REVIEW: The Wide Window (#3) - Lemony Snicket

Title: The Wide Window (#3)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Format: Hardback
Pages: 218 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

REVIEW: Specials (#3) - Scott Westerfeld

Title: Specials (#3)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Series: Uglies
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Format: Paperback
Pages: 372 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly - Tally's seen it all. But now she's been turned into one of the 'Specials', a superamped fighting machine engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid.

REVIEW: Whiteout - Gabriel Dylan*

Title: Whiteout*
Author: Gabriel Dylan
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: E-Book
Pages: 384 Pages
Release Date: 25th December 2018 (EBOOK)
                       10th January 2019 (PAPERBACK)
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

*RECEIVED FROM NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW*

Goodreads Blurb

‘She sat us all down and told us a story. About things that lived in the woods. Things that only came out at night.’

For Charlie, a school ski trip is a perfect escape from his unhappy home life. Until a storm blows in and the resort town is cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped on the mountain, the students wait for the blizzards to pass, along with mysterious ski guide Hanna. 

But as night falls and the town’s long-buried secrets begin to surface, the storm is the least of their problems….

REVIEW: Jackaby (#1) - William Ritter

Title: Jackaby (#1)
Author: William Ritter
Series: Jackaby
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.