Posted November 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Snow Like Ashes by
Sara Raasch Series: Snow Like Ashes #1 Publisher: Balzer + Bray (2014)
Paperback (416 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Ice Like Fire Also in this series: Ice Like Fire Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.
Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since.
Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians’ general, Sir. Training to be a warrior—and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather — she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again.
So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter’s magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Finally, she’s scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, and serving her kingdom just as she’s always dreamed she would. But the mission doesn’t go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics – and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not, never has been, her own.
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Posted November 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
A Mad, Wicked Folly by
Sharon Biggs Waller Publisher: Viking Books (2014)
Hardcover (448 pages)
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Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl.
After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?
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Posted November 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
These Broken Stars by
Amie Kaufman,
Meagan Spooner Series: Starbound #1 Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2013)
Hardcover (378 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Illuminae,
This Shattered World,
Their Fractured Light Also in this series: This Shattered World,
Their Fractured Light Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive — alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a cynical war hero. Both journey across the eerie deserted terrain for help. Everything changes when they uncover the truth.
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Posted November 2, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Selection Stores: The Prince & The Guard by
Kiera Cass Series: The Selection #1.5 Publisher: HarperTeen (2014)
Audiobook {4 hours and 35 minutes} (227 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: The Elite,
The One,
The Heir Also in this series: The Elite,
The One,
The Heir Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Two novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time.
The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer’s love.
Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon’s life. The Prince opens the week before the Selection begins and follows Maxon through the first day of the competition.
Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace as a member of the royal guard. In The Guard, readers get an inside look at Aspen’s life within the palace walls—and the truth about a guard’s world that America will never know.
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Posted October 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
The Conspiracy of Us by
Maggie Hall Series: The Conspiracy of Us #1 Publisher: Putnam (2015)
Audiobook {9 hours and 34 minutes} (336 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Map of Fates Also in this series: Map of Fates Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Avery West’s newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead.
To unravel the mystery putting her life in danger, Avery must follow a trail of clues from the monuments of Paris to the back alleys of Istanbul with two boys who work for the Circle—beautiful, volatile Stellan and mysterious, magnetic Jack. But as the clues expose a stunning conspiracy that might plunge the world into World War 3, she discovers that both boys are hiding secrets of their own. Now she will have to choose not only between freedom and family–but between the boy who might help her save the world, and the one she’s falling in love with.
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