YA Books Central | Reina Gallion | Activity https://yabookscentral.com/members/reirei13/activity/ Activity feed for Reina Gallion. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:20:08 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 410f76f131500c423736c2e11a493dc3 Reina Gallion posted an update: Atonement Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, c […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10038/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:52:27 -0400 Atonement
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.

On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sis…Read more

]]> 0 baa906ea36550870b0ad827ad0880641 Reina Gallion posted an update: The Keepers Sixteen-year-old Isra Kalb has grown up starving […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10037/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:50:50 -0400 The Keepers
Sixteen-year-old Isra Kalb has grown up starving in the slums of Islamabad. But hunger is only the beginning. When her father is mysteriously murdered and madness corrupts her mother’s mind, she’s left alone to fend for herself and her sister. Homeless and destitute, the only thing she has to remember her loving family by is a…Read more

]]> 0 48a1a6d60110946521bee269e085add3 Reina Gallion posted an update: LINK (The Shadow of Light #1) For seventeen-year-old Kira, […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10036/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:47:54 -0400 LINK (The Shadow of Light #1)
For seventeen-year-old Kira, there’s no better way to celebrate a birthday than being surrounded by friends and huddled beside a campfire deep in the woods. And with a birthday in the peak of summer, that includes late night swims under the stars.

Or at least, it used to.

Kira’s relaxing contemplation of the uni…Read more

]]> 0 c494560592300f44051815019e338d5b Reina Gallion posted an update: Loved it. Read the whole thing in a day! LINK is the perfect […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/10035/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:45:05 -0400 Loved it. Read the whole thing in a day!
LINK is the perfect blend of fantasy and sci-fi, without being too sciencey (READ: it doesn’t go into laborious detail like The Martian does.) And of course there is a healthy dose of romance.

Wier’s description of the “other world” makes you wish it was a reality. The writing and the premise made my imag…Read more

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