REVIEW: Winterkill (#1) - Kate A. Boorman

Winterkill (#1) - Kate A. Boorman

Series: Winterkill
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Where Emmeline lives, you cannot love and you cannot leave...

The Council's rules are strict, but they're for the good of the settlement in which Emmeline lives. Everyone knows there is nothing but danger the other side of the Wall, and the community must prepare for the freezing winterkill that comes every year.

But Emmeline struggles to be obedient under the Council's suffocating embrace - especially when she discovers that a Council leader intends to snatch her hand in marriage.

Then Emmeline begins to hear the call of the trees beyond the Wall...

REVIEW: When it's Real - Erin Watt

When It's Real - Erin Watt
Publisher: HQ Young Adult
Format: Kindle
Pages: 313 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Meet Oakley Ford-teen celebrity, renowned pop star, child of famous movie stars, hottie with millions of fangirls… and restless troublemaker. On the surface he has it all, but with his home life disintegrating, his music well suddenly running dry, and the tabloids having a field day over his outrageous exploits, Oakley's team decides it's time for an intervention. The result: an image overhaul, complete with a fake girlfriend meant to show the world he's settled down.

Enter seventeen-year-old Vaughn Bennett-devoted sister, part-time waitress, the definition of "normal." Under ordinary circumstances she'd never have taken this gig, but with her family strapped for cash, she doesn't have much of a choice. And for the money Oakley's team is paying her, she figures she can put up with outlandish Hollywood parties and a team of publicists watching her every move. So what if she thinks Oakley's a shallow, self-centered jerk? It's not like they're going to fall for each other in real life…right?

REVIEW: The Rocker That Holds Me (#1) - Terri Anne Browning

The Rocker That Holds Me (#1) - Terri Anne Browning
Series: The Rockers
Publisher: Anna Henson
Format: Kindle
Pages: 104 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Touring with four rockers is the thing of dreams…

At least that is what people tell me. To me those four rockers are my family. They have watched over me from the time I was five years old. Protecting me from my mother and her drunken, drug addict rages. When they made it big they still watched over me. And when my monster of a mother died they took over as my guardians.

In the six years since that happened I have watched over the four men that
mean everything to me. I take care of them just as they once took care of me. I handle all the dirty work behind the scenes of a rockers life. It isn’t always pretty. At times it came be damn near disgusting, especially when I have to get rid of their one night stands. Ugh!

Taking care of them doesn’t bother me though. I mean it’s not like I’m in love with one of them. That would be crazy. Falling for a rocker is NOT smart.

Okay, so I’m not smart. I love my guys, and one of them kind of holds my heart in his big old rocker hand. But I’m dealing. I’ve been able to keep it my little secret for years now.
I’m not, however, dealing with this bug that I seem to have caught. It scares the hell out of me. I hate doctors, but I’m suddenly more worried about finding out what is wrong with me than what the doctor might do to me.

When I get my test results back my life will never be the same again…

REVIEW: The New World (#0.5) - Patrick Ness

The New World (#0.5) - Patrick Ness
Series: Chaos Walking
Publisher: Walker Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

In this dramatic prequel to the award-winning Chaos Walking Trilogy, author Patrick Ness gives us a short story of Viola's journey to the New World.

REVIEW: Annihilation (#1) - Jeff Vandermeer

Annihilation (#1) - Jeff Vandermeer
Series: Southern reach
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Format: Paperback
Pages: 195 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition.

Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything

REVIEW: Purple Hearts (#3) - Michael Grant*

Purple Hearts (#3) - Michael Grant
Series: Soldier Girls
Publisher: Electric Monkey
Format: Paperback
Pages: 459 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Received from NetGalley for an honest review (I managed to be able to buy a paperback copy from my local bookstore before release so reading that)*

Goodreads Blurb

It's 1944, and it feels to everyone like the war will never end. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr and Rainie Shulterman have all received accolades, been 'heroes', earned promotion - in short, they've all done 'enough' to allow them to leave this nightmare and go home. But they don't.

D-Day, June 6th 1944. On that day, many still doubted the American soldier.

By June 7th no one did.

REVIEW: Unravel Me (#2) - Tahereh Mafi

Unravel Me (#2) - Tahereh Mafi
Series: Shatter Me
Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 461 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defence mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.

She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s—and Warner’s—immunity to her killer skin.