Passion (Fallen #3) by Lauren Kate *Spoilers*

*Spoiler Alert*

Review

This book was so much better than the second. With Torment I was a ball of frustration. FRUSTRATION. In Passion I finally felt like we were going somewhere. And Kate did that by literally taking the reader (and Luce) through a smorgasbord of Luce’s past lives. While the trip began to answer [...]



June 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment

Torment (Fallen #2) by Lauren Kate

Review

I love this series. The first book, Fallen, was so delicious. This series is just yummy. That being said…I have to admit…I hate the second in a series of four. I would bet, even if I’d never read a book in the series, that the main character is going to be frustrated and confused. [...]



June 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

BookTalk

“As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash [...]



June 13th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment

Fallen by Lauren Kate

As much as I loved this book, I don’t know that I’d booktalk it to a class of students. My reasons are as follows: 1. I work at an Orthodox Jewish school and while I’ve never run into problems suggesting books with Christian themes I think a book based on the hierarchy of heaven and [...]



April 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized, YA Lit | Leave a comment