Tag: ya science fiction book series
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Marissa Meyer’s Cress Will Have Your Heart in Your Throat
Cress, Marissa Meyer’s third instalment in the Lunar Chronicles, is where the conflicts really heat up. Everything about this book carries high-stakes, making the interactions incredible, the action intense, and the characters raw and complex beyond the immediate issues at hand. It is exhilarating, immersive, and an absolute must-read. Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives…
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A Million Worlds With You by Claudia Gray – A Finale Out of This World
Concluding Claudia Gray’s The Firebird Trilogy is A Million Worlds With You, a novel that is action-packed, intriguing and multi-layered beyond expectations. It brings the imagination and creative settings of various worlds together and the possibilities within these worlds and the overarching action and romance plots of the trilogy to a gritty, engaging conclusion. To…
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In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken Breaks My Heart
It all comes down to this. The actions and decisions in Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds Trilogy have culminated in In the Afterlight, an action-packed finale rife with high tension, character conflicts, and a main character perspective so layered and different you can’t help but feel for Ruby in the midst of this mounting finale.…
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Claudia Gray’s Ten Thousand Skies Above You – A Perfect Balance of Romance and Sci-fi
Ten Thousand Skies Above You, the second instalment in Claudia Gray’s Firebird Trilogy, kicks right into the action with higher stakes and more emotional turmoil than before. The tension is sky-high and the uncertainties of the worlds and how things work makes reading this novel a truly gripping, heart-stopping experience. Ever since Marguerite used the…
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer May Be My Favourite Lunar Chronicles Book
Continuing with Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles, Scarlet takes us away from the Eastern Commonwealth and drops us into rural France, giving us another side of Princess Selene’s story. I love the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, and seeing it brought into a sci-fi space context made it all the more enjoyable. In fact, it…
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The Multiple Universes of Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You
It’s been a while since I picked up Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You, the first book in the series. It is a YA sci-fi with multiverses and a romantic subplot, so it has a lot going on. But I’m a sucker for multiple dimensions and historical fiction flare, as we all know at…
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Alexandra Bracken’s YA Sci-Fi Dystopian Continues with Never Fade
Back into my regular week schedule and I’ve kicked it off with Alexandra Bracken’s Never Fade, the second book in The Darkest Minds series. Having read The Darkest Minds during my Spooktober reads, I didn’t get to fully immerse myself into the story world and layers of the narrative, but reading Never Fade has given…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is My Kind of Fairytale Retelling
When it comes to fairytale retellings, I hold Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in high favour. When I first read Cinder I was astounded by the brilliance of this story world and the simple what if? What if we took Cinderella and made it sci-fi? What if we took cinderella and made her a cyborg? What…
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The Darkest Minds – Alexandra Bracken’s YA Dystopia I Still Thoroughly Enjoy
Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds has been one of my favourite YA dystopians for a while now. There’s something so simple and familiar about it, but it packs such a powerful punch and feels both plausible and terrifying. I liked it so much I did a high school character monologue as Ruby, and I used…
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Mockingjay’s Cruelty is Unmatched
My heart has been ripped from my chest countless times while reading Mockingjay, the final book in Suzanne Collins’s phenomenal The Hunger Games trilogy. It is a concise novel, but that doesn’t make it any less punchy. In fact, I think I’m bruised all over after getting through this book. All jokes aside, Mockingjay ups…