Category: Book Reviews
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A Review – Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow 2
Hunter Brown is an average ninth grade boy: good at pranks, bad at first impressions, mediocre at life. Things have been harder to deal with since his father disappeared years ago, but Hunter makes do. Until, in a Neverending-Story-meets-the-Matrix moment, he opens an ancient book and learns that everything he ever knew about his world…
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To Love and to Honour: A Review of Robin McKinley’s “Beauty”
“I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour, but few people except perhaps the minister who had baptized all three of us remembered my given name.” As a very young child, Honour renames herself “Beauty,” a nickname which sticks despite the fact that she is hardly the…
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Flashpoint: A Review
Review of Flashpoint by Frank Creed Review by Rachel Starr Thomson The year is 2036. The place, Chicago—under control of a worldwide government called the One State. A father drives his children through the rain and drops them off under a bridge before fleeing the “Peacekeepers” on his trail. Little do Dave and Jen know…