Reviews written by Trista Roddick

After the events of Untold, Kami and her friends and trying to regroup. Rob has taken over Sorry-in-the-Vale and he’s demanding a sacrifice. It’ll take every trick Kami and her group can think of to defeat him, and there’s no guarantees they can win. This was the...

Fiona Doyle wears the scars of an accident from when she was young on her face. She writes songs, notebooks full, but doesn’t have the courage to sing them. She has a huge crush on Trent McKinnon but gets flustered every time he’s around. She’s slowly coming out of her...

Twylla has been blessed by the Gods. She will marry a prince and rule the kingdom with him. The blessing, though, comes with a price and for Twylla, it means her touch is deadly to anyone not favoured by the Gods. The queen uses Twylla as an executioner for anyone...

Zak Duquette has been looking forward to Washingcon sci-fi fest for months. He goes every year. Except this year he’s being forced to participate in a quiz bowl tournament the same weekend as the event he loves so much. It’s not his fault that he talked a little too much...

It all started when Abigail’s father lost his job. He went looking for a sign and he found Brother John. Her parents started sending Brother John donations until finally, they sold their house, packed up Abigail and her brother, and drove to San Francisco to be with Brother John when...

Set twenty years after the original Selection trilogy, The Heir is the story of King Maxon and Queen America’s daughter Eadlyn. The princess has grown up knowing the fairy tale of her parents’ relationship but she doesn’t see that for herself. She’s always had a plan for her rule and...

Quinn has been unable to move on since the death of her boyfriend Trent. She hopes meeting the people who received his organs will help but whoever received his heart, the person Quinn truly wants to meet, never replies. So Quinn does her own research and tracks down nineteen-year-old Colton,...

Luisa “Lulu” Mendez has just graduated high school and plans on going off to university, never looking back at the school town she grew up in. Then her father loses her tuition money and it looks like she’ll be stuck. Lulu refuses to give up on her dream and, along...

Told in alternating POVs and a timeline that jumps around, The Cost of All Things is the story of teenagers who have to deal with the consequences of spells place upon them and the truth behind the death of one of their friends. At first, this book...

Juliet Newman’s life is going exactly according to plan. She has a perfect family, a perfect boyfriend, and the perfect plan for her future: ace the SATs, get accepted to Harvard, get her happily ever after. That was before her dad left, her mom can’t cope, and Juliet’s careful plan...

It’s been a year since Paige’s boyfriend died from a drowning accident. She shut out the world since then but now, she’s ready to start moving on. She has a plan to help her. First: date Ryan Chase, her first crush. Second: join some school clubs. She’s thrilled when Ryan...

Kayla saw something that a party, something she’s kept secret all these months. No one knows the truth behind the night of the accident, no one but her, her friend Bean, and one other person. Kayla spent the summer away but now she’s back for her senior year and it’s...

I was a bit nervous going into this book. The fact that it was so blatant that Regan was a bully right from the synopsis made me worry I wouldn’t be able to connect with her or feel too sorry for her. The first few chapters put my fears to...

Aza Ray has been sick her whole life. What she has is so rare the doctors actually named it after her and the disease makes it almost impossible for her to breathe, speak, live her life. The doctors keep predicting her death and she keeps defying them. For now. When...

Naila’s immigrant parents are very conservative but they allow her to wear her hair as she wants, study what she wants, have the career she wants, but all with the understanding that they will choose her husband. It’s their cultural belief that they arrange marriage for her and until then,...