My Life in Books

Title – Chain of Gold Series – The Last Hours #1 Author – Cassandra Clare How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 592 pages Publication Date – March 3rd 2020 by Walker Books ISBN – 9781406390766 My Rating – ★★★★★/5

“James Herondale longs for a great love, and thinks he has found it in the beautiful, mysterious Grace Blackthorn. Cordelia Carstairs is desperate to become a hero, save her family…

Review: Stargazing for Beginners by Jenny McLachlan

Title – Stargazing for Beginners Author – Jenny McLachlan How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 256 pages Publication Date – April 6th 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN – 9781408879757 My Rating – ★★★★/5

When Meg looks up at the stars, she sees adventure and escape. She sees her future. Meg’s dream is to become an astronaut.

But her life is thrown into chaos when her mother drops everything,…

Review: Truthers by Geoffrey Girard.

Title – Truthers Author – Geoffrey Girard How I Got It – From the publishers Pages – 360 pages Publication Date – August 1st 2017 by Carolrhoda Lab ISBN – 9781512427790 My Rating – ★★/5

“Katie Wallace has never given much thought to 9/11. She was only a year old when terrorists struck American soil. But now her dad has landed in a mental institution after claiming to know what really happened. He…

Review: All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth.

Title – All These Beautiful Strangers Author –Elizabeth Klehfoth How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 504 pages Publication Date – July 12th 2018 by Penguin ISBN – 9780241329498 My Rating – ★★★★/5

“Seventeen year old Charlie Calloway appears to have a life most people would kill for – a tight-knit family, a loyal set of friends and top grades at a prestigious boarding school. But when a…

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness.

Title – The Ask and the Answer Series – Chaos Walking trilogy #2 Author – Patrick Ness How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 528 pages Publication Date – February 1st 2018 by Walker Books – 10th anniversary edition ISBN – 9781406379174 My Rating – ★★★★/5

Viola and Todd have reached Haven but it wasn’t the haven they were expecting it to be. Now they’ve been separated from each other. Todd is…

Ringer by Lauren Oliver.

Title – Ringer Series – Replica #2 Author – Lauren James How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 528 pages Publication Date – October 10th 2017 by Hodder & Stoughton ISBN – 9781473615052 My Rating – ★★★★/5

Outside the Haven Institute, Lyra and Caelum are struggling to fit in. Lyra was infected with a horrible disease and her symptoms are getting worse. One day Caelum leaves with no warning and…

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.

Title – The Poet X Author – Elizabeth Acevedo How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 361 pages Publication Date – March 8th 2018 by Hardie Grant Egmont ISBN – 9781405291460 My Rating – ★★★★★/5

Xiomara has secrets. She has a crush on a guy in her biology class. A notebook full of poems that she hides under her bed. A slam poetry club that pulls her secrets out in the open.

In a world where she…

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Title – The Knife of Never Letting Go Series – Chaos Walking trilogy #1 Author – Patrick Ness How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 496 pages Publication Date – February 1st 2018 by Walker Books – 10th anniversary edition ISBN – 9781406379167 My Rating – ★★★★/5

Prentisstown is unlike any other town. That’s because you can hear everyone’s thoughts in a never-ending Noise. There are no secrets…

Review: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken.

Title – The Darkest Minds Series – The Darkest Minds #1 Author – Alexandra Bracken How I Got It – From the publishers Pages – 576 pages Publication Date – April 23rd 2018 by HarperCollins ISBN – 9781460755594 My Rating – ★★★/5

On Ruby’s tenth birthday, she woke up changed. Something happened that made her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to a brutal…

Go Girl by Barbara Else.

Title – Go Girl Author – Barbara Else How I Got It – From the publishers Pages – 210 pages Publication Date – April 1st 2018 by Puffin ISBN – 9780143771609 RRP – $45.00 My Rating – ★★★★/5

“Go Girl is a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. 

They strove for their goals. They weren’t afraid to step up or speak out. They blazed a trail for others to…

Review: The Radical Element by Jessica Spotswood.

Title – The Radical Element Series – A Tyranny of Petticoats #2 Author – Jessica Spotswood How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 320 pages Publication Date – March 13th 2018 by Candlewick Press ISBN – 9780763694258 My Rating – ★★★★/5

“Twelve of the most talented writers working in YA literature today have created a century and a half of heroines on the margins and in the intersections, young…

Review – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend.

Title – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Series – Nevermoor #1 Author – Jessica Townsend How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 480 pages Publication Date – October 31st 2017 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN – 9780316439954 My Rating – ★★★★/5

Morrigan was born on Eventide – the unluckiest day for any child to be born – and has been blamed for every local misfortune all her…

Review: This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada.

Title – This Mortal Coil Series – This Mortal Coil #1 Author – Emily Suvada How I Got It – From the publishers Pages – 464 pages Publication Date – November 2nd 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN – 9780141379272 RRP – $23.00 My Rating – ★★★★/5

When Cole turns up with news of Lachlan Agatta’s death, hope seems lost for Catarina. Her dad was the leading geneticist and humanity’s best hope of finding a…

Review: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold.

Title – Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold Series – Kitty Hawk and the Flying Detective Agency #1 Author – Iain Reading How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 262 pages Publication Date – December 3rd 2012 by Amazon Digital Services My Rating – ★★★★★/5

“Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold is the thrilling first installment in a new series of adventure mystery stories that are…

Review: Scythe by Neal Shusterman.

Title – Scythe Series – Arc of a Scythe #1 Author – Neal Shusterman How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 48 pages Publication Date – February 1st 2018 by Walker Book ISBN – 781406379242 My Rating – ★★★★/5

“In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been…

Review: Deception by Teri Terry.

Title – Deception Series – Dark Matter #2 Author – Teri Terry How I Got It – From the publisher Pages – 416 pages Publication Date – February 8th 2018 by Orchard Books ISBN – 9781408341742 My Rating – ★★★★/5

The epidemic is spreading and there’s still no cure. Only 5% of the people infected have survived. But the survivors are apparently dangerous and they’re being hunted.

Kai is desperate to…

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty.

Title – The City of Brass Series – The Daevabad trilogy #1 Author –  S.A. Chakraborty How I Got It – From the pubblishers Pages – 544 pages Publication Date – January 22nd 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers ISBN – 9780008239404 My Rating – ★★★/5

Eighteenth century Cairo. The cities outcasts make a living swindling the rich Ottoman nobles and foreign invaders.

Their old stories still linger – tales…