Teen and Staff Reviews

Jude Duarte is a human girl living in Elfhame, a world full of magical faeries, who is

treated cruelly for her mortality. She wants power and to belong with the other faeries by

becoming a knight for one of the royal heirs. However, Jude’s adoptive father doesn’t want her to

be a knight, so she becomes a spy for Dain, the future king, to have power from the shadows.

Unfortunately though, Dain and the majority of the royal family get killed by Balekin, another

Chain of Iron is about how Cordelia’s life isn’t as great as it seems.

Although she is married to James, he is still in love with Grace. The

marriage is more for protection than it is for love. And if things couldn’t get

any worse, they did. A serial killer is on the loose and all of them hide

secrets that may be deadly.

I liked this book, I think this series is really good. I wish the 3rd book would

come by now, I really want to know what happens next.

Chain of Gold is about a girl named Cordelia who is from a family of

Shadowhunters. Cordelia’s mother wants her to marry to help save the

family’s reputation when her father is arrested, but Cordelia wants to focus

on saving vicious demons with James and Lucy Herondale. Although

Cordelia likes James, he likes Grace Blackthorn, who is quite a character

with her mother hating the Herondales.

City of Heavenly Fire is the last novel in the Mortal Instruments series.

The Shadowhunter World is slowly getting taken over by by Clary’s own

brother, Sebastian, the most powerful shadowhunter. As they continue

trying to fight him, some new characters are introduced like the Carstairs

and Blackthorn, (from the Last Hour Series). The final book in the

Shadowhunters is action packed, and has a lot of twists and turns as you

read this page-turner.

City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare is the 4th book of the mortal

instruments. While figuring out his confusing relationship with Clary, Jace

starts to have nightmares about killing Clary. Simon is also trying to figure

out how to solve his own sturggles and the question, who is trying to kill

him. Also, other events are happening like Clary’s mother waking up,

somebody is creating demonic babies, and the mention of Zachariah and

City of Glass is the continued adventure of Clary Fray who is still trying to

figure out her life as a shadowhunter. Her mom’s in a magical coma and

her father turns out to be Valentine. Clary just wants to go back to normal

after all that’s happening. Things start getting more interesting as there is a

serial murderer trying to kill innocent kids, the main suspect being

Valentine. Jace turns out to be her brother and is accused of helping her

City of Bones is about Clary Fray, a girl who isn’t aware of who she

actually is. After finding out she can see other creatures people can’t, she

comes back home to find her apartment vandalized and her mother gone.

She gets sucked in a group called the Shadowhunters who are trying to

protect the Mortal cup from a demon named Valentine. But as Clary tries to

figure out what’s going on, she is starting to retrieve memories about her

The Missing Season is about a girl named Clara who just recently moved

into a town called Pender. Clara finds a group to hang out with and they

have told the town’s scary secret: The Mumbler. The Mumbler takes kids

every October night and then they turn up dead. Clara doesn’t believe in it

but as she hears everyone’s share of tales, she wants to know who the

Mumbler really is.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is fantasy fiction. Kaz Brekker is offered a deadly heist that

could reward in unbelievable riches, but he can’t do it alone. Instead, he creates a crew to help

him on this heist- a runaway, a convict, a sharpshooter, a spy, a thief, and a heartrender.

Through great dangers, the group learns valuable lessons, but will they be able to pull it off?

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott is romance fiction. Cystic Fibrosis has taken everything

from Stella. When she meets Will, she decides that she’s done letting her sickness control her.

Stella has followed every rule about Cystic Fibrosis, waiting for a liver transplant that will change

her life. On the other hand, Will doesn’t care about his sickness, just waiting to be 18 to stop the