This is book #3 in a trilogy, so if you want to take a look at my thoughts on the first and second books you can go here and here. Obviously, SPOILERS AHEAD. We pick up with Ruby and the gang a few weeks after the bombings in L.A. Pretty much everyone is still trying to use the kids for their own gain, so Ruby and co. hatch a plan to get to the safe house and ditch their Children’s League companions who seem to have less than […]
“Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart”
This is a rare book that blends both mystery and character building in equal parts. I had never read Karin Slaughter before, but I think I will be remedying that soon. The style of this book and Slaughter’s writing reminded me of the better elements of Tana French and Gillian Flynn. Start to finish, this book is fast-paced and unflinching in its portrayal of pure evil. The story revolves around the disappearance of Julia Carroll in 1994. It looks at the ways her disappearance affected her family […]
Talking warrior polar bear FTW
The Golden Compass is a fast-paced, action packed fantasy story that I feel like everyone in the world has read before me. If you’re one of the last to read it as I am, here’s what you need to know: Lyra is an orphan living at Jordan college who has a penchant for mischief and lying her way out of,,, well, everything. One day she decides to sneak into the chambers of the college’s council, only men allowed. She just meant to see the room, […]