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: One Last Sin (#3) - Georgia Cates

Title: One Last Sin (#3)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Trilogy
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: EBook
Pages: 228 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Bleu MacAllister’s fate lies in the hands of the enemy. Complicated circumstances have rendered her helpless to escape their clutches so she must await rescue by her less than lily-white knight. All is right again when she’s back in the arms of the man she loves until long-buried secrets are unearthed. With them, Bleu finally discovers her mother’s killer along with far more than she could possibly imagine. Can she find happiness with a husband who will go to any length to keep her safe, even if it means denying her of the one thing she believes she wants most in this world?

REVIEW: The Next Sin (#2) - Georgia Cates

Title: The Next Sin (#2)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: Ebook
Pages: 226 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I’ve watched her from afar for weeks. And she has no idea.

Bleu MacAllister ran from me three months ago. She thought she could disappear from my life. My beloved believed I’d let her go.

Wrong.

Bleu says I won’t find her; she changes like a chameleon. Wrong, again. Some things remain unaltered. She’s still beautiful. Sexy as hell. And I want her more than my next breath.

The circumstances bringing us together have changed. It’s a precarious situation because my bonny lass is a hunted traitor. But I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe.

She will be my wife.

I am Sinclair Breckenridge. And I’m coming for her.

REVIEW: The Towering Sky (#3) - Katharine McGee*

Title: The Towering Sky (#3)
Author: Katharine McGee
Series: The Thousandth Floor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Format: EBook
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Goodreads Blurb

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined.

Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget.

Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. But when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn: between two worlds and two very different boys.

Calliope feels trapped, playing a long con that costs more than she bargained for. What happens when all her lies catch up with her?

Watt is still desperately in love with Leda. He’ll do anything to win her back—even dig up secrets that are better left buried.

And now that Avery is home from England—with a new boyfriend, Max—her life seems more picture-perfect than ever. So why does she feel like she would rather be anything but perfect?

REVIEW: A Necessary Sin (#1) - Georgia Cates

Title: A Necessary Sin (#1)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: The Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: EBook
Pages: 226 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Bleu MacAllister is consumed. A horrific childhood incident has caused every decision in her life to revolve around bringing a monster to justice. With years spent studying The Fellowship, an organized crime brotherhood of liars, thieves, and killers, Bleu will rely on her skills as a special agent to cut Thane Breckenridge off at the knees. But walking hand in hand with retribution means risking collateral damage, in the form of Breckenridge’s son Sinclair—until Sin becomes so much more than Bleu bargained for. She’s always known this undertaking would place her life in danger—she never imagined her heart would be as well.

REVIEW: Gnomon - Nick Harkaway*

Gnomon - Nick Harkaway*
Publisher:  Cornerstone
Format: E-Book
Pages: 704 Pages
Rating: DNF

*Received from NetGalley for an honest review*

Goodreads Blurb

Gnomon, which took Harkaway more than three years to complete, is set in a world of ubiquitous surveillance. Pitched as "a mind-bending Borgesian puzzle box of identity, meaning and reality in which the solution steps sideways as you approach it", it features: a detective who finds herself investigating the very society she believes in, urged on by a suspect who may be an assassin or an ally, hunting through the dreams of a torture victim in search of the key to something she does not yet understand; a banker who is pursued by a shark that swallows Fortune 500 companies; Saint Augustine’s jilted mistress who reshapes the world with miracles; a refugee grandfather turned games designer who must remember how to walk through walls or be burned alive by fascists; and a sociopath who falls backwards through time in order to commit a murder.

REVIEW: The New Dark (#1) - Lorraine Thomson*

The New Dark (#1) - Lorraine Thomson*
Series: The Dark Times
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Format: E-Book
Pages: 221 Pages
Rating: ★★★

*Received from NetGalley for an honest review*

Goodreads Blurb

There is no "Before", there is only "Now". Because now there’s no internet, no TV, no power grid. Food is scarce, and the world’s a hostile place. But Sorrel lives a quiet life in the tiny settlement of Amat. It’s all she’s ever known ...

Until a gang of marauding mutants destroys the village, snatching her brother Eli, and David, her boyfriend. Sorrel sets out after them, embarking on a journey fraught with danger. Can she survive? The only thing that keeps her going is Eli and David. They are out there somewhere. They must be alive. And if she has her way, she will find them.

REVIEW: Invictus - Ryan Graudin*

Invictus - Ryan Graudin
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group    
Format: E-Book
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★
UK Release Date: 21st September 2017

*I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review

Goodreads Blurb

Time flies when you're plundering history.

Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he's ever wanted, and after failing his final time-traveling exam, Far takes a position commanding a ship with a crew of his friends as part of a black market operation to steal valuables from the past.

But during a heist on the sinking Titanic, Far meets a mysterious girl who always seems to be one step ahead of him. Armed with knowledge that will bring Far's very existence into question, she will lead Far and his team on a race through time to discover a frightening truth: History is not as steady as it seems.

REVIEW: Charlotte Says - Alex Bell*

Charlotte Says (#8) - Alex Bell*
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: EBook
Pages: 352 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★
UK Release Date: 7th September 2017

*I received this book for an honest review from NetGalley

Goodreads Blurb

Following the death of her mother in a terrible fire, Jemima flees to the remote Isle of Skye, to take up a job at a school for girls. There she finds herself tormented by the mystery of what really happened that night.
Then Jemima receives a box of Frozen Charlotte dolls from a mystery sender and she begins to remember – a séance with the dolls, a violent argument with her step-father and the inferno that destroyed their home. And when it seems that the dolls are triggering a series of accidents at the school, Jemima realizes she must stop the demonic spirits possessing the dolls – whatever it takes.

REVIEW: Alex and Eliza - Melissa de la Cruz*

Alex and Eliza - Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher: PanMacmillian (Macmillan Children's Books)
Format: EBook
Pages: 336 Pages
Rating: 3 (liked it) ★★★
UK Release Date: 7th September 2017

*I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review

Goodreads Blurb

Their romance shaped a nation. The rest was history.

1777. Albany, New York. 

As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country’s founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters—Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks; and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival that of both her sisters, though she’d rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball. 

Still, she can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington’s right-hand man. Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can’t believe his luck—as an orphan, and a bastard one at that—to be in such esteemed company. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history.

REVIEW: Tarnished City (#2) - Vic James*

Tarnished City (#2) - Vic James
Series: Dark Times
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: EBook
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: 5/5 (it was amazing) ★★★★★
UK Release Date: 7th September 2017

*I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review

Goodreads Blurb

In a modern Britain where magic users control wealth, politics—and you—an uprising has been crushed. In its aftermath, two families will determine the country’s fate. The ruthless Jardines make a play for ultimate power. And the Hadleys, once an ordinary family, must find the extraordinary strength to fight back.

Abi Hadley is a fugitive. Her brother Luke, a prisoner. Both will discover that in the darkest places, the human spirit shines brightest.

While amid his family’s intrigues, Silyen Jardine dreams of lost powers from an earlier age. As blood runs in the streets of London, they will all discover whether love and courage can ever be stronger than tyranny.