Book Review: A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess (DNF/5)

YA Fiction, Fantasy DNF. I tried hard to like the book between the beautiful covers, but it failed. The blurb on the front claims that A Shadow Bright and Burning has "vivid characters, terrifying monsters, and world building as deep and dark as the ocean." I disagree with that entire statement. The characters were boring, … Continue reading Book Review: A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess (DNF/5)

Book Review: Nightshade (Nightshade #1) by Andrea Cremer (DNF/5)

 YA Fiction, Fantasy I picked up this book because I loved Cremer's The Inventor's Secret series. Nightshade felt like it was written by a different author - it's so different from The Inventor's Secret. The sentence structure, the scene structure - everything was different, and in my opinion, worse. I read a little more than … Continue reading Book Review: Nightshade (Nightshade #1) by Andrea Cremer (DNF/5)