Marissa Meyer

Book ReviewCress

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5
This book was so good I'm going to throw a brick through the bookstore window so I can have my own hardcover copy RIGHT NOW!
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Fiewel and Friends, 2014

Life outside of the pages of Cress is like molasses - thick, slow and unimportant because once you open the cover of this book adventure takes hold of you like lightening. It flashes before you in unexpected places that make you gasp, blink with wonder and thrill for where it could possibly appear next! If like...

Book ReviewScarlet

Reviewer's Rating: 
5
This book was so good I'm going to throw a brick through the bookstore window so I can have my own hardcover copy RIGHT NOW!
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Fiewel and Friends, 2013.

If you've ever had a difficult time choosing between a caramel or fudge sundae put up your hand. Me too. But never fear, I've been motivated enough in the past by this question to come up with the perfect solution. First, you go to the counter and pretend you are ordering for a co-worker, "She would like a different type of sundae if you can possibly help me out today. She'd like a layer of hot fudge on the bottom, then ice cream and finally a healthy squirt of hot caramel sauce on the top. I'd really appreciate it; she's a little crazy so it's best to keep her happy. Thanks very much." That's verbatim my request at our local McDonald's a week ago and the staff, I think, were pleased with an odd request in the waning afternoon hours. And yes, it was delicious. Scarlett is exactly like that two-for-one taste bud sundae. There are two storylines that...

Book ReviewCinder

Reviewer's Rating: 
5
This book was so good I'm going to throw a brick through the bookstore window so I can have my own hardcover copy RIGHT NOW!
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Feiwel and Friends, 2012

I am amazed by the wonderful talents emerging in the past year with first novels that are a bang up job! Huzzah to the agents and publishers willing to take a shot at a newbie that is pure gold.