Review: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

The Dream Thieves
(The Raven Cycle #2)
Maggie Stiefvater
Release: September 17, 2013
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If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?

Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.

One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.

And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.

Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.

Of The Raven Boys, Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Maggie Stiefvater's can't-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book two." Now the second book is here, with the same wild imagination, dark romance, and heart-stopping twists that only Maggie Stiefvater can conjure.

Review by Rose Red:

I have something I want to say before I get into my review of The Dream Thieves. Ronan Lynch, I freaking adore you! Don't tell the others but you're my favorite, thorns and all. 

Holy crap! I have no words to describe how awesome this book was. The hype surrounding this series is so deserved! I loved The Raven Boys with its intricate plot and setup, but The Dream Thieves went and blew that out of the water. I seriously have no words for how awesome this book was. This has quickly become a series that I have become obsessed with. I love it so much!  

Maggie Stiefvater is so gifted and it's incredible how real these characters feel. This book completely engrossed me from the first page to the last. Many authors can create characters I love, but not many authors can create characters that I can actually believe are real. I feel like that I know these characters and, like Blue, I've fallen head over heels for her Raven Boys.

This book was definitely Ronan's book. Ronan Lynch with all of his honesty has secrets and a lot of those secrets get quite a bit of page time. We learn more about his unique ability to take things out of his dreams and we learn along with him. Ronan is kind of a bastard but I've loved him from the first. And I love him even more now. He's prickly on the outside and he only really shows two emotions. If it's not happiness, everything else manifests as anger. He may be an asshole but he cares. He cares about Chainsaw and Matthew and he cares a lot about Gansey. He cares about Adam and Noah. I'm pretty sure he cares about Blue even though he doesn't show it. Ronan doesn't do casual relationships. He doesn't understand them. It's all or nothing for him.

I was both enthralled and appalled learning about his past. I feel like this series throws so many twists at you and you never see them coming, you just feel it in your gut and in your sore eyes afterwards. Ronan's storyline was wonderfully developed and I can't wait to learn even more about him and the rest of this family. While we're learning more about Ronan, we're also learning more about the other members of the Glendower gang. They're each growing as characters and their relationships are changing to fit that growth. Adam especially is undergoing a lot of changes thanks to his sacrifice and deal with Cabeswater. I'm both curious and scared about how his character arc in this series is going to play out. There's a scene with Ronan and Noah in this book that may be one of the funniest scenes I've ever read. I love how the two of them have this weird friendship.

One of the things I've really appreciated about the villains in this series is that they're as complex as our main characters but they're not your normal villains. I'll admit that I disliked Kavinsky. It's not just because he was a bad person because he is. He does bad things just to do bad things. There was just something about him that makes my skin crawl and I can't pinpoint what it is. I will admit that he was the perfect character for Ronan to play off of to help him discover things about himself. Kavinsky is one of those villains that I pity while actively disliking them. It's not often I can feel sorry for a character while wishing they'd get their comeuppance. If you've read this book, you really need to go read this essay by Brit Mandelo over at tor.com! It made me look differently at Ronan and Kavinsky's relationship. Actually, if you've read this whole series so far, go read Mandelo's essays on each book. She has a lot of excellent points.

This book is the kind of story you don't just give your heart to, you give it all of your love and adoration as well as its own space in your brain because you won't be able to quit thinking about it. I'm blown away by how intricate and detailed the story telling in this series is. I could pour over it for hours, trying to understand the evil brilliance behind each uniquely flawless turn of phrase and each effortless plot twist that leads to the ending with all the major plot points wrapped up. The characterization is so subtle, vivid as all hell, and just plain fantastic! You discover things with the characters as they discover them but there are tiny tiniest hints as you work up to the subtle reveal. I need to reread this book because I'm sure I missed a ton of the subtle nudges that Maggie Stiefvater writes into the prose. The writing and atmosphere of these books is truly magical. If you haven't read these books yet, please go buy a copy or borrow it from a friend or your library. I think everyone needs to give this series a chance.

    

  5 / 5 Stars!

My reviews of other books in this series:
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Waiting on Wednesday (78)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Here's this week's WoW pick:

Chloe Neill posted the first chapter of The Sight last week and reminded me why I often skip those teaser chapters. I want to keep reading, but it's months before the book comes out. I loved the world she set up in The Veil and I can't wait to find out more. I'm also excited about Claire's new job as bounty hunter in training, tracking down people with illegal magic abilities. So well played, teaser chapter. Now I'm eagerly anticipating The Sight.

The Sight
(Devil's Isle #2)
Chloe Neill
Release: August 25, 2016
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The paranormal war that engulfed New Orleans seven years ago is over. But the battle for the city is just beginning . . . 

