Kate Spofford, author

Category: books

  • Review: Across the Universe

    Across the Universe by Beth Revis Summary: Amy’s not exactly happy about being cry0genically frozen for 300 years as she and her parents are sent across the universe to a new planet, and she’s not exactly happy about being woken up out of her cryogenic slumber before them. Aboard the ship it’s a whole different…

  • Review: Thirteen Reasons Why (autographed edition)

    Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Summary: A high school boy, Clay, receives a set of 13 cassettes in the mail, recorded by a classmate who recently killed herself. On the tapes, she gives 13 reasons why she committed suicide, and is sending the tapes to the 13 people she considers the reasons. Mini Review:  This…

  • Review: I Hunt Killers

    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga Summary: Jasper “Jazz” Dent is the son of the world’s worst serial killer, Billy Dent. It took the police years to figure out that several different serial killers were actually the same guy. Since his father was arrest back when Jazz was 13, he’s been living with his demented…

  • Review: Grave Mercy

    Grave Mercy by R.L. LaFevers Summary: Ismae has been marked by St. Mortain ever since her mother took poison to try to rid Ismae from her womb. After being rescued from a marriage arranged by her abusive father, Ismae learns to be an assassin at the convent of St. Mortain. Her first major mission is…

  • Review: Paper Towns

    Paper Towns by John Green Summary: Q has always liked his next door neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman, although after that one time they found a dead body when they were 9, Margo has become popular while Q remains a band geek who doesn’t even play an instrument. One night near the end of senior year,…

  • Review: Fall into Darkness

    Fall into Darkness by Christopher Pike A summary of the plot based on the back of the book: Sharon stands accused of murder. While on a camping trip, she and her best friend Ann hiked to the top of a cliff. Their friends heard Ann scream “Don’t” and heard her screams as she fell over…

  • Review: Erebos

    Erebos by Ursula Poznanski I read this via Netgalley. Summary: Nick’s been noticing how some of the other students at his school are acting strangely. He isn’t sure why, until Brynne gives him a disc and tells him the rules: Play alone. Play in secret. Nick readily enters the world of Erebos, a video game…

  • Review: Stolen: A Letter to My Captor

    Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher Summary: Gemma is at an airport in Bangkok with her parents when a guy starts talking to her. She realizes soon after that he has drugged her. Her memories as hazy as she is stolen away onto a plane bound for Australia. When she wakes up…

  • Review: Looking For Alaska

    Looking For Alaska by John Green Summary: Miles leaves his basically friendless life in Florida to attend a boarding school in Alabama, where his new roommate, nicknamed the Colonel, christens skinny Miles “Pudge” and introduces him to smoking, drinking, and a gorgeous girl named Alaska. Pudge begins to fall in love with the spunky Alaska…

  • Review: Starters

    Starters by Lissa Price I read this via Netgalley.com Summary: The war destroyed everyone who wasn’t vaccinated against the spores. All that were left were the Starters – children – and the Enders – the elderly. Before the war, when people realized that they could now live to age 200, they outlawed children working, and…