Reviews by Category: Fantasy

Teen Review
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The Stolen Heir

By Holly Black
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Safa Al
Jul 26, 2024

Eight years after the Battle of the Serpent, Lady Nore reclaims the Ice Needle Citadel, using an ancient relic to create monsters. Suren, the child queen, flees to the human world, haunted by her past. She is saved by Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, who is charming and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. Suren must confront the horrors she left behind if she agrees to go with him.

Teen Review
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The Rise of Scourge

By Erin Hunter
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Neil
Jul 26, 2024

The Rise of Scourge by Erin Hunter is a graphic novel, a part of the Warrior Cats series. This book seeks to explain the origin of Scourge, known as the evilest cat in the Forest to ever exist. He started as a runt of the litter (smallest kit) in a human home and was named Tiny. His mother raised him and his two bigger and stronger siblings, who always used to mock him for being so small.

Teen Review
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The Lightning Thief

By Rick Riordan
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Sophia N.
Jul 26, 2024

Percy Jackson, a seemingly normal kid from Manhattan, New York, discovers that he is actually a half-blood with a god for a father. He is sent to Camp Half-Blood after having numerous encounters with mythological creatures in hopes that he will be kept safe. However, when it is discovered that Zeus’s lightning bolt has been stolen, Percy is sent on a quest to retrieve it with his friends Annabeth and Grover.

Teen Review
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Throne of Glass

By Sarah J. Maas
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Sophia N.
Jul 26, 2024

Celaena Sardothien is a well-trained assassin known throughout the world at the young age of eighteen until she is captured and imprisoned in the salt mines of Endovier. When she is offered a chance of freedom by Prince Dorian of Adarlan, she jumps to take it, on the condition that she beats twenty-three other murderers in the King’s competition. If she successfully becomes the King’s Champion, Celaena will serve him for four years before she can gain her freedom.

Teen Review
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Divine Rivals

By Rebecca Ross
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Aisha
Jul 26, 2024

Iris Winnow is hung by anticipation with her brother’s departure to fight in a war between the gods. Life is messy with her mother’s addiction and money being tight. So, winning the columnist position at the Oath Gazette seems like seems like the only thing that can get her out of the mess. She is worried about her brother’s absence, so she writes letters to him and slips them under her wardrobe. All of that only to fall into the hands of her rival at the Oath Gazette, Roman Kitt, who is also fighting for the columnist position.

Teen Review
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The City of Ember

By Jeanne DuPrau
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Sriha P.
Jul 26, 2024

When the Builders created an underground living environment for the people, all seemed well. Until the storerooms started running out of food and corruption began to erupt. But when Lina and Doon found an ancient parchment, they wanted to find a way out of Ember. But will they be able to leave the city? I love this book because of its thrill. This book has a lot of twists and turns which make it really fun.

Teen Review
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The Sea of Monsters

By Rick Riordan
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Sriha P.
Jul 26, 2024

In The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan Percy Jackson continues his journey as the son of Poseidon. He goes back to Camp Half-Blood where he learns that it is under attack with monsters. So, Percy and his friends again set out on another adventure to save the world! 

Teen Review
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Throne of Glass

By Sarah J. Maas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jul 26, 2024

A talented and feared assassin currently serving time in a labor camp, Celaena Sardothien, is only eighteen years old. After a rough childhood that forced her to grow up too soon, she became a revered murderer of the rich and terrible, all while keeping her identity a secret. At least, until she is caught. Thrown into Endovier, the cruel salt mines became her place of torture for a year. Everything changes when the Crown Prince shows up, needing a champion for his games. Dorian drives a hard bargain, and Celaena agrees to his terms.

Teen Review
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The Vanishing Station

By Ana Ellickson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
SM
Jul 26, 2024

In the book The Vanishing Station by Ana Ellickson, a fiction fantasy book, the main character Ruby Santos is an 18 year old Filipino-American girl living with her father in San Francisco. Where she uncovers a secret that slowly unravels the world her father tried to protect her from. She learns that trains hold much more meaning than she thought, and might be the key to the escape that her late mother always wanted for her. She must put her struggles behind her and chase her dreams.

Teen Review
All of Us Villains by Amanda Food & Christine Lynn Herman

All of Us Villains

By Amanda Foody, C.L. Herman
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
DT
Jul 26, 2024

The city of Ilvernath has a tragic curse, and an even more horrific history. Every 20 years when the Blood Moon rises, the 7 families of Ilvernath must send their children to compete for high magick. High magick is the world’s most treacherous and powerful resource, thought to be long gone. However, this year’s tournament is very different from the ones of the past. It is now brought under international attention due to the publication of an unknown book. This book tells of all the families’ strengths, weaknesses and the story of the curse.

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