Category: Fantasy

Review: So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane

So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 21 Plot/Story:3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. So You Want to be a Wizard is the first book in Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series.  The story tells… Continue Reading “Review: So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane”

Review: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 4 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. It is sometime in the future, on planet Earth, and something rather terrible has happened. For reasons not explained (though one… Continue Reading “Review: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau”

Review: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 56 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. In The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan brings us back to the world of his best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.  The… Continue Reading “Review: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan”

Review: The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu

The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 53 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful Malzieu’s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical tale of one boy’s struggle to love “normally” and… Continue Reading “Review: The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu”

Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Final Verdict: 3.0 out of 4.0 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is the first book in a series of three that takes place in an unspecified future, in what… Continue Reading “Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins”