Buy Delirium Special: $9.99 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Harper Teen Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on March 12, 2011 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In the days before scientists found a cure, people thought that falling in love was a good thing. What they didn’t know is that once love – or amor deliria nervosa [...]

People often say that a book is only as good as it’s villain. I’m not sure I totally agree with this statement, but there’s no denying that a really great villain can make for a truly brilliant read. The more powerful the bad guy is, the harder the good guys have to fight to survive [...]

Buy Solitary Special $10.49 (Regular price: $15.99) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on January 18, 2011 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars In the stunning conclusion to Lockdown , Alex Sawyer, Zee, Toby, and Gary jump from the passage way they exploded into a raging river. Unfortunately, their means of escape and [...]

Buy Lockdown Special $6.99 (Regular price: $8.99) Publisher: Square Fish Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on January 6, 2011 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Furnace Penitentiary is the most formidable and secure prison for young offenders that has ever been built. No wonder since it’s buried one mile beneath the earth’s surface. When Alex Sawyer [...]

A few months ago, I heard a rumor that Chloe Moretz was in the lead for the role of Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming movie adaptation of The Hunger Games. I wasn’t really sure about this decision, and I made an argument for why I didn’t think she’d work. At the time, I felt that [...]

Buy Dust City Special $13.65 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Penguin Canada Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on October 21, 2010 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Once upon a time, there was a world in which fairydust allowed people to have anything and everything their heart desired. Once upon a time, the fairydust actually came from [...]

Buy Knife Of Never Letting Go Special $8.99 (Regular price: $9.99) Publisher: Candlewick Press Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on September 30, 2010 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Prentisstown is a town like no other. Why? Well, there are two reasons. First, there are no women. Second, all of the men and the one remaining [...]

Buy Mockingjay Price: $17.99 Publisher: Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on August 27, 2010 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars As with the other novels in The Hunger Games trilogy, reading Mockingjay was one of the best few days I’d ever spent. To say that I devoured it would be an understatement as this [...]

Buy Catching Fire Special $10.57 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on August 26, 2010 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars When I first finished this novel Sunday morning, I just kind of sat where I was for a few minutes or so, thinking about everything that had happened toward the [...]

Over the last couple of months, I’ve read not only The Hunger Games , but also I just finished reading Catching Fire Sunday morning. And unlike 10,000s of other people, it wasn’t a re-read. This past weekend was the first and only time that I’ve ever read the second novel in the Hunger Games trilogy, [...]