For context, Red Queen is about a world in which some humans have silver blood, and with it, the ability to manipulate specific items, elements, or even people around them. However, people with Red blood still exist, and they do not have any powers. As a result, the "Reds" are heavily oppressed by the "Silvers." … Continue reading Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
“Unlearn” by Kanwar Singh (Humble the Poet)
To provide some context, the book consists of 101 chapters in which each chapter composes the author’s personal experience that teaches the readers a lesson. Furthermore, there is a page at the end of each chapter that has a quote that sums up and most importantly reminds the readers of the moral of the section. … Continue reading “Unlearn” by Kanwar Singh (Humble the Poet)
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies centers around the challenges that a group of boys faces trying to survive and maintain order while stranded on a deserted island. After a plane crash during wartime, Ralph finds himself stranded on a Pacific island with a boy named Piggy. Ralph finds a conch shell and uses … Continue reading William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Louis Sachar’s Holes
Louis Sachar’s Holes is a classic young adult novel, published in 1998, that centers around Stanley Yelnats (whose last name is just Stanley backwards). Stanley is a boy who is wrongly accused of stealing a pair of shoes that belonged to a famous baseball player. He is sent to Camp Green Lake as a result, … Continue reading Louis Sachar’s Holes
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Scarlet is the second book in the Lunar Chronicles, and boy, is it a good one! The book follows Scarlet Benoit, Linh Cinder, and occasionally Emperor Kai. Everyone's life just continues to go down hill during this book, and its probably a bad time for me to be reading it, since there's an outbreak going … Continue reading Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
Plot Hollow City is the second book in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, and starts right where the first book left off. Still being hunted by wights, the kids flee Cairnholm by boat. A storm hits and in the process, a boat tips (I believe the one Olive and Bronwyn were on) … Continue reading Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Synopsis (for those who haven't read it): Florida teenager, Jacob Portman, has recently lost his grandfather. His last words were rather odd, though, going on about a bird and a loop. Luckily, Jacob connects these last few mumbles to the children's home in which his grandfather grew up. His grandfather, Abe, always told Jacob stories … Continue reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
“We Hunt the Flame” by Hafsah Faizal – Khinsa Shah
SPOILER ALERT! Set in an Arabian-inspired setting, We Hunt the Flame tells the tale of Zafira and Nasir, and what happens when their lives intertwine. Seventeen-year-old Zafira bint Iskander ventures through the Arz, cursed forest of the kingdom of Arawiya, to hunt animals and bring home food for her people. She does so using a … Continue reading “We Hunt the Flame” by Hafsah Faizal – Khinsa Shah
Shatter Me Book Report
The book “Shatter Me” was written by Tahereh Mafi and is a dystopian style novel. There are six books in the whole series and four novellas, one in between each main book. What really drew me to this series was the suspenseful plot and the characters. The supernatural abilities of the select few characters and … Continue reading Shatter Me Book Report
Reveal Me by Tahereh Mafi
This novella is also in Kenji's POV. It is after Defy Me. In this book, Kenji starts to have conflicting feelings about a lot of things. About Juliette. About Nazeera. He seems strange. Not like himself. And many people start to notice that. The first of which was Nazeera. SPOILER ALERT Kenji doesn't want to … Continue reading Reveal Me by Tahereh Mafi