Tag: YA fiction

Review: Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam

Review: Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 10, 2014 | 11 Comments

While this one didn’t necessarily wow me, I did really love the concept! That was by far my favorite part. I could picture everything clearly, and I thought the world building was spot on. It was so easy to imagine the world in Elusion. This would make a great movie! I think the characters were the downfall for me in this book. I never really cared much about what was happening to them, and they didn’t feel very realistic. They […]

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Review: Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland

Review: Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 7, 2014 | 9 Comments

Man, did this book have wonderful potential. I wanted so badly to love this – it had fabulous mythology, originality, and I was in love with the fact that our main character is a Harpy. In the beginning I was rather enjoying it. The setting was awesome – Tartarus! – and there was a big monster thing called a Draken; and I thought it was awesome that the MC, Zephyr, was not only a Harpy with blue hair and wings, that […]

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Review: Ruins by Dan Wells

Review: Ruins by Dan Wells
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 3, 2014 | 7 Comments

“Waging war is the easy part – making peace will be the hardest thing we’ve ever done.” Dan Wells is a pro at storytelling. He brings the world to life! It’s always so easy to imagine the story as real because everything is so convincing. The world & setting is by far my favorite part of this entire series – the world building is cinematic! “You weren’t ‘designed’ to cure RM, but you did it anyway. You weren’t designed to […]

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Mini Review: Praying for Rain by Jay Kristoff

Mini Review: Praying for Rain by Jay Kristoff
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 1, 2014 | 0 Comments

My god I missed this world so much!! I loved jumping back into it, even for such a brief time. I had forgotten how beautiful and compelling Jay’s writing was! This is a very short story, so there’s not much to it. But Jay still found a way to pull on my heartstrings. Even though I pretty much knew how it was going to end, I still enjoyed it and it still sucked to see it end! The subject of […]

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Mini Review: The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

Mini Review: The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 1, 2014 | 0 Comments

OH MY GOD JAY WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BREAK MY HEART?! I should have known this would end in tears. IT ALWAYS DOES. *sigh* I’m not usually a fan of novellas because most of the time they only tell a more detailed story of what you already know. But I loooved this one! I freaking love the arashitoras, and reading in the POV of one of them again was like having a little piece of Buruu back. (I […]

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Review: Panic by Lauren Oliver

Review: Panic by Lauren Oliver
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 28, 2014 | 17 Comments

I thought for sure I was going to enjoy this book. I absolutely LOVED Before I Fall, and while I wasn’t the biggest fan, Delirium was still enjoyable. Sadly, this one did not work for me. The pacing was downright horrendous – I was bored out of my mind for most of the book. There was far too much detail about mundane things, and I think that could have been cut back to keep the pace moving. After pages and pages of detail […]

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