By Chris Crutcher
Category Archives: Review
Spoiler-Free Review: Matched
Dystopia and Romance. Is there a better combination for a YA novel?
“Once you want something, everything changes.”
Spoiler-Free Review: Artemis Fowl
Spoiler-Free Review: Half Bad
“The trick is not to mind.
Not to mind about it hurting.
Not to mind about anything.”
Author: Sally Green
Nathan is like other sixteen-year-old boys. He lives in a cage. He’s half black witch. He needs to undergo a magical ritual on his seventeenth birthday or he will die. Normal teenage problems really.
Spoiler-Free Review: The False Prince
“In a crowd of a thousand boys claiming to be the prince, there would be only one with the same look of trouble in his eye.”
Spoiler-Free Review: Gotham Academy Vol 1
By: Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl
“It’s just the bat-signal. Same old thing as every other night.”
Welcome to Gotham Academy, the most prestigious boarding school in Gotham city . . . Oh that across the street? Uh, well, that’s Arkham Asylum. It’s fine really!
Minor-Spoiler-Review: The Maze Runner
“Be careful,” he said dryly, “Don’t die.”
Remember when you were a kid with those activity/coloring books with the maze pages you could solve in like 10 seconds? That’s what reading The Maze Runner felt like.
Spoiler-Free Review: The Selection
This is the novel equivalent of a popcorn chick flick. You know how this Cinderella story ends, but you’re watching it anyway and singing along with the soundtrack.
Is Fangirl a Fake Geek Girl’s Idea of Being a Fangirl?
“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can’t Google.)”
Spoiler-Free Review: Clockwork Angel
“Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
In 1878 Tessa Gray is searching London for her brother. What she finds is the world of vampires, demons, warlocks, and shadowhunters.
