My Life Undecided Winner

Jellicoe Road is, at least here in North America, Melina  Marchetta’s most beloved book. Well, among people I know anyway. It’s won a Printz award. If someone looks at me and says the words “Jonah Griggs” I know we are going to get along fabulously. And yes, this has happened to me…recently. Sometimes, just saying…

On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity’s deepest fears: dragons. Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she’s breaking the law by rock climbing near the border, but she’d rather have an adventure than follow the rules. When…

I really, really, really liked Anna and the French Kiss. Despite the fact that I still like to blame it for the fire in my house. And I was afraid I wouldn’t like Lola and the Boy Next Door nearly as much. I was afraid it follow the same sort of template, just with different…

If you’ve read the Iron Fey series about Meghan and Ash and Puck, then you should be familiar with Ethan’s backstory with the fey, since that’s pretty much the catalyst for The Iron King, the first book in the Iron Fey series. It’s kind of necessary to read at least The Iron King first so…

So, a friend of mine read my copy of this before I got a chance to and she thought it was okay but not nearly as good as Jackson’s other work. I think this helped me because I went into with lower expectations and ended up really enjoying it. Before her mother died, Shelby promised…

You ever have that thing where a friend posts a review of a book (or just talks to you about a book) and they have all these criticisms. And you agree with every single one of them. Except they really disliked the book and you really enjoyed the book. That’s what happened to me when…