Tag: YA
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Zom-B by Darren Shan
Rating: 5/5, excellent My brother suggested I read and review this for his birthday. I downloaded it and went in with no other info, no other reviews, which I think was the way to go. The first half is very uncomfortable to read because the main character is pretty racist. It’s obviously pushing an anti-racist…
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Want by Cindy Pon
Rating: 2, bad I almost put this book down at 15%, but I powered through for the sake of my scifi book club. Want is about a teenage boy named Zhou living in futuristic Taiwan where the air is so polluted most people die by the age of 50. The only people who live long…
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I’m a little late to the party on this one, as it came out in 2005 and was fairly popular when I first heard about it in 2009. By that time I was a senior in high school and not really interested in YA fiction as much, so I ignored the hype, but… a book group…