If I didn’t make it obvious enough in my previous review of Panther in the Hive, I love this series. Set in a world in which the medical chips inserts into the necks of the wealthy and those in corporate jobs have gone on the fritz and caused a zombie-like outbreak, a team of survivors goes west to find safety. Our protagonist, Tasha, continues to be a great combination of brave, quick-thinking, and vulnerable, without falling into any common YA traps: even her potential love […]
This is YA dystopia done right
So I used to read a fair amount of young adult fiction. Up until a couple years ago, it probably took up a good 40% of my reading each year, and was the first section I’d go to in the library, even as an 30-something. I appreciated the willingness to experience along with the avoidance of pretension just for the sake of it I found in YA literature. This included YA dystopian novels, which often told interesting stories with bold, frequently female protagonists. However, anything […]
More pathos, less cop drama, please
I finally gave in to BookBub and Book Gorilla’s insistence that I buy this book for $1.99 and…bought this book for $1.99. I’m very picky about mysteries, in that I don’t read a lot of them and expect them to be as good as any other fiction I’d read. Sadly, to me, this is a book that would work better if it made it up its mind more as to what it wanted to be: a meditation on motherhood, self-perception, and external perceptions, or a […]
“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
I am so excited to join my first Cannonball Read! It’s funny that this will be my first book, as I don’t generally read a ton of non-fiction, so this isn’t exactly tone-setting. But it’s the first book I finished this year so it’s the review y’all are getting! Without further ado, here we go: Until the age of 15, I was a part of what I consider an abusive cult: a particularly strict, particularly conservative sect of Jehovah’s Witnesses. I was disfellowshipped (excommunicated) when I […]
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