I love this series. Book 3 was a little bit of a letdown for me (by that I mean I gave it 4 stars instead of 5). However, this last book was amazing. I did feel as if Shusterman ignored some of the story lines for too long, but when he did get back to them they were amazing. Shusterman did scare ...
OMG THE ENDING THOUGH. I started this series thinking it was pretty good-not amazing, but good enough to spend a lazy summer afternoon reading. However, this last book blew everything out of the water. I loved how all the characters really found themselves and had a happy ending in their own diff...
(FROM MY BLOG): Allie and Nick are 14-year-old passengers in two cars that hit head-on. They find themselves flying through a tunnel toward a bright light. Their "bodies" collide, and they wake up in a forest. Welcome, kids, to the world of Everlost.When I blundered onto the Hunger Games trilo...
genre: sci-fi/fantasysummary: Nick moves into a creepy old house the family inherited from their great-aunt. The move is supposed to be a step toward a new start. Nick's old house was burned to the ground in a fire that killed his mother. Now Nick, his brother, and his father, an ex-major league ...
This book was one of the most entertaining book I have ever read. I really liked it because there was mystery and action throughout the story. The plot is weird, but the author makes it believable. Having this book to read was really good, because it kept me busy. I gave the story 4 stars because...
This book I thought was pretty amazing. Some parts of the book had just sheer energy that wowed me and made me read faster to find out what was going to happen next. Sections where I'm actually gripping the book harder and my blood gets pumping. Those parts of the book were written, in my opinion...
The only reason you need to read this book: Antsy.I adore Antsy. I was giggling through this whole book, in spite of the exaggerated situations and over-the-top scenarios. Antsy and his family are going on an all-expenses paid cruise with Old Man Crawley and Lexie to celebrate his 80th birthday. ...
A group of monumentally powerful teens must face an ancient, soul-eating foe in this second book of The Star Shards Chronicles. A cataclysmic explosion has given earthly teens astronomical powers—when the star Mentarsus-H went supernova at their conceptions, the teens absorbed the shattered soul...
Despite everything they tried, the world is falling apart. Dillon's current situation lends him one blessing: he can't make things any worse. But he can't afford to remain idle. His dreams are warning enough that this state of slow decay won't last, and something beyond his worst nightmare is com...
So this was a book that I stumbled upon at the Goodwill while scouring the shelves for a different book. I grabbed it in greedy excitement because I had no idea this book existed. The Shadow Club Rising is a sequel to The Shadow Club, which was a book we read as a class like in 5th grade. It's al...
What if a seventh grader could have everything he wanted? He'd make ice-cream cones materialize out of nowhere and zap up every video game he'd ever wanted, right? But what if he was also tired of being bullied and all it took to change that was to put on a pair of sunglasses? Kevin Midas's new l...
Red lives in an modern urban city: full of crime and saddness. He drives around in his red mustang he has repaired, in order to find a place of piece. The land is rugged and run down. There are 2 gangs: the cripts and the wolves, both of them bad. Red has a hippie grandmother. One day, he is give...
Six teens struggle to discover the source of their strange and horrific abilities in this first book of The Star Shards Chronicles. Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his will. Deanna is so consumed by fear, it has become like a b...
I feel as if I'm always saying this in my reviews of Neal Shusterman's books, but I can't think of another contemporary author who hits the mark so resoundingly time after time, coming up with stories that mix powerful philosophy, gripping suspense, painfully real characters and shocking twists t...
The Dark Side of NowherePersonally I did not like this book. Being an avid YA reader, I found it disappointing on various levels. I REALLY did want to love this book and give it at least a three star review, but I couldn't. Due to many factors, which I will list bellow.This Book Needs To Explain ...
tWho or what is the Schwa? Where did “it” come from? Why is it the way it is? Turns out the Schwa A.K.A Calvin is just a normal kid for the most part; that is, if you noticed him enough to get to know him. That’s exactly how Antsy found out about him. Antsy was the first out of his friends, Howie...
Cara is so ugly, mirrors would rather break than show her reflection. Not even her own parents can deny her ugliness, and nothing can make up for the cruelty of her schoolmates. Tormented and tortured by the shallow people of Flock’s Rest, Cara’s life is miserable. Then Cara receives a shimmering...
