Review: The Almost Girl

The Almost Girl
Author: Amalie Howard  

Publication Date: January 7th 2014 by  

~A copy was provided by Strange Chemistry, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.~    

 

 

Seventeen-year-old Riven is as tough as they come. Coming from a world ravaged by a devastating android war, she has to be. There’s no room for softness, no room for emotion, no room for mistakes. A Legion General, she is the right hand of the young Prince of Neospes, a parallel universe to Earth. In Neospes, she has everything: rank, responsibility and respect. But when Prince Cale sends her away to find his long-lost brother, Caden, who has been spirited back to modern day Earth, Riven finds herself in uncharted territory.

Thrown out of her comfort zone but with the mindset of a soldier, Riven has to learn how to be a girl in a realm that is the opposite of what she knows. Riven isn’t prepared for the beauty of a world that is unlike her own in so many ways. Nor is she prepared to feel something more than indifference for the very target she seeks. Caden is nothing like Cale, but he makes something in her come alive, igniting a spark deep down that goes against every cell in her body. For the first time in her life, Riven isn’t sure about her purpose, about her calling. Torn between duty and desire, she must decide whether Caden is simply a target or whether he is something more.

Faced with hideous reanimated Vector soldiers from her own world with agendas of their own, as well as an unexpected reunion with a sister who despises her, it is a race against time to bring Caden back to Neospes. But things aren’t always as they seem, and Riven will have to search for truth. Family betrayals and royal coups are only the tip of the iceberg. Will Riven be able to find the strength to defy her very nature? Or will she become the monstrous soldier she was designed to be? 

 

 

Firstly, look at the pretty cover! Pretty and appropriate to the book. *clap*

What drew me to the book was the infinite possibilities of parallel universes, seriously, I love it. And with infinite possibilities brings so many different versions that is completely fascinating and for most of it The Almost Girl didn't fail. It was completely badass.

Review: Cracked

Cracked
Author: Eliza Crewe

Publication Date: November 5th 2013

Source: An advanced copy was provided by  Strange Chemistry in exchange  for an honest review.

Well, technically, she eats their soul. But she totally promises to only go for people who deserve it. She’s special. It’s not her fault she enjoys it. She can’t help being a bad guy. Besides, what else can she do? Her mother was killed and it’s not like there are any other “soul-eaters” around to show her how to be different. That is, until the three men in suits show up.

They can do what she can do. They’re like her. Meda might finally have a chance to figure out what she is. The problem? They kind of want to kill her. Before they get the chance Meda is rescued by crusaders, members of an elite group dedicated to wiping out Meda’s kind. This is her chance! Play along with the “good guys” and she’ll finally figure out what, exactly, her ‘kind’ is.

Be careful what you wish for. Playing capture the flag with her mortal enemies, babysitting a teenage boy with a hero complex, and trying to keep one step ahead of a too-clever girl are bad enough. But the Hunger is gaining on her.

The more she learns, the worse it gets. And when Meda uncovers a shocking secret about her mother, her past, and her destiny… she may finally give into it.

Stuck in an asylum for the past two weeks, what Meda's anticipated since then has finally arrived, and as her mother used to say, she's hangry. To live and to survive, Meda must eat a living soul, it's messy and bloody, but she's equipped and enjoys it. She makes it a point, on her mother's wishes, that she only kills bad people. Which, brings us back to the slimy asylum, in which she admitted herself to get closer to the target of a girl ghosts' murder.

She doesn't like the tables being turned.

Stacking the Shelves (#17) & Recap

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How's everyone's week been?

Guess what time it is in my street? Christmas! Not even kidding, some people are already putting decorations up and everything. We still have Guy Fawkes night to get through first, bad street!


For Review

(Bracelet of Bones, Heartbeat, Witchstruck)
Thanks to Quercus, Harlequin Teen and Edelweiss.
(The Almost Girl)
Thanks to Strange Chemistry and Netgalley.

Bought

The Moth in the Mirror by A.G. Howard

 What did you get this week? Hope everyone had a fun Halloween! :)

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Mind Games by Kiersten White
• Teaser Tuesday from The Murmurings by Carly Anne West
• Waiting on Wednesday: Killer Instinct by Shannon Greenland
• Friday I reviewed Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone
  Feature & Follow (#5)

 

This week I have read:

• All That Glows by Ryan Graudin 
• The Murmurings by Carly Anne West
• The Moth in the Mirror by A.G. Howard