Book #173 of 2020: The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu Mozart’s older sister is one of those great lost tales from history, a fellow child prodigy who toured Europe with him and received widespread praise for her musical abilities. We even know from Wolfgang’s letters that she was a composer too, although none of …
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Book #211 of 2018: Wildcard by Marie Lu (Warcross #2) One of the best things about author Marie Lu’s novel Warcross is its surprise ending, which pulls the rug out from underneath characters and readers alike and dramatically raises the stakes of the series. Accordingly, it’s the failure to adequately deliver on that promise that …
Book #90 of 2018: Warcross by Marie Lu (Warcross #1) There’s a lot of Ready Player One in the DNA of this sci-fi adventure about a poor teenage orphan who becomes a sudden celebrity after finding something strange in a wildly popular VR game. But instead of an intentional easter egg, Emika Chen discovers a …
Book #61 of 2018: Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Batman’s origin story has been told and retold countless times, and this latest version struggles to justify its existence against that long history. The premise of an 18-year-old Bruce Wayne playing Silence of the Lambs with a femme fatale in Arkham Asylum is decent / original …
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