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Review: The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings

Title: The Murder Complex Author: Lindsay Cummings Series: The Murder Complex #1 Rating: 4 Stars 398 pages Published June 10th 2014 by Greenwillow Books Review copy provided by the publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository The Murder Complex is a novel in the tradition of Divergent, which combines a bleak dystopian setting with constant […]

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Review: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Title: Shatter Me Author: Tahereh Mafi Series: Shatter Me #1 Rating: 3 Stars 338 pages Published November 15th 2011 by Harper Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Shatter Me elicits extreme feelings in my fellow reviewers. Some absolutely loved it, and others are disgusted by it. I personally take a more average position; I […]

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Review: The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian

Title: The Wicked We Have Done Author: Sarah Harian Series: Chaos Theory #1 Rating: 4 Stars 272 pages Published March 18th 2014 by InterMix Books Review copy provided by the publisher Goodreads | Amazon Scientists have developed a program that can determine whether a person is mortally corrupt. Inside the Compass Room, severe criminals are […]

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Short Reviews: Apocalyptic Fiction – Dan Wells & Jack London

Title: Isolation Author: Dan Wells Series: Partials Sequence #0.5 Rating: 4/5 Stars 75 pages Published August 28th 2012 by Balzer + Bray Bought Goodreads | Amazon Isolation is a novella set during the Isolation Wars, so before the happenings in Partials. I wouldn’t recommend reading Isolation as an actual intro into the Partials Sequence world; […]

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Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Title: Allegiant Author: Veronica Roth Series: Divergent #3 Rating: 2/5 Stars 526 pages Published October 22nd 2013 by Katherine Tegen Books Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Endings aside, I’m disappointed with Allegiant. This review might contain some spoilers with regard to the middle part, but none regarding the ending. To be honest I […]

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Sci-Fi Month: Recommendations

As part of Sci-Fi Month hosted by Rinn Reads I’m sharing a few science-fiction recommendations. Science-fiction is a very broad genre, but often reduced to “books with spaceships”. Sci-fi is a lot more than that though, as my recommendations will show. Like I did with my Stephen King recommendations during #SKweek, I’m going to give […]

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Short Reviews: For Darkness Shows the Stars #0.5-1.5 by Diana Peterfreund

Title: Among the Nameless Stars Author: Diana Peterfreund Series: For Darkness Shows the Stars #0.5 Rating: 5/5 Stars 60 pages Published June 4th 2012 by HarperCollins Bought (free) Goodreads | Amazon A novella set before For Darkness Shows the Stars, Among the Nameless Stars follows Kai after he runs away from the North estate. It […]

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Review: Partials by Dan Wells

Title: Partials Author: Dan Wells Series: Partials #1 Rating: 4/5 Stars 468 pages Published February 28th 2012 by Balzer + Bray Review copy received from publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository With world building reminding me of a YA version of Mira Grant’s Feed, Partials is a great addition to the post-apocalyptic and dystopian […]

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