A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness The novella deals with grief and loss and how it feels to be powerless when your world is changing for the worse. Conner is dealing with his mother’s increasing illness and the ancillary changes brought about when everyone at school finds out his mother has cancer. Conner doesn’t know …
Tag: young adult
May 23
Book Review: Provenance
Provenance by Ann Leckie This book has a much lighter feel than the Ancillary Justice books. It starts out with Ingray, a young foster-daughter of an important politician trying to do something daring and risky in order to win her mother’s favor. Pretty soon there’s mistaken identity, a murder mystery, stolen artifacts, secret romances, sibling …
Oct 14
Book Review: Anna and the French Kiss
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins I was watching a cooking show once where a chef won a contest by making a simple dish. The other chefs complained that she had made something too rustic, too simple, but the judges said that a good dish done flawlessly will win over a complex dish …
Oct 10
Book Review: Fallen
Fallen by Lauren Kate What do you get when you have a beautiful teenage girl at a creepy boarding school where she meets a couple of cute boys who are both interested in her? Well, in the case of FALLEN, you have a promising YA supernatural romance that loses it in the last three chapters. …