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Villains Never Die by Nick DeWolf

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Villains Never Die

Author: Nick DeWolf
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

It started when the warehouse exploded. But not really. The moment when Japan was nearly destroyed. But not quite. When the world’s greatest heroes came together to fight the Triad of Evil, it began. But still, no. The moment Doctor Dendrite became the world’s most feared man.

Almost there.

History is coming to a head. The military is moving in the shadows. Evil, thought to be long gone, reemerges, while plans made decades ago are set in motion. The world is crumbling, and at the center of a hurricane of chaos are three people who will change everything.

An old villain.
A new hero.
And a wayward girl.
One’s been planning. The other’s been training. And the third?
She’s in way, way over her head.

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Review

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Big thanks to the author for giving me a free ebook in exchange for a review.

Was this a horrible book? No. Was this a good book? Also, no. 

It’s the kind of book you can’t quite give your opinion on. But I’ll try because I do want to properly review this book.

The three different POV were useful for the story but it was often confusing who’s part you were reading because everyone sounded the same to me. There wasn’t a difference between the supervillain, the ‘normal’ girl, and the Latina agent/soldier.

Agent Garcia spoke a lot of Spanish and the translation was never given. This confused the hell out of me, because I don’t speak Spanish. Her bilingual nature also felt forced which was too bad.

Every character was quite bland. The story had potential but it just didn’t work for me. Maybe superhero stories aren’t my thing, I wouldn’t know, this is the first superhero book I’ve read. I do love superhero movies though…

Thanks again to Nick DeWolf for giving me a free copy of his book. I always feel so bad when I read a book given for free to me by the author and then end up not liking it, but I am always honest so there you have it. Villains never die gets 2.5 stars from me.

Dreamer Babble | Adult Books for YA Readers

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Adult books with YA appeal!

There’s nothing that drives me batty quite like artificial boundaries! Whenever I hear, “I only read YA,” or equally, “I would never read YA,” I stare in complete disbelief. There are so many stories that bring excitement, introspection, or perspective across all the target age brackets. If you yourself find that you never read Adult fiction, maybe you want to give some of these fantastic stories a try.

Here are the Dream Read Repeat picks for Adult fiction with appeal to a YA reader.

The Nightrunner Series

By Lynn Flewelling
Picked by: Fox

The first book in the series is Luck in the Shadows.

Why would a YA reader like this book?

Epic adventures, thievery, spies, magic, chosen families + LGBT+ rep (the first few books were written in the 90s).

What YA books or authors are similar?

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard, perhaps The Six of Crows (but I have not read it so I can’t confirm for sure), Isle of Blood Stone, Rook by Shannon Cameron

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Swordspoint

By Ellen Kushner
Picked by: Fox

Why would a YA reader like this book?

High fantasy, a fantasy novel of manners that reminds me at times a lot of The Three Musketeers (for some reason), LGBT+ rep (also written in the 80s).

What YA books or authors are similar?

The Three Musketeers (Although it’s not YA), Isle of Blood Stone. It is fantasy of manners but few YA fantasy books fit the bill.

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Shades of Magic trilogy

By V.E. Schwab
Picked by: Marlou

Why would a YA reader like this book?

It’s filled with magic and has a sassy and grumpy character working together, which is basically the perfect combination.

What YA books or authors are similar?

Leigh Bardugo and Jay Kirstoff

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Nevernight

By Jay Kristoff
Picked by: Marlou

Why would a YA reader like this Book?

It has a badass female with a seriously troubled past who shows you’re still awesome despite it.

What YA books or authors are similar?

There’s nothing quite like Nevernight tbh….

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Dragon Teeth

By Michael Crichton
Picked by: Inopinion

Why would a YA reader like this book?

An 18 yo, entitled college boy has to grow up in perilous circumstances. Set in 1870’s just as Custer is defeated by the Sioux and when Deadwood was at it’s most violent, this story touches on the violence without diving deep into it. Brings the west alive through the perspective of the young protagonist.

And yes, this is the same author that brought us Jurassic Park, but it’s definitely not Science Fiction.

What YA books or authors are similar?

Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman, Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

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The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archives)

By Brandon Sanderson
Picked by: Inopinion

Why would a YA reader like this book?

Several characters that are younger – 17-22 who are coming into their own during a protracted war. Accessible fantasy with strong female characters, characters with disability, and good moral messages.

What YA books or authors are similar?

Fantasy writers like Susan Dennard, Victoria Schwab, and Sanderson, himself, who wrote the Mistborn series and The Rithmatist.

