Reviews written by Wren

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October 03, 2016
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3.0
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An Interesting Start to the Series

Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna are four girls with one thing in common - they were all friends with Alison DiLaurentis, who went missing. Now, several years later, in their junior year of high school, Aria returns from Iceland where her father moved their family right after Alison's...

September 26, 2016
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Young Adult Fiction
Sci-Fi Cinderella

This review can also be found at http://fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/09/cinder-by-marissa-meyer.html In this retelling of the Cinderella story, Cinder is a cyborg mechanic living in New Beijing. Adopted by a man who died years ago, she is left with her hateful stepmother and two stepsisters. Being a...

September 19, 2016
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2.7
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Young Adult Fiction
Good Story, Disliked Writing Style

This review can also be found at http://fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/09/blood-red-road-by-moira-young.html Saba lives with her father, her brother Lugh, and her sister Emmi. Their home is in Silverlake, where they live alone beside a drying-out lake and face sandstorms regularly. When Lugh is taken by strange men on...

September 12, 2016
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Short, Contemporary LGBTQ

This review can also be found at http://fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/09/empress-of-world-by-sara-ryan.html Nicola is taking a summer course in archaeology at the Siegel Institute, because she wants to make sure that archaeology is really a field she wants to go into. She expects that confirming her dream of...

August 29, 2016
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Enjoyable YA Mystery/Thriller

This review can also be found at http://fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/chasing-truth-by-julie-cross.html I received a free copy of this book through Netgalley. Eleanor is dealing with a lot in her life, including her family's past as con artists and the suicide of her best...

August 29, 2016
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Young Adult Fiction
Contemporary LGBTQ

This review can also be found at http://fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/pink-by-lili-wilkinson.html Ava has come out as a lesbian and is dating Chloe, who prides herself on not being like others her age, and who encourages Ava to do the same. However, Ava wants to try new things, to go...

August 15, 2016
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Historical Fiction with a Magical Twist

Gemma has a vision of her mother's death which comes true. She moves from India to England, where she is enrolled in a boarding school with a burned up East Wing, snobby peers and an outcast roommate. She finds that a boy from India, Kartik, has followed her...

August 08, 2016
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3.0
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Average but Enjoyable

Jason has moved to Malibu and starts attending a new high school where he makes friends quickly and meets Sienna; hot, popular and taken. With a new crush and invitations to parties, things seem to be going fairly well for Jason. That is, until someone turns up dead....

July 17, 2016
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Young Adult Fiction
A perfect conclusion to the Eve trilogy

In the third and final book of the Eve trilogy, Eve has married Charles, her father's advisor, in the wake of Caleb's death. Working with Moss, an undercover rebel against the King, she is asked to kill her own father for the sake of the city's future. But...

July 17, 2016
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Unique with a shocking conclusion

I received a free copy of this book through Netgalley. Victoria has anxiety, is a bit of a loner and attends St. Ann's school. As a new student, she doesn't have many friends, but she's happy to have her sweet, agoraphobic boyfriend Andrew in her life. She's...

July 12, 2016 (Updated: July 12, 2016)
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3.7
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A unique take on vampires....

Zoey is a normal teenage girl dealing with family issues, school, and her (almost) ex-boyfriend. That is, until she is Marked to become a vampyre, and moves into the House of Night, a school and home for Fledgling vampyres. There, she quickly makes friends, but also makes enemies. ...

July 04, 2016
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Ash
Young Adult Fiction
Cinderella Retelling

This review can also be found at : http://fortheloveofbooksreviews.blogspot.ca/2016/07/ash-by-malinda-lo.html Ash's mother dies, and soon after her father marries Lady Isobel. But when her father falls ill and dies as well, she is left in her stepmother's care. They move away from her childhood home...

June 23, 2016
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Vampires and mystery

In the second book of the Morganville Vampires series by Rachel Caine, Shane's father is determined to kill as many vampires as possible. However, being under Amelie the vampire's Protection, this isn't exactly a good idea, because the inhabitants of the Glass House worry that they will be blamed...

June 23, 2016
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4.3
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Young Adult Fiction
Unique

Frenenqer Paje has wings. But they're not real, of course, only imagined. She is quiet and obedient, living in a loveless household with her father always on her case, her only escape through her books. She saves a cat from his death one day, and...

June 22, 2016
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A summer romance with a twist

Sirena's parents are divorcing and as a result she must spend the summer at her aunt's house in another state. Confused and upset over the divorce and her future, she spends lots of time at the beach sketching and drawing. Soon she meets Pilot, a...

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