House of Ivy and Sorrow Author: Natalie Whipple Release Date: April 15, 2014 Publisher: HarperTeen Source: Edelweis DRC Genre(s): YA Fantasy Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Review Spoilers: Moderate GoodReads | Amazon As an honorary Southerner I appreciate this slowly growing fad of Southern and gothic Southern settings for young adult novels. We’re seeing it more and more with the sort of […]
Southwestern Teens Battle Zombies in Tom Leveen’s Sick
Sick Author: Tom Leveen Release Date: October 1, 2013 Publisher: Amulet Books, Harry N. Abrams Source: NetGalley DRC Genre(s): YA Horror, Zombies Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Review Spoilers: Maybe Moderate-ish GoodReads | Amazon Tom Leveen and I have a few things in common. For one, we both went to Arizona State University. Well, I still go there. He graduated. For another, we […]
Twinmaker Gives Us A Dark Twist on Transporter Technology
Twinmaker Author: Sean Williams Release Date: November 5, 2013 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Source: Edelweiss DRC Genre(s): YA Science Fiction, YA Thriller Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Low GoodReads | Amazon Talk about one heck of a book. When first picked up Sean Williams’ Twinmaker I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. I like Sean Williams. I grew up reading […]
Princesses Aren't Just for Fairytales
Princesses Behaving Badly Author: Linda Rodriguez McRobbie Release Date: November 19, 2013 Publisher: Quirk Books Source: Quirk Books Genre(s): History, Biography, Non-Fiction, Women Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: None GoodReads | Amazon | Quirk Books We all know the classic Disney interpretations of the old fairytales with their princesses and princes, talking animals and happy endings. Most of us […]
You Should Seriously Be Watching Almost Human
NOTE: You can watch the first two episodes of Almost Human until January 7th on the Fox website! So now is the absolute perfect time to catch up before the show returns on Monday! If you’re looking for one of the season’s best new series then look no further than […]
Fangirl Brings Fanfiction Out of the Dark
Fangirl Release Date: September 10, 2013 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Genre(s): Young Adult Fiction Rating: ????? Review Spoilers: Medium GoodReads | Amazon Now that a new #reblogbookclub title has been announced, it might be time to finally share with you all our thoughts on finishing Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. We blogged about our feelings and thoughts […]
Nerdophiles Hops On Board The Never Ending Stories' Scarlet Read Along!
Think back if you can way back to March of last year when I posted my review of Marissa Meyer’s phenomenal science fiction fairy tale mash up Cinder. If you don’t remember that far back – don’t worry. You can read it here. Long story short, I thought it was pretty […]
Nikita: Canceled [Series Finale]
Nikita: Canceled (4×06) Synopsis: The final conclusion to Nikita, in which we finally see what happens to the team from Division. Rating: ★★★★★ Now that we’re finally free, I get why we fought so hard. The real gift isn’t freedom, it’s what we get to do with it. I don’t know about […]
Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" Takes Us to London Below
Neverwhere Release Date: March 16, 2013 – March 22, 2013 (Original Broadcast) Cast: James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch Writer: Neil Gaiman Director: Dirk Maggs, Heather Larmour Distributor: BBC Radio 4 Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Based On Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere Rating: ★★★★★ Review Spoilers: Low BBC | Wikipedia I had heard about Neverwhere sometime earlier […]
The Scottish Highlands Run Amok With Zombies in Kirsty McKay's Undead
Undead Author: Kirsty McKay Release Date: September 1st, 2012 Publisher: Chicken House, Recorded Books Series: Undead #1 Source: Recorded Books, LibraryThing Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, YA Fiction, Zombies, Audiobook Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: High GoodReads | Amazon | LibraryThing I love zombies. I loved them before they were cool and I will ride this current pop culture zombie craze until […]