Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly. Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast. Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich. The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....
Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....
Book cover This is a children's (6 to 10 years) book about leadership, the subtitle is Leadership With Elsa. While recapping the story of Disney's Frozen, it is a combination of pointing out leadership traits within the story, and pop-up video style call-outs to movie related facts. Because this is an educational title riding on top of the fictional story of Frozen, it is categorized as a non-fiction book....
Book Cover This is the final book of the Defy the Stars trilogy (start with reviews of book one and two). There are probably mild spoilers for the first and one major spoiler for the second book in this review of book three, so please proceed with that in mind. As I wrote in my review of Defy the Worlds, I do not recommend diving into this book without reading the previous two first....