Genre: Science Fiction

Review: Day 21 by Kass Morgan

Posted December 17, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Day 21 by Kass Morgan Series: The 100 #2 Published by Hodder Paperbacks on September 25, 2014 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 311 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan’s The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can – together. Now a major TV series on E4. In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan’s The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can – together. It’s been 21 days since The 100 landed on Earth. They’re the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries… or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, […]

Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Posted December 16, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Red Rising by Pierce Brown Series: Red Rising #1 Published by Hodder Paperbacks on September 25, 2014 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 382 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity’s last hope. Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it’s all a lie. That Mars has been habitable – and inhabited – for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. Until the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of […]

Review: Conquest by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard

Posted December 9, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Conquest by John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard Series: The Chronicles of the Invaders #1 Published by Headline on August 28, 2014 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 496 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads She is the first of her kind to be born on Earth. He is one of the Resistance, fighting to rid the world of an alien invasion. They were never meant to meet. And when they do, it will change everything . . . Conquest is a highly enjoyable adventure story. It soon becomes apparent that there is so much more going on than the Illyri conquest and the clashes with the Human resistance. Something sinister is lurking in the background, something that needs to be stopped. There are so many secrets hinting in this book, so much promise that there is more to be revealed. Who are the Sisterhood and why have […]

Review: The 100 by Kass Morgan

Posted December 3, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The 100 by Kass Morgan Series: The 100 #1 on September 3, 2013 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 323 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads No one has set foot on Earth in centuries—until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents—considered expendable by society—are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life…or it could be a suicide mission. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she’s haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor’s son, came to Earth for the girl he loves—but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape […]

Review: Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson

Posted November 18, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson Series: Reckoners #1.5 Published by Gollancz on October 23, 2014 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult Pages: 96 Format: Hardback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads An action-packed Reckoners story from Sunday Times Bestseller Brandon Sanderson that bridges the action in Steelheart with the all new adventure Firefight, in a collectible HB edition From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, co-author of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson, comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in a HB collector’s edition. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back. Catch all the action before Firefight, the exciting sequel to Steelheart, hits the shelves. Mitosis was a brilliant action-packed short story! It had everything packed […]

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