Fans of Laini Taylor and her books Strange the Dreamer and Muse of Nightmares will also likely enjoy this slightly more mature character set.

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Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

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Girls of Paper and Fire

Author: Natasha Ngan
Series: Girls of Paper and Fire, # 1
Reviewer: Marlou

Content Warnings

Sexual abuse, violence, rape

Summary

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It’s the highest honor they could hope for…and the most cruel.

But this year, there’s a ninth girl. And instead of paper, she’s made of fire.

In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her. Now, the guards are back, and this time it’s Lei they’re after–the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king’s interest.

Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king’s consort. But Lei isn’t content to watch her fate consume her. Instead, she does the unthinkable–she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens the very foundation of Ikhara, and Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide just how far she’s willing to go for justice and revenge.

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Review

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Girls of Paper and Fire was such an intense, and oftentimes brutal, read. This isn’t a book that you can say you loved, this is a book that has opened your eyes. This story isn’t meant to be easy or pretty. It shows truths about our world, even in a total fantasy world. This book is an #ownvoices title.  Ngan has suffered and now shares her story, and that of many others, in this compelling and dark read. 

This book has a female/female romance and boy did Ngan write it beautifully. It didn’t feel forced like some same sex romances have felt to me. No, Wren and Lei are two amazing woman who find comfort in each others arms like any other couple in any other book does. Wren can be turned male and still none of the conversations they had would be different. Now, that is amazing storytelling.

Some parts of this book were very slow, others very fast. The ending felt a little rushed, but maybe Ngan did that so she has an opening for flashbacks in her second book. I wish she had fleshed it out though. I feel like I’m missing a very important piece. I remember checking the page numbers to make sure that my copy didn’t just miss a couple pages.  It didn’t. 

All in all, a very interesting read and I will definitely read the second book when it comes out.

Thank you Fairyloot for including this book in your box, I don’t think I would have read it otherwise.

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The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

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The Beautiful

Author: Renée Ahdieh
Series: The Beautiful #1
Reviewer: Marlou

Content Warnings

Violence

Summary

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s leader, the enigmatic Sébastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sébastien’s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.

When more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose—one Celine is sure has set her in his sights . . . and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. As the murders continue to go unsolved, Celine takes matters into her own hands and soon uncovers something even more shocking: an age-old feud from the darkest creatures of the underworld reveals a truth about Celine she always suspected simmered just beneath the surface.

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Review

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

This book was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I so badly wanted to like this book, but alas, I did not. Three stars is me being generous. This book really was not for me. Look, I love vampires, so when this book was said to include them and the location was New Orleans, I squealed in delight. But it was not meant to be.

Supernaturals: the supernatural world is not explained. At all. The creatures that live in this other-world are not mentioned clearly. There is just no world-building at all. I do not know anything and I have truly read every word of this book.

Writing style: I could not get used to the way this book was written. The author used too many details, too many descriptions and way too few actual plot points. The entire story doesn’t feel done, it feels as though parts of this story were not included in the novel.

Characters: although the characters were all vastly different, I still found them boring, flat and uninteresting. Even the beautiful devil himself, Bastien. I did not feel close to anyone, did not mourn any deaths nor was outraged at people getting hurt. I just did not have a connection with anyone.

Language: this book has a lot of French in it. If you don’t know any French then that is seriously taking some nuances of the book away. I speak a little French so I could understand enough of it to make sense of the sentences. The important lines are translated, but the subtle little things are not which, if you don’t speak French, can be of great annoyance because you won’t quite get what they’re saying.

Murder mystery: this book is supposed to be about some kind of murder mystery. It did not feel that mysterious to me as the reader can read into the thoughts of the killer. The bodies are all mauled by some rabid animal which is clearly a vampire attack and the immortals in the story know that. They probably also knew exactly who the murderer was this whole time or at least its motive. Nothing felt mysterious to me, it was just several murders…

I’m just very disappointed by this book. I can see the potential. I can see why some will like it. I just didn’t. It’s not the book for me. Three stars is all it is getting and I’m truly feeling generous giving it that rating.

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

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The Raven King

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #4
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love’s death. She doesn’t believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore

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Review

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn’t want it to be over.”

I did not want this story to end and yet I wanted badly to know how it ends. I think we all know that feeling…

The Raven King was a very interesting read. It often had me smiling like crazy or just plainly laugh out loud:

“The kitchen window groaned open, and Jimi shouted out, “Blue! Your boys are out front, looking like they’re fixing to bury a body.”
Again? Blue thought.”

There were some really nice and cute Ronan and Blue moments:

“No homework. I got suspended,” Blue replied.
“Get the fuck out,” Ronan said, but with admiration. “Sargent, you asshole.”

