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Stars and Smoke

on June 30, 2023

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Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu Genre: Thriller; Contemporary Reviewed by Julia W., 10th Grade Rating: 9/10 Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu follows Sydney Cossette, a spy for a covert operations company called Panacea Group. Her job is to deal with anything the CIA isn’t able to due to their government restrictions. When Niall O’Sullivan and Sauda Nazari, Sydney‘s bosses, inform her that they want to ask a pop star for help, she isn’t super keen on the idea. She just doesn’t see how a pop star is going to help with a high intensity mission. Likewise, the pop star himself, Winter Young, isn’t exactly psyched to join the mission. He's on the same page as Sydney in thinking he isn't exactly qualified to be a spy. He knows how to sing and dance to songs that have already been written and choreographed, not think on his feet in unpredictable situations. However, with a push (plus an incentive from Niall and Sauda), he ultimately agrees.

Way Down Dark

Way Down Dark by J.P. Smythe Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewed by Evan S., 12th Grade Rating: 8/10 I had won this book from a Kinderhook Library raffle quite some time ago, and it took me roughly three years to finally get around to reading it. I also managed to win the book’s sequel, and after reading Way Down Dark , I’m looking forward to it. This book takes a post-apocalyptic tone, and asks the perplexing question: What if the Earth was much older than we thought? The prologue opens by briefing the reader that the Earth had become an unstable planet, and had forced its inhabitants onto hastily made spacecrafts, in an attempt to leave Earth and find a safer, habitable home. Unfortunately, a new planet wasn’t found, and people were forced to survive on these ships. Chan’s home, The Australia , has become a hostile environment. Factions were made and groups fight for control over the ship. The story follows Chan: a seventeen year-old girl whose mother recently pa...

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