REVIEW: The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Title: The Hate U Give
Author: Angie Thomas
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterwards, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord trying to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. 

REVIEW: Trapped - Beverley Kendall

Title: Trapped
Author: Beverley Kendall
Publisher: Season Publishing LLC
Format: E-Book
Pages: 360 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

My life has turned out to be such a cliché. And not in a good way. 

It’s not exactly Sixteen and Pregnant, but at eighteen my only advantage is a high school diploma. And if that’s not enough, the father—and I use that term loosely—couldn’t have hightailed it out of my life fast enough. 

I thought I really knew him. Unfortunately, my boyfriend of three years transformed from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde once he realized his carefree, childless days would be coming to an end. 

I’m over him now though. The real love of my life is chubby, has more gum than teeth, and stands a little over two feet tall. She may not have been planned, but I’ve never regretted having her. She is the centre of my world. 

A world that's turned upside down when my ex-returns ready to earn the love and trust of the child he abandoned before birth. 

Letting him into my daughter’s life is one thing but letting him back into mine isn't going to happen. Because the biggest mistake of my life has a name, and that name is Mitchell Aaron Kingsley. 

And he's one mistake I don't ever intend to make again. 

REVIEW: Truth (#2) - Julia Karr

Title: Truth (#2)
Author: Julia Karr
Series: XVI
Publisher: Speak
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Nina Oberon's life has changed enormously in the last few months. When her mother was killed, Nina discovered the truth about her father, the leader of the Resistance. And now she sports the same Governing Council-ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist that all sixteen-year-old girls have. The one that announces to the world that she is easy prey to predators. But Nina won't be anyone's stereotype. And when she joins an organization of girls working within the Resistance, she knows that they can put an end to one of the most terrifying secret programs the GC has ever conceived. Because the truth always comes out . . . and the consequences can be deadly. 

REVIEW: The Novice (#1) - Taran Matharu

Title: The Novice (#1)
Author: Taran Matharu
Series: Summoner
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Pages: 390 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy. There the gifted are trained in the art of summoning. Fletcher is put through gruelling training as a battlemage to fight in the Hominum Empire’s war against orcs. He must tread carefully while training alongside children of powerful nobles. The power hungry, those seeking alliances, and the fear of betrayal surround him. Fletcher finds himself caught in the middle of powerful forces, with only his demon Ignatius for help.

As the pieces on the board manoeuvre for supremacy, Fletcher must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands. The Novice is the first in a trilogy about Fletcher, his demon Ignatius, and the war against the Orcs.

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: There's Someone Inside Your House - Stephanie Perkins

Title: There's Someone Inside Your House
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Format: Paperback
Pages:  287 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Love hurts...

Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind.

Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets.

REVIEW: A Court of Wings and Ruin (#3) - Sarah J. Maas

Title: A Court of Wings and Ruin (#3)
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Pages:  720 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre but for her world as well.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords – and hunt for allies in unexpected places.