Eighteen year old Gideon Blake has waited his whole life to become a US Army ranger, but when his whole life comes to an abrupt end, those dreams can no longer become a reality. Instead, he finds himself wearing a mysterious metal bracelet he can’t remove and most certainly not as dead as he should be. Gideon discovers that he is, in fact, living out (ahem) his true destiny: he has been reincarnated as one of the horsemen of the apocalypse, War.
Gideon should have died.
May 23rd, 2017. Ray McKenzie´s rating: 3 | Veronica Rossi | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Black Dog (2014) is a YA urban fantasy that takes the werewolf shapeshifter subgenre and puts some unusual spins on it. The teenage Toland siblings, 15½ year old twins Natividad and Miguel and their 18 year old brother Alejandro, have been orphaned in their Mexico home by a mass attack of enemy black dog shapeshifters led by their father’s long-time enemy. Alejandro is a black dog, Miguel is a normal human, and Natividad is what is known as a “Pure,” one of the rare girls born with magical powers,
May 23rd, 2017. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4.5 | Rachel Neumeier | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan, who has enthralled millions of readers with exciting tales of teenagers and their interactions with Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods and goddesses, turns to Norse mythology in his latest book, The Sword of Summer, published October 6, 2015.
Magnus Chase is sixteen years old and has been homeless for two years, since his mother died. Magnus remembers the door of their apartment splintering and wolves with glowing blue eyes bursting in as his mother shooed him out the fire escape.
May 23rd, 2017. Tadiana Jones and Jana Nyman´s rating: 4 | Rick Riordan | Children | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
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Gentlemen, I concur! (Forgive me for jumping into your convo)
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