Review: A Line in the Dark

A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



My Review: What makes this book so unpleasant is that you think you're getting this epic paranormal or fantasy book from that cover and the title but you find out that you're getting an LGBT Contemporary. I have to say that this one was pretty short and the story I did get wasn't too bad but it just didn't really work out for what I thought I was signing up for. I think this one needs a new cover and a new name although it wasn't all flowers with the romance it wasn't as dark as the cover or title says.


Go Into This One Knowing: LGBT, Contemporary, Not really dark or creepy at all



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Review: These Precious Scars

These Precious Scars by Emily Suvada
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



My Review: This little story really doesn't add anything to the main story of This Mortal Coil and I don't really think that you will miss out on anything if you skip it. It does give us a small look in each of the kids POVs about what they went through about 7 years or so before the main story. It gives us a little insight into what was going on. Personally, I would have rather liked a story about when they left the facility.


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Review: This Mortal Coil (This Mortal Coil #1) by Emily Suvada

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.

That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own.

When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race.

Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?

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Review: Wolves and Roses

Wolves and Roses by Christina Bauer
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

So, unfortunately, this one just was not for me. It kind of felt like the author was taking all the general troupes fro. Fairytales than trying to do something funny with. But for me, it came off really cheesy. I guess if your looking for something really ridiculous and well kind of funny then check this out. I really kind of wish that the cover would depicted the story better because where I saw this very fantasyish serious cover and then for this cheeses filled story. It just kind of turned me off.

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Review: Girls of Paper and Fire

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My Review: This has to be one of the best books I have read this year!! It pulled me in from the very first pages and then KILLED ME!! Yep, I died within the first few pages. *They KILLED HER DOG!!* If you are looking for a book that has all the feels and will empower you then look no further than this one right here!! This is a book where women are forced to have sexual relations with a demon against their will as Paper Girls but rise up to become rebels. I really can not wait for the next book in this series!!

The story to this book started off and never failed on its steam. So many books today are all over the place with pacing but this one did it very well. I was never bored and I never wanted to stop reading. It was a great length and it really didn't have any parts that I would have cut out.

The characters in this OMG!! The characters in this one were great. I do really hope we find out what happened to Lei mom. She is so twisted up with her in this story and we never get an answer to what happened to her. For side characters Wren was awesome!! And so was everyone else. I really loved to hate some of the paper girls and the king. Each character had their own voice and their own strengths and weaknesses. The characters really worked hand in hand with the story to make it flow and be amazing. The demon king was a horrible person and a great villain.

The romance to this one was freaking awesome! The romance in this which is LGBT was done so well that I have to say it’s one of the BEST Romances I have read this year! It is passionate and I loved every second of it!

The world building to this one was for me more geared toward the characters. Something that I would have liked would have been more explanation about their magic system. Because, although it is in this story we really don't learn a lot about it at all.

All in all, for this one I would have to say that this was one empowering read. It's one where you just want to go out and fight the forces of evil and become like Batman or something. I really loved that the author added information to all of the Rape and other organizations. I will say that if you ever are in a situation like these girls etc. Make sure you tell someone you trust and report it! It is NEVER ok for someone to touch you without it being your choice.


Go Into This One Knowing: Violence, Sexual Abuse, Animal Murder, LGBT

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Review: Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge

Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A young adult biography of Frankenstein's profound young author, Mary Shelley, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its publication, told through free verse and 300+ full-bleed illustrations.

Mary Shelley first began penning Frankenstein as part of a dare to write a ghost story, but the seeds of that story were planted long before that night. Mary, just nineteen years old at the time, had been living on her own for three years and had already lost a baby days after birth. She was deeply in love with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a mad man who both enthralled and terrified her, and her relationship with him was rife with scandal and ridicule. But rather than let it crush her, Mary fueled her grief, pain, and passion into a book that the world has still not forgotten 200 years later.

Dark, intense, and beautiful, this free-verse novel with over 300 pages of gorgeous black-and-white watercolor illustrations is a unique and unforgettable depiction of one of the greatest authors of all time.

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Review: The Perfect Candidate by Peter Stone

The Perfect Candidate by Peter Stone
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

From debut author Peter Stone comes a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding political thriller that’s perfect for fans of Ally Carter and House of Cards.

When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket out of small town captivity. When he lacks connections and Beltway polish he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster.

That is, until she winds up dead.

As rumors and accusations about her death fly around Capitol Hill, Cameron’s low profile makes him the perfect candidate for an FBI investigation that he wants no part of. Before he knows it—and with his family’s future at stake—he discovers DC’s darkest secrets as he races to expose a deadly conspiracy.

If it doesn’t get him killed first.

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Review: Twice Dead (The Necromancer's Song #1) by @CaitSeal

Twice Dead by Caitlin Seal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

About the Book:

Naya, the daughter of a sea merchant captain, nervously undertakes her first solo trading mission in the necromancer-friendly country bordering her homeland of Talmir. 

Unfortunately, she never even makes it to the meeting. 

She's struck down in the streets of Ceramor. Murdered.

But death is not the end for Naya. She awakens to realize she's become an abomination--a wraith, a ghostly creature bound by runes to the bones of her former corpse. She's been resurrected in order to become a spy for her country. 

Reluctantly, she assumes the face and persona of a servant girl named Blue. 

She never intended to become embroiled in political plots, kidnapping, and murder. 

Or to fall in love with the young man and former necromancer she is destined to betray.

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Review: Select (Select #1) by Marit Weisenberg

Select by Marit Weisenberg
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Coming from a race of highly-evolved humans, Julia Jaynes has the perfect life. The perfect family. The perfect destiny. But there’s something rotten beneath the surface—dangerous secrets her father is keeping; abilities she was never meant to have; and an elite society of people determined to keep their talents hidden and who care nothing for the rest of humanity. So when Julia accidentally disrupts the Jaynes’ delicate anonymity, she’s banished to the one place meant to make her feel inferior: public high school. 

Julia’s goal is to lay low and blend in. Then she meets him—John Ford, tennis prodigy, all-around good guy. When Julia discovers a knack for reading his mind, and also manipulating his life, school suddenly becomes a temporary escape from the cold grip of her manipulative father. But as Julia’s powers over John grow, so do her feelings. For the first time in her life, Julia begins to develop a sense of self, to question her restrictive upbringing and her family prejudices. She must decide: can a perfect love be worth more than a perfect life?

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Review: In Her Skin by Kim Savage

In Her Skin by Kim Savage
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Sixteen-year-old con artist Jo Chastain is about to take on the biggest scam of her life: impersonating a missing girl. Life on the streets of Boston these past few years hasn’t been easy, and Jo is hoping to cash in on a little safety, a little security. She finds her opportunity in the Lovecrafts, a wealthy family with ties to the unsolved disappearance of Vivienne Weir, who vanished when she was nine. 

When Jo takes on Vivi's identity and stages the girl’s miraculous return, the Lovecrafts welcome her back with open arms. They give her everything she could want: love, money, and proximity to their intoxicating and unpredictable daughter, Temple. But nothing is as it seems in the Lovecraft household—and some secrets refuse to stay buried. As hidden crimes come to the surface, and lines of deception begin to blur, Jo must choose to either hold onto an illusion of safety, or escape the danger around her before it’s too late.

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