REVIEW: All The Wrong Chords - Christine Hurley Deriso*

All The Wrong Chords - Christine Hurley Deriso*
Publisher: Flux
Format: E-Book
Pages: 288 Pages
Rating: ★★

*Received from NetGalley for an honest review*

Goodreads Blurb

Scarlett Stiles is desperate for a change of scenery after her older brother, Liam, dies of a drug overdose. But spending the summer with her grandfather wasn't exactly what she had in mind. Luckily, Scarlett finds something to keep her busy--a local rock band looking for a guitarist. Even though playing guitar has been hard since Liam died, Scarlett can't pass on an opportunity like this, and she can't take her eyes off the band's hot lead singer either. Is real happiness just around the corner? Or will she always be haunted by her brother's death?

REVIEW: American Gods - Neil Gaiman

American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Series: American Gods
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Pages: 736 Pages
Rating: ★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Days before his release from prison, Shadow’s wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.

Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

REVIEW: A Court of Thorns and Roses (#1) - Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses (#1) - Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...

Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.

REVIEW: Stalking Jack the Ripper (#1) - Kerri Maniscalco

Stalking Jack the Ripper (#1) - Kerri Maniscalco
Series: Stalking Jack the Ripper
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
Time: 9Hrs 26Mins
Narrator: Nicola Barber
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.

Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

REVIEW: The Dazzling Heights (#2) - Katharine McGee

The Dazzling Heights (#2) - Katharine McGee
Series: The Thousandth Floor
Publisher: HaperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 Pages
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

New York City, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amid high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets…

Leda is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She’ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden—even if it means trusting her enemy.

Watt just wants to put everything behind him…until Leda forces him to start hacking again. Will he do what it takes to be free of her for good?

When Rylin wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. But being there also means seeing the boy whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.

Avery is tormented by her love for the one person in the world she can never have. She’s desperate to be with him…no matter the cost.

And then there’s Calliope, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who arrives in New York determined to cause a stir. And she knows exactly where to begin.

But unbeknownst to them all, someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. After all, in a world of such dazzling heights, just one wrong step can mean a devastating fall.

REVIEW: Just Like Heaven (#1) - Julia Quinn

Just Like Heaven (#1) - Julia Quinn
Series: Smith-Smythe Quartet
Publisher:  Little Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384 Pages
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Honoria Smythe-Smith is a bad violinist in a traditional family performance she does not look forward to but will smile through for kinship. She trailed around after her brother and Marcus his best friend since childhood. Now the Earl of Chatteris, Marcus sprains his ankle in Honoria's own carefully dug hole. After they tease, they may fall in love.

REVIEW: Crown of Midnight (#2) - Sarah J. Maas

Crown of Midnight (#2) - Sarah J. Maas
Series: Throne of Glass
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.

Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.

Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.