2018
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?
This meme is hosted by Kathryn at the Book Date. ~~~ I’ve been working what feels like non-stop recently, so reading time has been fairly infrequent, but I’m hoping to squeeze more in this week! Let me know what you’re currently reading or something you read recently in the comments! What I Read Last Week: Sadly I didn’t finish any books last week, I plan on changing that this week!! What I’m Currently Reading: Up Next: Have you read any of these novels? What are you reading right now? Let me know in the comments!
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Book Review- Ascension
Title: Ascension Author: Victor Dixen Published: 28th June 2018 Pages: 496 Genre: YA, Sci-fi Series: Phobos #1 Rating: 5/5 stars ‘This thrilling space odyssey will keep you turning pages late into the night.’C. J. Daugherty, author of NIGHT SCHOOLSix girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world’s craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars.Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up…
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It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?
This meme is hosted by Kathryn at the Book Date. ~~~ I love seeing what everyone is reading, and what they plan to read in the next few days. Let me know your plans, or link you own posts in the comments! What I Read Last Week: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya MenonI’m a bit late to this novel and all the hype but I really enjoyed it nonetheless! It wasn’t quite as incredible as I had been hoping for, but it is an important YA novel for diverse representation, and it’s a nice romance! What I’m Currently Reading: Up Next: Have you read any of these novels? What are you…
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Book Review- Mud
Title: Mud Author: Emily Thomas Published: 5th July 2018 Genre: YA Rating: 5/5 stars MUD STICKS. AND SO DO LITERARY HEROINESAn achingly funny, touching story for anyone who has been thrown in at the deep end.‘Smart and funny. It will tug at your heartstrings’ Dawn O’PorterIt’s 1979, and thirteen-year-old Lydia has no idea how she’ll cope when her dad announces that the family has to sell up and move onto a Thames sailing barge in Essex. With his girlfriend. And her three kids.Between trying to keep her clothes dry in a leaky cabin, disastrous hair-dye attempts, awkward encounters with local boys, and coping with her suddenly enormous and troublesome family,…
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Book Review- Awakened
Title: Awakened Authors: James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth Published: 26th June 2018 Pages: 304 Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Series: Awakened #1 Rating: 3.5/5 stars The star of truTV’s hit show Impractical Jokers—alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth—delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that threatens the city’s utter destruction and the balance of civilization itself.After years of waiting, New York’s newest subway line is finally ready, an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line…