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Book Review: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

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“Am I a player in this scenario or a puppet? I guess, in the end, it doesn’t matter. It is what it is: my destiny.”

– Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

 

So, seriously Harper Teen is the best ! I got this book for .99 on my Kindle over the holiday season. Before that, it wasn’t even on my radar , it was just another pretty girl in a pretty dress cover.

I’m not  a big fan of paranormal romances. To me they all tend to be the same and have a similar kind of ugh-inducing female protagonist who doesn’t exist outside of the new guy they met. And while Unearthly falls victim to some of the usual tropes in paranormal romance (new person in school, love interest is dating mean girl, single parent . . .) I took a liking to it.

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Book Review : Cinder By Marissa Meyer

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  • Release Date: January 3, 2012
  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
  • Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
  • Pages: 387
  • Audiobook hours: 10 hours 6 minutes

Synopsis : Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. . [Cinder is] a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future


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Book Review : Illuminate by Aimme Agresti

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Illuminate (Gilded Wings # 1) is one of those novels where the mystery and glamour will instantly pull you in,  as the characters uncover the seemingly perfect facade of The Lexington Hotel, owner Aurelia Brown and the perfect employees known as the Outfit.

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Book Review : Red Glove by Holly Black

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“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.” 

― Holly Black, Red Glove

In the second book in the Curse Workers Series, our coffee addled protagonist Cassel Sharpe is still clever as the devil and twice as pretty. Red Glove expands the world we were introduced into in White Cat, something I think every good sequel needs to do. In this novel, we meet new characters, get to see more into Wallingford and learn more about curse worker politics

The plot wasn’t as tight and concise as the first one. This novel reads less like a con job and more like a murder mystery While this series is a fantasy, White Cat felt more realistic than Red Glove. That isn’t to say it’s awful, it just doesn’t flow as well as it did in the first book.

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Book Review : Darker Still

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While Darker Still l is Leanne Hieber’s debut YA novel she is no stranger to Victorian-era historical fiction, having written a successful adult series. With that in mind, I had high hopes for this novel.

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Book Review : Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout

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“You know what they say about boys next door…” 

– Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

Yeah, new covers ! !!

So, I kind of have a weird relationship with this book. When I first started book blogging this was one of the first books I saw on a book blog. I thought the original cover was kind of off and one of my our first posts involved seriously critiquing it.

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