Category: Book Reviews

Mini Review: The Trials by Stacey Kade

Mini Review: The Trials by Stacey Kade
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 10, 2015 | 0 Comments

A special thank you to Hyperion for providing a copy for review! While I still didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first book, it was better than the 2nd! It was a good ending to a very interesting trilogy. I figured Zane was going to end up like Ariane in this book! It still kinda sucked though, that St. John used him as a weapon. I can imagine what it was like for Ariane when he walked into […]

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Review: Off the Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer

Review: Off the Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on July 6, 2015 | 4 Comments

I think I mentioned in my review of Between the Lines that I would have never looked twice at these books based off of the covers. This one is better than the last, but it still doesn’t scream “Young Adult fantasy” to me. But I’m very glad I received this one for review, because I really enjoyed it! I am highly impressed by how much the writing style improved from the last book. (Part of that may be because two heads are […]

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Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 29, 2015 | 1 Comment

There was sooo much 80’s pop culture in this book! I did get excited about the music references, but honestly most of it was over my head because it was things I wasn’t interested in (particularly 80’s video games, I never had any gaming consoles growing up sadly). I don’t know much about video games from that era because I was never that big into gaming. So a lot of those references had little to no meaning to me. But […]

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Review: Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult

Review: Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 26, 2015 | 5 Comments

I’m going to be honest, this is a book I would never have picked up on my own. The cover just screams “contemporary” and I’m not a big contemp reader. I also wouldn’t have pegged it as YA. Not to mention the average Goodreads rating is only 3.53, which typically scares me away from reading. But, I got the companion/sequel novel, Off the Page, from the publisher for review and everyone told me that I should read this one first. […]

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Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 22, 2015 | 6 Comments

I’m not really sure how I felt about this book, to be honest. Rating it was very difficult! On one hand, the idea was interesting and unique. Brilliant, really. On the other hand, the prose was horribly sophomoric and I felt a massive disconnect because it was so dry. I kinda wish this had been required reading when I was in high school. I probably would have loved it if I’d read it when I was much younger. But the […]

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Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 19, 2015 | 1 Comment

Most of you know that I’m not a fan of classics because I hate historical. I would normally never pick up a classic by choice (except for 1984 or Fahrenheit 451), but my mind was in kind of a dark place when I picked this up so I was looking for something dark about mental health. I was kind of surprised that this one held my interest at all, honestly. But it did! Even though there was nothing happening, Plath’s […]

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