Reviews

Staff Review

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jan 22, 2012

Isaac Marion’s debut novel, Warm Bodies is a love story with a twist.  One half of the couple is a zombie and the other is a “warm body”.  A zombie love story was one reason the book presents a fresh perspective on this genre.

Staff Review

Damaged by Alex Kava


Rated by Lisa J.
Jan 20, 2012

Maggie O’Dell, FBI profiler is off to Pensacola Beach where a fishing cooler has been found floating in the Gulf of Mexico filled with body parts.  In Maggie’s job, this may not be an exceptional find except for the fact that the body parts belong to more than one person.  Maggie is able to determine that the torso found in the cooler belongs to a man who mysteriously vanis

Staff Review

Zorro by Isabelle Allende


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jan 19, 2012

Oh, what fun!!!  Allende has invented a beginning for the Zorro stories.  I remember the TV series and I was totally smitten with the swashbuckling, mysterious avenger.  Okay, I was just a kid, but the TV Zorro was a much more convincing character than any other swashbucklers I’d seen—Errol Fly

Staff Review

Crossed by Ally Condi


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
Jan 18, 2012

Crossed is the much anticipated second book in the young adult dystopian Matched trilogy. Crossed picks up where Matched left off.

Teen Review

Divergent

By Veronica Roth
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Kate M.
Jan 13, 2012

Beatrice has grown up in post-apocalyptic Chicago, where the community is divided into 5 factions, each focused on a different value. Candor values honest, Amity values happiness, Erudite values information, Dauntless values courage and Beatrice's faction, Abnegation values selflessness. But Beatrice isn't a very good member of Abnegation, selflessness doesn't seem to come naturally to her like it does for her brother Caleb or her mother. At 16, every member of the community undergoes the test to find out what faction they will choose to live in as an adult.

Staff Review Jan 10, 2012

“I came of age in the 1980’s, before diversity and multicultural awareness trickled into western Michigan.  Before ethnic was cool.  Before Thai restaurants became staples in every town.”

Staff Review

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Star Rating

Rated by Diane H.
Jan 10, 2012

A plane full of teen beauty contestants crash lands on a tropical island. I was expecting either drama or fluff. What I found was satire aimed at the “ideal” female, reality tv and their sponsors, and beauty contests, with a nod toward foreign relations.

Staff Review Dec 30, 2011

A Fine Balance equals Slumdog Millionaire minus the joyful singing and dancing at the end.

 Dina Dalal, a strong-willed widow, defies her bother by living in her dead husband’s flat and refusing to get married.

Staff Review Dec 30, 2011

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