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Review: Second Lives by Scott K. Andrews

Posted May 27, 2016 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.Second Lives by Scott K. Andrews Series: Timebomb Trilogy #2 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on May 19, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 368 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The adventure continues: time is in flux, and only Jana, Dora and Kaz can fix it. But can they trust each other?It began when three people from three different moments in history discovered that they could travel through time when they clasped hands. But the mysteries surrounding them have only deepened. There are risks to tampering with established events… timelines become snarled, histories become tangled… and one false move could destroy time itself! Jana, Kaz and Dora have escaped from their mysterious enemy, Quil, wounded and scared. Taking refuge in a place outside of time, they devise a plan to change the past, altering Quil’s life so that she never meets them.From the streets of Beirut in […]

Review: TimeBomb by Scott K. Andrews

Posted May 16, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 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.TimeBomb by Scott K. Andrews Series: Timebomb Trilogy #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on October 9, 2014 Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 336 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads New York City, 2141: Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper, but never hits the ground. Cornwall, 1640: gentle young Dora Predennick, newly come to Sweetclover Hall to work, discovers a badly-burnt woman at the bottom of a flight of stairs. When she reaches out to comfort the dying woman, she’s knocked unconscious, only to wake, centuries later, in empty laboratory room. On a rainy night in present-day Cornwall, seventeen-year-old Kaz Cecka sneaks into the long-abandoned Sweetclover Hall, determined to secure a dry place to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid who believes Charles I is king and an angry girl who claims to come from the future. Thrust into the centre of an adventure that spans […]

Review: Long Dark Dusk by JP Symthe

Posted May 2, 2016 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.Long Dark Dusk by J.P. Smythe Series: The Australia Trilogy #2 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 7, 2016 Pages: 400 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The moment she learned the horrible truth about her life on Australia, the derelict ship overrun with violent gangs, Chan Aitch made it her mission to save everyone she could from their fate worse than death. But her efforts were in vain. Now, everyone she cares about is dead or in prison, and Chan is more alone than ever before. As the only person to have escaped Australia’s terrible crash-landing back to Earth, Chan is now living in poverty on the fringes of a huge city. She believes Mae, the little girl she once rescued on the Australia, is still alive – but she has no idea where Mae is, or how to find her. Everything on Earth is strange and new, […]

Review: HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Posted April 29, 2016 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.Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 28, 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Thriller Pages: 384 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The incredible, horrifying thriller from Thomas Olde Heuvelt, the Hugo award-winning author of ‘The Day The World Turned Upside Down’, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Adam Nevill and Stephen King. Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Blind and silenced, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children’s beds for nights on end. So accustomed to her have the townsfolk become that they often forget she’s there. Or what a threat she poses. Because if the stitches are ever cut open, […]

Review: Way Down Dark by JP Symthe

Posted April 23, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 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.Way Down Dark by J.P. Smythe, James Smythe Series: The Australia Trilogy #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on July 2, 2015 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 288 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The first in an extraordinary new YA trilogy by James Smythe, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. There’s one truth on Australia: You fight or you die. Usually both. Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one. The only life that Chan’s ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive. But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness – a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead. Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, […]

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