Reading is a hobby many people have a passion for. The Clarion is going to help these people to choose interesting .and entertaining books to read in their free time.
Shatter Me
Shatter Me is the first of a series of seven books and a young adult dystopian romantic thriller written by Tahereh Mafi, published on November 15, 2011. The book is narrated by Juliette, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch and is unusual in that it contains passages and lines that have been crossed out like a diary entry. Juliette is placed in an asylum 264 days prior to the start of the book after accidentally killing a small boy with her touch when she was 14. At the start of the book, there are many intentional strikethroughs and the writing is often erratic in order to serve as a visual representation of the chaos in Juliette’s mind. This book is very interesting if you enjoy fiction and dystopian genres that have a little bit of romance and thriller.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a young adult mystery crime novel by Holly Jackson. The novel is the first in a series of three novels and one novella. Pip is the main character who is in her senior year of high school. As a graduation requirement, students have to submit a project. She decided to solve murder case. The Case was closed but she thinks the police didn’t do something right so she digs in and begins gathering new evidence. The case involves a high school student, Andie Bell, who was supposedly murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh. Sal also happened to commit suicide when Andie was still missing. The most interesting thing about the case is that the body of Andie was never found. Pip starts by reaching out to Sal’s family which includes his brother Ravi. Hesitant at first, Ravi eventually comes around and decides he wants to help her find out what really happened that night. An entertaining book that will get you coming back to it everytime.
Zodiac Academy: The Awakening.
Tory and Darcy are young adults struggling to survive in the human realm after aging out of the foster system. Suddenly, a mysterious man transports them to the fae realm, revealing their true identities as the lost Vega twins and rightful heirs to the royal throne. Their father, the king, passed away years ago, leading to the Celestial Council raising their own children as heirs.
In this world, where “survival of the fittest” rules, the Celestial Heirs challenge Tory and Darcy for the throne. The twins, uninterested in power, just want to survive at the academy long enough to claim their legacy . However, as violence from the heirs increases rapidly, they feel forced to fight not only for their survival but also for a throne they never wanted.
One of Us is Lying
“One of Us Is Lying” is followed by four different characters as their lives unfold after their classmate, Simon Kelleher, dies during detention after drinking from a glass coated in peanut oil. The four narrators of the book—Bronwyn Rojas, Nate Macauley, Addy Prentiss, and Cooper Clay—were all in detention with Simon. They were there for supposedly bringing their phones to class; however, those phones were not truly theirs but were placed on them.
During detention, Simon accuses each of them of fitting into four different stereotypes: the jock, the brain, the princess, and the criminal. The teens are briefly distracted by a car crash outside. Suddenly, Simon has an allergic reaction. The students search for an EpiPen in the school, but they find that all of them are missing. Tragically, Simon dies as a result and the chaos starts.