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Nina Varela’s duology takes place in a fantasy land called Rabu. In Rabu, the humans and automae (a physically enhanced race of humanoids) have always had tense relations. After years of war, an automa king called Sovereign Hesod ends up on the throne.  The protagonist, Ayla, is a teenage human whose family was killed by automae when she was young. Ever since, she has planned to get revenge on ...

Life, years after the accident, seems to be normal enough for Alex.  He and his brother, Isaiah, live with their Aunt. Alex has a job and a girlfriend. Alex tries his best to be a good brother to Isaiah by keeping an eye on him, checking in on him when Isaiah seems to want to be alone, even protecting him.   But, what Alex is hiding from everyone else is that anything he touches, allows him to see into the future...

“Renegades” by Marissa Meyer follows Nova, a teenager in a world where there are two types of people: those with powers and those without.  Nova’s power is the ability to put people to sleep by touching them. She is part of a group called the Anarchists, one of two opposing groups of superheroes. After a long, bloody war, the Renegades won and took over the government and the Anarchists hav...

In the last few years Boomer has come to be a term of disgrace meant to signify that a person is too grumpy and old fashioned.   As “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman opens, Ove seems to define the term to perfection as he tries to purchase an iPad, and spends most of the time complaining to the clerk in the store.  And honestly, Ove spends most of the book complaining about a wide range of e...