Are you or someone you know a reluctant reader? Fear not, we’ve got the books for you! If you or a friend are looking for recommendations for good books for people who are hesitant to read or get bored easily, keep reading for a list of great recommendations to get you back on the reading […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the book is almost always better than the movie. But we still love seeing our favorite stories on screen! Here are the YA books being made into movies that you should read before they hit theaters or a streaming service near you. 16 YA Books Being Made Into […]
Does the Thunderhead speak to you? Does it say, “take this quiz to find out if you are the ultimate fan of Neal Shusterman’s Arc of the Scythe trilogy?” Ok, it probably doesn’t say that, because separation of scythe and state and all that. BUT you should definitely take this quiz. Then post your results […]
Have you ever heard of the alignment system? If not, that’s ok! I’m here to give you a quick explanation. The Alignment system is used in storytelling to explain a character’s ethical and moral views. It’s really useful for helping to create character identities. So we decided to see if it could be used to […]
If you’ve read Scythe and the Thunderhead, you have now become well acquainted with the enigma that is the AI called the Thunderhead. By the time you finished book two in the Arc of the Scythe trilogy, you probably had a lot of questions you wanted answered. Let’s face it, we all did. So we […]
Some of my favorite female role models are fictional (though I’m not discounting the real ones!). These ladies are strong, independent, and inspirational. Oh, and they’re basically all badasses. Whether they’re physically, mentally, or emotionally strong (or all three), they’re characters that make me want to be the best that I can be. They’re interesting, complex, […]
At the end of Neal Shusterman’s Thunderhead we all felt a bit like this: Now we’re only a few months away from the release of The Toll and we need answers! So we decided to throw on our detective hats and do a bit of investigating and theorizing on what we think will happen. Every […]
I recently read Scythe for the first time (find that recap here) and it BLEW MY MIND. I, of course, immediately read Thunderhead and it BLEW MY MIND EVEN MORE! Neal Shusterman is an evil mastermind genius and how dare he leave me hanging at the end of the book like that?? To prep for […]
The only thing I knew about Neal Shusterman’s Scythe going in is that everyone said it was amazing, and I had seen this trailer which gave me actual goosebumps. But with The Toll (book three in the Arc of a Scythe trilogy) coming out this November, I knew I had to read ASAP! If you’re […]
We have all been there – you’re reading a new book, and the characters either come across a magical tome, or one of them writes the great American novel, or some other tie-in to an absolutely irresistible fictional book. Of course, being the book people we are, we tend to get a little ravenous about […]
