Entries Tagged as ‘Teen’

July 22, 2008

Ambivalent About It: Tigerheart

Maybe I’m just in a mood…but I started off really liking this book and then it just sort of petered (there’s a pun there…stay tuned) out on me.

Peter David’sĀ Tigerheart isĀ a reworking of the Peter Pan (see, told you there was a bad pun connection) story. The best parts of the book are when the narrator [...]

July 6, 2008

Some Duds: Books I Declined to Finish

While I really love Andre Norton’s Witch World books, some of the collaborative series have been stinkers. Sadly, this is true for one the last collaborative books she created: A Taste of Magic by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe.
The dialogue is stilted, clunky and ridiculous (although Three Hands for Scorpio is much, much worse). I [...]

June 27, 2008

It Had a Frog on the Cover

Sigh. I am such a marketing sucker.
But, seriously…what a cool cover! And frogs…love frogs!

I’m on an E. Lockhart reading jag. The Boyfriend List was funny and quick. I was telling someone that the protagonist seemed like a teenage, female version of Woody Allen and then I quickly realized maybe that was an icky comparison (as [...]

June 16, 2008

Lookin’ at the World Through Fly’s Eyes

Just finished up a teen book that was a quick, fun read. Fly on the Wall by e. lockhart is about an art school teen and what happens when she transforms into a fly a la Kafka. Oh, did I mention that during this fly incarnation she is stuck inside the boy’s locker room?
This book [...]