There was Ronan being Ronan:

“Are you going to lock your shitbox?”
Adam said, “No point. Hooligans got in anyway.”
The hooligan in question smiled thinly.”

Sometimes it got a little confusing because so many people were mentioned:

“Depending on where you began the story, it was about…”

And then suddenly there was Henry. Good, funny Henry:

“Look at this,” Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. “I have discovered that, at some point, this side door was broken into by a teenage Korean vandal.”

“Make way, make way, make way for the Raven King.”

And that was that. The book has ended. The series is done. My heart has been stolen by these lovely Raven Boys and this one spectacular girl. Don’t mind me, I’m just gonna cry in a corner somewhere.

And that’s the last review of The Raven Cycle! All 4 books! But wait! A new trilogy spinning off of the original four is coming! Starting with Call Down the Hawk on November 5th!!

See Marlou’s reviews starting with The Raven Boys, (book 1) in this series!

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Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

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Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #3
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. 

The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.

Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.

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Review

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.”

No one would want a normal friendship when you could have Gansey, Ronan and Adam. I mean, duh. Who wouldn’t want their own set of lovely Raven Boys? Sign me up.

I loved this book so much. The second book was a bit slow paced, but this book more than made up for that. There were a lot of things happening at once, and yet, I could follow everything perfectly fine. Maggie Stiefvater, you are a magician with words.

There were some lovely, heartwarming scenes in this book. I do think this one is my favorite:

“In the hall stood Richard Campbell Gansey III in his school uniform and overcoat and scarf and gloves, looking like someone from another world. Behind him was Ronan Lynch, his damn tie knotted right for once and his shirt tucked in.

Humiliation and joy warred furiously inside Adam.

Gansey strode between the pews as Adam’s father stared at him. He went directly to the bench, straight up to the judge. Now that he stood directly beside Adam, not looking at him, Adam could see that he was a little out of breath. Ronan, behind him, was as well. They had run.

For him.”

Welcome to the new class; How to break my heart, repair it and then warm it completely 101.

I can’t really say anything more without spoiling the entire book, so I’ll just mention, again, how much I loved this book. I REALLY LOVED THIS BOOK.

Stay tuned for more reviews of The Raven Cycle as we approach the release of Call Down the Hawk on November 5th!

See Marlou’s reviews starting with The Raven Boys, (book 1) in this series!

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The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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The Dream Thieves

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #2
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after…

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Review

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”

Same, girl, same. I didn’t like this one as much as the first one, I don’t exactly know why though. I do know that I despised Kavinsky. I don’t like Adam in this book and he already wasn’t one of my favorites to begin with. Somehow everyone seemed a little more annoying in this book but that could just be me.

Then why give it 4 stars just like The Raven Boys? Because Maggie’s writing deserves a solid 4 stars. Her world building is magnificent. Her characters are immensely diverse. The bromance is real. God, I love good male friendships without feeling like they’re gay.

Oh wait, one is definitely gay though. I want to keep this review as spoiler free as possible so I hid the names in this quote. You can decide if you want to know the names, just google it and I’m sure the internet will tell you!

“Don’t say (NAME), man. Do not say it. He is never going to be with you. And don’t tell me you don’t swing that way, man. I’m in your head.”

“That’s not what (NAME) is to me,” (NAME) said.

“You didn’t say you don’t swing that way.”

(NAME) was silent. Thunder growled under his feet. “No, I didn’t.”

This book was a bit long for my taste. There wasn’t necessarily much happening and the things that did happen weren’t that impressive. I also didn’t quite get the things that were going on with Adam and that confused me from time to time. I did like it that we got to see more of Ronan and that we got to know more about his strange ability. It’s still a 4 star read for me because it was well-written, the characters are amazing, and the world is just awesome. And I just love them all so much.

Stay tuned for more reviews of The Raven Cycle as we approach the release of Call Down the Hawk on November 5th!

See Marlou’s review for The Raven Boys, book 1 in this series!

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The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

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The Raven Boys

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #1
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

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Review

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”

And look for things he did. Gansey’s obsession is amazing. Stiefvater wrote it in a way that he doesn’t seem like a madman yet he’s still completely obsessed. With Gansey it’s more like he finally found something that money can’t buy.

Let’s talk about the friendships in this book. Can I have a tight group of friends like that please? They’re all different, they all have issues and they could have been enemies; instead they’re friends and kinda scare the crap out of people. The friendship was real strong at the beginning of the book, NOT.
“Did you get notes for me?”
“No”, Ronan replied,”I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
And yet I still want a friend like Ronan Lynch… Something is either epically wrong with me or totally right. I don’t wanna know which one it is.

