One of the most unreliable narrators I’ve read in quite a while, we’re introduced to Audie and her world in Placebo Junkies, where everyone is testing something and nothing is ever what it seems to be. Interspersed with Audie’s blog entries and lost between what is real and what is not, Audie’s narrative pulls readers in […]
Category: Fall of the Pages 2015
Book Review: Code of Honor
There is a lot to tackle in Code of Honor– racism, profiling, and domestic terrorism- with twists and turns at every angle. The action will keep readers tearing through the pages and deep into the throes of disbelief, and long after Code of Honor is finished, they will be talking about the real concepts behind the overarching themes. Kamran […]
Mini Book Review: Fairest
Most of the time, I am not a fan of one of the newer trends in YA literature, the “bridge” novellas. To me, they’re called called short stories and should be put into a collection and published together, like Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass. My teens clamor for them because they want everything in a series, […]
Book Review: Red Queen
This Friday during the 2015 Fall of the Pages, I’m falling back to February 2015 and the fantasy dystopia Red Queen. ( Technically, all dystopias are “fantasy” as in not real, but what I mean by this is fantastical or having magic) Thrust into an impossible situation and imperial politics, she falls right in the middle of betrayal, […]
Book Review: A Madness So Discreet
I was entranced with the concept of this book from the first, and I could not put down the eARC once I got approved for it- it was one of those books that I just had to read from start to finish. It’s a dark corner of history in which women were treated horribly and put […]
Book Review: Believarexic
In this second book by J.J. Johnson (This Girl is Different, 2011), readers catapult through time to a world where things are upside down, nothing seems solid, and things are strictly regimented for your own safety. No one believed that Jennifer needed help, even when she asked for it- they all thought that when she […]
Book Review: Traffick
In the heart-tugging, Kleenex-pulling sequel to the 2009 Tricks, Ellen Hopkins takes readers back to Eden, Seth, Whitney, Ginger, and Cody and their lives as she picks up almost immediately where Tricks leaves off. While it’s not necessary for readers to have read Tricks recently, or even to have read it at all, it does help to have a […]