Review: Pawn

Pawn
Author: Aimee Carter

Publication Date: November 26th 2013        

~A copy was provided by Harlequin Teen via Netgalley.~

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YOU CAN BE A VII IF YOU GIVE EVERYTHING.

For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country.

If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked - surgically transformed into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be adored. And for the first time, she will matter.

There's only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that Lila secretly fostered, the same one that got her killed, and one Kitty believes in. Faced with threats, conspiracies and a life that's not her own, she must decide which path to choose and learn how to become more than a pawn in a twisted game she's only beginning to understand.
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This is my second Aimee Carter book, I've only read The Goddess Test, and haven't finished the rest of the series yet. As soon as I heard about it though, I knew I had to read it, and It awesome.

The atmosphere is palpable, the bad characters are deliciously twisted and evil,  the good are strong, and likeable.  You hate the characters you're supposed to. You're suspicious of characters you're supposed to be suspicious of. Even the ones you may like.

Review: The Forgotten

The Forgotten
Author: Saruuh Kelsey

Publication Date: July 30th 2013 (first published June 20th 2013)    

~A copy was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.~



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Good and goodness will prevail.

Honour and Horatia Frie are twins living in a world of wreck and ruin.

Forgotten London is a dismal place of containment, rationing, and a four-family-per-house regulation. Twenty five years ago the world was set ablaze when solar flares obliterated three quarters of the Earth’s population and wiped out whole continents in one blow. The flares brought with them The Sixteen Strains: agonizing and fatal diseases that plague each of the forty one zones of Forgotten London and the rest of the world. The only places that escaped fatal damage were two countries now known as The Cities – States and Bharat. The rest of the world – The Forgotten Lands – is contained within borders for the people’s protection against even deadlier Strains outside the barrier. But fifteen year old Honour thinks differently. He thinks that they’re kept inside the fence for other, more menacing reasons. He thinks that States are planning to kill them.

Branwell and Bennet Ravel are twins living in a world of danger and secrecy.

In Victorian London, years before the solar flares hit, the Ravels’ world has just been turned upside down. Their father, poisoned by something even genius Branwell can’t determine, has passed away. His dying words were unnerving orders to keep each other safe no matter the cost, and to hide everything he has ever invented. When one of his creations goes missing – a device named The Lux that can generate unlimited energy – the twins are shocked to discover that their very own government has stolen it and, according to their father’s journals, are planning to use it to create unfathomable explosions to destroy their world.

The Ravel twins will have to find and reclaim The Lux if they are to stop their world’s planned destruction, but when they’re transported to an unfamiliar, derelict world, the search for the device will become harder than ever. Honour and Horatia, against all odds, will have to find a way to stop States before the remainder of Earth is eradicated and their world is lost for good, or somehow get every single citizen of Forgotten London outside of the fence.
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The Forgotten was one I was really looking forward to reading because it has such an interesting concept. You'd think it has the basic YA dystopian setup, the same that every other one has when it comes to a drastically changed world, how things work, how things are abysmal and gritty, but  that's where the likeliness stops. It has way more than that. There was a lot of build-up to the end and which way it would go, and it was a little touch and go, which made me scared of a possible, one of my favourite character's kill off, but, the relief!

Waiting on Wednesday (#24)

 "Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases.

 

Followers by Anna Davies

Expected publication: June 24th 2014 by Point

 

 

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To tweet or not to tweet . . . what a deadly question.

When Briana loses out on a starring role in the school's production of Hamlet, she reluctantly agrees to be the drama department's "social media director" and starts tweeting half-hearted updates. She barely has any followers, so when someone hacks her twitter account, Briana can't muster the energy to stop it. After all, tweets like "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark . . . and a body's rotting in the theatre" are obviously a joke.

But then a body IS discovered in the theatre: Briana's rival. Suddenly, what seemed like a prank turns deadly serious. To everyone's horror, the grisly tweets continue . . . and the body count starts to rise.There's no other explanation; someone is live-tweeting murders on campus.

With the school in chaos and the police unable to find the culprit, it's up to Briana to unmask the psycho-tweeter before the carnage reaches Shakespearian proportions . . . or she becomes the next victim...
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It told me to do it.

 

What're you waiting on? :)

Teaser Tuesday (22)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

 

 

 

Title: Perfect Lies

Author: Kiersten White

Release date: February 18th 2014               

Publisher:  HarperTeen
Page: 1

 

 

 

Annie and Fia are ready to fight back.The sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation for years, trapped in a never ending battle for survival. Now they have found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death, Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation. And Fia is working with James Keane to bring his father down from the inside.

But Annie's visions of the future can't show her who to trust in the present. And though James is Fia's first love, Fia knows he's hiding something. The sisters can rely only on each other - but that may not be enough to save them.

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 "If I were Annie, I'd know whether this was a real future. All I Know it it's the only one I want, the thing that keeps me going. I will make that future happen."

 

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Since I'm in the process of starting a new one, I thought I'd use one of the last ones I read, so hello Perfect Lies.
What're you reading?

 

EARC Review: Fake ID

Fake ID
Author: Lamar Giles

Publication Date: January 21st 2014          

~A huge thank you to Harper Collins, and Edelweiss, who provided a copy in exchange for an honest review.~



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Nick Pearson is hiding in plain sight. In fact, his name isn't really Nick Pearson. He shouldn't tell you his real name, his real hometown, or why his family just moved to Stepton, Virginia. And he definitely shouldn't tell you about his friend Eli Cruz and the major conspiracy Eli was uncovering when he died. About how Nick had to choose between solving Eli's murder with his hot sister, Reya, and "staying low-key" like the Program said to do.

But he's going to tell you—unless he gets caught first.

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I didn't expect to like Fake ID as much as I did, it's not the type I see that often in YA, being about murder and the Witness Protection workings, I was sold.

The way it was written was realistic, and addictive. It kept you on the edge little by little while secrets were uncovered and revealed. It's fast paced, with shrouded with mystery. 

Stacking the Shelves (#23) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Ahh, I've had quite a good week, apart from being ill. I had some nice surprises in the mail, and a pre-order came in, but they're unfortunately going to be left until next week because I currently have this awesome thing called food poisoning. Yeah joy. Anyway... readings been a little slow.

 

 For review:

 

 

 

 

 

( The Lost Boys, Anything to Have You,Camelot Burning and Always Emily

 

Thanks to Random House, Harlequin Teen, Flux and Chronicle Books.

I'm really looking forward to Camelot Burning.
What did you get this week? :)

 

 

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Witch Finder by Ruth Warburton 
• Teaser Tuesday from Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson
• Waiting on Wednesday: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
• Friday I reviewed No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale
•  Feature & Follow (#9)  

This week I have read:

 
• The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine    (kind of)
• Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson