I read this book faster than Usain Bolt runs. I started around 8 last night, stopped at 11, picked back up at 7, done by 9. The book was nearly 500 pages long, so I read about 100 pages per hour… Catherine is the daughter of the Marquess, meaning that she is a noble. She …
When I picked up this book, I did not really know what to expect. I felt like I had heard of it before, but I didn’t remember where. I never remembered even seeing it before. Then I actually picked it up and read it, and I fell in love with it instantly. Emily and her …
The book Cruel Crown is a combination of the prequels Queen’s song and Steel Scars, showing the backstory of Queen Coriane and Captain Farley. Queen Coriane lived with her cousin who was old and miserable, her brother Julian, and her best friend Sara Skonos. The Queenstrial for Tiberias the Sixth approaches, and she doubts that …
14-year-old Vega Jane lives in Wormwood and works as a Finisher for the stacks. The job of the Finisher is to take what other workers have done and put on the “finishing touches”, such as sanding wood to painting figurines. Quentin was a Finisher who taught Vega Jane how to do her job. He was …
This story takes place in Manhattan of 1800. Elizabeth is dead from falling into the river, but this is her story. Elizabeth is a good girl who has never stepped one toe out of line. Since her father’s death, she has been pushed to get married by her mother. Several boys have proposed but she …
Jace’s adoptive mother Maryse now knows that he is the child of Valentine. He wants to make her understand that he doesn’t want to be his father’s Jonathan but instead wants to remain Jace with the Lightwoods. He believes that she never loved him as her own, and runs away from home to cause trouble …
This book took me a few weeks to complete. I always have issues with pacing in the Red Queen series, because althought he beginnings may have action it takes me until the last 100-200 out of 300-400 pages to get truly drawn into the story. But then when the climax of the story hits and …
This story is very close to my heart. I read it first when I was still in middle school, and now that I am in high school and rereading it I noticed a lot of things that I had only glanced at when I read it the first time. Melody is an 11 year old …
Mare Barrow lives in a world where people are separated by blood type. Reds are people who have red blood and no supernatural powers. Silvers have silver blood and also powers that run in families. Reds live in the slums, and get an apprenticeship or are conscripted into the army at age 18. Silvers are …
Cora Mason was on her way to the first real family vacation she had in years in wintry Virginia. Now, somehow, she wakes up in the midst of a red desert in punk rock clothes that she never owned. Trying to remember what her father’s guard had told her in case she was kidnapped for …
