Tag: YA
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Book Review: Lethal Kings
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis You’ve been warned many times, you cannot trust the kings . . . The old queen is dead, a new queen is in play, and the realm has descended into darkness. For the first time in history, a queen has rejected the game. Eliza will start her reign with no…
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Book Review: The Locket’s Revenge
by L. E. Richmond publisher’s synopsis A Trinket Could Unleash a Tempest Locklyn Adair thought that finding the Sea Enchantress would lift her family’s curse. But the ramifications of her desire for a tail reach further than she could ever have dreamed. Now the entire Undersea Realm is in peril, as Circe, armed with the…
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Book Review: A Curse Dark as Gold
by Elizabeth C. Bunce publisher’s synopsis Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family’s woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father’s death, the bad luck piles departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting He can…
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Book Review: The Nightmare Virus
by Nadine Brandes publisher’s synopsis Some viruses go after the body. But the Nightmare Virus goes after the mind. When dream technology goes wrong, a virus spreads across the globe, trapping people in a universal dreamscape. They call it the Nightmare Virus.Cain Cross is determined to find a cure . . . if he can…
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Book Review: Prelude of Fire
by Christine Schulze publisher’s synopsis A desperate mission. Sinister sorcery. Can she find the seven prism shards to stop the world from being destroyed? Ashlai, a young Fyre mage who can harness powers of flame from the sun, yearns to know about her kin. Her adoptive elven father refuses to let her travel abroad with…
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Book Review: Ignite
by Kara Swanson publisher’s synopsis: Can Mara survive in a world where the fire in her veins is worth killing for? In a frozen wasteland suffocating beneath a dying sun, Mara is a young phoenix raised by her father to explode at his command. He’s the only one who can help her control her fire,…
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Book Review: Phoenix Fire
by S. D. Grimm publisher’s synopsis When the past comes knocking, think twice about opening the door. Orphaned Ava Elderson is a Phoenix—a monster hunter created to protect the human race—but she’s without her most valuable asset—knowledge of what she is. Phoenix powers? A mystery. Past memories? Locked away. Worse, she’s unaware of the great…
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Book Review: The Burning Tree
by Helen Dent publisher’s synopsis There’s a secret growing in the woods. In Ellie Caster’s town of Bishop’s Gap, the Casters and the powerful Levy family have been feuding for generations. The families share just one thing in common—they both dread the mark, a scorch that appears at random on their doors, bringing a curse…
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Book Review: The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater publisher’s synopsis Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning…
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