Reviews by Category: Fiction

Teen Review
Book Cover: Everything I Thought I Knew title text on top of a red and blue watercolor heart illustration.

Everything I Thought I Knew

By Shannon Takaoka
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Eve L.
Mar 6, 2021

Seventeen-year-old Chloe Russell deals with her drastically different life after her heart transplant through learning to surf from Kai, whom she might be crushing on just a little bit. Meanwhile, she has to survive summer school and is being plagued by a recurring dream about an accident and people she's never seen before.      

 

Teen Review
Book Cover: The Art of Breaking Things: Soft moody illustration of teen girl with her arms folded and looking away surrounded by a purple background..

The Art of Breaking Things

By Laura Sibson
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Soumya T.
Mar 5, 2021

Finally feeling like she's overcome the darkness of her past, seventeen year old Skye Murray is more than ready to leave her hometown to go to her dream college to study art. But when her mom reveals that she's gotten back together with a man who hurt Skye in unimaginable ways, she feels herself crumbling apart, on the verge of losing not only herself, but her family and the ones she loves.

Teen Review
Book Cover: The Betrothed: An elegant woman is standing in a corner of a golden mirrored room in a luxurious golden gown. She has two blood-red roses in her hair.

The Betrothed

By Kiera Cass
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Aarushi
Mar 3, 2021

Hollis Brite is a lady in the kingdom of Coroa, and alongside other young ladies of the court, seeks the King of Coroa’s heart, vying for his attention. When King Jameson finally chooses Hollis to become his wife and Queen, Hollis is ecstatic. But when a boy from a foreign nation comes to Coroa, Hollis doesn’t know what her heart wants anymore.     

Teen Review
Book Cover: The Infinite Noise, A lively but dark illustration surrounds two high school teenagers with their backs facing. One teen is smaller, almost nerdy, and illustrated blue. The other is taller, yellow, and is wearing a football uniform.

The Infinite Noise

By Lauren Shippen
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Megan B.
Mar 1, 2021

The Infinite Noise is a perfect blend of teenage abnormal normalities, presenting common issues such as social pressure, mental healthiness, and sexuality while also bringing the twist of the much rarer gifts of an empath, or one that can feel everyone's feelings around him. Following Caleb, the football player empath, and Adam, the lovable social outcast, The Infinite Noise is an enticing, delightful read that I struggled to put down.     

Teen Review
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Beauty Queens

By Libba Bray
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Rana S.
Feb 28, 2021

Beauty Queens follows a simple concept: what if a plane full of beauty queens crash-landed on a deserted island, a la Lord of the Flies?

Except it’s not quite so simple as that. This is the story of the survivors, fourteen typical (and atypical) beauty queens who must work together to stay alive and keep their pageant skills sharp until help arrives.

Teen Review
Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles

Where Dreams Descend

By Janella Angeles
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Rana S.
Feb 26, 2021

Janella Angeles’s Where Dreams Descend follows ambitious showgirl Kallia as she fights to compete for a spot as the headlining magician of the Conquering Circus.

The competition takes place in Glorian, a city full of secrets. While competing, Kallia encounters Daron Demarco, the enigmatic young judge with a hidden past. Kallia, too, wishes to forget her past — but Jack, the owner of the club she left for the competition, won’t let her get away so easily.

Teen Review
Nightshade by Anthony Horowitz

Nightshade

By Anthony Horowitz
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Lisa J.
Feb 25, 2021

Nightshade is the twelfth installment of the Alex Rider series. When a secret agent is killed by a ruthless 16-year-old assassin in Brazil, teenage MI6 spy Alex Rider is sent to Gibraltar, a maximum-security prison, assuming the identity of his lookalike nemesis, Julius Grief. His mission? To bond with and extract information from the assassin, Freddy.

Teen Review
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Eric S.
Feb 23, 2021

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is a comedy/tragedy following the adventures of Alonso Quixano, aka Don Quixote. Enchanted by the stories of medieval knights, Don decides, to go out, with his neighbor and squire, Sancho, into the world and imitate the stories of chivalry that he so adores.

Teen Review
Max Einstein The Genius Experiment by James Patterson

Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment

By James Patterson
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Sriha P.
Feb 20, 2021

Twelve-year-old orphan Max Einstein is a smart girl. She has a brain just as big and creative as the legend Einstein. She loves Einstein and has a passion for him. She is living above a horse’s stall, and learning at a college. One day she is taken to the CMI: Change Makers Institution, and is chosen to become a team leader to save the world. Max and her friends go to a place trying to solve the problems in cities around the world. But, the problem is that Dr. Zimm and his team, Corp, is trying to find Max Einstein, and take her away from the CMI.

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