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Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night Read More …
Paris Adrift EJ Swift Genre: Sci-fi Rating: Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. She falls in with the eclectic expat community as a bartender at Read More …
Fireblood Elly Blake Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: 3.75/5 Against all odds, Ruby has defeated the villainous Frost King and melted his throne of ice. But the bloodthirsty Minax that was trapped inside is now haunting her kingdom and everyone she Read More …
Of all the books released in 2017, these were the standouts! Of course, there are a ton of books released in 2017 that I unfortunately didn’t get around to reading yet. The four below are picked from the new releases Read More …
Artemis Andy Weir Genre: Sci-fi Rating: 4.5/5 Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in Read More …
Invictus Ryan Graudin Genre: Sci-fi, Young Adult Rating: Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far’s birth defies the laws of nature. Read More …
Wonder Woman, the Official Movie Novelization Nancy Holder Genre: Fantasy Rating: 3.75/5 Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes Read More …
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe Lauren James Genre: Sci-fi, Young Adult Rating: Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship travelling to a new planet, on a mission to establish a second home for humanity amongst the stars. Read More …
How to Stop Time Matt Haig Rating: 4/5 Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz Age Paris, from Read More …
Flame in the Mist Renée Ahdieh Rating: 4/5 The only daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has always known she’d been raised for one purpose and one purpose only: to marry. Never mind her cunning, which rivals that of her Read More …