Reviews by Tag: revenge

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The Stolen Heir book cover

The Stolen Heir

By Holly Black
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Safa Al
Jul 26, 2024

Eight years after the Battle of the Serpent, Lady Nore reclaims the Ice Needle Citadel, using an ancient relic to create monsters. Suren, the child queen, flees to the human world, haunted by her past. She is saved by Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, who is charming and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. Suren must confront the horrors she left behind if she agrees to go with him.

Teen Review
The Rise of Scourge book cover

The Rise of Scourge

By Erin Hunter
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Neil
Jul 26, 2024

The Rise of Scourge by Erin Hunter is a graphic novel, a part of the Warrior Cats series. This book seeks to explain the origin of Scourge, known as the evilest cat in the Forest to ever exist. He started as a runt of the litter (smallest kit) in a human home and was named Tiny. His mother raised him and his two bigger and stronger siblings, who always used to mock him for being so small.

Teen Review
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Bella Paul
May 13, 2024

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel set in northern England. The novel illustrates the complex relationship between Heathcliff—an orphan taken in by the Earnshaw family—and Catherine Earnshaw. Heathcliff’s desire to be with Catherine is made more complicated due their differing desires—Heathcliff’s desire for revenge, and Catherine’s desire to uphold her social status. Their differing desires, individual flaws, and family difficulties additionally stand in the way of their relationship.

Teen Review
The Scarlet Letter book cover

The Scarlet Letter

By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Sara
Oct 6, 2023

The Scarlet Letter is a novel that takes place in the 1600s in Boston, Massachusetts. It follows the story of a young woman named Hester Prynne who is being shunned and condemned by the community for committing adultery and has gotten pregnant. An onlooker who had just arrived named Roger Chillingworth asks who Hester is and why she's being publicly shamed, we later learn that it was her husband disguised. The book has much suspense as it follows Hester and how she deals with these hardships with her daughter Pearl.

Teen Review
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

Girl, Serpent, Thorn

By Melissa Bashardoust
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Shreya A.
Feb 3, 2022

Girl, Serpent, Thorn is a thrilling and adventurous fictional novel by Melissa Bashardoust. This book is about a girl named Soraya, she is cursed with poison in her veins which deprive her of touch. Soraya meets a soldier named Azad, he gains her trust and feeds her lies about her family. Soon these lies get to her and she betrays her family. Soraya gets captured by Azad, and comes up with a plan to overthrow Azad from her family’s throne.

Teen Review
We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean

We'll Never Be Apart

By Emiko Jean
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Saathwika A.
Aug 6, 2021

Both Alice and Celia are twins. After Alice’s boyfriend, Jason, died in a fire, she was committed into a mental psych ward. Alice hates it there, but after meeting a kid, Chase, she begins to wonder if her sister is in the ward too! She asks Chase, a mysterious boy, for help. But in the process, Alice begins to rethink everything. Can she trust Chase? Is anyone going to help her? All Alice wants to know is the truth. What happened to Jason? Where is Celia?

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