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This is a beautiful tribute to "his noble-hearted brother/ Who he loves more than his own self", but both devastating and devastated.

Guardian

94%
Ravitch ends with a call for a voluntary national curriculum, and believes that a consensus around better education is possible.

NY Times

92%
Realistic portrayal of contemporary teens and their moral challenges breathes fresh life into well-worn themes of rebellion and first love.

Publishers Weekly

90%
Overall I think this is a great book for people of all ages, and I think it deserves all the credit that it is given.

Guardian

89%
If you can see the end of the novel through your tears, you’ll find that the family Liesel had carefully crafted for herself is slowly torn apart, as Death claims the members of her family for himself. The humour in the novel stops it from being morbid, but it definitely leaves you feeling both raw and cleansed.

Guardian

88%
Meticulous pacing and finely nuanced characters underpin the author's gift for affecting prose that illuminates the struggles within relationships.

Kirkus

88%
Cory Doctorow has written his best book yet . . . it should be required reading for every American.

Blog Critics

88%
Her successes are hard-won and her setbacks, such as her father's inability to forgive her, painfully true to life.

Publishers Weekly

88%
I honestly have nothing negative to say about this book, I enjoyed every single moment of it. The constant flashbacks into Mia’s life make you want to keep on turning the pages, to learn more about her...

Guardian

88%
Stiefvater, who has an assured and entertaining way with language, doesn’t talk down to her readers, and she ably blends the mystical and the earthly, the primitive and the contemporary...

NY Times

88%
Zoe’s introspective and surprisingly humorous voice will strike a chord with readers as they dwell on the space between guilt and innocence.

Publishers Weekly

88%
Her combination of unforgettable characters and unexpected events generates hilarity as well as warmth.

Publishers Weekly

88%
Opening this book is like meeting a friend you'd never make in your actual life and being given a piece of his world, inner and outer. It's humane, authentic and, most of all, it speaks.

Guardian

87%
This is just about the best way for Lowry to bookend a series she never intended to last beyond a single volume.

AV Club

87%
It’s hard to compose facts and figures into a volume that reads as easily as a novel, loaded with derring-do and emotion. Mr. Holmes has succeeded at that challenge, profiling an important but underexamined aspect of human history that is uplifting in all its forms.

NY Journal of Books

87%
Wein’s story ducks and dodges ingeniously, giving us multiple double-takes and surprises, ratcheting up tension and emotional power as the story moves towards its conclusion.

Toronto Star

86%
The water horses are breathtakingly well-imagined, glorious and untamably violent. The final race, with Sean and Puck each protecting each other but both determined to win, comes to a pitch-perfect conclusion. Masterful. Like nothing else out there now.

Kirkus

86%
This third book takes the world of the Moroi, Strigoi, and dhampirs and throws it into the upper echelons of awesomeness...This is definitely the book that made me a Vampire Academy fangirl! I love how the author isn't afraid to put her characters in difficult situations and I can't wait to see what happens next!

Feminist Fairy Tale Reviews

86%
The story line involving the mystery behind the Dragomir family I saw coming pretty early on (which is rare for me - I never catch on) but I imagine it will play out well. The politics in court are as always fascinating.

The Overflowing Library

86%
Some parts made me laugh, others shocked me and few brought me close to tears. An intricately detailed romantic fantasy carved in an unconventional, original world with description, flawless humour and a faultless build-up of suspense, Siege and Storm is truly a story that leaves you breathless and wanting to read more.

Guardian

86%

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