This year has been…a lot. What with the end of my junior year, college applications, the start of my senior year, and everything else, I spent most of 2018 exhausted. Somehow I managed to read 111 books despite all that, but…I will admit a good twenty of them are not conventional novels (whether that be […]
Archive | December, 2018
Queen of Air and Darkness Review? Queen of Air and Darkness Review.
Oh wow. We’re here. You see, a year and a half ago I was screaming that we had to wait until the end of 2018 for QOAAD…but now…it’s out…and I’ve read it…and wow. Okay. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars, but to be fair, I was slightly disappointed and I’ll get into that in a […]
Shiver Quartet Review
Ratings by each book: Shiver: 3 stars, although in hind-sight, it’s probably closer to four stars. Linger: 3 stars, and probably still 3 stars. Forever: 4 stars, yay, improvements!! Sinner: 2 stars, ready for a rant. So…I love Maggie Stiefvater, but this quartet is not a work of art. It resembles Twilight in all the ways one would probably like to […]
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Review
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Summary: “Dante can swim. Ari can’t. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Dante is fair skinned. Ari’s features are […]
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Review
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Summary: “The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship–like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor–April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. […]