I'm so happy to have discovered this series! (Jim Dale as the narrator is just so amazing, again because of the Harry Potter connection I'm sure... I wonder if I'd have liked it so well had it been narrated by anyone else.) We rejoin Peter and the Lost Boys on Neverland. Molly has gone home, and ...
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I still really enjoyed reading this one as I have all of Jeff Wheeler's books, but I had a few more insights into why I have such a hard time following what's going on: perhaps this is typical of high fantasy (which I almost never read), but many made up objects, titles, cities, and names are used ...
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This was so much fun -- I felt like I'd discovered another Harry Potter! Partly this was because it was narrated by Jim Dale, who also narrated the Harry Potter series. Peter is an orphan, the head of a band of orphan boys, who finds himself aboard a ship called the Wasp where they are poorly ...
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I wish I could put my finger on what it is about Jeff Wheeler's writing that I find so compelling, because most books that I'd consider similar don't do it for me at all. Also, there's so much going on that after the fact, I have a really hard time even remembering what happened! I think it must all ...
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I know better than to read villain origin stories, and yet... it was from the world of the Hunger Games. How could I resist? Beautifully written, and horrifying in the same way that the original trilogy were, this prequel follows Coriolanus Snow before he becomes the President who is Katniss ...
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This is hilarious! A tongue-in-cheek superhero story centering on disillusioned 20-something Andrea, who finds herself as the administrative assistant at a company very much like Dilbert's or The Office--except they lease superheroes to save the world from impending destruction. CUP (The Corporation ...
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The story was more or less what it was billed to be: a stereotypical murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie. I am not a huge Christie fan, but the description made me think it would be more tongue-in-cheek than it turned out to be. Instead, I got the formula: a countess is set up as being ...
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Finally!!! (Warning: major spoiler alerts ahead.) After an entire 6 book series, there's finally what I'd call a TRUE happy ending. I'd almost say it's happy to the point of being cheesy, and I might say that if I hadn't just slogged through six books of some level of disappointment. As it is, I ...
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A fantastic premise, very engagingly written, with a let-down ending. Warcross hooked me almost at once--Marie Lu is definitely skilled at this! Every book I've ever read of hers jumps straight into the action, in such a way that I also care what happens to the characters even though we're barely ...
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I loved this book, and I'm just in awe of the complexity of this series! There are so many details that I just let a lot of them wash over me, but I have the impression that Wheeler must have outlined a TON to keep all the intrigues and courts and etc straight in his head. But again, the ...
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