by Megan Stevens | Apr 4, 2017 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Gemeinhart’s Scar Island is a middle grade adventure and survival novel that includes coming to terms with the truth and dealing with guilt. Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys is a dangerous place with an abusive Admiral in charge, demeaning work,...
by Seniye Groff | Feb 23, 2017 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Audacity Jones and her friend Bimmy leave Miss Masie’s School for Wayward Girls Home on an adventure to New York City. Cypher, the adult that takes them, intends for them to see Harry Houdini and his latest magic trick – to make a larger than life elephant...
by Megan Stevens | Jan 12, 2017 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Tweens
Gabrielle Kent’s The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle is a page turning, middle grade adventure and fantasy novel with layers of mystery, history, mythology, and time travel. It follows an eleven-year-old boy named Alfie, whose father is an inventor of unique and not...
by Whitney Smyth | Dec 28, 2016 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Games, Historical Fiction
The Assassin’s Creed video game series has covered many adventures, various time periods, and multiple engaging (some less than others) characters. The series has even branched into books and comics with varying success. Assassin’s Creed: Templars Volume 1:...
by Megan Stevens | Dec 20, 2016 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Young Adult
M.P. Kozlowsky’s young adult, science fiction novel, Frost, combines fairy tale elements, a Dystopian society, robots, adventure, and survival to create a thrilling coming-of-age novel. Frost has been alienated from the rest of the world, hiding with her robot, Bunt,...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Dec 15, 2016 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Tweens
Darling Dimple is an orphan – she doesn’t actually have a dimple, her half-blind surrogate mother Jane named her after her actual mother died. Her universe is the royal castle in the kingdom of Eliora, in the employ of Princess Mariposa. The castle is a...