I finally succumbed to the hype and bought a copy of “The Hunger Games“. Having been fascinated by dystopian novels for quite some time now, I couldn’t pass up the chance on reading this one. First published in 2008 it quickly rose to fame in the States, creating a hype similar to the [...]
… is an entertaining YA novel about, you guessed it, a young necromancer. Sam flips burgers for a living after he dropped out of college. Once day he ticks off the wrong guy and is being threatened by him- the scariest necromancer of the Seattle area. Good thing he’s a death-raiser as well. Though he [...]
A couple of Australian teenagers decide to “go bush” for a couple of days to escape their daily grind. They end up in “Hell”, a hidden, almost unreachable place deep in the bush and enjoy themselves. After they have gobbled down their last reserves it’s time to head back home. And the moment they want [...]
Cold-stricken and chained to my bed I couldn’t stomach Dostojewski or the like, so I turned to some Young-Adult literature. Joyce Carol Oates’ novel is about Matt, a highschooler with a (you see this coming) big mouth. It gets him seriously into trouble through a seemingly innocent joke that turns his life upside down. Luckily [...]
