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The Hunger Games (a very overdue reread review) — Suzanne Collins

TITLE: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins GENRE: Dystopia/Sci-fi AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death...

The Dark Game — Jonathan Janz

TITLE: The Dark Game AUTHOR: Jonathan Janz GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all, he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts. The writers think they are...

Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1) — Patricia Briggs

TITLE: Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1) AUTHOR: Patricia Briggs GENRE: Paranormal Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Mercedes Thompson, aka Mercy, is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy’s next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she’s fixing a bus for a vampire. This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks a...

Wicked Saints — Emily A. Duncan

update — May 2020: You know what? I’ve had a lot of feelings about this book over the last year. I initially gave it a pretty high rating, but then the author sketched me out on social media and I decided I didn’t want to support her work while she was being unkind to other reviewers. A quick way to convince me not to support an author is to show me them attacking reviewers, because 1) I think of the...

The Takeover Effect (now I'm craving chai, YUM) — Nisha Sharma

TITLE: The Takeover Effect (The Singh Family, #1) AUTHOR: Nisha Sharma RELEASES: April 2nd, 2019; pre-order here! GENRE: Romance AGE RANGE: Adult Hem wanted to branch out on his own, to leave his father’s tech company behind for good, but when he gets a call that another company is attempting a takeover of everything his father has worked towards, he comes home to help. Meanwhile, Mina must take on the role of his legal counsel in hopes of appeasing her greedy uncle and...