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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%
...she remains fiercely committed to high standards, including the teaching of good behavior, but particularly to the Western cultural canon, the common vocabulary essential to all good education and the capable, dedicated teachers who can impart it.

LA 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%
The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.

Time Magazine

89%
The strength of The Book Thief is its wit and understated horror...It is an impressive book and I appreciate Mr. Zusak’s ability, but a few lesser moments of the author trying to get the audience to tear up would have worked in its favor.

Blog Critics

88%
This book, in my eyes, was utter perfection. Told from the perspective of Ari, a quiet boy who has shrunk inside himself as he's grown up around a brother in prison who he knows nothing about, a mother in denial and a father haunted by the war. That's until Dante comes along.

Guardian

88%
The book is a passionate plea for every citizen to be computer-savvy in order to uphold personal liberties in an age of increased government security. It's also a cracking read.

Guardian

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%
It’s a tour de force of characterization, and while there is no lack of event or mystery, it is the way Stiefvater’s people live in the reader’s imagination that makes this such a memorable read.

Publishers Weekly

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%
The wonderful cartoons and drawings by Ellen Forney appear to be pasted onto the pages of his diary, giving it depth and life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a must have book, and I can't speak highly enough of it.

Blog Critics

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%
Appropriately, his prose is lighter than air, elegantly traversing aviators and eras. It means that as his balloonists embark on journeys full of danger and wonder, the reader is suspended in the basket alongside them.

Financial Times

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%
Images and imagery abound in a truly pulsating story softened only by the subtle, slow-burning and understated romance that burns at its heart.

Guardian

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 penultimate story in Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series, Spirit Bound, took my breath away. I loved every word of every sentence on every page...Spirit Bound is intense, fast-moving and VERY emotional. It blew my mind. The amazing range of emotions that Rose experiences throughout the novel come thick and fast...

So Many Books, So Little Time

86%
There's no doubting Guantanamo Boy's integrity, nor its seriousness of purpose in documenting this shocking situation.

Guardian

86%

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