• 2016,  Book Reviews,  Ebook,  Fiction,  Net Galley,  Sci-fi,  YA

    Book Review- And All the Stars

    Title: And All The Stars Author: Andrea K. Host Pages: 204 Genre: YA, Sci-fi, Dystopian, Rating: 4.5/5 Come for the apocalypse. Stay for cupcakes. Die for love. Madeleine Cost is working to become the youngest person ever to win the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Her elusive cousin Tyler is the perfect subject: androgynous, beautiful, and famous. All she needs to do is pin him down for the sittings. None of her plans factored in the Spires: featureless, impossible, spearing into the hearts of cities across the world – and spraying clouds of sparkling dust into the wind. Is it an alien invasion? Germ warfare? They are questions everyone on Earth…

  • 2016,  Adult,  Book Reviews,  Ebook,  Fiction,  Historical,  Net Galley

    Book Review- All The Light We Cannot See

    Title: All The Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Pages: 530 Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, WWII Rating: 5/5 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize…

  • 2015,  Adult,  YA

    Top 10 Books of 2015

    Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a lovely time welcoming in the new year wherever you were. I was originally going to do a top 15 books of 2015, but honestly I didn’t read that many books that I enjoyed immensely, so I decided to lower it to a top 10 instead. These are not in order, they’re just my favourite 10 of the year. 1. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman 4. And All the Stars by Andrea K. Host 5. Dominion by C.J. Sansom 6. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 7. Beautiful Chaos…