Claire Connolly is a Sensitive, infected with magic when the Veil that divides humanity from the world beyond fell. Magic can easily consume and destroy a Sensitive, and if Claire’s secret is discovered she’ll be locked into the walled district of Devil’s Isle along with every other Paranormal left in the city.

Bounty hunter Liam Quinn discovered Claire’s secret, but refused to turn her in. Together they saved New Orleans from the resurgence of magic that nearly destroyed it. But now a dangerous cult is on the rise, and it will take both Claire and Liam—and magical allies within Devil’s Isle’s towering walls—to defeat the occult threat before magic corrupts them both..

What Book Are You Waiting On?

  

Review: We Don't Need Another Hero by Sierra Dean

We Don't Need Another Hero
Sierra Dean
Release: April 5, 2016
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She'll Light His Fire. 

The city of Gold Bay once had a great champion in local superhero Apollo. But after his brutal defeat at the hands of The Scourge, the citizens have been left to the villainous whims of a madman. 

When young reporter Rebecca “Bex” Beckett returns home to care for her sick father, the last thing she expects is his request that she play caretaker to his shut-in employer, Camden Nash. Cam is not the same man Bex remembers from ten years earlier. Once a pinnacle of society, he is now a broken shell of his former self. Yet something is simmering between them. 

As Bex becomes interested in the elusive mayor of Gold Bay, Simon Nerezza, Cam must rally to become the hero he once was in order to protect Bex from Nerezza’s dark past. But Bex is no damsel in distress. She has a trick or two up her own sleeve, and things in the city on the bay around about to get super hot. 


Contains a grumpy has-been hero, a fiery heroine who is too hot to handle, and a villain who’d love nothing more than to have them both in the palm of his hand. 

Review:
We recently spent a whole week talking about superheroes on the blog, but Sierra Dean's latest still managed to look at them from a new perspective. We always expect the superhero to defeat the villain and take for granted that he will always be there to protect the city. We Don't Need Another Hero explores what happens when the hero loses.

Bex watched Apollo die at the hands of The Scourge when she was twelve. The city of Gold Bay was no longer safe so she and her mother moved away. But her father stayed and still works for the reclusive billionaire Camden Nash. When Nash calls to tell her that her father's in the hospital Bex returns to her hometown and ends up caring for Nash in her father's place while he recovers. She also starts to realize just how far the city has fallen since its hero fell. And since she's a reporter, she investigates and lands both herself and Camden on the mayor's radar.

I liked the behind-the-scenes/where-are-they-now look into Cam's life after he could no longer be a superhero. Dean contrasts that with Bex realizing that the powers she's tried to hide might be put to use to help people, or they might make her a killer. She's no damsel in distress, which she demonstrates not only when battling The Scourge, but also with the way she handles the sexism in her everyday life, but she doesn't want to put on a cape either. So the title has multiple meanings for Bex: she helps Cam realize that he still has a little hero left in him, but she also helps the city to realize that they don't need to rely on superheroes to save them. Her story is ultimately about everyone finding strength in themselves.

That said, her story is also a romance. One with some unique twists. I think this is the first time I've seen a hero in a wheelchair. But what really stood out to me was, not exactly their age difference, but the fact that she grew up in his house. She says that her father "practically raised" Cam but they don't think of each other as brother and sister (because that would have been creepy.) I liked seeing their memories of each other from her childhood and how their feelings evolved.

I did want to know more about Cam's past though. How did his family make their money? When did he lose his parents? What made him become Apollo? I keep filling in his backstory with Batman's because of their similarities and that doesn't feel quite right.

Recommended for fans of: Agent Carter, Lois Lane, superhero stories

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3 1/2  stars

Weres Wanna Know: Do You Read Fanfiction?

Weres Wanna Know is a new discussion feature where we share a topic that's been on our minds and invite you to share your thoughts as well.

 

I recently read the The Raven Cycle books and The Captive Prince Trilogy and I've quickly obsessed with both of them. Like super obsessed. I wasn't ready to leave these worlds and characters behind but I had run out of books and I wanted new stories. So I did something that I haven't done since college. Hello, my name is Rose Red and I am not ashamed to say that I read fanfiction.

Do You Read Fanfiction?

