synopsis.In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.Penryn drives through the streets …
Book Review | Collide
synopsis.This must be a dream after all. I pinch myself."Ouch."Why the hell aren't I waking up?After mysteriously waking up on a different planet, not knowing how she got there or even her name, K - as she becomes known - finds herself in a fascinating world much different to the one she can barely remember. …
Book Review | Firstlife
synopsis.ONE CHOICE.TWO REALMS.NO SECOND CHANCE.Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live—after she dies.There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: …
Book Review | The Purgatorium
synopsis.Seventeen year-old Daphne Janus is floored when her parents agree to let her accompany her best friend to a getaway resort on an island off the coast of California. She doesn't know her parents have sent her to the Purgatorium as a last-ditch effort to save their child.Her best friend and life-long neighbor takes her …
Book Review | A Child of Books
synopsis.I am a child of books.I come from a world of stories.A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy. She invites him to go away with her on an adventure into the world of stories... where, with only a little imaginaton, anything at all …
Book Review | The Graces
Title // The Graces (The Graces, Book 1)Author // Laure EvePublication Month // November, 2016Publisher // Allen & UnwinAustralian RRP // $19.99 AUDGenre // Young Adult, Magical Realism, Fantasysynopsis.Everyone said the Graces were witches.They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but …
Book Review | The BFG
synopsis.Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon …
Book Review | Ruined
synopsis.Hell is looking for a way to break loose…Jax lost the genetic lottery. Descended from Cain, the world's first murderer, he's plagued by a curse that demands violence in exchange for his happiness. He left everything behind, including the girl he loved, but thriving on the pain of others is lonely… And it's killing him.After …
Book Review | Threader
synopsis.Welcome to the Helios Academy: evolve or dieIt's the year 2050 and life is increasingly hard for 'non-citizens'. A slowly emerging young minority has been exposed as 'talents'; they harbour mutations that give them special gifts – super strength, regenerative powers, psychic gifts or the ability to sink through shadows and travel through time and …
Book Review | Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
synopsis.Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behaviour as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love. Bucket filling and dipping are effective metaphors for understanding the effects of our actions and words on the well being of others and ourselves.(Good Reads) my thoughts.Have You Filled a …
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