Addy, Brownyn, Cooper, Nate and Simon all walk into detention and only four of them walk out.
Simon is left on the floor dead with the life sucked out of him and the four that are left are
mentally scarred. A big coincidence right?, maybe even too big. All four of our main characters
have very different lives; Brownyn Rojas is a straight A student who is on her way to Yale,
Beautiful homecoming princess Addy Prentiss seems to have an ideal life, Baseball star Cooper
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is a children's story told from the point of view of a sled dog.
The readers get to experience Buck's (the sled dog) journey as he travels across North America.
Buck is stolen from his owners bedside to be sold to miners traveling across freezing Alaska. The
readers learn about the mistreatment Buck faces, his own rivalries with the other sled dogs, and his
search for his owner.
Flannery Culp, high school student and murderess, is going into her senior
year, and she’s got a huge crush on the student choir leader, Adam State.
She writes him letter after letter, but never knows how he truly feels.
Other than Adam, Flannery is also dealing with other unwanted attention.
Meanwhile, her endearingly pretensious group of friends are having
troubles of their own, and Flannery gets entangled in quite a few of them.
I didn’t love the book at first. The beginning is kind of slow, and it
I’ve read Chloe Gong’s previous duology, but I wasn’t aware she was coming out with a new
book with the same setting and (roughly) same characters. After seeing multiple reviews of this
book on Goodreads and having it recommended to me by a friend, I was eager to read it.
There are spoilers for her original duology (These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends).
The Land Of Stories: A Grimm Warning
This is the 3rd book in the series “Land of
Stories”. This book is one of my favorite
books in the series since this is when
things start to drastically change for the
main characters in the book. The first two
books' main purposes are to set the scene
and enable the reader to emerge into the
world of the stories. This book is what
starts to set the theme for how the rest of
the series will play out. This book is the
