As overcome by sorrow as Saskia is in the opening pages of The Bone Thief, she is fiercely determined to avenge the loss of her loved ones and to stop the man responsible for their disappearance dead in his tracks…if she can find him. … More The Bone Thief by Breeana Shields
Review by Emily-Anne Mikos
The world has wondered how the story of James Bond would change if the titular character were a woman, and the answer is in The Athena Protocol. Jessie Archer takes the stereotypical male-focused spy story and gives it a unique voice that only a woman can deliver—and it’s awesome. … More The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif
Review by Shalon Sims
Bloom, the first book in Kenneth Oppel’s new Overthrow series, is a breakneck thriller and a real page-turner set on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. … More Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
Review by Louise Brecht
Seconds after this excerpt, Mutti is shot for the slip of her daughter’s tongue and Katja’s dress is splattered with her mother’s blood. The Soviet army that surges into Germany in the dying months of World War II displays little regard for its enemy’s people. … More My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker
Review by Kelsey Elizabeth Moorhouse
Ember St. George is a fire dragon, and the last of her kind—but nobody, apart from her adoptive father, the great Magician and Stormancer Lionel, and her aunt, the notorious thief and Scientist Myra, can ever know. … More Ember and the Ice Dragons by Heather Fawcett
Review by Juhyun Tony Bae
Five months ago, Nate’s best friend Dodge drowned in a tragic accident along with his family up near their cabin, but his body was never recovered. … More The Starlight Claim by Tim Wynne-Jones
Review by Louise Brecht
D’s scared. The trip was her idea. The plane crash happened here, the one that claimed the lives of her twin sister and Spider’s brother two long years ago. Now she, Spider, and their friend, Min, are stranded on the slopes of the Grey Sisters mountain range. … More The Grey Sisters by Jo Treggiari
Review by Louise Brecht
Saskia Holte fears the fury of bone magic’s flame. She sees safety in life as a tutor, security in a love match with her suitor, Declan, comfort in the familiarity of her home in Midwood. She is deeply troubled, however, by the possibility that the life she has chosen may not be the one she is granted. … More The Bone Charmer by Breeana Shields
Review by Juhyun Tony Bae
If you like reading sci-fi/fantasy you’re probably familiar with stories that grapple with immortality—you might even find the line, “death gives life meaning,” a tad cliché. With Neal Shusterman’s Scythe traveling that heavily-trodden dystopian road, for me, the question of the novel’s success came down to the story’s handling of the ideas and its ability to pave its own path. … More Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Review by Joseph Pooley
Pure imagination, concentrated, distilled, and injected directly into your brain. That’s Furthermore. Alice in Wonderland, but turned up to eleven. That’s Furthermore. A bright and dazzling merry-go-round that spins you around at ludicrous speeds and leaves you laughing and stumbling, dizzy but elated. That’s Furthermore as well. … More Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
