28 February, 2017

REVIEW: UNDER THE HARROW by Flynn Berry

, , Edit This

Title: Under the Harrow
Author: Flynn Berry
Series: -
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Release: 26th January, 2017
Source: ARC
Pages: 240

 // Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

BLURB:
When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder.

Stunned and adrift, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets that surround it, Nora is under the harrow: distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers.

A riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters, the distortions of grief, and the terrifying power of the past, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.

27 February, 2017

26 February, 2017

REVIEW: ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy

, , Edit This

Title: Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Series: -
Genres: Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Signet
Release: 2002 (First edition 1878)
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 960

 // Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

BLURB:
Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenin provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.


25 February, 2017

Saturday Tag

Edit This


Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today I am joined by Laura and together we will complete this fun tag:

BOOK AND SONG TAG

24 February, 2017

REVIEW: IDA by Alison Evans

, , Edit This

Title: Ida
Author: Alison Evans
Series: -
Genres: YA, LGBT, Science Fiction
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing
Release: January 1st 2017
Source: ARC
Pages: 

 // Goodreads // Amazon //

BLURB:
How do people decide on a path, and find the drive to pursue what they want?

Ida struggles more than other young people to work this out. She can shift between parallel universes, allowing her to follow alternative paths.

One day Ida sees a shadowy, see-through doppelganger of herself on the train. She starts to wonder if she’s actually in control of her ability, and whether there are effects far beyond what she’s considered.

How can she know, anyway, whether one universe is ultimately better than another? And what if the continual shifting causes her to lose what is most important to her, just as she’s discovering what that is, and she can never find her way back?

23 February, 2017

REVIEW: THE INVISIBLE HAND: SHAKESPEARE'S MOON Act 1 by James Hartley

, , Edit This


Title: The Invisible Hand: Shakespeare's Moon 
Author: James Hartley
Series: Shakespeare's Moon #1
Genres: YA, Histoical Fiction, Classics
Publisher: Lodestone Books
Release: February 22, 2017
Source: Paperback
Pages: 152

// Goodreads //  Amazon //

BLURB: The Invisibl Hand is about a boy, Sam, who has just started life at a boarding school and finds himself able to travel back in time to medieval Scotland. There he meets a girl, Leana, who can travel to the future, and the two of them become wrapped up in events in /Macbeth/, the Shakespeare play, and in the daily life of the school. The book is the first part of a series called Shakespeares Moon. Each book is set in the same boarding school but focuses on a different Shakespeare play


22 February, 2017

Waiting on Wednesday: A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab

Edit This

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab!

AAAAHHHHHHHH!!! We are not okay! It's finally here! *scream*

Let me explain one thing. Tor published this book yesterday but Titan publishes next week. No need to be too confused if your copy doesn't arrive soon hehe

Publication date: February 21st (and 28th), 2017
Publisher: Tor Books / (Titan Books)

21 February, 2017

REVIEW: AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir

, Edit This
Title: An Ember in the Ashes
Author: Sabaa Tahir
Series: An Ember in the Ashes #1
Genres: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Razorbill
Release: 2015
Source: ebook, paperback
Pages: 453

// Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

SYNOPSIS:  Laia is a slave.
Elias is a soldier.
Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

20 February, 2017

19 February, 2017

18 February, 2017

Saturday Tag

Edit This


Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today I am joined by HannahCassie and together we will complete this fun tag:

TIS THE SEASON

17 February, 2017

REVIEW: HORIZON by Sophie Littlefield

, , , Edit This
Title: Horizon
Author: Sophie Littlefield
Series: Aftertime #3
Genres: Post Apocalypse, Zombie, NA
Publisher: Luna
Release: 2012
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 400

// Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

BLURB:
Cass Dollar is a survivor. She's overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals, and the many evils of man.

But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope. A mysterious traveler arrives at New Eden with knowledge of a passageway North—a final escape from the increasingly cunning Beaters. Clutching this dream, Cass and many others decamp and follow him into the unknown.

