Date Read: June 12 Author: Jodi Picoult Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 Anna is thirteen years old, and she was born to save her sister’s life. When Kate was diagnosed with leukemia, her parents had Anna in order to have a perfect donor match for Kate’s bone marrow. At thirteen, Anna’s had enough. My Sister’s KeeperContinue reading “My Sister’s Keeper”
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Date Read: May 23 Author: Holly Black Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Yesterday I read The Darkest Part of the Forest, and today I read another book by Holly Black. When the vampire infection spread out of control, entire cities were converted into prisons within the United States. Humans can enter, but few return once theyContinue reading “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”
On the Road with the Archangel
Date Read: April 18 Author: Frederich Buechner Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Two families are brought together when the angel Raphael comes to help them. Lots of adventure, problems, and angelic intervention.
The Plato Papers
Date Read: April 18 Author: Peter Ackroyd Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 In the future, orator Plato has been chosen to speak about the past. His topics include the comedian Sigmeund Freud, as well as Charles Dickens, the author of On the Origin of Species. A funny and strange book. I would rather despise the wholeContinue reading “The Plato Papers”
Riot Baby
Date Read: April 18 Author: Tochi Onyebuchi Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Ella and her younger brother, Kev, grow up surrounded by structural racism and violence. By the time Kev is eighteen he’s in prison, and Ella struggles to control and use her extraordinary powers. Riot Baby is extremely well-written, and definitely worth reading.
A Game of Fox and Squirrels
Date Read: April 17 Author: Jenn Reese Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 When eleven-year-old Sam and her sister Caitlin are sent to live with the aunt they’ve never met, all Sam wants to do is go home. Then she discovers “A Game of Fox and Squirrels,” a magical card game that becomes real when the foxContinue reading “A Game of Fox and Squirrels”
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”
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”
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”
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 