Blog Posts - Kid Book Reviewer

The Fostfire Sage

6/25/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five

Who I'd Recommend to: Fans of Eragon, The Ranger's Apprentice, and the Young Samurai series.

Synopsis (from Amazon): The Sages are dying. The gods are waking up. Kole, Linn and their companions have survived the wilds of Center, slain another Sage and put their world on a path toward salvation. Or so they think. But the Eastern Dark has returned and laid claim to the power of T’Alon Rane, making the King of Ember his dark servant once more. Now, their ancient enemy marches across the frozen wastes of the north, seeking to end the life of his former ally and the last true power that can stand against him. With the last two Sages on a collision course that could decide the fate of the world, the Landkist of the Valley have a choice to make. One between darkness and light, redemption and corruption. For the Frostfire Sage is alive and unwell. And she has secrets to keep. And scores to settle.

Surviving Moose Lake

6/25/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five!

Who I'd Recommend to: Fan's of Land of Stories, Unicorn Quest, and other fun other worldly books

Synopsis (from Amazon): Getting placed in a lousy group for a class assignment is bad enough, but it’s a thousand times worse when you get stranded in the wilderness with that group. Will Josh and three of his sixth-grade classmates have the skills they need to survive the wild? Will they all make it home alive?

Gladiator

6/21/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five!

Who I'd Recommend to: Fan's of the Legends of Zero, Renegades, and the Outer Bounds series.

Synopsis (from Amazon): Conan was an ordinary working student until he "died."
He suddenly awoke with his body completely changed. The boy now has metal for skin, metal for flesh and bone, and hands that grow guns. Now Conan is a mechanical monster, and a superpowered one at that.
While his memory fails to tell him how he became this way, he sees that he can make a difference around him. There are plenty of criminals roaming the streets now. Why should he waste such gifts?
Conan cannot begin to imagine what consequences lie ahead...

Flying in a Cage

6/11/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five!

Who I'd Recommend to: Fans of Out of My Mind, Forget Me Not, and BlackBird Fly

Synopsis (from Amazon): A song tugs inside me,
like a string pulling on my heart.
It wants to fly free.
Ivory Strade lives in a world of song.
As she goes to school, as she eats breakfast, as she walks down the road, she creates melodies in her mind. Every sound she hears – a distant birdsong, the wind in the trees – becomes a symphony. No one knows about her music because Ivory is not like other ten-year-olds. When people speak to her, it’s difficult for her to untangle the words in her mind and she retreats into her own private world. Without the words to explain what she hears, the music stays trapped inside her until, one day, an amazing music teacher shows her how to set her music free.

The Landkist Saga: An Epic Fantasy Series (Books 1-3)

6/10/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five!

Who I'd Recommend to: Fans of Eragon, The Ranger's Apprentice, and the Young Samurai series.

Synopsis (from Amazon): An ancient evil is rising. Only the Embers can stand against it. But for centuries, their powers have been fading, and few of the flame-wielding warriors remain to push back the darkness. With the terrors of the night threatening to destroy all they hold dear, the Embers will risk everything as they venture to their ancestral lands and attempt to solve a mystery at the heart of a bitter war.They are the last lights against the darkness. Now, the time has come to see how bright their fire truly burns.

Icefall

5/28/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five

Who I'd Recommend to: Fans of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and other amazing, mystery, norse mythology books.

Synopsis (from Amazon): Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father's victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses to break, terrible acts of treachery soon make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst. A malevolent air begins to seep through the fortress walls, as a smothering claustrophobia slowly turns these prisoners of winter against one another. Those charged with protecting the king's children are all suspect, and the siblings must choose their allies wisely. But who can be trusted so far from their father's watchful eye? Can Solveig survive the long winter months and expose the traitor before he manages to destroy a kingdom?

Spy School Secret Service

4/8/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five

Who I'd Recommend to: Fans of Confessions of a So-Called Middle Child, Rick Riordan, and overall just those books that make you want to read forever...

Synopsis (from Amazon): Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series.
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has had a lot of field success despite only just beginning his second year at Spy School, something graduates rarely experience. But he’d never have survived without the help from experienced agents and his friends.
Now he’s been called in on a solo mission—and the fate of the United States of America is on his shoulders alone.
The Mission: Prevent a presidential assassination by infiltrating the White House, and locating the enemy operative. But when the president’s son is as helpful as a hamster, and a trained SPYDER agent would never appear to be up to something (they’re far too clever for that), Ben may be in over his head this time.
And when everything goes wrong, Ben must rely on his Spy School friends to save his reputation…but even friends can double-cross or be swayed to the enemy’s side.

Jake Lucid Dreamer

3/27/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five

Who I'd Recommend to: The Unwanteds, Otherworld, and The Land of Stories

Synopsis (from Amazon): 2-year-old Jake has been suppressing his heartbreak over the loss of his mother for the past four years. But his emotions have a way of haunting his dreams and bubbling to the surface when he least expects it. When Jake learns how to take control in his dreams, he becomes a lucid dreamer, and that’s when the battle really heats up.Using his wits to dodge bullies by day and a nefarious kangaroo hopping ever closer by night, Jake learns about loss, bravery, the power of love, and how you cannot fully heal until you face your greatest fear. This uncompromising novel is a magical yet honest exploration of emotional healing after a devastating loss.

Unicorn Quest

3/27/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five

Who We'd Recommend to: Fans of Peter and the Starcatchers, fractured fairy tales, Keeper of the Lost Cities and the Whatever After series.

Synopsis (from Amazon): Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year. But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor . . . until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden.
There, they find a world in turmoil. The four guilds of magic no longer trust each other, the beloved unicorns have disappeared, and terrible wraiths roam freely. Scared, the girls return home. But when Sophie vanishes in the night, it will take all of Claire's courage to climb back up the ladder, find her sister, and uncover the unicorns' greatest secret.

Winter Glass

3/25/2018

Reviewed by Oscar

Rating: High Five!

Who I'd Recommend to: Fan's of the Lunar Chronicles and other fairy tale books.

Synopsis (from Amazon): Aurora, torn from the dream world and Heath, plots to assassinate the faerie queen Malfleur, only to confront temptations she never expected. Isabelle, meanwhile, opens her heart to Prince William as they attempt to unite their kingdoms and wage a winning war against Malfleur’s army of Vultures.
But when the appearance of an unbreakable glass slipper prompts Isabelle to discover more about her lineage, her true identity begins to take shape and her legacy becomes as clear as ice. Devoted half sisters Isabelle and Aurora will grapple with their understanding of love and loyalty as they face a threat even greater than that of the evil queen—the threat of losing each other forever.