Reviews by Tag: time

Teen Review
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

By V.E. Schwab
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Earvin C.
Nov 2, 2022

A beautiful story, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab takes you away to a new
world--one where a girl named Addie makes a deal with the “devil”. The book takes you on an
adventure as Addie tells her story of how she lives to hundreds of years old, experiencing wars,
corruption, and success--and finds love within it. Schwab’s writing style of building off of mainly
flashbacks draws readers tightly into the story, with its ups and downs and chapters full of

Teen Review
Timekeeper by Tara Sim

Timekeeper

By Tara Sim
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Oct 21, 2021

For centuries, time has been controlled by clock towers, but when a tower is broken, time upsets. When a tower is destroyed, time Stops. Clock mechanics are tasked with fixing broken towers, but Stopped cities are unable to be rescued. In Victorian England, Danny Hart, a 17-year-old prodigy mechanic with a traumatic past, fixes clock towers that are victims of mysterious bombings across England while trying to find a way to save his father from a Stopped town. But in the process, he meets someone that most people believe doesn’t even exist: a clock spirit, whose name is Colton.

Teen Review
Switch by A.S. King

Switch

By A.S. King
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 6, 2021

Meet Tru Beck, a girl that lives in a parallel universe where time has stopped.  After time had stopped, her father discovers a new switch in their house; and he decides to build many, many boxes around this switch. In Tru’s school, there is a new class where students have to figure out how to solve the frozen time problem. Tru has no interest in this, but she does think it’s interesting how she threw a javelin farther than anyone has in history. Tru and family are trying to stick together amid the time stopping situation.

Staff Review

The Secret Hour

By Scott Westerfeld
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Anne G
Feb 21, 2020

     The Secret Hour has a very imaginative paranormal premise, and it was enjoyable to read; I finished this book for reluctant readers in two sittings.  I love the idea of a hidden hour after midnight where only a select few can visit, and the continuing threads of mystery and “what’s going on?” kept me reading this urban fantasy.  The characters are not all best buddies, but are unique individuals with their own motivations which are shown in the fast pace.

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