Reviews written by sjm

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April 12, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
4.3
Plot
 
5.0
Characters
 
4.0
Writing Style
 
4.0
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The Eyes of the Desert Sand (Chrysalis Chronicles #1)

13-year old Ethan Fox has always had an odd life , he has no memory of his life since the age of eight; has a father who enjoys making quirky videogam...more13-year old Ethan Fox has always had an odd life , he has no memory of his life since the...

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February 27, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
5.0
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5.0
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Among the Hidden ( Shadow Children #1)

After a worldwide famine, a population law is enacted in America. Only two children are allowed per couple, any other children are counted as illegal, or shadow children. 12-year Luke is a shadow child, he has lived his entire life on his family's farm hidden from...

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February 21, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
4.7
Plot
 
5.0
Characters
 
5.0
Writing Style
 
4.0
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N/A
Young Adult Fiction
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors #1)

Life as we Know centers around the life of a family after a catastrophe ,as told by the 16 year old narrator Miranda, in diary format. After a worldwide catasptrophe, Miranda and her family must learn to survive in a drastically changed world. Gas prices rise, food is scare, family...

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February 16, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
5.0
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5.0
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The Dead and the Gone ( Last Survivor's Book 2)

17-year old Alex Morales is a normal teenager, he attends the St. Vicent de Paul collge-prep school in New York City, worries about whether he will be class president, has two annoying sisters, and has a job at a Pizzeria. All of this is shattered one...

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February 16, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
4.0
Plot
 
5.0
Characters
 
4.0
Writing Style
 
3.0
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The Summoning ( The Darkest Powers 1)

As a little girl Chloe Saunders was afraid of the basement, not because of imagined monsters or the dark, but because of the ghosts she saw there. As a 15 year-old Chloe has attributed the memories of the ghosts she saw as a little girl, to...

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February 16, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
4.3
Plot
 
4.0
Characters
 
4.0
Writing Style
 
5.0
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N/A
Young Adult Fiction
iBoy

Tom Harvey, a 16-year old teenager, in south london gains amazing abilities after an assault on his friend lucy leaves him with pieces of i-phone embedded in his brain. He then uses his abilities to punish the ones responsible for the attack on his friend.As he becomes increasingly adept at...

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February 16, 2012 (Updated: June 06, 2026)
Overall rating
 
4.3
Plot
 
5.0
Characters
 
4.0
Writing Style
 
4.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
N/A
Young Adult Fiction
The Eleventh Plague

America is nearly destroyed after a strain of influenza called the eleventh plague deciamtes the country. Hundreds of millions of people die and civilization collaspes in the aftermath of the plague. 15-year old stephen quinn is one of the children born after the eleventh plague. Stephen,...

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