Date Read: April 17 Author: Matthew Cody Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Twelve-year-old Daniel is in a new town and at a new school, and he’s discovered that his new friends aren’t entirely normal. They’re superheroes, able to do everything from flying to controlling electricity. There’s just one downside: their powers, and memories of the powers,Continue reading “Powerless”
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Girls Save the World in This One
Date Read: April 14 Author: Ash Parsons Genre: Horror Rating: 5/5 When June gets dropped off at ZombieCon, she’s planning on a day of photo ops and panels of her favorite actors. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of an actual zombie apocalypse. This book actually came out today, and it was so goodContinue reading “Girls Save the World in This One”
Harry Potter à L’école des Sorciers
Date Read: April 13 Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 This is, of course, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but I was rereading it and so I decided to read it in French. It was just how I imagined it, and it was funnier rereading it and looking at the French names ofContinue reading “Harry Potter à L’école des Sorciers”
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Date Read: April 12 Authors: Amal El-Muhtar and Max Gladstone Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 Red and Blue, agents on opposite sides of a war that spans all of time and space, find themselves exchanging letters. The letters and the narrative are beautiful, woven together just as carefully as the strands of time that RedContinue reading “This Is How You Lose the Time War”
Zone One
Date Read: April 10 Author: Colson Whitehead Genre: Post-apocalypic Horror Rating: 5/5 Zone One takes place months after the world falls to a zombie pandemic, and it follows a man trying to survive through the various stages of the zombie apocalypse. The book takes place over three days, but includes various flashbacks throughout. My onlyContinue reading “Zone One”
Homegoing
Date Read: April 2 Author: Yaa Gyasi Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 A multi-generational novel following two half-sisters and their families, Homegoing is a powerful novel. It balances emotions and the story, and the result is an incredibly well-written narrative. Evil begets evil. It grow. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that theContinue reading “Homegoing”
Arabella of Mars
Date Read: April 1 Author: David D. Levine Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 In the late 1600s, Captain William Cook was in charge of the first ship to Mars. A century later, Arabella Ashby, born and raised on Mars, has to find her way back. An inventive blend of space travel and the 1800s, ArabellaContinue reading “Arabella of Mars”
Code Name Verity
Date Read: April 1 Author: Elizabeth Wein Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 Code Name Verity is not a book for anyone looking to learn more about World War II, but it was still a good spy novel. I appreciated the focus on women – often WWII novels focus on the men, and if women makeContinue reading “Code Name Verity”
The City We Became
Date Read: March 30 Author: NK Jemisin Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 I have previously read The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin, and I loved it, so I was thrilled to see that she had another book coming out. The City We Became came out last Tuesday, but I finished the whole book in aboutContinue reading “The City We Became”
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Date Read: March 29 Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 A good book about two teenage boys in summer. It’s a little awkward at times, but teenage boys are awkward. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe. – Aristotle andContinue reading “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 