REVIEW: Sleeping Giants (#1) - Sylvain Neuvel

Title: Sleeping Giants (#1)
Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Series: The THEMIS Files
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Format: Audiobook
Time: 8Hrs 27Mins
Narrators:  Andy Secombe, Christopher Ragland, Charlie Anson, Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers, Liza Ross
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger...

We always look forward. We never look back.

That girl grows up to be Dr Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate handmade of an exceptionally rare metal which predates all human civilisation on the continent.

But this thing...it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history.

An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it.

It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.

But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...

About everything.

REVIEW: Fallen (#1) - Lauren Kate

Title: Fallen (#1)
Author: Lauren Kate
Series: Fallen
Publisher: Random House
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. 

REVIEW: Bright Ruin (#3) - Vic James

Title: Bright Ruin (#3)
Author: Vic James
Series: Dark Gifts
Publisher: Pan Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 484 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

In a world where the lower classes must endure ten years of forced service to unfairly advantaged, magically powered rulers, a teenage boy dreams of rebellion, his older sister yearns for love and knowledge, and a dangerous young aristocrat seeks to remake the world with his dark gifts. In Bright Ruin, the final book in the trilogy set in modern-day England, our heroes will lead a revolution that will transform--or destroy--the world.

REVIEW: To All The Boys I've Loved Before (#1) - Jenny Han

Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (#1)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 421 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? 

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

REVIEW: Ignite Me (#3) - Tahereh Mafi

Title: Ignite Me (#3)
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Series: Shatter Me
Publisher: HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn’t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won’t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that’s not all he wants with her.

REVIEW: Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda (#1) - Becky Albertali

Title: Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda (#1)
Author: Becky Albertali
Series: Creekwood
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Michael Crouch
Time: 6Hrs 44Mins
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.