Mirage By: Somaiya Daud My Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Scifi, Romance Page Count: 320 Synopsis: In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a … More Review: Mirage
This Mortal Coil By: Emily Suvada My Rating: 5/5 Stars Page Count: 411 Genre: Dystopia, Scifi Synopsis: Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in … More Review: This Mortal Coil
Happy October first by book ghosts? zombies? pumpkins? I think I may need to think up a new greeting line for this spooky season. This is just a short announcement post to tell you all that this year I decided to participate in blogoween, an event hosted by many awesome bloggers to honour the month … More #blogoween Announcement
This Savage Song By: Victoria Schwab My Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Dystopia, Fantasy Page Count: 469 Synopsis: There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or … More Review: This Savage Song
Happy Wednesday, or as I should probably start calling it, book tag day. Seriously I have been on a tag streak lately and I am kind of loving it. This one comes from the wonderful Heather at Nightly Reading. I loved the Greatest Showman, and when I saw this tag I got so excited. There is … More The Greatest Showman Tag
Flame in the Mist By: Renee Ahdieh My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Genre: Re-telling, Fantasy, YA Page Count: 392 Synopsis: The only daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has always known she’d been raised for one purpose and one purpose only: to marry. Never mind her cunning, which rivals that of her twin brother, Kenshin, or her … More Review: Flame in the Mist
A Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy By: Mackenzi Lee My Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Historical fiction, Adventure Release Date: October 2, 2018 Page Count: 512 Synopsis: Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bone setting—or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that she cares about … More ARC Review: A Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
S.T.A.G.S. By: M.A. Bennett My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Genre: Mystery, Thriller Page Count: 290 Synopsis: Nine students. Three bloodsports. One deadly weekend. It is the autumn term and Greer MacDonald is struggling to settle into the sixth form at the exclusive St. Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as S.T.A.G.S. Just when … More Review: S.T.A.G.S.
The Traitor’s Game By: Jennifer A. Nielsen My Rating: 2.5 Stars Genre: High Fantasy Synopsis: Nothing is as it seems in the kingdom of Antora. Kestra Dallisor has spent three years in exile in the Lava Fields, but that won’t stop her from being drawn back into her father’s palace politics. He’s the right hand man … More Review: The Traitor’s Game
My Plain Jane By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows (AKA The Lady Janies) My Rating: 3.5/5 stars Genre: historical fiction, humour, retelling Page Count: 464 Synopsis: You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she … More Review: My Plain Jane
