REVIEW: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (#1) - Gideon Defoe

Title: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (#1)
Author: Gideon Defoe
Series: The Pirates!
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Format: Paperback
Pages: 197 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's high time to spearhead an adventure.

While searching for some major pirate booty, he mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin's Beagle and then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and the Holy Ghost himself. And that's not even the half of it. 

REVIEW: Blackmailing the Virgin (#2) - Alexa Riley

Title: Blackmailing the Virgin (#2)
Author: Alexa Riley
Series: Promises
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 95 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When Calder Cox sees Felicity for the first time, he has to have her. There’s nothing that will hold him back…until he finds out she’s his lawyer’s daughter. 

Felicity Chandler is graduating college soon but has no idea what she wants to do. While playing her violin one night, she sees Calder and feels instantly drawn to him. But when he tries to keep his distance, she doesn’t know what to do with all of her feelings. 

Calder can’t be held off much longer, and when his control snaps, there are consequences. Felicity might be trying to run, but he’ll make sure she stays…even if he has to blackmail her to do it. 

REVIEW: You (#1) - Caroline Kepnes

Title: You (#1)
Author: Caroline Kepnes
Series: You
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Format: E-Book
Pages: 433 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.

There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.

As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.

REVIEW: The Inquisition (#2) - Taran Matharu

Title: The Inquisition (#2)
Author: Taran Matharu
Series: Summoner Series
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Pages: 407 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

A year has passed since the Tournament.

Fletcher and Ignatius have been locked away in Pelt’s dungeons, but now they must face a trial at the hands of the Inquisition, a powerful institution controlled by those who would delight in Fletcher’s downfall.

The trial is haunted by ghosts from the past with shocking revelations about Fletcher’s origins, but he has little time to dwell on them; the graduating students of Vocans are to be sent deep into the orc jungles to complete a dangerous mission for the king and his council. If they fail, the orcish armies will rise to power beyond anything the Empire has ever seen.

With loyal friends Othello and Sylva by his side, Fletcher must battle his way to the heart of Orcdom and save Hominum from destruction…or die trying.

REVIEW: Mr & Mrs (#1) - Alexa Riley

Title: Mr & Mrs (#1)
Author: Alexa Riley
Series: Promises
Publisher: Unknown
Format: E-Book
Pages: 106 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Phillip has been married to Molly for a year. He’s beyond obsessed with his new wife, to the point that he has to hold his true feelings back. If she knew how crazy he is for her, she might push him away.

Molly is feeling distance growing between them, and she’s worried she’s not enough. One night she walks in on Phillip, and it changes everything.

When Phillip discovers Molly was in an accident and now has amnesia, he’s going to do all he can to make her fall in love with him again. Holding nothing back this time.

REVIEW: Crazy Rich Asians (#1) - Kevin Kwan

Title: Crazy Rich Asians (#1)
Author: Kevin Kwan
Series: Crazy Rich Asians
Publisher: Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
Time: 13HRS 53MINS
Narrator: Lynn Chen
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. 

Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should--and should not--marry.

REVIEW: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (#1) - M. C. Beaton

Title: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (#1)
Author: M. C. Beaton
Series: Agatha Raisin
Publisher: C & R Crime
Format: E-Book
Pages: 196 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Agatha Raisin decides to leave her PR job in London to enjoy the delights of an early retirement in a quiet village in the Cotswolds, where she soon gets bored but is eager to fit in. Showing off her "talent" in the parish cooking competition should make her popular -only if her quiche didn't kill the judge. Thus, Agatha must reveal the bitter truth: she bought the fatal quiche from a caterer. To clear herself, she has only one solution: identify the murderer.