“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!
“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.
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.
“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can’t Google.)”
“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.
Sloane lives in a world where no one cries. Not because they don’t want to cry when they see a friend and classmate being dragged out of school, but because no one dares to cry. Crying is a sign that you have depression, and that means you need to be taken too.
“I wonder how you’re supposed to know the exact moment when there’s no more hope.”
Samara Taylor lives in a quiet little town with her loving, happily married, mother and father. It’s a perfect life! At least that’s what everyone thinks.
“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
What made the Queen of Hearts so heartless? What made an innocent girl into the cruel, head chopping lunatic from Lewis Carroll’s novel? Continue reading
“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world”
Some kids are special, the saviors of the world. . . and the rest of us just live here.
“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.”
Over a generation after the zombie apocalypse, life carries on. Mary’s village is surrounded by fences to keep the zombies out. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t danger’s within. . .
