young adult
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Rated:⭐⭐⭐⭐ Neal Shusterman’s Thunderhead, the second book in the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, doesn’t just continue the story—it escalates it. If Scythe was a philosophical dance with death, Thunderhead is a storm that questions the very meaning of control, morality, and what happens when humanity decides it’s outgrown its gods. Shusterman’s world remains one
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Rating: 3.5 StarsDish Type: Slow-simmered sea stew — atmospheric, rich, but not for fast feasting. If you cracked open The Scorpio Races expecting a full-throttle horse race soaked in blood and adrenaline, temper your hunger—this dish is more tide and tension than speed and spectacle. Maggie Stiefvater serves up a windswept tale steeped in myth,
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Let’s be honest: reading about people getting “gleaned” in a disturbingly organized dystopia doesn’t exactly pair well with, say, spaghetti and meatballs. (Too much red. You get it.) But just because Scythe is morally heavy doesn’t mean your snack game has to be. If anything, the world of the Thunderhead deserves a carefully curated menu—something
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Violet Sorrengail never thought she’d make it through her first year at Basgiath War College. And she almost didn’t. But here she is at the beginning of her second year, and she has no idea what’s in store for her. Between secrets that need to be kept and a vice commandant that’s out for her
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Imagine having a massive amount of power within you, power you couldn’t control. Power that seems to have a mind of its own and has caused chaos for years. Now imagine that power hurting one of the people you love and having no idea how to help them. That’s life for Clara Lucas. Blessed with
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Do you ever have those books on your TBR that are intimidating? I don’t mean the ones that are 800 pages or more. But the ones that you’ve seen all over social media, the ones everyone can’t stop talking about. It’s hard to come across anyone who hasn’t heard of Forth Wing. And if you
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A young woman. A white wolf. A curse. Echo, a woman facially scarred by a wolf when she was younger, waits for her father to return from the city. Left with her stepmother who despises her, Echo frets as time drags on and still her father has not returned. So, she does what any daughter
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Do you have those books that just sit around and never get read? Maybe they’re gathering dust on a shelf or taking up room in a pile on the floor? Daughter of Smoke and Bone was one of those books. Karou is seventeen years old, living in Prague, and fills her sketchbooks with drawings of
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In 1889, Paris sits on the brink of industrial breakthrough, but in the process has stirred up ancient secrets that now threaten the very existence of civilization. But no one has more to lose than Severin, a treasure hunter and wealthy hotelier, who now must help the very organization he loathes in order to save
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