Genre: Young Adult

Review: Ink (Paper Gods #1) – Amanda Sun

Review: Ink (Paper Gods #1) – Amanda Sun

*I received a free ARC of Ink from Harlequin TEEN via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review. Ink follows Katie’s first few months in Japan, where she arrives after her mother’s death to live with her aunt Diane. Language difficulties, cultural differences and adjusting to life without her parents are part of Katie’s daily life now. Making new friends, fitting in in school being the only blond and non-Asian student while trying her best to keep up with the Japanese signs and learning everything she needs while longing for her grand-parents in Canada and still being very sad and angry about her mom’s death is a big part of her as well. There were a lot of things I […]

Posted 9 July, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Destroy Me (Shatter Me #1.5) – Tahereh Mafi

Review: Destroy Me (Shatter Me #1.5) – Tahereh Mafi

Destroy Me picks up right after Shatter Me, and it is all written in Warner’s point of view. If you haven’t read my review, you don’t know that I really hated Warner in Shatter Me – he hardly even seemed human. A stone-cold heart, only using others to get more power, killing people on a whim, wanting to use Juliette against her own will… I could go on and on. Then, I picked up Destroy Me, and wow. I realized that Warner might have a soul, that the way he is now has everything to do with the way he was raised, and that while he first wanted to use Juliette for nefarious reasons, he actually fell in love with […]

Posted 5 July, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) – Tahereh Mafi

Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) – Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me is a complicated story about Juliette who can kill just by touching someone. Everybody is afraid of her, so afraid that she has been put in an asylum, completely isolated from other people, the world, fresh air and sanity. To survive, Juliette writes in her little notebook every day. She counts the cracks in the wall. She counts the seconds she is awake – sitting very still in a corner while holding on to herself. She misses human interaction, wonders if she still knows how to form words. Juliette can’t understand why she is being kept alive – she is sure death would be much better than her non-life at this point. Until one day, another bed is […]

Posted 3 July, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Untethered – Katie Hayoz

Review: Untethered – Katie Hayoz

Untethered is a novel that surprised me on many levels! The story, while having some ingredients that are invariably part of a young adult novel is so original. The paranormal that happens has nothing to do with werewolves or vampires, there are no witches or magic. But astral-projection is a big part of the story, and it is both a blessing and a curse to Sylvie as she tries to figure out how to deal with her parents’ impending divorce, feeling like a pariah and seeing her best friend having become the most beautiful girl ever just over summer. I hadn’t even really planned on reading Untethered, but a week ago, I met with Katie for coffee, and we had […]

Posted 28 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Blogtour Review: Switching – Jody Kihara

Blogtour Review: Switching – Jody Kihara

*I received a free ARC of Switching from Lightning Book Promotions in exchange of an honest review* Swtiching has me awed in all of its’ aspects! The characters are fantastically detailed, the world-building is amazingly well done, and the time travel plot is one of the best I’ve ever read. Terry is a young girl, with no memory of her past, the only thing she knows is that she has been hopping through time during the past eight months – or switching as she calls it – and she’s been taking notes on the different dates and places she’s been to. Being alone for so long has taken its toll on Terry. She doesn’t know how old she is, what […]

Posted 4 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: The Testing (The Testing #1) – Joelle Charbonneau

Review: The Testing (The Testing #1) – Joelle Charbonneau

*I received a free ARC of The Testing from Houghton Mifflin Books for Children via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Testing starts with Cia’s graduation, and the hope that she will be selected for the testing in the Commonwealth’s capital Tosu City. Several of Cia’s friens think she’ll be chosen, even if it has been a long time since any student from Five Lakes has been chosen. When no government official shows up, Cia tries her best not to show her disappointment, her oldest brother Zeen understands exactly how she feels, though. The next day, a government official arrives, though, and he wants to see Cia and three other graduates from her class. Cia is elated when […]

Posted 23 May, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Runes – Ednah Walters

Review: Runes – Ednah Walters

*I received a free ARC of Runes from Firetail Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.* Runes is the story of Raine, and how she deals with her life when everything she thought of as normal ends up not being all that normal after all. Runes is a descriptive title as well, as there is Norse mythology, seemingly young people using a knife-like instrument to make runes with, and Raine trying to figure out what it all means. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 6,926 other subscribers

Posted 8 May, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) – Cassandra Clare

Review: Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) – Cassandra Clare

The Clockwork Princess starts with a prologue, and ends with an epilogue. Especially the prologue feels a little out of place, and even if it made sense to mention what happens there, it also confused me and made it take longer before I made it into the actual story. Usually, if there is either a prologue or an epilogue, it’s to add important information to the story that doesn’t really fit into the main-frame, however, especially the prologue felt too out of place, and the epilogue could have easily been a part of the actual story. Clockwork Princess picks up very shortly after the end of Clockwork Prince, and Jem is still not doing very well. Will is still being […]

Posted 7 May, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Inferno (Chronicles of Nick #4) – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Review: Inferno (Chronicles of Nick #4) – Sherrilyn Kenyon

Inferno is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Nick series, and it brought the whole story back on track for me. I wasn’t all that happy with Infamous, because that felt too much like a filler than an actual novel to me. With Inferno, though, my love for Nick and the whole Dark Hunter world made sense again, even if I’m still not completely happy with the time-travel aspect of the story. Yes, yes, I know, it’s fiction, and time travel cannot even happen in the real world. But still, most stories that deal with time travel follow some time/space continuum rules, that are not followed in the Chronicles of Nick, and it confuses me! Subscribe to Blog via […]

Posted 2 May, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: A Shade of Vampire (A Shade of Vampire #1) – Bella Forrest

Review: A Shade of Vampire (A Shade of Vampire #1) – Bella Forrest

*I received a free copy of A Shade of Vampire from the author in exchange of an honest review* A Shade of Vampire starts with Sofia walking on the beach, alone, with her feelings hurt because she’d just seen Ben kiss someone else. She is kidnapped to a place where there are more vampires than humans, and Lucas is really not treating her very nicely. When Sofia wakes up in shackles, Lucas comes to see her, and he seems to be ready to drain her until his sister, Vivienne intervenes. While I’m not a huge fan of the kidnapping plot in general, it was quite well done in  A Shade of Vampire. Sofia did not quiver and behave like a […]

Posted 17 April, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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