Journeying down valleys and over barren hills, Cass remains torn between two men. One—her beloved Smoke—is not so innocent as he once was. The other keeps a primal hold on her that feels like Fate itself. And beneath it all, Cass must confront the worst of what's inside her—dark memories from when she was a Beater herself. But she, and all of the other survivors, will fight to the death for the promise of a new horizon….

16 February, 2017

15 February, 2017

14 February, 2017

REVIEW: THE DREAM THIEVES by Maggie Stiefvater

, Edit This
SPOILERS OF PREVIOUS BOOK

 Title: The Dream Thieves
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #2
Genres: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Source: Kindle Edition
Pages: 453

Add to GoodReads // Buy on BookDepository

SYNOPSIS: If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?

Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.

One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.

And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.

Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.

Of The Raven Boys, Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Maggie Stiefvater's can't-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book two." Now the second book is here, with the same wild imagination, dark romance, and heart-stopping twists that only Maggie Stiefvater can conjure.

13 February, 2017

MONDAY TRAVELS: ODE TO AGE by Pablo Neruda

Edit This


Happy Monday friends! I hope you packed light and got some party clothes, cause this Monday we are in the making a stop in a wonderful Chile, so take out your sun lotion and sun glasses and let's go explore Latin America!

So today we are in Chile and we will explore:

ODE TO AGE BY PABLO NERUDA


12 February, 2017

REVIEW: REBIRTH by Sophie Littlefield

, , Edit This
Title: Rebirth
Author: Sophie Littlefield
Series: Aftertime #2
Genres: Post Apocalypse, Zombie, NA
Publisher: Luna
Release: 2011
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 384

// Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

BLURB:
The end of the world was just the beginning

Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back—she and Ruthie will be happy.

Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is fleeting in Aftertime. Ruthie retreats into silence.

Flesh—eating Beaters still dominate the landscape. And Smoke, Cass's lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance, one that may end him even if he returns.

The survivalist community Cass has planted roots in is breaking apart, too. Its leader, Dor, implores Cass to help him recover his own lost daughter, taken by the totalitarian Rebuilders. And soon Cass finds herself thrust into the dark heart of an organization promising humanity's rebirth—at all costs.

Bound to two men blazing divergent paths across a savage land, Cass must overcome the darkness in her wounded heart, or lose those she loves forever. 

11 February, 2017

Saturday Tag

Edit This


Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today I am joined by Laura and together we will complete this fun tag:

READ THIS? WATCH THIS!

10 February, 2017

REVIEW: AFTERTIME by Sophie Littlefield

, , , Edit This
Title: Aftertime
Author: Sophie Littlefield
Series: Aftertime #1
Genres: Post Apocalypse, Zombie, NA
Publisher: Luna
Release: 2011
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 384

// Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

BLURB:
Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished.
And with her, nearly all of civilization.
Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters -- people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong.
In a broken, barren California, Cass will undergo a harrowing quest to get Ruthie back. Few people trust an outsider, let alone a woman who became a zombie and somehow turned back, but she finds help from an enigmatic outlaw, Smoke. Smoke is her savior, and her safety.
For the Beaters are out there.
And the humans grip at survival with their trigger fingers. Especially when they learn that she and Ruthie have become the most feared, and desired, of weapons in a brave new world….

09 February, 2017

08 February, 2017

07 February, 2017

REVIEW: REACHED by Ally Condie

, Edit This
Title: Reached
Author: Ally Condie
Series: Matched #3
Genres: Dystopian, YA
Publisher: Penguin
Release: 2012
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 512

// Goodreads // BookDepository // Amazon //

BLURB:
After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.

06 February, 2017

MONDAY TRAVELS: MARINA by Charles Bukowski

Edit This


Happy Monday friends!

This Monday we are making one last stop in Unites States and then we'll travel to another country. But as we still need to visit one last great American poet, lets all gather around and enjoy:


MARINA BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI



05 February, 2017

04 February, 2017

Saturday Tag

, Edit This


Happy Saturday friends! It's yet another Saturday and we are meeting for yet another fun and cool Saturday tag!

Today I am joined by HannahCassie and together we will complete this fun tag:

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT

02 February, 2017

01 February, 2017