Posted May 21, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Crown by
Kiera Cass Series: The Selection #5 Publisher: HarperTeen,
Harper Audio (2016)
Audiobook {7 hours and 12 minutes} (279 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Elite,
The One,
The Heir Also in this series: The Elite,
The One,
The Heir Reading Challenges: 2016 Royal Challenge,
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When Eadlyn became the first princess of Illéa to hold her own Selection, she didn’t think she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five suitors. She spent the first few weeks of the competition counting down the days until she could send them all home. But as events at the palace force Eadlyn even further into the spotlight, she realizes that she might not be content remaining alone.
Eadlyn still isn’t sure she’ll find the fairytale ending her parents did twenty years ago. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and soon Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more impossible—and more important—than she ever imagined.
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Tagged as 4 star, Read 2016
Posted February 1, 2016 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Red Queen by
Victoria Aveyard Series: Red Queen #1 Publisher: HarperTeen (2015)
Hardcover (383 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: Read 2016 Synopsis
This is a world divided by blood - red or silver.
The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.
That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.
Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.
But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance - Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart...
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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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Tagged as 3 star, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted August 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
A Wicked Thing by
Rhiannon Thomas Series: A Wicked Thing #1 Publisher: HarperTeen (2015)
eBook (337 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling,
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Rhiannon Thomas’s dazzling debut novel is a spellbinding reimagining of Sleeping Beauty and what happens after happily ever after.
One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. All the books say that she should be living happily ever after. But as Aurora understands all too well, the truth is nothing like the fairy tale.
Her family is long dead. Her “true love” is a kind stranger. And her whole life has been planned out by political foes while she slept.
As Aurora struggles to make sense of her new world, she begins to fear that the curse has left its mark on her, a fiery and dangerous thing that might be as wicked as the witch who once ensnared her. With her wedding day drawing near, Aurora must make the ultimate decision on how to save her kingdom: marry the prince or run.
Rhiannon Thomas weaves together vivid scenes of action, romance, and gorgeous gowns to reveal a richly imagined world … and Sleeping Beauty as she’s never been seen before.
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Tagged as 4 star, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted August 3, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
A Thousand Pieces of You by
Claudia Gray Series: Firebird #1 Publisher: HarperTeen (2014)
Audiobook {9 hours and 18 minutes} (368 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Ten Thousand Skies Above You Also in this series: Ten Thousand Skies Above You Reading Challenges: 2015 Birthday Month,
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Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.
Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.
A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.
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Tagged as 4 star, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
