Reviews written by Darin C Brown

A connoisseur of young adult literature, you stumble onto your reading queue and realize that nothing in your "read" pile contains the author Sarah J. Maas. This needs to be rectified. Picking up the Throne of Glass and seeing the teenage protagonist on the cover, your mind...

This book, no matter how extremely well written, is not for me. I read fiction to escape from reality. Green pens a fine novel that expertly mirrors reality. His descriptions of the protagonist’s debilitating anxiety disorder captures much of what she must be feeling and transforms it into a written...

This is a very good series introduction. From the critical side, my first impression was that Rachel Carter broke one of the cardinal rules of naming lead characters--using one that could be hard to pronounce. "Ryiah" doesn't flow from the tongue. Perhaps it is just me, but...