Tag: YA sci-fi

Review: Coda by Emma Trevayne

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 17, 2014 | 10 Comments

I didn’t care much for the delivery, but the concept was pretty cool. My favorite part was the idea of the memory chips that everyone has, which allow family members to access memories after the person’s death. This would be wonderful! If you lose a relative, you’ll always have something to remember them by. The whole music as a drug thing was awesome and original! The people do something called “tracking” – which is basically getting high off of music. And […]

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 […]

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 […]

Review: Cured by Bethany Wiggins

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 25, 2014 | 6 Comments

I loved Stung. LOVED it. The world was amazing, the idea of it was unique and intriguing, and the beasts were scary. I rated it 4.5 stars. Somewhere between Stung and Cured, the magic was lost. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed it. But, there was none of the epic world building that I adored so much in the first book. There was little to no talk about the bees or the virus, and the beasts only made an […]

Review: Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 14, 2014 | 15 Comments

WARNING: Possible spoilers! I’d rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making. Oh goodness, where do I even start? I don’t even know if I can write a review that can do this justice. This book got to me, just like Unravel Me did. So many times I was in danger of drowning in feels!! We found out in Destroy Me that there was a reason for the way Warner is. In […]

Review: Uninvited by Sophie Jordan

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 27, 2014 | 14 Comments

This one kicked off with an AWESOME start! Actually, if I had been in a store and picked this book up, I would have bought it immediately just based on the first page. It’s one of the best first paragraphs I’ve read in a very long time! The world building was one of my favorite parts of this novel. Sophie Jordan did a fabulous job of making everything sound legitimate and convincing! And the best part? There was a year […]