Tuesday, May 31, 2011 “Ashes, Ashes” by Jo Treggiari June 1st, 2011 “Epidemics, floods, droughts–for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds […]
Monday, March 14, 2011 “Those That Wake” by Jesse Karp March 21st, 2011 “New York City’s spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from one another and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this reality. They’ve never met. Seemingly, they never […]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 “The Dark City” (Relic Master #1) by Catherine Fisher May 17, 2011 “Enter the world of RELIC MASTER. Dark, dangerous and deadly-welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are revered by the […]
Thursday, March 17, 2011 “Divergent” by Veronica Roth May 3rd, 2011 “In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds […]
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 “Memento Nora” by Angie Smibert Release Date: April 1st, 2011 “On an otherwise glossy day, a blast goes off and a body thuds to the ground at Nora’s feet. There are terrorist attacks in the city all the time, but Nora can’t forget. So Nora goes with her mother to the […]
Friday, February 18, 2011 “Zitface” by Emily Howse “Thirteen-year-old Olivia Hughes has always considered herself a lucky girl. She knows what she wants to do with her life – be an actress. And she’s already on her way. She just landed a national ad campaign that should get her noticed. But then her luck […]
Saturday, March 12, 2011 “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys Release: March 22nd “Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from […]
Friday, February 18, 2011 INTERVIEW: Angie Smibert (Author of “Memento Nora”) Hi everyone, it’s Cat here, for a break from the regularly scheduled programming (REVIEWS!). Remember how I reviewed the amazing “Memento Nora” just a few days ago? Well, I contacted author Angie Smibert asking if she’d like to do an interview and she was […]
Saturday, February 26, 2011 Interview: Emily Howse, Author of “Zitface” Hello Everyone! I’m back with the latest (and probably last for a while) interruption in the normal routine of book reviews! A few days ago author of “Zitface” (which I just reviewed here) contacted me, and offered to do an interview with me for the […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Books to look forward too in 2011 – Cat Yesterday, on Twitter I posted some titles of book releases coming later this year that I’m looking forward too- whether they’re part of a series, or simply because they look interesting. I also know that a lot of book blogs post books […]