A recipe for Beauty Queens: Mix together two cups Swiftian satire, one teaspoon Lord of the Flies, two tablespoons beauty pageantry. Set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream together two sticks of feminism, softened, one teaspoon piracy, one tablespoon capitalist criticism, two cups of heart. Add dry i...
I picked up this book about a year ago, read the first few chapters and abandoned it. I just picked it up again, gritted my way through the first 14 chapters and devoured the book in two days. I couldn't put it down. It tells a a tale of twisted humor and tragedy, with everything you dream of hap...
Vacations from Hell atau Liburan dari Neraka adalah kumpulan cerpen-cerpen dari 5 pengarang young adult yang quite famous lah, terutama Cassandra Clare dan Claudia Gray. Tapi justru suka dengan cerita pertama, Vampir Kapal Pesiar karangan Sarah Mylnowski, cerita yang paling singkat, simple tapi j...
I found this book because I wanted to try out my library's e-book lending, and this was the first thing that came up by authors I know that was actually available. This is a collection of short stories by five current YA authors, with Libba Bray and Cassandra Clare being the most famous of those ...
The stories by Cassie Clare and Libba Bray were the best. Clare's story was the best at getting me lost in the story, meaning I couldn't put it down once I started that story. I really love the setting she created. Bray's story demanded attention from the start and was interesting all the way thr...
April 2014 Edit:... 2015? ... TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN?Excuse me while I go sob uncontrollably.January 2014:I just finished The Diviners and was like, "Oh cool, the back of the book says Spring 2014 for the next one."AUGUST IS NOT SPRING. August is not even early summer! It's LATE summer. Why do you ...
It was there, I was there, I picked it up and started reading it. And almost didn't stop even when my eyelids were growing heavier and heavier in the wee hours. On the first page, I noted the use of present tense, flipped back a hundred pages or so (it's a real book) and saw that it wasn't just f...
I was not impressed with this last book in the triology. It did not end well for me. Here are my issues with it (many of which have already been touched upon by other reviers)...- Too darn long. Seriously. I don't mind reading long books, but only when it doesn't -feel- like a long book. You can ...
I liked this book less than book 1, A Great and Terrible Beauty, probably because it felt as though the author decided to add a few heaping spoonfuls of More Social Issues to a book that didn't need them. Book 1's take on feminism and ways that teenage girls suck toward each other and themselves...
Agnes whispered to Leta. “I can’t believe her. She came earlier than us on purpose,” Leta said. Five people up in the line, Jennifer Pomhultz, in a rabbit-fur jacket and side ponytail, executed a perfect step-ball-change while her older sister and a...
They called themselves the Street Kings, for they were rulers of the rubble piles and the railyards. Makers of mischief. Sultans of the goddamned West Side. “… I heard dere’s a cellar ’round here where dey take snitches,” one of the boys crowed. “I heard ’a floors is covered wit teeth ’at you can...