REVIEW: Bright Ruin (#3) - Vic James

Title: Bright Ruin (#3)
Author: Vic James
Series: Dark Gifts
Publisher: Pan Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 484 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

In a world where the lower classes must endure ten years of forced service to unfairly advantaged, magically powered rulers, a teenage boy dreams of rebellion, his older sister yearns for love and knowledge, and a dangerous young aristocrat seeks to remake the world with his dark gifts. In Bright Ruin, the final book in the trilogy set in modern-day England, our heroes will lead a revolution that will transform--or destroy--the world.

REVIEW: To All The Boys I've Loved Before (#1) - Jenny Han

Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (#1)
Author: Jenny Han
Series: To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 421 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? 

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

REVIEW: Ignite Me (#3) - Tahereh Mafi

Title: Ignite Me (#3)
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Series: Shatter Me
Publisher: HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn’t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won’t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that’s not all he wants with her.

REVIEW: Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda (#1) - Becky Albertali

Title: Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda (#1)
Author: Becky Albertali
Series: Creekwood
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Michael Crouch
Time: 6Hrs 44Mins
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met. 

REVIEW: Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates (#1) - Kerry Greenwood

Title: Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates (#1)
Author: Kerry Greenwood
Series: Phryne Fisher
Publisher: C&R Crime
Format: Paperback
Pages: 195 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher—she of the grey-green eyes and diamant garters—is tiring of polite conversations with retired colonels and dances with weak-chinned men. When the opportunity presents itself, Phryne decides it might be amusing to try her hand at becoming a lady detective in Australia. Immediately upon settling into Melbourne's Hotel Windsor, Phryne finds herself embroiled in mystery. From poisoned wives and cocaine smuggling, to police corruption and rampant communism—not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse—Cocaine Blues charts a crescendo of steamy intrigue, culminating in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.

REVIEW: I Am Number Four (#1) - Pittacus Lore

Title: I Am Number Four (#1)
Author: Pittacus Lore
Series: The Lorien Legacies
Publisher: Penguin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 391 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

In the beginning, they were a group of nine. Nine aliens who left their home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack by the evil Mogadorian. Nine aliens who scattered on Earth. Nine aliens who look like ordinary teenagers living ordinary lives, but who have extraordinary, paranormal skills. Nine aliens who might be sitting next to you now. The Nine had to separate and go into hiding. 

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, and Number Three in Kenya. All of them were killed. John Smith, of Paradise, Ohio, is Number Four. He knows that he is next.

REVIEW: The 5th Wave (#1) - Rick Yancey

Title: The 5th Wave (#1)
Author: Rick Yancey
Series: The 5th Wave
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 457 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors? To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes until she meets Evan Walker.

Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.