My favorite Raven Boy is Gansey, Ronan is a solid second. I don’t like Adam… Noah is alright. As for the ladies at 300 Fox Way, I love them all. Blue is so lovely and eccentric and doesn’t take shit from anyone.

Why not give this book 4.5 or 5 stars? I really like this book, but that’s just it: I like it, not love it. I love different worlds and magical characters, so yeah basically Epic Fantasy. The Raven Boys is more Urban Fantasy, which I totally like but I doubt Urban Fantasy and the like will ever be any of my favorite books.

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
And then the questions that have been bugging me. Is this epic foreshadowing? Are both things gonna happen because Blue kisses him and then he dies? Are Blue and Gansey gonna end up together? Does this series have a happy ending?
Btw, I don’t want to know the answers to these questions, I wanna find out for myself.

Stay tuned for more reviews of The Raven Cycle as we approach the release of Call Down the Hawk on November 5th!

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The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan

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The Serpent’s Shadow

Author: Rick Riordan
Series: The Kane Chronicles #3
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

He’s b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can’t seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. Unfortunately, the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink of civil war, the gods are divided, and the young initiates of Brooklyn House stand almost alone against the forces of chaos. The Kanes’ only hope is an ancient spell that might turn the serpent’s own shadow into a weapon, but the magic has been lost for a millennia. To find the answer they need, the Kanes must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician who might be able to lead them to the serpent’s shadow . . . or might lead them to their deaths in the depths of the underworld. Nothing less than the mortal world is at stake when the Kane family fulfills its destiny in this thrilling conclusion to the Kane Chronicles.

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Review

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

“If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday.I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots, tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.”

What a book. Lovely. Tragic. Suspenseful. Funny. Need I go on?

Rick Riordan did it again. I was getting stuck in a reading slump and his books helped me right out of that.

Rick would not be Rick if there weren’t very funny moments when they’re in very serious situations.

Exhibit A:“‘There’s my baby!’ I cried, quite carried away. ‘There’s my Poochiekins!’

Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout.
‘My lord Osiris!’ Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. ‘This is an outrage!’

‘Sadie,’ Dad said firmly, ‘please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.’”

Uncle Rick also gives some very nice advice from time to time. “Dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.” I mean, good to know right?

There was one thing in the book, just a small little thing, that got me thinking for a bit: “‘And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?’ I asked.
Walt gave me a sad look. ‘Then that’s what they experience.’”

Just saying, but this makes total sense to me. People are always saying there can only exist one god/religion but that’s crap. I’m not saying god/gods exist the way Riordan writes it, but I do think that all the gods can coexist or that all the religions are just different stories about the same divine being(s). Alright, I’ll shut up about this now.

This book was lovely. It was a great book and it made for a great end to the trilogy. I think my favorite book was the first one (The Red Pyramid), because the story was all new and I liked Set better as the villain.

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Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman

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Aurora Rising

Author: Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
Series: Aurora Rising #1
Reviewer: Marlou

Summary

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…

  • A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
  • A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
  • A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
  • An alien warrior with anger management issues
  • A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

They’re not the heroes we deserve. They’re just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.

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Review

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

HOLY MOLY I HAVE NO WORDS

I’ll try to put my thoughts into words without writing asdfghjkl…

Story: it’s interesting enough. Lots of little pieces of info given, but nothing major revealed until the very end. It’s a solid scifi story but not necessarily anything majorly impressive.

Multiple POV: I thought this was going to bother me, but it didn’t. It was very clear in whose POV you were reading even if you forgot to look at the big ass name above the beginning of the chapter.

Characters: OMG everyone is so fun to read about. Banter is amazing, sass activated, sarcasm is definitely Kristoff-worthy and they all started caring about each other in the end. LOVE IT. I do just generally love a good story about misfits.

Why 4 stars? I didn’t LOVE this book. The story is interesting and I want to know more. The ending has left me in a state of utter despair. BUT I feel like there’s too much info left out. The romance between Kal and Aurora is okay, but I find it unnecessary. There was just a lot of build up and then it didn’t feel like a OH WOW SHIT OKAY SO THAT’S WHAT’S BEEN GOING ON… It was more a Oh is that it? I was expecting something grander.

Turns out I have plenty of words for ya 😂 I definitely recommend this book, but maybe read it when you have the whole series in hand. I’m not okay with waiting Maker knows how long for the next book. I’m so curious about what they’re gonna do with the story.

Solid 4 stars for the squad full of misfits and a book filled with sarcasm and banter.