Kate Spofford, author

Tag: book reviews

  • Review: The Lifeguard

    The Lifeguard by Deborah Blumenthal I read this ARC via Netgalley. Summary: Sirena’s been sent to live with her aunt this summer while her parents work out their divorce. On one of her first days, she swims out too far and comes face to face with the lifeguard. She is drawn to Pilot, more so…

  • Review: The Dead Boys

    The Dead Boys by Royce Buckingham Teddy just moved to a new town, where his mother will be starting a job at the nuclear power plant. Next door to his house there’s a tree that years ago sucked up some toxic waste, then developed a taste for 12-year-old boys. Teddy keeps meeting kids his age,…

  • Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

    Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Karou is living a double life: one as a student at a Czech art school, and the other in a mysterious world filled with chimera (creatures that are part human, part animal). This other life is so mysterious that Karou does not even know what the teeth…

  • Review: Where She Went

    Where She Went by Gayle Forman Three years after Mia decided to stay (you should definitely read If I Stay before this), Adam is still grieving. Mia may have recovered, but when she left for Juilliard, she left Adam too. That left Adam to use his feeling to write a hit album with his band Shooting…

  • Review: Chime

    Chime by Franny Billingsley The plot as I could figure: Briony is a witch. She lives on the edge of the swamp with her twin, Rose, and their pastor father, ever since Briony called up a swamp spirit to flood the house and injured her stepmother. When Eldrich moves into town, Briony is a bit…

  • Review: Gimme a Kiss

    Gimme a Kiss by Christopher Pike The short plot: Jane vows revenge when she finds that the last page of her diary has been photocopied and passed around the school. What was Jane’s secret? Why would she feel the need to go so far as murder? I couldn’t remember. So…. SPOILERS! Jane’s big bad secret…

  • the perks of being a librarian

    It seems to be ARC season (that’s Advanced Reader Copies), between the ARCs I get from frantically emailing on the YALSA listservs and those I trade with a library patron who also works at the local bookstore.  Just one of the perks of being a librarian! These two I read and thought were really great:…