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Review: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

Review: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

  Initial reaction: I was going to bump this up to about a 2.5 star rating, but I’m just going to leave it at 2 stars. I had too many issues with this book in retrospect and I’ll meditate on my thoughts a bit before I write this review. Seems like I’m in the minority for reaction on this one, but hopefully once I have my thoughts together, I can talk about what went wrong.

I’m not sure if I’ll…

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Review: This World We Live In (Last Survivors #3) by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Review: This World We Live In (Last Survivors #3) by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Quick review for a quick read. Good news is that I read this in one sitting and it was a very quick, easy read to move through despite it being a while since I picked up the series. Bad news? I think this book didn’t hold up as well with me compared to the first two books. I always liked the theme for this particular series, and even the personal focus on its viewpoint characters. This book…

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Review: The Program (The Program #1) by Suzanne Young

Review: The Program (The Program #1) by Suzanne Young

Quick review for a somewhat quick read. I’m so conflicted reflecting on this book because there were quite a number of good ideas that I think Young had in parallels drawn in the book, but the execution and implication of many of those assertions seemed to fall by the wayside and actually bothered the ever loving crap out of me as I read through it. I can’t (and refuse to) overlook those things…

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Review: Soundless by Richelle Mead

Review: Soundless by Richelle Mead

Quick review for a really sluggish read. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect when picking up Richelle Mead’s “Soundless”. Considering how upset I was over the bigotry presented in “The Glittering Court” – I almost completely passed over this. I’m now glad I didn’t because it was better than I thought it would turn out to be – and I enjoyed the story when taking it for the bare bones of its…

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Review: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) by Victoria Aveyard

Review: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) by Victoria Aveyard

Initial reaction: I think I’ll see this series through to it’s end, but this book was very mediocre, worse than the first book. The intrigue of the beginning and ending did not make up for how disjointed, meandering and derivative this book turned out to be. Unfortunate, because I really think it had the potential to be stronger. :-\ Full review: My first full written review in about three weeks…

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Review: Essence by Lisa Ann O'Kane

Review: Essence by Lisa Ann O’Kane

I’m at a loss for words because Lisa Ann O’Kane’s “Essence” is little more than a contemporary YA romance with love triangle and coming of age leanings wrapped in a futuristic dystopian package.  It really isn’t a dystopian title in any means because it literally does little – if anything – to play up the environment or even the future in which it takes place.  When you take away those parts of…

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Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Allegiant by Veronica Roth My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Initial reaction:I think a reader’s reaction to…

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