Book Reviews

Dear Fahrenheit 451:  A Librarian’s Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life

By Annie Spence

4 stars

The title pretty much sums this one up.  Annie Spence is a librarian and she has written an epistolary book to different books in her life.   Book lovers will find much to identify with here and the whole last third of the book include lists of books with synopsis.  I thought there were some really funny letters, although it occasionally veered to silly.  Overall,  any booklover will find something in this short book.  I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray

3.5 stars

I don’t really read much YA any more, which is why I think I was able to enjoy this book so thoroughly.  It takes familiar tropes, enemy male and female forced to work together, and adds an interesting space/dystopian scenario with artificial intelligence and creates a really fun read.  I liked both of the characters, even though they needed a bit more depth, but what I really enjoyed was the world.  Earth’s population has forced immigration to other habitable (sometime barely) planets reached through worm holes.  While Earth continues to destroy everything it touches, one of the nicer planets, Genesis, decides to secede causing a thirty year war.  I honestly could have read about these politics forever (which makes me think I should explore more adult science fiction).  Overall, this was fun to read and I will probably read the next in the series.  I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.