Fantastic journeys for young adults – and old adults.
And this is it. The grand finale of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs, the first of which has already been produced as a major motion picture about to be released. The series became wildly popular on its initial release due to the quirky story and the images that were included in…
Queen of Shadows is the fourth book in the smash hit high fantasy series for young adults and adults by author Sarah J. Maas. After just finishing the fourth novel in the set, I learned that the Throne of Glass series was optioned for a television miniseries, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I’m guessing…
Heir of Fire is the third in Sarah J. Maas’ epic high fantasy for young adults and on up. What began as a young adult series has moved on and up, maturing as our young assassin gets older. This third book is where the series begins to transform in plot, complexity, and maturity. Throne of…
Crown of Midnight is the second installment in the Throne of Glass series, a young adult high fantasy about a female assassin. This wildly popular series is a bestselling saga with four full novels in print, several accompanying novelettes, and a fifth full novel set to be published at the end of this year. Bloomsbury…
The Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas is sort of a phenom among young adult fantasy readers. The reviews are plentiful but vary dramatically with lots of one and five star reviews. With thousands upon thousands of reviews and a massive chasm between reactions, I really needed to give it a try and see what…
The end of an absorbing young adult series, Winter caps off the The Lunar Chronicles – a science-fiction retelling of an assortment of fairy tales. From the get-go, I fell in love with this series. Perhaps not as edgy as, say, the Red Rising Trilogy, it mixed the adorable with the witty and brought in…
Have you ever not wanted to let a series go because you were afraid of waking up? I have this problem on a regular basis, but only when the series is good. With The Darkest Mind series, I had a good run. It was a fun read, but … it was the last book. In…
And here we are at Never Fade, the second book in Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds series, a dark and dangerous young adult dystopia. Bracken ups the ante in the second book, duplicating the energy of the first but using a more sophisticated and mature protagonist. Hardcover | Disney-Hyperion | October, 2013 | 512 pp The…
I can’t tell you how excited I’ve been to start The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken, a young adult paranormal dystopia and semi-post-apocalyptic set of books. All three of the main books are out and there are a number of extra companion novelettes available to boot. The first book in the series, The Darkest…
Fairest is a bonus book in The Lunar Chronicles, specifically #3.5, and was released just before Winter, the grand finale. I have yet to read Winter but wanted to whet my appetite with this short novel, a backstory on Queen Levana – the series’ nemesis. The Lunar Chronicles is a young adult science-fiction series and a…