Author: Mary H. K. Choi
Date Read: May 6th 2018
Published: March 27th 2018 @ Simon & Schuster
Genre: YA Contemporary
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
"It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up."
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Monday, 21 May 2018
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Author: Mary H. K. Choi
Date Read: May 6th 2018
Published: March 27th 2018 @ Simon & Schuster
Genre: YA Contemporary
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Monday, 14 May 2018
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
Title: Bioshock: Rapture
Author: John Shirley
Date Read: May 13th 2018
Published: July 19th 2011 @ Tor Books
Genre: Adult Science Fiction
Rating: ⭐⭐
"I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck."
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Devils & Thieves by Jennifer Rush
Title: Devils & Thieves (Devils & Thieves #1)
Author: Jennifer Rush
Date Read: March 15th 2018
Published: October 3rd 2017 @ Little, Brown
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Saturday, 17 March 2018
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Date Read: March 11th 2018
Published: January 1st 2009 @ Vintage
Genre: Literary Fiction/Mystery
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“By now there were over a hundred pages of documents relating to the case: photographs, police reports, possible sightings. Memory reduced to manila envelopes and typed documents, stills from surveillance videos, early childhood photographs.”
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Title: The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller
Date Read: January 29th 2018
Published: September 20th 2011 @ Bloomsbury
Genre: Mythology Retelling/Historical Fiction
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Name one hero who was happy... You can't. They never let you be famous and happy... I'm going to be the first. Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it."
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Title: The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)
Author: Holly Black
Date Read: January 20th 2017
Published: January 2nd 2018 @ Little, Brown
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
"What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? What if I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear."
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
Title: The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago
Author: Douglas Perry
Date Read: January 6th 2017
Published: August 5 2010 @ Viking
Genre: Historical Non-Fiction
Rating: ⭐
"If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated."
Tuesday, 2 January 2018
The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepard
Title: The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter #1)
Date Read: December 29th, 2017
Published: January 29th 2013 @ Balzer + Bray
Genre: YA Horror/Historical Fiction
Rating: ⭐⭐
Published: January 29th 2013 @ Balzer + Bray
Genre: YA Horror/Historical Fiction
Rating: ⭐⭐
"Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things."
Thursday, 24 August 2017
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
 Title: This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1)
Author: Victoria Schwab
Date Read: August 23 2017 Published: July 5th 2016 @ Greenwillow Books Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Continue Reading... |
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Title: Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Date Read: August 8 2017
Published: April 5 2017 @ Tor.com
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Date Read: August 8 2017
Published: April 5 2017 @ Tor.com
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Going back” had two distinct meanings at the school, depending on how it was said. It was the best thing in the world. It was also the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It was returning to a place that understood you so well that it had reached across realities to find you, claiming you as its own and only; it was being sent to a family that wanted to love you, wanted to keep you safe and sound, but didn’t know you well enough to do anything but hurt you.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
Title: Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2)
Author: Laini Taylor
Date Read: June 12 2017
Published: November 6 2012 @ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free."
Monday, 12 June 2017
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Title: Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1)
Author: Laini Taylor
Date Read: June 7 2017
Published: September 27 2011 @ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sunday, 11 June 2017
Soundless by Richelle Mead
 Title: Soundless Author: Richelle Mead Date Read: June 2 2017 Published: November 10 2015 @ Razorbill Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ |
“For the first time since this phenomenon started happening to me, I begin to understand the power it could have and why our ancestors mourned its loss. Every sound around me - the renewed pattering of rain, the wind in the leaves - all of it suddenly has a new meaning. I can see how these sounds don't interfere with the world so much as enhance it. The scope and potential are huge. It's like having a new color to paint with.”
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Title: A Gentleman in Moscow
Author: Amor Towles
Date Read: May 16 2017
Published: September 6 2016 @ Viking
Genre: Adult Historical Fiction
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
 Title: Station Eleven
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Date Read: May 7 2017 Published: September 9 2014 @ Knopf Genre: Adult Dystopian Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.” |
Saturday, 10 June 2017
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Title: The Ballad of Black Tom
Author: Victor LaValle
Date Read: May 5 2017
Published: February 16 2016 @ Tor.com
Genre: Adult Horror
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
“Walking through Harlem first thing in the morning was like being a single drop of blood inside an enormous body that was waking up. Brick and mortar, elevated train tracks, and miles of underground pipe, this city lived; day and night it thrived.”
Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach
Title: Thanks for the Trouble
Author: Tommy Wallach
Date Read: March 12 2017
Published: February 23 2016 @ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Contemporary/Magical Realism
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
"There’s a word in Portuguese that my dad wrote about in one of his books: saudade.
It’s the sadness you feel for something that isn’t gone yet, but will be. The sadness of lost causes. The sadness of being alive."
Dark Run by Mike Brooks
Title: Dark Run (Keiko #1)
Author: Mike Brooks
Date Read: February 8 2017
Published: May 24 2016 @ Saga Press
Genre: Adult Sci-Fi
Rating: ⭐⭐½
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
Title: Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1)
Author: Kendare Blake
Date Read: January 29 2017
Published: September 20 2016
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends
Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Title: Doll Bones
Author: Holly Black
Date Read: January 10 2017
Published: May 7 2013 @ Margaret K. Elderberry Books
Genre: Middle Grade Adventure/Horror
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½
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