Tag: YA sci-fi

Review: Deception by C.J. Redwine

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on August 7, 2013 | 13 Comments

This review contains spoilers for Defiance if you haven’t read it. Big thanks to HarperTeen for providing a copy for review! WOW. If I had one word to describe this thrilling sequel to Defiance, it would be INTENSE. Goodness, where do I start? This book picked up right where the first left off, with Baalboden destroyed and the Commander escaped. It jumped right into the action with the survivors setting out into the Wasteland. And from there on, the story […]

Review: In the After by Demitria Lunetta

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 12, 2013 | 7 Comments

Before was reality; the After, a nightmare. In the After was fabulous! The world that Lunetta painted drew me in and I loved it! I think the driving point in this book was the relationship between Amy and Baby. It was beautiful and real and had me rooting for them to succeed. Amy was very protective of Baby, but Baby was perfectly capable of holding her own as well. I absolutely LOVED the fact that they spoke in sign language! […]

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 10, 2013 | 16 Comments

I’m not really sure what to think of this book overall. I had a lot of issues with the world building, but it was so unique I couldn’t help but enjoy it anyway. I had a very difficult time in the beginning because I was really struggling to understand all of the terms and trying to envision the world. Things were not explained very well at all. I had a hard time picturing anything in my head, and thinking about […]

Review: Rush by Eve Silver

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 3, 2013 | 15 Comments

I was seriously looking forward to this book! It was one of my most anticipated summer releases. I was seriously disappointed. It’s not that I didn’t like it. It was just meh. And for some reason it really reminded me of Doomed by Tracy Deebs, so it kinda felt like I had read it already. My main problem was that I didn’t give a crap about any of the characters. They were all cardboard cutouts with little to no personality […]

Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 29, 2013 | 15 Comments

After seeing all the glowing reviews for this book, I was sure I was going to love it; yet at the same time, afraid I wouldn’t. But love it I did! I usually feel kinda blah about alien stories, but this was one of the best ones I’ve ever read! I was hooked right from the very first chapter with the owl, which reminded me of the movie The Fourth Kind (only way, waaaay better). Rick Yancey’s prose is engaging […]

Review: PODs by Michelle Pickett

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 25, 2013 | 7 Comments

Huge thanks to Spencer Hill for providing a review copy! I very nearly DNF’ed this book in the first 20-30 pages. I managed to stick through it somehow – my masochistic nature? or morbid curiosity? who knows – and honestly, I wouldn’t have been missing much. I was really looking forward to reading this because of the idea, but the delivery was so lackluster that it all just fell flat for me. My first problem happened very early when Eva […]