I started reading fanfiction in high school when my best friend showed me that there was this online community writing Harry Potter fiction. I think a lot of my generation got introduced to fanfiction through the Harry Potter fandom, to be honest. It was amazing! I got to read stories that had Ron declaring his feelings for Hermione way before it happened in the series. Things just expanded from there to my other fandoms and I'm pretty sure it set the foundation that my love of reading online short fiction stands on. *waves at Fireside Fiction*

Fanfiction provided a way for me to consume new stories that I wouldn't have had. My family didn't have a lot of extra money for books and I grew up in a small rural town in Idaho that had an itty bitty library. Fanfiction gave me something to read when I had run out of printed stories and I was obssessed and consumed everything related to my fandoms I could get my hands on. *hides the Legolas/Gimli slash fic*

I fell off the bandwagon in my last couple of years in college because of lack of time so I haven't read or felt the need to read fanfiction for years now. That all changed when I marathoned The Raven Cycle books in February. Since then I've easily read over 500,000 words of TRC fanfiction and it has reminded me how much I loved this before. There are cheesy fluff pieces, smut, alternate endings, and future fic. I'm really, REALLY enjoying reading TRC future fic where everybody survives and my OTPs get together. Granted, there are still terribly written pieces, pieces that were abandoned and will never be finished, weird OTPs (I read a Luna/Draco fanfic once), and of course, there's the stories that have me hitting the back button so fast that I've probably given my iPad whiplash. Overall, reading fanfic in the TRC and Captive Prince fandoms has been addicting and has satisfied my need for more time with these characters I love. It's been amazing rediscovering how much I love the fanfic community.

The experience has made me want to go back and find all of my old favorites. Sadly, some of the sites I used to read fanfic on are gone since my high school and college days were way before Tumblr was a thing. There are some great new sites though! Archive of our Own is a beautiful place that I wish I had had before and they even let you download ebook versions of your favorite pieces!

Do you read fanfiction? Why or why not? 

If you do, what's your favorite fandom to read? Or site to use? Let's discuss!

If you have a topic you'd like to see discussed in a Weres Wanna Know post, let us know in the comments, send us a Facebook message, or email goldiloxandthethreeweres@gmail.com.

Review: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Boys
(The Raven Cycle)
Maggie Stiefvater
Release: September 18, 2012
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“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

Review by Rose Red:

You know those times when a book has just released and it looks amazing so you buy it and take it home with you only for it to sit waiting to be read on the shelf for years? That's the story of my copy of The Raven Boys. I found it in my local Barnes and Noble soon after it came out and I was intrigued by the synopsis so I bought it. I never got around to reading it like I had planned and in the subsequent years I've picked up books two and three in the series. In order to justify my preorder of the last book, I decided that 2016 was going to be the year that I finally would read this series and find out what the hype is all about. HOLY HELL! This book was amazing! Oh my goodness! The hype is so deserved! The only word I can think to describe the whole reading experience is magical. It was just plain magical!

Blue Sargent is the daughter of a psychic. Actually, her entire family are psychics. She is the only one who isn't. But that doesn't mean that she is in anyway ordinary. Blue has the peculiar gift of acting as an amplifier that strengthens her family's psychic abilities. Living with psychics isn't all it's cracked up to be. For all her life, Blue has been told that if she kisses her true love he will die so she swears off boys and kissing all together. Then she meets a group of Raven Boys (boys who attend the local prestigious all boys prep school) and learns about their search for a lost Welsh king. I'm not going to say anything more about the plot because I feel like this is the type of book where the less you know going in the more you'll enjoy it.

The Raven Boys was my first book I've ever read of Maggie Stiefvater's and I didn't know what to expect. I was a little nervous going in because almost everyone I talked to about it told me that the first 100ish pages were a slog to get through. But it wasn't that way at all for me. I was hooked from the first sentence and what a great opening sentence it is!

"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love."

I seriously loved everything about this book! The setup, the characters, the cars, the setting, the paranormal aspects, the mythology... I loved it all! WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ THIS BOOK? It was everything! I feel like I need to go hug Past Rose Red and give her a kick in the butt at the same time for buying this book and then letting it to sit unread on the shelf for 3.5 years.

One of the best parts of this book besides Blue and her Raven Boys was how subtle and detailed the story telling was. The prose is gorgeous and full of beautiful descriptions and metaphors. So much happened in this book. I'm not even sure I get it all at this point. Actually, I'm not sure if I'd get it all after several rereads. It's one of those books that you'll learn something new about the story every time you reread it. There were a lot of twists and I didn't see many of them coming. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading trying to guess what would happen next and it was never something I expected. I was so caught up in reading that I finished it in one sitting. As soon as I did, I wanted to immediately jump into the next book because of that last sentence! OMG!

This book (and series) has definitely earned a spot high up on my list of favorite books of all time and I'm certain that it will stay there. It was full of mystery, complex characters that are growing into themselves, and the beginnings of a romance. I can see myself rereading this series often in the years to come. I loved it so much! If you haven't read this book, you need to. It was practically perfect.