No one likes to be second-best. We all have that one person who constantly does better at whatever we're trying to do. There's always that one kid who wins all the awards, who always succeeds at everything while the rest of us are left to feel like no one notices us. This is the sentiment that dr...
I am quite disappointed by this book. I had really high expectations for this. I heard amazing things about Neal Shusterman and I love scary short stories. I thought it would be a win-win situation. I was wrong. The stories are mostly hit or miss.The thing that bothered me most about these storie...
Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whe...
The author recounts her teenaged years as the lead singer of the all-girl rock band, the Runaways, her career as a movie actress, and her battle with drugs and alcohol.
"There’s a reason why Brewster can’t have friends – why he can’t care about too many people. Because when he cares about you, things start to happen. Impossible things that can’t be explained. I know, because they're happening to me."When Brontë starts dating Brewster “Bruiser” Rawlins – the guy ...
Due DiligenceI stare at my homework, unable to lift a finger to do it. It’s as if my pen weighs a thousand tons. Or maybe it’s electrified. That’s it—it’s electrified—and if I touch it, it will kill me. Or the paper will slice an artery. Paper cuts are the worst. I have legitimate reasons for not...
Had it been a moonless night, they would have been under full cover of darkness. He should have waited a few more hours, until after the moon set—but he was anxious, and it clouded his judgment. Now all could be lost. He hears the shout of the first guard, which draws the attention of the second....
Then, when I looked down the hallway, I saw none other then Gustav himself storming in my direction. With his shirt open, he looked like this wall of meat barreling toward me. I balled my hands into fists and dug in my heels, ready for whatever fight I could put up. Then a...
Below, the floor tiles don’t quite reach the walls. Above, old pipes run along the ceiling, weaving in and out of rooms like snakes. It smells like my worst pair of Nikes, and the gray walls are sloppily painted. Those walls seem the worst thing of all. Whoever painted the walls didn’t care about...
This guy—this looooser—has got no business breathing the same air as her, much less taking her out on a date. Just because he asked doesn’t mean she has to accept.“Are you afraid that if you say no, he’ll bury you in his backyard or something?” I ask the question over dinner, while I’m still stea...
The Steeplechase Pier stood on the left, with its dozens of rides, all still whirring and spinning like a great gear work churning out time. The Steel Pier was on the right, a grand showplace of the rich and famous. Its signs still advertised in giant letters its golden days before fire burned it...
She doesn’t say anything, because whoever it is will just come in anyway; the bedrooms here have no locks. The door opens slowly, and Lev steps in. There’s a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it’s anger. “If you’re here to accuse me of vand...
The top floor was a sports club, with a pool that was almost the length of the entire floor. At the deep end, the pool ended right at a huge window. You could tread water in the deep end and look out the window at an amazing view. One day while doing just that, I came up with this, probably one o...
An AWOL is supposed to open up to them, to find solace in their acceptance, not the other way around. He vows to shutter his heart a little more securely. The next day, Wil’s spooning out breakfast porridge for Lev and himself when his father calls. Ma takes the call in the study, expecting bad n...
Dinner soirees abound with international dignitaries, political movers and shakers, and pop culture icons, all of whom want a proverbial piece of Camus Comprix. Sometimes their attention is so aggressive, Cam wonders if they actually do want a piece of him as a souvenir. He dines with the crowned...
“I care about you too much to be anything more than mildly furious at you,” she had told me, but even then, I could tell she wasn’t furious at all. The two of us kidnapped her grandfather as planned—the first Saturday of Christmas vacation. As usual, Old Man Crawley had no concept of what was in ...
Unlike Nick, Allie never forgot her last name. It was Johnson. With such a common last name, however, locating her parents in Memphis was not an easy matter. Her parents names were Adam and Andrea, so naturally they chose A names for their daughters. There were ten Adams, two Andreas, and more th...
I don’t believe in aliens, I have no faith in psychics, and tales of the Loch Ness monster leave me cold. So I can’t begin to explain what made me believe that Quinn had stolen my invitation and taken some sort of spiritual road trip to God-knows-where. Call it unwanted intuition, but whatever it...