In Cressida Cowell’s book How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III starts training with the other kids in Berk to be dragon masters. To do this, each of the boys must steal a dragon from the nest, and Hiccup gets a tiny, not-at-all-intimidating dragon who is very grumpy and stubborn. Yet this is …
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Book Review | City of Secrets (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of City of Secrets by Victoria Ying. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In the graphic novel City of Secrets, Victoria Ying tells the story of Ever, an orphaned boy who lives …
Book Review | Upright Women Wanted (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. But also, I’m actually reading one of my ARCs in advance, which is rare! I’m pretty proud of myself. …
Book Review | The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee picks up a few months after The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue ended. We find Felicity Montague struggling to make ends meet while she tries to get into medical school, which, as a woman, she’s barred from. Then, an unexpected proposition sends her fleeing …
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Book Review | Reverie (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Reverie by Ryan la Sala. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Kane Montgomery has no memory of the last few months. All he knows is he crashed a car into a …
Book Review | The House of Hades
In an unexpected turn of events, the book I remembered least might be one of my favorite installments in the series! (By the way, there will be spoilers for the previous books of the series, but not for this book.) At the beginning of The House of Hades—Rick Riordan’s fourth book in the Heroes of …
Book Review | The Mark of Athena
The Mark of Athena is the middle novel in Rick Riordan’s five-book series, The Heroes of Olympus. Now that the Roman and Greek camps know about each other, everything should be fine, right? Unfortunately, an accident leads to the newly formed group—Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel, and Leo—racing off on the quest to Rome …
