Review: Paradigm

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Paradigm by Ceri A. Lowe Published by Bookouture on July 18, 2014 Genres: Young Adult- Dystopian/Post Apocalyptic Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Alice Davenport awakens from a fever to find her mother gone and the city she lives in ravaged by storms – with few survivors. When Alice is finally rescued, she is taken to a huge underground bunker owned by the mysterious Paradigm Industries. As the storms worsen, the hatches close. 87 years later, amidst the ruins of London, the survivors of the Storms have reinvented society. The...

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Review: I Am the Weapon

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff Published by Little Brown Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Thriller, Young Adult-Mystery Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads ""They needed the perfect assassin." Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school in a new town under a new name, makes a few friends, and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend's family to die-of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, moving on to the...

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Review: As I Wake

As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott Series: Stand Alone on September 15th 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/Dystopian Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads Ava is welcomed home from the hospital by a doting mother, lively friends, and a crush finally beginning to show interest. There's only one problem: Ava can't remember any of them - and can't shake the eerie feeling that she's not who they say she is.Ava struggles to break through her amnesiac haze as she goes through the motions of high-school life, but the memories that surface take place in a very different world, where Ava and familiar-faced friends are under constant scrutiny and no one can be trusted. Ava doesn't know what to make of these visions, or of the boy who is at the center of them all, until he...

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Review: Dark Metropolis

Dark Metropolis by Jaclyn Dolamore Published by Disney-Hyperion on June 11, 2014 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Trade Buy on Amazon Goodreads Sixteen-year-old Thea Holder's mother is cursed with a spell that's driving her mad, and whenever they touch, Thea is chilled by the magic, too. With no one else to contribute, Thea must make a living for both of them in a sinister city, where danger lurks and greed rules. Thea spends her nights waitressing at the decadent Telephone Club attending to the glitzy clientele. But when her best friend, Nan, vanishes, Thea is compelled to find her. She meets Freddy, a young, magnetic patron at the club, and he agrees to help her uncover the city's secrets-even while he hides secrets of his own. Together, they...

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Review: Gathering Blue

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry Published by Ember on June 9, 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Source: Borrowed Buy on Amazon Goodreads In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever. I was blown away with Lowry’s first book The Giver and I started have these feels before I had even picked up the second book. I was not sure what was going to...

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Review: The Artful

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.The Artful by Wilbert Stanton Published by Curiosity Quills Press on June 8, 2014 Genres: Young Adult- Dystopian/Post Apocalyptic Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads New York City, 2025: Everything is changed. The city that never sleeps is now a land of death and decay. A rampant virus has taken over and the survivors have become carriers, quarantined from the rest of the world. Twist and Dodger grew up in the...

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