The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Rating - 4.1 out of 5
Three years after the Toll has sounded, the world is still in disarray. Humanity has to adjust to the new normal with the Thunderhead no longer speaking to them. Goddard is leading the North American Scythedom and continues to fight for power with the Tonists. The world is having a...
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Rating - 4.7 out of 5
Set in the world of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Testaments follows a story of three other women also affected by the laws that govern the Republic of Gilead. In the years following Offred’s flight from her captors, Gilead has remained the same republic ruled by militaristic fundamentalism...
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Rating - 5 out of 5
Spoiler Alert - given that this is the third book in the series, even the synopsis is a spoiler. If you’re in the wrong place and would like to read reviews of The Cruel Prince or The Wicked King, please click the links! Reader beware! :-)
At the...
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
Rating - 4.5 out of 5
Spoiler Alert - given that this is the third book in the series, even the synopsis is a spoiler. If you’re in the wrong place and would like to read reviews of Shadow and Bone or Siege and Storm, please click the links! Reader beware! :-)
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Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake
Rating - 4.6 out of 5
All Three Queens, Arsinoe, Mirabella, and Katherine are back on the Island of Fennbirn and the year of ascension almost up. Tensions rise as the rebel army comes to terms with their legion queen, Jules, and the destruction she brings. The dead queens are rising and demanding more from...
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Rating - 4.5 out of 5
Even though Alina and Mal have made it far away from the Ravka court and the clutches of the Darkling, tensions are still rising. They are soon caught back up in the scandal of the Darkling and thrust into the search for the next amplifier - this time at...
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Rating - 4.7 out of 5
Alina Starkov is an orphan in the Kingdom of Ravka who has always blended in. One fateful day when she is brought into the Unsea, a dark no-man's-land filled with monsters she shows that she is a Grisha, with special powers. Upon this discovery, Alina is swept up into...
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Rating - 4.7 out of 5
In a world much like our own, women of all backgrounds suddenly develop the ability to conduct electricity through their bodies. What follows is told through the eyes of several people as this shift causes imbalances of physical power throughout the world. Women take control of major governments, social structures...
