Reviews by Category: Teens

The Hunger Games starts off the three (four now) book series that took the world by storm as it

beautifully ripped off the classic Battle Royale. In this book, you get to see the United States far

in the future where a small part of the population lives cushioned lives built off the backs of

starving people that might as well be slaves. In this book, you will watch a sixteen yea old girl by

In this final iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you get yet another

completely different experience as the timeline leaps forward roughly sixteen years. In this book,

you get a nasty shock as a gruesome twist turns Will into a grim, bearded ranger just as Halt had

once been. In this book, you get to see the new princess of Araluen, Maddie, turned from a brat

into the only bright spot Will has left in his life as his heart is blackened by a desire for revenge

In this eleventh iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you get a

completely different experience as you walk through a variety of short stories ranging back (get

it? Ranging? Hahaha!) to the time period of the third book to after the tenth. If I were to

summarize every story, we would be here for a very long time, so instead, I’ll just give you my

opinion on it. I think the idea behind the book is fun and truly fascinating. I especially enjoyed

High school senior Emoni Santiago is a wonder in the kitchen, crafting magic with flavors

and aromas. She dreams of attending culinary school one day, even if it seems as if there aren’t

many places for her to go in life. With an aging grandmother, an absent father, and the

responsibility of a three-year-old daughter to take care of, Emoni can’t afford to put herself first.

However, when her school announces a new culinary arts class, complete with an

In this tenth iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you get to

experience yet another amazing adventure into the far reaches of the world of the Ranger’s

Apprentice when you see a not-so-little-anymore little ranger (Will), a little, but older ranger

(Halt), a popular-but-not-Erak-popular pirate (Gundar), a knight (Horace), a princess (Evanlyn),

a politician (Alyss), and an old friend (Selethen) travel to the lands of Nihon-Ja. There, this

In this ninth iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you are kept on the

edge of your seat, itching to see if assassins and later, Halt’s peril (see what I did there?) is just

around the corner or not. In this, you get suspense you have never gotten in any of the other

Ranger’s Apprentice books and you revisit a popular character from two of the previous books,

Malcolm the medieval drug dealer (healer, sorry). This book is for those who like to wait for

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson is the second book in the series. Pip keeps telling

herself that she’s done investigating crimes until someone she knows goes missing. The police

aren’t going to get involved in this so Pip has to try and uncover this mystery. As she searches

for the missing person, she starts to uncover more secrets hidden in her small town.

In this eighth iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, the culmination of

the different and unique aspects of John Flanagan’s entertaining series comes together in a way

that makes it difficult for me to find anything sarcastic to say about it. Not that it was a result of

the lack of trying. In this book, you have the reconnection of the three most popular heroes of the

series including the two heroes that comprised the greatest power duo of all time: Halt and

In this seventh iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you get front-row

seating to the telling of a story that should have been told two books ago and the inspiration of

which most likely came from a small mark on Horace’s face. In this book, you are introduced to

the desert lands of Arrida and its exotic citizens such as Selethen who is really just Erak of the

desert if Erak was thin, lived in the desert, and was graceful. In this story, you get to see the final

In this sixth iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, you’ll find yourself

on the edge of your seat yet again. But not because Will is about to attempt a foolish siege of a

castle with the help of a medieval drug dealer (sorry “healer”), some pirates who tried to rob him

a month earlier, and a friend whose sole purpose is to provide emotional support in the form of

enemy destruction, but rather the ups and downs of Will’s (unconfirmed) love life. This book is