Tag: book review
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Book Review: The City of Heavenly Fire: The Mortal Instruments Finale
Wow, that title is a long one, eh? I really just want to emphasize that this is the last book in the series, because a) I don’t want to bother discussing any of the others and b) I’m going to tell you about how it really won’t be the last book in the series. Also,…
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Book Review: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
A SciFi tale of time travel, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows one man who must continually re-live his life. Faced with immortality, Harry sets out to determine ‘what it all means,’ when he is tasked with saving the future. Slow, take-your-time novel A thoughtful, exploratory story, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August isn’t…
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Book Review: The Girl With All the Gifts
The Girl With All the Gifts is a pleasantly surprising novel about a child and her gradual understanding over the world, and people, around her. Written by M.R. Carey and released June 2014, this book originally caught my eye on Goodreads’ “Movers and Shakers” list with the following description: NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING…
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The Infernal Devices Series Review
Let’s get this out in the open, quickly: The Infernal Devices was such a disappointment. It lacked originality, unique characters, and even back-bone. Synopsis Set in the late 1800s, Tessa Gray gets pulled into a dark, supernatural world with the discovery that she has powers beyond her understanding, or any of the Shadowhunters who come…
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Book Day: 7 Books to Read in 2014
Happy World Book Day! To celebrate, here are some 2014 releases on my “must-read” list. :) Released this Year Uninvited by Sophie Jordon In a futuristic society, genetic markers can reveal who will become murderers, and who will not. The main character, Davy, will be one of those murderers, and she must learn to deal…
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Divergent Series Review
Did you know Wednesday is Book Day? In anticipation, I want to share a couple book reviews this week. :) Today’s will be The Divergent Series, what with the recent release of the movie (which I haven’t been able to see yet)! Divergent Synopsis: The introduction into our series, Divergent is about a teenage girl and her…
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls
I recall when I read the first book in this series, I kept rolling my eyes at how ridiculous everything was. By the second book I was like, incest? This is SUPER awkward. And yet I had fallen in love with Jace and Clary, and read on to the third novel. Once the entire plot…