Review:4.5 stars

The book starts out very disconnected. There is a lot to take in. You have to spend some time with the book to figuring things out. It helps to know a little about the book is prior to delving in: it’s a first-person account of a teenage boy’s descent into mental illness. In the first few chapters, you will find that Caden is experiencing hallucinations and is having a difficult time discerning between those and reality.

The chapters seem so incohesive but the effect ... Read more

Review:I bought this book as a follow-up to reading "Rapture Practice." RP was a memoir, based on a true story. This work is fiction, but the characters seemed so real to me. Rafe is gay, with accepting parents and friends and in a supportive school, but he just wanted to escape being "the gay kid," so he changed schools and hid his sexuality. In the end, he comes to terms with being being "the gay kid", with being who he is. There is joy, and there is angst.
This is classified as a Young Adult nove... Read more

Review:Pros: Mexican culture, themes of family, coming to terms with who you are, inner beauty
Cons: Passive, unlikable protagonist who complains all the time, speaks before thinking.
I’ll start by saying: This book should be required reading for high schoolers. It deals with a lot of hard-hitting issues, such as sexual assault, sexism, racism, gang violence, the death of a loved one, etc. Additionally, there are quite a few important other topics, such as family relationships, and lots of knowle... Read more

Review:I've only read the first few stories in the book, but I am loving these glimpses of the daily lives of minor characters. Some are written from hilarious points of view, such as an administrator dealing with paperwork on Darth Vader's star destroyer. Each story gives enough information to identify the character from the movies and then brings out who that person really is and how s/he impacts the plot. It expands the universe by saluting the ordinary people (and other life-forms) that populate... Read more

Review:Given the importance of this, the intro to the New EU, I am also baffled that they picked such a poor writer. Did Chuck Wertig grow up reading only text messages? Or Tweets? Maybe it's supposed to be all edgy-n-angular, but what it is just lame. What happened to the authors who did a much better job on the old EU? I heard a rumor that The Mouse felt that they were too expensive and so went with cheaper options. To the story, I guess this is the background? Kinda pedestrian. Maybe only deserved b... Read more

Review:I’m going to get one thing out of the way here. I’ve read just about every Star Wars novel that has been released since the Thrawn Trilogy in the 90′s. I’ve been captivated and emotionally invested in this expanded universe, and while it has always been “non canon”, almost everyone who read the books didn’t take it that way. You have almost 25 years of continuous story, and now, that’s all down the drain. It’s fair to say that I’ve got mixed feelings about this. I mean, Han and Leia could n... Read more

Review:I want to start by saying Claudia Gray does a fine job writing Princess Leia. She truly is a bright point in the new canon, and it is worth reading any novel she writes.

Leia does a wonderful job of giving us a glimpse into the princesses home world. It makes the scene from A New Hope more gut wrenching especially considering how so nonchalantly Tarkington is able to give the order.

That said. I think my only mild gripe I might have with the book is the portrayal of Bail Organa. In... Read more

Review:I'm looking back on this book as I remember it when I was fourteen and the movie had just come out. It was cool because it had scenes in that didn't make it into the film, although they were filmed. The book was superior in some ways because it was written before the script was finalized. The other books, I believe were written from the script. I loved this book back then and still do love it. It's fun, full of interesting characters, and full of action. All you need is the soundtrack to settle ... Read more

Review:This is only the second star wars book (to my knowledge) written in the third person and I think it's great. What most star wars fans don't realize is that you don't have to have 100% of the book being lightsabee fights and ships blowing up. This gives great insight into the mind of Luke and gives great insight into why things happen in the future Read more

Review:This book is like a Stefon (Bill Hader) skit from Saturday Night Live in book form. Spoilers to follow.

If you want a Leering characters, Droids with Wookie arms, L3 fornication, and a brief discussion on a droid orgy then this is the book for you.

This story also has the worst MacGuffin since Kevin J. Anderson stopped ruining books with escalating preposterous plot devices.

The audio book switches between 3 Narrators, one of which is the author who is not a trained profes... Read more