Gateway Reviews

THE LOVE INTEREST Jenna Ray is prepared for the end of the world. She would have to be. There's an apocalyptic prophecy foretelling doom for her seaside town, after all. Everybody's prepared for something bad to happen this year. There's even a souvenir shop where Jenna works selling apocalyptic merch to tourists before it's too late. What Jenna isn't prepared for is being saved from that deadly electrical storm by the world's newest hero, Blaze. Not just being saved. Being his very first rescue, which in the eyes of the public means only one thing: Jenna Ray is his brand new Love Interest. Jenna doesn't want anything to do with Blaze or the HPA, the organization in charge of heroics across an environmentally unstable planet. She doesn't want anything to do with the Villains who keep threatening her life, either. But with paparazzi swarming and something more cataclysmic than an electrical storm brewing on the...

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART When apprentice healer Clem is kidnapped by the Merry Men, she thinks this is a start to a grand adventure. She was raised on stories of the Merry Men, after all, and all the work they've done to keep the inhabitants of the Greenwood safe. But the Merry Men have changed since the legendary Robin Hood's days. Their reputation has soured. And Mariel, granddaughter of Robin Hood and a new captain of the Merry Men, is desperate to live up to her father's expectations, whatever the cost. Kidnapping an apprentice healer and holding her hostage is just one such cost. When Mariel's band of bandits runs afoul of the Sheriff of Nottingham, however, everything goes awry. As the dust settles after battle, Mariel finds her father, the Commander of the Merry Men, has been captured. Mariel spots the perfect opportunity to prove herself... even if it means dragging a perpetually cheerful captive along with her. ...

IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS For Posey Spade, a new school means a fresh start--a new chance to make friends and to make her mark at the school newspaper. Only this new school doesn't have a newspaper at all. There is, at least, an AV Club. As a budding journalist following in her father's footsteps, Posey thinks she can make the AV Club work. But the AV Club isn't exactly as motivated as she had hoped. They're more interested in watching documentaries together at lunch than producing, well, anything. If she wants to set herself up for future success, she'll have to kick their butts into gear... even if they don't really want that. But when the club's teacher sponsor, Ms. Moses, vanishes, the AV Club finds new motivation. Suddenly Posey isn't the only one interested in investigative journalism. Ms. Moses might not be the most beloved person in their small town, but she was important to the AV Club. And nobody else see...

TANGLEROOT Noni Reid has grown up in her mother's shadow. Dr. Radiance Castine, renowned scholar of Black literature, is a force to be reckoned with. Which is why Noni is ready to escape to college this fall, where she'll finally be free to pursue her own interests and find her own path. But first, she'll have to make it through this summer. And she won't be working the exclusive fashion internship she had lined up. Instead, she'll be spending the summer in rural Virginia as her mother prepares to start her first year as president of the prestigious Stonepost College--a college that their ancestor, an enslaved man named Cuffee Fortune, founded. At least according to Dr. Castine's research. The locals aren't so sure about that. Noni doesn't want anything to do with Stonepost or Cuffee Fortune or Virginia. But she finds herself caught up nonetheless in the morbid artifacts left behind in the old plantation house they...

SOLIS Tensions are rising on a planet where water is growing scarce. The New American Republic government has turned against immigrant populations, both legal and illegal, as a drain on dwindling resources. The undocumented and the non-citizens have been rounded up and forced into labor camps to pay their dues. For seventeen-year-old Rania, a Lebanese teen from the Midwest, this means hard labor in the aqualinium mine. The scientific community hopes to harness this rare earth mineral to revitalize the world's water supply, but in its raw state, aqualinium is toxic. Rania is lucky to have survived as long as she has, breathing in the fumes every day and spending her nights crammed in a holding cage. She doesn't have much to hope for. But not everyone agrees with the harsh rule of the New American Republic. And not everyone wants this government to harness the potential of aqualinium--or keep hold of the only aqualinium mine known acro...