Showing posts with label Scholastic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scholastic. Show all posts

Friday, 15 March 2019

REVIEW: Mortal Engines (#1) - Philip Reeve

Title: Mortal Engines (#1)
Author: Philip Reeve
Series: Mortal Engines Quartet
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold.

Thaddeus Valentine, London's Head Historian and adored famous archaeologist, and his lovely daughter, Katherine, are down in The Gut when the young assassin with the black scarf strikes toward his heart, saved by the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly third-class apprentice. Racing after the fleeing girl, Tom suddenly glimpses her hideous face: scarred from forehead to jaw, nose a smashed stump, a single eye glaring back at him. "Look at what your Valentine did to me!" she screams. "Ask him! Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!" And with that she jumps down the waste chute to her death. Minutes later Tom finds himself tumbling down the same chute and stranded in the Out-Country, a sea of mud scored by the huge caterpillar tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon.

Friday, 19 October 2018

REVIEW: The Game of Love and Death - Martha Brockenbrough

Title: The Game of Love and Death
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 329 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Love is more than a game. 

Love and Death choose their players in an eternal game. Death has never lost and Love will do anything to win. 

Henry and Flora find each other, not knowing they are the players. Can their love be enough to keep them both alive?

Monday, 17 September 2018

REVIEW: Always and Forever, Lara Jean (#3) - Jenny Han

Title: Always and Forever, Lara Jean (#3)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 326 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Lara Jean is having the best senior year ever! She's head over heels in love with her boyfriend, her dad's getting remarried and Margot's coming home for the summer. But change is looming on the horizon. While Lara Jean is having fun, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Will she have to leave the boy she loves behind?

Wednesday, 5 September 2018

REVIEW: P.S. I Still Love You (#2) - Jenny Han

Title: P.S. I Love You (#2)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 337 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.
She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.
When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?

Saturday, 25 August 2018

REVIEW: To All The Boys I've Loved Before (#1) - Jenny Han

Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (#1)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 421 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? 

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

Friday, 30 March 2018

REVIEW: The Dream Thieves (#2) - Maggie Steifvater

The Dream Thieves (#2) - Maggie Steifvater
Series: The Raven Cycle
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 450 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after…

Monday, 12 February 2018

REVIEW: The Raven Boys (#1) - Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Boys (#1) - Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Boys
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages:419 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


Goodreads Blurb

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

Friday, 26 January 2018

REVIEW: Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes (#1) - Scott Cawthon & Kira Breed-Wristley

Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes (#1) - Scott Cawthon & Kira Breed-Wrisley
Series: Five Night's at Freddy's
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 389
Rating: ★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place, which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret…and a murderous agenda.