayton
The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
★★★★ ½ Holly Black at her finest. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. Seriously, how does Holly Black create such bone-chillingly wondrous books time and time again? Hazel Evans and her brother (Ben) live in Fairfold - a town blessed (cursed?) by the fair folk. The food tastes… Continue reading The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
