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Parker, N. (2018) Seafire. New York, NY: Penguin Random House LLC On the Bullet Seas, the only thing you can trust is your family.  For Captain Caledonia Styx, that refers to her crew, her sisters.  She had another family once, but that was taken away by Aric Athair bullets.  Her family was murdered, her ship burned, and she was left for dead.  She didn't die though.  Instead she grew stronger, rebuilt her ship, and raised an all girl crew to sail it. Now her new family is being threatened, but this time she's going to give it right back. I absolutely loved this book!  I laughed, I cried, I got angry, I felt tense, and I lusted for adventure.  This book took me for a ride that I'm not ready to get off from.  I can tell you I'll be checking out the sequel, Steeltide, as soon as I can.  The characters are engaging and the setting is so interesting.  It' s sort of a post apocalyptic world, in which those errors of the previous civiliza...

  Stevenson, N. (2015) Nimona . New York, NY: HarperTeen Spoilers ahead!   Ballister Blackheart, the biggest name in villainy, has just gained a sidekick.   He didn’t ask for one, she just showed up and inserted herself into his life.   Her name is Nimona, and she’s a shapeshifter. Their 1 st mission together goes a bit awry when she starts killing guards and blows up an entire building.   He has clear rules he has set for himself, and not killing innocents is one of them.   After a stern talking to her, he agrees she can stay on.   Blackheart isn’t so much a villain that is out to cause mass destruction.   Really, he wants to bring down the corrupt institution that is controlling his country and to get revenge on his nemesis, Ambrosius Goldenloin.   Goldenloin took Blackhearts arm after fairly losing a joust.   Blackheart also finds that the institute is hiding a lot of dark secrets.   He sets several plans that st...

Anderson, L. and Carroll, E. (2018) Speak, the graphic novel. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing group. Spoilers Ahead! Melinda has been dreading the start of high school.   It’s just as bad, if not worse than she thought it would be.   She’s been branded an outcast, and people go out of their way to be mean to her or ignore her completely.    She can’t talk to her former friends.   Everyone is mad at her for calling the police during a summer party.   The only girl who will talk to her is a new girl, Heather.   Algebra is boring, English incomprehensible, and History is run by an angry, racist a-hole.   Biology is ok, but Art is the only class she tries at all, and just barely.   Her project for the year is a tree.   She can’t seem to quite get it right.   Finally, David Petrakis, who is also her lab partner in Biology, stands up to the History teacher.   After that day, History goes along like it should, since...