Recommended for fans of: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence.

    

  5 / 5 Stars!

Waiting on Wednesday (77)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. So here's this week's WOW pick:

Back in February, I finally picked up The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater and I couldn't stop reading it. I binge read all of the available books in the series over three days in every available moment I had. Let's just say I got very little sleep that weekend and it launched me into one of the biggest book hangovers I've had in a long time. I immediately started rereading the series via audiobook and reading all the fanfiction I could get my hands on because I wasn't ready to let the world go. I fell in love with Blue and her Raven Boys and their search for sleeping Welsh kings in small town Virginia. And it catapulted The Raven King into the spot for my most anticipated book for the rest of 2016. I need to know how this series ends! I'm so scared for all of my darlings. I haven't been this scared for a series ending in a very long time. This book is going to totally wreck me. I've already started stockpiling chocolate because I know it's going to be needed.

The Raven King
(The Raven Cycle #4)
Maggie Stiefvater
Release: April 26, 2016
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The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

In a starred review for Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Kirkus Reviews declared: "Expect this truly one-of-a-kind series to come to a thundering close."

What book are you waiting on?

Release Day Review: Arena by Holly Jennings

Arena
Holly Jennings
Release: April 5, 2016
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A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming...

Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. 
She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier...

The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death. Every bloody kill is broadcast to millions. Every player is a modern gladiator—leading a life of ultimate fame, responsible only for entertaining the masses.

And though their weapons and armor are digital, the pain is real.

Chosen to be the first female captain in RAGE tournament history, Kali Ling is at the top of the world—until one of her teammates overdoses. Now, she must confront the truth about the tournament. Because it is much more than a game—and even in the real world, not everything is as it seems.

The VGL hides dark secrets. And the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside... 

Review:
Arena was not what I expected, but I was completely sucked into its near-future world just the same. I finished it in one sitting.

Essentially, it's a new adult sports romance, though you could argue that the romance is really a secondary plot. It also deals with death, addiction, and celebrity in ways that are relatable today. But all of those things are complicated by the futuristic virtual gaming world. How can you accept the death of a friend in real life when you die and respawn in the game every day? How can you overcome addiction when you're addicted to the game itself? And how do you find time to deal with any of it when the team owners and sponsors schedule every minute of your day?

I liked Kali and I enjoyed watching her try to answer all of those questions. As she works through her issues and learns how to lead her team, she also gets to know her teammates better and I enjoyed doing that along with her. One of the ways they bond is over classic video games, which is a lot of fun. I'm not a gamer, but even I know Super Mario.

The RAGE tournament matches are incredibly detailed, from the wind in Kali's hair to the smell of the grass. They're also highly entertaining in the way they combine an athletic event with a video game. Even though it's just a game, it feels like life or death to Kali and that comes though to the reader. I was rooting for her both in and out of the game.

Arena has a little something for everyone. Fans of sports romances will find enough familiar ground to relate to the story and sci-fi fans will be impressed with the gaming world Jennings imagines. Blending the two results in a unique and fascinating book that I would definitely recommend no matter which fandom you belong to.

Recommended for fans of: sports romances, classic video games, virtual worlds

ARC provided by the publisher via Penguin's First to Read program

    

4  stars

Reading Challenge Recap: March 2016

March is over and April is here! Despite the madness of March, we made some good progress on our 2016 reading challenges. We still need help to stay motivated though. So it's time to do this month's reading challenge recaps to hold ourselves accountable. Why are reading goals so hard? Read on to find out how well or how not well we did this last month!

Gretl's Recap

#Rock My TBR

The good news is I read two whole books that I owned this month. The bad news is I bought both of them within the last two months, so the TBR pile isn't really getting any smaller. At least it didn't get any bigger though.

I read Fallout by Gwenda Bond, book one in her YA series about Lois Lane. The review was part of Superweek here on the blog. And I read Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire, the latest in her Incryptid series.

I really hope I get a chance to binge one of those series that have been languishing on my Kindle and make a big dent in the TBR pile soon.

Rose Red's Recap 

#RockMyTBR

I've had a serious book hangover since I finished The Raven Cycle books in February so I haven't really felt like reading this month. Honestly, all I wanted to do was read Raven Boys fanfic because I wasn't ready to say goodbye to the world and the characters. I'm finally shaking off my hangover so I did make my goal to read at least two TBR books this month. I actually read three books of my TBR pile read so I'm happy with my progress! Series binge for the win!

