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Catching Fire

By Suzanne Collins
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Charlotte H.
May 6, 2025

Catching Fire is an amazing second book in The Hunger Games series. It shows Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark’s victory tour and their struggles with being a “fake couple” for the media. It shows them returning to their homes in District Twelve. Katniss later has a forced meeting with President Snow. He says he doesn’t like the trick she pulled with the berries to show her defiance from the Capitol, and it’s starting an uprising.

Teen Review
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The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Charlotte H.
May 6, 2025

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a thrilling dystopian novel about a sixteen-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen and her journey to survive the Hunger Games. Katniss lives in the broken, North American country of Panem, which comprises twelve districts and one Capitol. Each district produces a different good, such as coal or fish. These goods are later sent to the Capitol for them to have, and the districts are left with barely any food or money for themselves.

Teen Review
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Three Dark Crowns

By Kendare Blake
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 12, 2025

“Three dark queens

 Are born in a glen, 

Sweet little triplets 

Will never be friends 

Three dark sisters 

All fair to be seen, 

Two to devour 

And one to be Queen” 

Once a generation, triplet girls are born to the queen. Separated from birth and taught the unique type of magic they each possess, they will meet again on their 16th birthday, when they fight to the death for the right to their throne. 

Teen Review
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All Us Villains

By Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Victoria O.
Mar 11, 2025

All of Us Villains is book one in the fantasy series written by Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman. Seven of the most influential families in Ilvernath, a small town with a secret to hide, send one champion, a teenager, into a death tournament every twenty years. The families are competing for high magic, the most powerful and uncommon resource left in the world. For hundreds of generations, these families have kept much of the truth of the tournament a secret.

Teen Review
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Powerless

By Lauren Roberts
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Dumdee
Mar 11, 2025

I will never trust book Tok again. This “romantasy” (loose on the antasy part of the word) is exactly what the author described it as. A Frankenstein of every single romance-fantasy trope in one book. I don’t believe there is a single original plot within the book. The book takes you through the world of “Ilya” (what a creative name I know) where people called “Elites” reign with their powers and “Ordinaries” are well... ordinary. I love how the book does not let us infer or hypothesis power dynamics within this kingdom whatsoever.

Teen Review
All of Us Villains book cover

All of Us Villains

By Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Aneesah J.
Mar 10, 2025

All of Us Villains by authors Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman is about seven teenagers picked as champions in a tournament occurring each generation, where only one can reclaim ancient magic for their families. Now exposed to the world, the Blood Moon Curse tournament is being watched and followed by everyone in the city of Ilvernath. The story follows the perspectives of four champions and their internal battle to choose between supplying their family with glory or rewriting the rules of their predicament.

Teen Review
Powerless book review

Powerless

By Lauren Roberts
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Layla M.
Feb 11, 2025

Powerless is a fantasy and romance book that is the first book in a trilogy. It is told through the eyes of the two main characters Kai, one of the princes of Ilya, and Paedyn, a thief from the town of Loot. They come from very different backgrounds and when the trials occur in Ilya, they are forced to compete against each other and that forces both of them to make tough choices.

Teen Review
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Caraval

By Stephanie Garber
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jan 29, 2025

Caraval is about a teenage girl named Scarlett Dragna, who, from a young age, has always been deeply interested in the Caraval games. Her grandmother used to tell her and her sister, Donatella, stories of these magical games, and Scarlett has always dreamed of being able to attend one. They seem straight out of a fairytale. These games are hosted by a mysterious man named “Legend”, also known as Caraval’s Game Master. Scarlett sent letters to Legend each year, requesting an invitation to the games.

Teen Review
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The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Riya M.
Oct 18, 2024

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian novel about a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in the poorest region of her country, District 12. Every year, her country holds a competition called the Hunger Games where people are randomly selected and asked to fight to the death to win the games. Katniss is chosen to participate in the games for her district, along with a boy named Peeta. She must leave everything behind, including her friend Gale, to go fight in a game she might not live through.

Teen Review
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Spin the Dawn

By Elizabeth Lim
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Sep 9, 2024

Maia Tamarin is a secret seamstress from a small coastal town within the empire. Her father was a master tailor, but age has crippled his ability to sew. Maia stepped up in his absence, and her talent is unmatched, with offers from everywhere coming in for her work. Or her father’s work. It is illegal for women to have a trade, so she works under her father’s name. This angers Maia, but she understands the consequences if she were to come clean.

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