Blog Tour: Illuminae
I received this book for free from Blog Tour, 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.Illuminae by Amie KaufmanJay Kristoff Published by Random House Books for Young Readers on October 2, 2015 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With...
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This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner Published by Disney-Hyperion on December 23rd 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Source: Blog Tour Goodreads The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war. Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades...
Read MoreReview: The Young Elites
The Young Elites by Marie Lu Published by Putnam Juvenile on December 16, 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family’s good name and standing in the way of their fortune. But some of the fever’s survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars—they are...
Read MoreReview: Dead Zone
I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Dead Zone by Robison Wells Published by HarperTeen on September 30th, 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads America is at war—and five teens are caught in the crossfire. It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted across the nation. Now the true invasion has begun, and a handful of teenagers with impossible powers are America’s only defense. Loving the first book, I was ready to take on the sequel. Who isn’t ready to read a book about war? One can only image that this book is going...
Read MoreReview: 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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