Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
7th book in the Harry Potter Series
by J.K. Rowling
The seventh and final installment in the highly lauded series Is not much longer than its predecessors and yet the sheer number of events and subplots makes it all that much more dense. Because of this it has taken me quite some [...]
The River’s Gift
by Mercedes Lackey
This story is, without a doubt, one of Lackey’s shortest works ever and yet Lackey easily manages to captivate her audience with it. The River’s Gift is a short story contained within one hundred twenty-two pages in a bounded hardback book that is reminiscent of a child’s storybook. Now while the [...]
Boy Proof
by Cecil Castellucci
Meet Victoria Jugar, a teenage girl in high school who is so obsessed with Terminal Earth, her favorite movie, that she dresses and acts like the heroine and even goes by the same name as the heroine – Egg.
Initially I couldn’t really stand the character in the least. She comes off as [...]
Glass Houses
Book One of The Morganville Vampires
by Rachel Caine
Rachel Caine is well known for her Weather Warden Series but the question most readers were probably wondering about was whether or not Rachel Caine would be capable of creating an intriguing tale for a younger audience without losing her older one. I am pleased to report [...]
Eragon
First book in the Inheritance Trilogy
by Christopher Paolini
Now where to begin? Eragon holds much promise in a time where the stories told of dragons still depicts them as monsters and authors still tend to treat them as mindless beasts, with a few notable exceptions. However I must confess, I found the movie to be more [...]
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