A review by Rebecca Fleming, aka Demonic Dragon One fine Geek Girl Day (where Dark Matter Zine editor Nalini and fellow review writer CJ Dee …
Book reviews
Paper Towns by John Green
A review by Nalini Haynes Quentin Jacobsen — Q to his friends — is a band-geek whose musical abilities prohibit him actually joining the band. …
Wickedpedia by Chris Van Etten
A review by CJ Dee Cole is a high school valedictorian contender. Gavin is his best friend. Winnie is Cole’s ex-girlfriend and rival for the …
Followers by Anna Davies
A review by CJ Dee I don’t even know that I can be bothered writing a synopsis. Let’s see how it goes. Briana is the …
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
A review by Nalini Haynes Grayson Sender is in grade 6 in Chicago. He’s isolated from his peers because he has an enormous secret that …
Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex by Gabrielle Williams
A review by Nalini Haynes Guy is in the last year of high school. He’s a bit of a slacker, forging school reports so his …
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
A review by Nalini Haynes Jam’s parents sent her to the Wooden Barn, a school for fragile yet intelligent teenagers. At the Wooden Barn she’s …
Valiant by Holly Black
A review by Nalini Haynes Before the Knights of Badassdom movie, Holly Black wrote: Hands raised in mock surrender, Ruth laughed. “Just a joke, Princess …
Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
A review by Nalini Haynes Laia was born into the Scholar caste, a downtrodden caste suffering random and not-so-random searches, torture and death at the …
Prudence by Gail Carriger
A review by Nalini Haynes A few years back I succumbed and started Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate novels on book 4. I had no idea …
Desert Rising by Kelley Grant
A review by Nalini Haynes Sulis, a woman from a nomadic desert tribe (desert rising?), feels called to the temple to serve the One, the …
Vision of Fire by Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin
A review by CJ Dee Caitlin O’Hara is a world renowned child psychologist. Her latest patient, Maanik, is the daughter of a diplomat who is …
Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
A review by Nalini Haynes Lucy Munroe is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has spent the last 10 years in Phoenix, Arizona, writing about the …
Tithe: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black
A review by Nalini Haynes Kaye is touched by fae: she sees things others don’t. She’s mature beyond her years, used to looking after her …
Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh
A review by Evie Kendal Heart of Obsidian is the twelfth book in Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. The novel opens with the incredibly powerful Cardinal …