Tag: YA
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Book Review: The Crier Stone
by Lyndsey Lewellen publisher’s synopsis Brave the Plex. Unleash the stone. Embrace your destiny. Freshly freed from an earth-dwelling monster, Juniper Conway is stuck with a promise she never intended to make. But if rescuing Plex City from a deadly nano drug is what she vowed, it’s what she’ll do. Miles of wasteland stretch between…
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Book Review: The Springborn
by Carrie Anne Noble publisher’s synopsis An 1880’s coal town is no place for a girl with antlers. Once upon a winter’s day, a childless miner and his wife find baby Sabella in a mysterious basket. When she suddenly grows a pair of silvery gray antlers, they hide her from the world in embarrassment and…
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Book Review: The Secret Investigator of Astor Street
by Stephanie Morrill publisher’s synopsis Piper Sail knows what she to become a detective. After all, she already solved the case of her missing best friend, and there’s no shortage of crime in 1920s Chicago. But for an eighteen-year-old society girl—even one who’s currently dating a police investigator—it simply isn’t done. That is, until a girl asks…
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Book Review: The Floating World
by Axie Oh publisher’s synopsis Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until he comes across the score…
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Book Review: Illuminary
by Chawna Schroeder publisher’s synopsis Glimpse the past, illuminate the future. Yosarai Patican dreams of becoming an illuminator in a country that values art above all else. A lofty goal that finally seems within reach when she earns a position at the prestigious Academy of the Seven Arts. Although Yosarai loathes to leave behind her…
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Book Review: Embergold
by Rachelle Nelson publisher’s synopsis Fire dreamed of water, but the first sip would be its last. Gilde has spent her life isolated in the wild marshlands, a place too wet for the dragon to go. She’s safe there, according to her father. So why is he asking her to leave with him now that…
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Book Review: The Well of Ascension
by Brandon Sanderson publisher’s synopsis Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. Three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to…
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Book Review: The Betrayal of Eden
by Erin Phillips publisher’s synopsis Before she can rise above them all, she must first fall. I’m on the precipice of a cliff.One light breeze away from falling off. At 16, Eden Fortin sees nothing but a bright future ahead of her. With a valuable promotion on the horizon, she is granted a coveted spot…
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Book Review: Lotusfall
by Jamie Foley publisher’s synopsis Thrones have been toppled and battles won, but the war of the gods is only just beginning. The heir to the wolf-tyrant Faced with a heritage of violence, Rhu Sousuke lives in defiance of his father’s evil—and his inherited attraction to elemental power. His adoptive father offers a better path.…
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Book Review: Lovely War
by Julie Berry publisher’s synopsis It’s 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. She’s a shy and talented pianist; he’s a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. When they fall in love, it’s immediate and deep–and…
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