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Online-Only Book Reviews Archives
Click on the “This Week in Reviews” links to access the full reviews and ratings of the titles listed below each link. This Week in Reviews: May 9, 2012 Banks, Anna. Of Poseidon. Feiwel & Friends,...
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Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King Review
5Q 4P J S King, A. S. Still Life with Tornado. Dutton/Penguin Random House, 2016. 304p. $17.99. 978-1-101-99488-7. Sarah is sixteen but meets herself at ages ten, twenty-three, and forty as she begins...
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Wildings by Eleanor Glewwe Review
4Q 4P M J Glewwe, Eleanor. Wildings. Viking/Penguin Random House, 2016. 336p. $16.99. 978-0-451-46885-7. Twins Rivka and Arik have been brought up in a system that requires all children to be tested...
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Grendel’s Guide to Love and War by A. E. Kaplan Is a Perfect Ten!
5Q 5P J S Kaplan, A.E. Grendel’s Guide to Love and War. Knopf/Penguin Random House, 2017. 320p. $17.99. 978-0-399-55554-1. In this modern-day Beowulf, set in a Virginia retirement mecca where death...
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Scythe: Arc of a Scythe, Book 1 by Neal Shusterman is a Perfect Ten!
Shusterman, Neal. Scythe: Arc of a Scythe, Book 1. Simon & Schuster, 2016. 448p. $18.99. 978-1-4424-7242-6. 5Q 5P S NA In this gripping and disturbing novel of an immortal and perfected humanity,...
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Hunted by Meagan Spooner is a Perfect Ten!
Spooner, Meagan. Hunted. HarperTeen, 2017. 384p. $17.99. 978-0-06-242228-6. 5Q 5P M J S Yeva, called Beauty by her father, is the youngest of a wealthy merchant’s three daughters and the only one who...
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Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth is a Perfect Ten!
Roth, Veronica. Carve the Mark. Katherine Tegen/ HarperCollins, 2017. 480p. $22.99. 978-0-06-234863-0. 5Q 5P J S This dystopia is galaxy-wide. Nine...
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Beasts Made of Night is a Perfect Ten!
5Q 5P J S NA Onyebuchi, Tochi. Beasts Made of Night. Razorbill/Penguin Random House, November 2017. 304p. $17.99. 978-0-448-49390-9. The titular beasts are the embodiments of sin, drawn out of their...
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The Epic Crush of Genie Lo is a Perfect Ten!
5Q 5P J S Yee, F. C. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo. Amulet/Abrams, August 2017. 320p. $18.99. 978-1-4197-2548-7. When the new kid, Quentin, announces that Genie Lo belongs to him, she discovers he is Sun...
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Alone Is a Perfect Ten!
5Q 5P J S NA Balog, Cyn. Alone. Sourcebooks Fire, November 2017. 288p. $17.99. 978-1-4926-5547-3. When her mother inherits the Bismarck-Chisholm Home, a creepy “murder” mansion on Solitude Mountain,...
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