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{Review} Earthbound – Strange Magical Abilities and on the Run

Posted October 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Earthbound – Strange Magical Abilities and on the RunEarthbound by Aprilynne Pike
Series: Earthbound #1
Publisher: RazorBill (2013)
Paperback (366 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Earthquake
Also in this series: Earthquake
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told.
Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents’ death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them—and that she may have been the true intended victim—she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go.
Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson.
Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn’t know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson’s love. And that’s the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she’d never do.

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{Review} The Conspiracy of Us – The Rich and Their Mysteries

Posted October 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} The Conspiracy of Us – The Rich and Their MysteriesThe 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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{Review} Becoming Darkness – Hitler’s Immortal and Won the War

Posted September 28, 2015 in Reading, Review / 4 Comments

{Review} Becoming Darkness – Hitler’s Immortal and Won the WarBecoming Darkness by Lindsay Francis Brambles
Publisher: Switch Press (2015)
eARC (485 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Like everyone else living in Haven, seventeen-year-old Sophie Harkness is an Immune–a carrier of the genetic mutation that protects her from the virus Hitler unleashed upon the world more than half a century ago. A virus that wiped out most of humanity and turned two-hundred million people into vamps. But after her best friend is brutally murdered and several attempts are made on her own life, Sophie becomes determined to find answers to what seems to be a conspiracy running generations deep. And when she questions the peace treaty that keeps her small community protected, Sophie begins to discover terrible truths about herself and what it means to be human in a world ruled by darkness.
Lindsay Brambles’ debut young adult novel is a story of an alternate universe: Hitler won the war, our modern technologies never evolved, and the Nazis’ terrifying reign still continues. This fast-paced novel will appeal to readers who guzzle up genre mashups and are looking for a fresh hybrid to sweep them away.

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{Review} City of Glass – Finally Out of New York

Posted September 21, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} City of Glass – Finally Out of New YorkCity of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Series: The Mortal Instruments #3
Publisher: McElderry Books (2009)
Hardcover (541 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: City of Bones, City of Ashes, The Bane Chronicles
Also in this series: City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Fallen Angels
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters – never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.
As Clary uncovers more about her family’s past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he’s willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City – whatever the cost?
Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the third installment of the New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.

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{Review} Never, Never – A Darker Peter Pan as Told by Captain Hook

Posted September 17, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Never, Never – A Darker Peter Pan as Told by Captain HookNever, Never by Brianna R Shrum
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (2015)
eARC (368 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

James Hook is a child who only wants to grow up.
When he meets Peter Pan, a boy who loves to pretend and is intent on never becoming a man, James decides he could try being a child—at least briefly. James joins Peter Pan on a holiday to Neverland, a place of adventure created by children’s dreams, but Neverland is not for the faint of heart. Soon James finds himself longing for home, determined that he is destined to be a man. But Peter refuses to take him back, leaving James trapped in a world just beyond the one he loves. A world where children are to never grow up.
But grow up he does.
And thus begins the epic adventure of a Lost Boy and a Pirate.
This story isn’t about Peter Pan; it’s about the boy whose life he stole. It’s about a man in a world that hates men. It’s about the feared Captain James Hook and his passionate quest to kill the Pan, an impossible feat in a magical land where everyone loves Peter Pan.
Except one.

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