Character Playlist: Simon Spier
Amanda Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a book I probably read about a year ago, and the movie just came out this weekend. The movie really hit it out…
Review: March
“Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.” -John Lewis, March These three volumes follow John Lewis’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, book-ended by the inauguration…
Review: Wingless
“My teacher told me I was mythology, said I needed a doctor.” -Zachary Riddle, Wingless Wingless is Zach’s second chapbook of poetry, building on the world of mythology that he’s…
Review: King’s Cage
“There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction.” -Victoria Aveyard, King’s Cage In the third book of the Red Queen series, Mare Barrow has found…
Review: Spill Zone
“People think there’s something hidden in the Spill, fairies in those wisps of light. They’re wrong…The Spill Zone shows everything.” -Scott Westerfeld, Spill Zone No one really knows how the…
Review: Watchmen
“All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.” -Alan Moore, Watchmen Superheroes have been banned from the US, forced to go back to their lives as civilians. But…
Review: The Diabolic
“A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for.” -S.J. Kincaid, The Diabolic Nemesis…
Review: This Darkness Mine
“All imperfections glare in the spotlight.” -Mindy McGinnis, This Darkness Mine For all appearances, Sasha Stone’s life is perfect: she’s first chair clarinet, at the top of her class, and…
Review: All American Boys
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” -Jason Reynolds, All American Boys Wrongly accused of shoplifting and assaulting a woman at…
Review: Glass Sword
“No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.” -Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword Mare is part of a new…