REVIEW: The Cruel Prince (#1) - Holly Black

Title: The Cruel Prince (#1)
Author: Holly Black
Series: Folk of the Air
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 370 Pages
Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself. 

REVIEW: Collison (#3) - Victor Dixen

Title: Collison (#3)
Author: Victor Dixen
Series: Phobos
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 723 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The Genesis Programme reality TV show has brought twelve young astronauts to Mars, to face unprecedented hostility. An even greater danger is now threatening Earth, but the viewers are too glued to their screens and the rescue mission to see what is really happening.

Leonor is ready to risk everything to bring out the truth and warn the world. She can never admit defeat - but can she fight her last fight alone?

REVIEW: Charmcaster (#3) - Sebastien de Castell*

Title: Charmcaster (#3)
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Series: Spellslinger
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Hardback
Pages: 417 Pages
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

*DIGITAL COPY RECEIVED FROM NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW - HARDBACK COPY WAS BOUGHT BY MYSELF OUT OF MY OWN POCKET*

Goodreads Blurb

'I was getting almost as good at running away from enemies as I was at making them in the first place. Turns out, I wasn't running nearly fast enough.'

Kellen has begun to master his spellslinging and the Argosi tricks for staying alive, and he and Reichis have found a career that suits them both: taking down mercenary mages who make people's lives miserable. But Ferius is concerned that Kellen is courting disaster . . .

REVIEW: Distortion (#2) - Victor Dixen

Title: Distortion (#2)
Author: Victor Dixen
Series: Phobos
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 567 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

After a speed-dating show that is literally out of this world, twelve young astronauts are set to become the first humans to colonise Mars. They are also the victims of the cruellest of plots.

Léonor thought she was a pioneer on an extraordinary mission. She thought she had left all regrets behind her on Earth. But when memories are this painful, there can be no forgetting . .

REVIEW: Shadowblack (#2) - Sebastian de Castell

Title: Shadowblack (#2)
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Series: Spellslinger
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

It's a few months since Kellen left his people behind. Now aged sixteen, Kellen is an outlaw, relying on his wits to keep him alive in the land of the Seven Sands. He misses home, he misses family and more than anything, he misses Nephenia, the girl he left behind. 

Then he meets Seneira, a blindfolded girl who isn't blind, and who carries a secret that's all too familiar to Kellen. Kellen and Ferius resolve to help - but the stakes are far higher than they realise. A Shadowblack plague is taking hold - and Kellen can't help but suspect his own people may even be behind it. 

REVIEW: Ascension (#1) - Victor Dixen

Title: Ascension (#1)
Author: Victor Dixen
Series: Phobos
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 488 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the onboard cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars.

Leonor, an 18-year-old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. 
She has signed up for glory.
She has signed up for love.
She has signed up for a one-way ticket.
Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets.

REVIEW: Spellslinger (#1) - Sebastien de Castell

Title: Spellslinger (#1)
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Series: Spellslinger
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 396 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb
Magic is a con game. 

Kellen is moments away from facing his first mage's duel and the start of four trials that will make him a spellcaster. There's just one problem: his magic is gone. As his sixteenth birthday approaches, Kellen falls back on his cunning in a bid to avoid total disgrace. But when a daring stranger arrives in town, she challenges Kellen to take a different path. Ferius Parfax is one of the mysterious Argosi - a traveller who lives by her wits and the three decks of cards she carries. She's difficult and unpredictable, but she may be Kellen's only hope...

REVIEW: Final 7 (#3) - Kerry Drewery*

Final 7 (#3) - Kerry Drewery
Series: Cell 7
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: E-Book
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: ★★★★

*Received from NetGalley for an honest review*

Goodreads Blurb

Martha and Isaac have escaped, but are now on the run - the government has branded them rebels and a danger to the public. Despite the rewards being offered for turning them in, Martha and her friends are safe in The Rises, the area of the city full of the poor and the powerless. But then the Prime Minister orders a wall to be built around The Rises. Is it for the the safety or the poor - or is it to imprison them? Martha needs to act, and to act fast, in a tale of breathtaking treachery that reaches right to the heart of government...  

REVIEW: Day 7 (#2) - Kerry Drewery

Day 7 (#2) - Kerry Drewery
Series: Cell 7
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 427 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Martha Honeydew has been released from the terrifying Cell 7. But despite her new freedom, the corrupt judicial system is still tracking Martha's every move. And Isaac, her only trusted friend, is now imprisoned in the very same cells she was. Isaac saved Martha's life, it is only right she now saves his.

But with Martha still a target, her chances of saving Isaac are remote. Martha begins to question whether it is ever possible to escape government scrutiny.

Will Martha and Isaac ever reunite?

Will they ever live in a better world?

REVIEW: Cell 7 (#1) - Kerry Drewery

Cell 7 (#1) - Kerry Drewery
Series: Cell 7
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Format: Kindle
Pages: 400 Pages
Rating: ✮✮✮✮✮

Goodreads Blurb

Should she live or die? You decide An adored celebrity has been killed. Sixteen-year-old Martha Honeydew was found holding a gun, standing over the body.

Now Justice must prevail.

The general public will decide whether Martha is innocent or guilty by viewing daily episodes of the hugely popular TV show Death is Justice, the only TV show that gives the power of life and death decisions - all for the price of a phone call.

Martha has admitted to the crime. But is she guilty? Or is reality sometimes more complicated than the images we are shown on TV?