I liked this book SO much more than I expected to. It’s kinda like a romantic version of the Hunger Games. It was far from perfect however. I’d give it three stars if I was feeling mean just for its cliffhanger ending!

The book started out very weak for me. The conversations between America (I despise this name. I cherished every time a character called her Mere) and Aspen were some of the most disgusting gooey sentences written since Twilight. I’ve never been happier for a couple to break up. Yeah, that’s a spoiler, but it’s an obvious one.

I soldiered on, even though I was vomiting in my mouth a little, and got to the selection part. Here is where the book got good. I’m not even sure why it was so good, because it wasn’t extremely exciting or anything. It was mostly about America (Bleh) meeting the Prince, befriending the Prince, bickering with other girls, and actually starting to like the Prince. Sure, there was a bit of “The rebels are attacking!” moments and those damn rebels do intrigue me, but they were quickly forgotten.

As for characters, I liked Mere a lot, when Aspen (Asspen? lol) wasn’t around. He basically turns her into an idiot. The rest of the time she is just a kind teenage girl trying her best to get by. Maxon was pretty much perfect. Sweet, but not gooey, flawed, but not lame. I also loved the relationship that slowly and perfectly develops between them.

So listening to the book and getting happy for Mere (I’m just gonna call her that) I was surprised at how much I was rooting for her and how much I cared about the romance. It was so unlike me. And then that ending happened. That horrible, horrible ending.

I hate cliffhanger endings in books. So much. I am also dying to read the second book, so well done author. I even have a preference in who Mere ends up with, and it’s not Aspen the whiny lame-o.

I also heard the CW might be developing this as a show? Interesting, but they would need to pick up the action if this was a weekly show. Also, how does that work with only one book in the series out? I dunno, read the book though, it was awesome.

This book was nothing like I expected. I really thought it was going to be a fantasy having to do with Dante’s Inferno. Oh well, shows how much I can tell looking at the cover.

Dante – who used to be Emily but recently changed her name – is not the most happy teenage girl on the planet. She hates her school and her best friend Beth moved away over the summer. Only Beth was more than a friend, but no one knows that.

When she meets a mysterious girl, Parker, outside the school, she finds herself drawn to her and questioning everything in her life except the feelings she has for this girl. Parker takes her under her wing, bringing her into a group that has big plans to change the world.

I pretty much read this in one sitting and really enjoyed it. Dante’s feelings all seemed very real from her sadness at the loss of her almost girlfriend to her stilted relationship with her parents. I liked that even though Dante is coming to terms with the fact that she is into girls, this isn’t a coming out story. She doesn’t even want to tell her parents yet, which in my experience is exactly how that sort of thing happens.

The group of teens trying to change the world are pretty much dumb and short sighted, but that’s exactly what they are meant to be. They talk big and have big plans and Dante is drawn to them because they are thinking outside the box. This could have gone a lot farther than it did, and I’m glad the author held back.

This is one of those books that really captures a very small bit of someone’s life. There is a lot that isn’t fully summed up, which may bother some people. Heck, it usually bothers me. I guess Dante’s immediate story was played out fully and that made it easier for me to accept some of the loose ends. Overall I would recommend this book.

What a crazy good book! I guess it’s probably a novella more accurately, but it’s decently long and you more than get your money’s worth! It ties into the Feed series, but you would’t have to read any of that to enjoy this.

This is the story of a small group of people at the last Comic Con before the Rising takes place. Unfortunately for them, the Rising has come to Comic Con.

Any fan of awesome things (FIREFLY! Dr. Who, Buffy, My Little Pony, etc.) and zombies will get a kick out of this book. It’s a great little zombie romp, but seeped in geek culture. I loved all the references to Firefly especially.

Okay, but are all those references just a gimmick? No way! Grant obviously has mad love for everything she references and it’s a rockin’ zombie story too. From the get go you know no one is making it out of the convention center, and yet you can’t help but hope. No one knows how the outbreak starts, but once it does the heroes step up.

These heroes are the fans themselves who do their best to survive. When that doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen, they do their best to make things better for each other in the remaining seconds, minutes, and hours they have left. The Browncoats in this story are the sort that Joss Whedon would be very proud of.

I really can’t say enough how much I enjoyed this. In a very short time I cared about all the main characters, I believed in them, and I certainly believed in the terror of being in a locked building full of the infected. Without a doubt, this is a must read.