Reviews

  • Ever Review

    Olus is a lonely god, the youngest of the Akkran gods at seventeen compared to their thousands of millenium thus he is unusual fascinated by mortals or “soap bubbles” as his parents call them for their fleeting, ephermeral lives. On one such sojourn to the mortal realm, he travels to Hyete as a goatherd and…

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  • Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland Review

    Tiger Lily has long been a subject of interest for lovers of Neverland and Peter Pan. She’s brave, and fiesty, a nicer counterpart to the boy who will never grow up as she aims to be a wise chief like her father. Plus she’s more mischevious than the mini-adult Wendy. No wonder fans long for…

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  • The Maze Cutter Review

    Dashner returns to the world of the Maze Runner seventy three years later for a brand new mysterious adventure of the world at war between the Godhead in Alaska, the Remnet Nation in the Plains, and the islander descendants who may have the solution to the Cure. Just as before, Dashner creates an immersive world…

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  • The Fever Code Review

    As the world descends into a wasteland full of homocidal Crankheads, Stephen is “saved” by WICKED and sent to their HQ. But even though his mother gave him to them, he refuses to play by their rules. He won’t forget his name, he won’t pretend to have no idea of his past. That notion is…

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  • The Kill Order Review

    This will be a pretty short review as the prequel follows a small group of people as they first experience the spread of the Flare (then just unknown disease) with their journey to find out the cause and potential cure which leads to it picking them off one by one as they race against forest…

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  • The Death Cure Review

    The final book in the trilogy has a very apt name as Thomas, and the Gladers seem to have finally reached the end of their journey with WICKED. Their minds will be removed of the Swipe, the cure is near. But it is WICKED, and Thomas, Newt and Minho don’t plan to accept their explanations…

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  • The Scorch Trials Review

    Thomas and the rest of the Gladers had thought that things were going to be okay now that they got out of the Maze. But after only 24 hours of rest, they are thrust into a new trials because it turns WICKED’s machinations turn out to be less than altrustic. What do you expect with…

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  • The Maze Runner Review

    I had thought I completed my 2000s dystopian binge when I finished the Matched trilogy but I realized I would be remissed if I hadn’t read The Maze Runner. So in I go to the maze with very little idea of what it is really about. Only to find Dashner’s world to be a dangerous…

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  • The School for Good and Evil: One True King Review

    The End of Ends have finally come. To keep things simple, the minor spoilers are under the cut but lets get to characterization and plot first. Since Tedros was revealed to have the final ring, and the wedding crashing went wrong, King Arthur’s ghost comes in with a deus ex machina to give his son…

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  • The School for Good and Evil: A Crystal of Time Review

    Remember in the last review when I said that I thought I knew the villain. . . Yeah, I was so wrong. Once again, Chainani subverts all my expectations as the Snake and the Lion switch sides (or do they?) just as all the rest of the Evers are scrambling to fight back against a…

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