Reviews by Tag: adrenaline

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black is a young adult urban fantasy novel set in a world where vampirism is real and dangerous. After a deadly vampire attack, Tana wakes up to find herself in a Coldtown, a quarantined city where vampires and infected humans coexist.

Scythe by Neal Shusterman is a gripping young adult dystopian novel set in a future where death has been conquered, and society is governed by a group of individuals known as Scythes who are responsible for population control. Two teenagers, Citra and Rowan, are chosen as apprentices to a highly esteemed Scythe, but they must compete against each other to secure the position.

In The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, high schooler Avery Grambs is living out of
her car. Her only family is her sister, Libby, and Avery has her life planned out in hopes of a
better future. One day at school, she is informed that billionaire Tobias Hawthorne has died and
she has been left with his entire fortune. Hawthorne’s will requires her to live in his mansion for
a year to secure the fortune, but she will not be alone – she must live with Hawthorne’s family,

The Hunger Games is a story about a dystopian society of Panem, where two youngsters from each of the twelve districts participate in the Hunger Games. The players must kill each other and survive in the wilderness until only one remains. The story follows Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old girl who volunteers to participate in the games instead of her younger sister, Prim. The other tribute from District 12 is a boy named Peeta. Katniss lives in District 12 with her mother and sister.

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland is a gripping alternative history novel set in post-Civil War America, where the dead rise and roam the land following the Battle of Gettysburg. The story follows Jane McKeene, a young African American girl trained as a skilled zombie hunter at Miss Preston's School of Combat. While navigating a society still plagued by racism and prejudice, Jane finds herself entangled in a conspiracy that threatens to upend the fragile balance of power.

Katherine McGee’s futuristic, dystopian debut, The Thousandth Floor, follows the story of five different protagonists, all with different backgrounds, hardships, and secrets that slowly become uncovered. The author paints a beautiful, yet artificial, world, full of glittering gold technology, immense opulence, and a class divide that grows harsher the higher you go. 

Peak by Roland Smith is a story about a fourteen-year-old boy named Peak Marcello. After Peak is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he is left with two choices. He can either go into Juvenile Detention or he can go live with his long-lost father, Josh Wood, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. Peak decides to take his father's offer, but he quickly learns that the request came with a few strings attached. Josh Woods wants Peak to be the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

Trapped by Sigmund Brouwer is a gripping thriller that follows the story of Owen and his friends as they embark on a seemingly innocent adventure to explore an abandoned mine. However, their exploration takes a sinister turn when they become trapped underground, facing the harsh realities of darkness, fear, and dwindling supplies. As tensions rise and secrets are revealed, the group must confront their deepest fears and work together to find a way out before time runs out.

Parker Chipp, a Night Walker, wants to save his dad, who has been captured, but Parker soon finds out that things are much more complicated than they seem, so he has to enlist the help of his friends, Finn, Mia, Addie, and Jack to mount a rescue mission to save his dad, and stop the Takers from creating a drug that will allow them to live in other people’s bodies until the body wears out. The Takers will then move onto the next body, creating a mass murder chain.