2016 TBR Jar Challenge For March

This month's TBR Jar Challenge was Read A Series Finale! For this challenge, I actually binge read the whole Captive Prince Trilogy by C. S. Pacat in two days based on a recommendation from a close friend and from all the hype around the books lately. I actually wrote my thoughts down in a Read This F@!%ing Book post. I thought the first book was okay and it was the characters that made me pick up the next two books. And oh my goodness! They were so much better than the first one! Kings Rising was a great end to the trilogy but I wanted more! I didn't want to let go of Damen and Laurent. I'm really excited for the three novellas the author is writing! One is post-Kings Rising and I need it in my life!

Read What You Buy

Okay, I did much better with this challenge this month! Thanks to the ARCs I got to read for review I read all but two of the books I bought in March! I'll take it!

The only books I haven't read are Midnight Marked and The Last Mortal Bond and I need to get caught up in both series first. So far I'm only at 44% (12/27) for this year! I told you that percentage would go up! I really need to do better at this challenge. Hopefully, I don't fall into anymore reading slumps like I did this last month.

How did you do on your reading challenges this month?

Month in Review: March 2016

Welcome to our March Month in Review! With March Madness going on, we've been busy so here's what we've been up to at Goldilox and the Three Weres.

What We Reviewed

  

 

We've had a great reading month here at Goldilox and the Three Weres! Here's everything we reviewed in March:

Midnight Marked by Chloe Neill
Holding Court by K. C. Held
Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop
Dark Heart of Magic by Jennifer Estep
Miss Frost Solves A Cold Case by Kristen Painter
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs
The Reburialists by J. C. Nelson
A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede
The Devil You Know by K. J. Parker

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Pieces of Hate by Tim Lebbon

Fallout by Gwenda Bond

Gotham Academy, Vol. 1: Welcome to Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan

Gotham Academy, Vol. 2: Calamity by Becky Cloonan

What We Recommended

Rose Red says Read This F-ing Book: The Captive Prince Trilogy by C. S. Pacat. It's a wonderful fantasy romance trilogy with an awesome LGBTQ relationship at the forefront!

Gretl wrote a Read This F-ing Book Post for Truthwitch by Susan Dennard.

Gretl and Rose Red are celebrating our first Superheroes Week just in time for the premiere of Batman vs. Superman! They talk about their Favorite Superheroes in this month's Show Me Yours! Come tell us your favorite superhero!

Gretl talked about the awesomeness that is the March bundle for the Geeky Giving project that raises money for the Barrowman Neurological Institute. The e-book bundle for this month is A+.

We've started a new discussion feature here on Goldilox and the Three Weres called Weres Wanna Know. Gretl is discussing finding Easter Eggs in books! Come participate in the discussion!

Superhero Week Recap

We celebrated our very first Superheroes Week here on Goldilox and the Three Weres! We had a blast talking about our favorite superheroes and spotlighting some of our favorite books we've reviewed that have superheroes, villains, and powers in them. Here's links to all of the great content just in case you missed a day. :)

Superweek Show Me Yours: Favorite Superheroes

Superweek Spotlight: The Disillusionists Series by Carolyn Crane

Superweek Review: Fallout by Gwenda Bond

Superweek Spotlight: Vicious by V. E. Schwab

Waiting on Wednesday: We Don't Need Another Hero by Sierra Dean

Superweek TV Review: DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Superweek Really Short Reviews: Gotham Academy, Vols. 1 and 2

Superweek Spotlight: Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews

Superweek Weres Wanna Know: Do Girls Need Their Own Superheroes?

Superweek Spotlight: The Unbound Series by Rachel Vincent

Superweek Movie Review: Megamind

Superweek Spotlight: The Shatter Me Trilogy by Tahereh Mafi

What We're Waiting For

These are some of the April releases we're most excited about. Click the titles to add them to Goodreads.

Apr 5
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Shadow Rites (Jane Yellowrock #10) by Faith Hunter
Smoke and Fire (Dark Kings #9) by Anne Bishop
The Glittering Court (The Glittering Court #1) by Richelle Mead
The Beast (Black Dagger Brotherhood #14) by J.R. Ward
In the Labyrinth of Drakes (Memoir by Lady Trent #4) by Marie Brennan

Apr 12
Strike (Hit #2) by Delilah S. Dawson

Apr 19
Love, Lies, and Spies by Cindy Anstey

Alphas: Origins (Alphas #0.5) by Ilona Andrews

Apr 26
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) by Maggie Stiefvater
Bright Blaze of Magic (Blake Blade #3) by Jennifer Estep
In Shining Armor (Pax Arcana #4) by Elliot James
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi