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Book Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Supernatural Fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up This book was a great read but it was quite long- about 480 pages. 🙂 ———————————————————— Katsa is a girl with a Grace. A Grace is basically an innate ability that allows a person to excel at a certain task. Katsa has the killing Grace. She is ordered around by her uncle, who sends her to do his dirty work. Katsa doesn’t like it, but she hates getting on her uncle’s bad side even more. Katsa also dislikes using her ability to torture innocent people. But she … Continue reading Book Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore

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Book Review: Pulse by Patrick Carman (Book one)

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Supernatural Fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up This book was definitely one of the most interesting I’ve read in a while on the topic of supernatural abilities. There were only a handful of characters but they were well developed. There were some parts of the book where a lot of pronouns were used and it was difficult to keep up with which character the author was referring to, but other than that, it was a great read. ——————————————- Faith Daniels and Dylan Gilmore live in a shrinking society where everyone is moving to the States. Their … Continue reading Book Review: Pulse by Patrick Carman (Book one)

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Book Review: Angel Tears by Valmore Daniels (Book four of the Fallen Angels series)

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Genre: Supernatural Fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up I found this book to be much better than the previous one because it had an actual plot and the author wasn’t aimlessly killing off characters. ——————————————– Serena has just escaped from a juvenile detention facility. She is brought back to custody when they offer her a place at a “camp” for “people like her” instead of going back to juvie. Serena is at first wary of this offer but agrees because she doesn’t want to go back to where she was before. Upon arrival to the “camp”, Serena … Continue reading Book Review: Angel Tears by Valmore Daniels (Book four of the Fallen Angels series)

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Book Review: Earth Angel by Valmore Daniels (Book three of the Fallen Angels series)

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Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Genre: Supernatural Fiction Age Recommendation: 13 and up To be completely honest, I was extremely disappointed with this book. The first three-quarters were just plot-less gore and the rest made no sense. I don’t know how the author could write such a book after the first two, which were very balanced and well-written. If the fourth and fifth books are like this one, I will definitely not be reading them anytime soon. ————————————————- Kyle Chase is a heart surgeon. He has been doing major research in the area of stem cells and is working on a … Continue reading Book Review: Earth Angel by Valmore Daniels (Book three of the Fallen Angels series)

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Book Review: Rio- The Street Kid Stargazer by Craig S. Wilson

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Genre: Fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up This book is an advance copy, courtesy of the author himself (who found me on Twitter)! This book was a great read and the characters were all very well developed. Moreover, the characters weren’t all the same general age, which allowed for different perspectives, even though the book was written in third person. ————————————————- Lucas has just lost his older brother and his mother, both of whom were breadwinners for his family. Now, Lucas must rely on the scraps and money he can get with panhandling and pick-pocketing to … Continue reading Book Review: Rio- The Street Kid Stargazer by Craig S. Wilson

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Book Review: Whispers by Aram Keledjian

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Supernatural Fiction Age Recommended: 13 and up This book was given to me courtesy of BookRature. This was one of the best books I’ve read this year, by far. The story very intriguing and fast-paced, and not gory like many of the other books in this genre. ——————————————————– Henry White is a seventeen-year-old who has a secret. He is actually 219 years old and essentially immortal. Resembling a young boy, but actually a vampire, he is one of the last of his kind, and lives in a house with his grandfather. Henry rarely leaves his … Continue reading Book Review: Whispers by Aram Keledjian

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Book Review: The Dead List by Martin Crosbie

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Genre: Fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up This was a book courtesy of BookRature. I really enjoyed this book because it was fast-paced but I wish that the author had developed the characters earlier because they were like a list of names in the book until about halfway through, where we were told who these people were, and what their relation to the main character was. ———————————————— John Drake is a police officer. He has a night watch in a neighborhood where nothing really ever happens. However, one night, he finds a dead body and has … Continue reading Book Review: The Dead List by Martin Crosbie

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Book Review: The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Genre: Non-fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up This was a very thought-provoking read. Some parts of it were a bit gory and others too repetitive. However, the responses of people in the second half of the book were very interesting to read and I loved seeing the different points of view. ———————————————— Simon Wiesenthal is a former concentration camp prisoner of WWII who shares his story in this book. ———————————————– Normally, Simon and his fellow prisoners are taken to a town to slave away as they are monitored by SS (Nazi) soldiers. One day, Simon … Continue reading Book Review: The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal

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Book Review: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Book one of the Starbound Trilogy)

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Fiction Age Recommendation: 14 and up This book is based on an exceptional idea, and the author did just as good of a job executing it. The book was slightly disturbing but the well-written story made up for that. ——————————————— Major Tarsen is one of the youngest ever war-decorated heroes. At the age of eighteen, he is aboard the spaceship Icarus to meet other veterans and travel back home. However, a chance meeting with a lovely girl leaves him breathless, until she haughtily introduces herself as the daughter of the most powerful man in the universe, … Continue reading Book Review: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Book one of the Starbound Trilogy)

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Book Review: Angelsong by Hanna Peach (Book three of the Dark Angel series)

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Supernatural Fiction Age Recommended: 14 and up I loved this book a lot because of the endless plot twists and the fact that the characters were very-well developed. ——————————————— Israel is dying from a poisoned knife wound and nobody knows the cure. Alyx is panicking because the demons are planning to take over the Earth soon. Moreover, people are being killed all over by the Darkened, and Alyx and Jordan must find a way to save them. When Alyx and Jordan go on a quest to find a cure for the poison that is … Continue reading Book Review: Angelsong by Hanna Peach (Book three of the Dark Angel series)