Title: Uncommon Criminals Author: Ally Carter Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Year: 2011 If you have neglected the Heist Society books so far, I would recommend you go back and read my review of the first book in the series. Because why haven’t you picked it up yet? I thought a lot about what to [...]
Title: Demonglass Author: Rachel Hawkins Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Year: 2011 I will warn in advance, this review will probably include some spoilers for Hex Hall. If you missed my review on this book’s predecessor last summer, I would recommend you read that review instead, and go out at your earliest convenience and find [...]
Title: Divergent Author: Veronica Roth Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books Yeah: 2011 I used to hate dystopian novels. Massively hate. Granted, that probably has a lot to do with us reading all the wrong ones in high school. I think it’s safe to say there’s little to grab the high schooler’s imagination in either Brave New [...]
Title: The Lost Hero Author: Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Year: 2010 Oh how I wanted to enjoy this as much as I did the first five Percy Jackson novels. Unfortunately, like with Red Pyramid, I maintain that Riordan has caught Rowling sickness. It’s too long. Granted, I took numerous breaks from this [...]
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Audio Connoisseur Year: 1892 After the first two novels, I was starting to think I knew less about the world’s most famous detective than I thought I did. No. No, in fact, it took the short stories for me to see the Holmes I [...]
Title: The Sign of Four Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Audio Connoisseur Year: 1890 Didn’t enjoy this mystery as much as A Study in Scarlet, and therefore have less to say about it. I felt like some of Sherlock’s conclusions were a little too far fetched and difficult to believe. Most of the time I [...]
Title: A Study in Scarlet Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Audio Connoisseur Year: 1887 This was one of my first complete audio reads; usually I will listen to part of the book and read part of it. This book is a testament to how boring my job is; I listened to it all in one [...]
The last few weeks have been an interesting time for me. I haven’t posted on my blog since I sent out query letters for my thesis. I also haven’t blogged to express my excitement over the fact that I sent out four queries and had four requests to see more within the space of a [...]
Title: The Red Pyramid Author: Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Yeah: 2010 I’ve been thinking long and hard about how I really felt about this book. I ended up giving it four stars on GoodReads because I felt the ending redeemed the book. A week later, I cannot tell you what about the [...]
Title: The Iron Witch Author: Karen Mahoney Publishers: Flux Year: 2011 Okay, okay. I admit it. I read this book because the cover was pretty. I had better reasons, too. There’s the ever important one that I believe debut authors should be given a chance. There’s nothing about this book that is bad, really, it’s [...]
