Tag: Young Adult

Review: The Return by Kelly St. Clare

The Return (The After Trilogy #2) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 4 stars Genre: Dystopian Blurb: Three months ago, Romy emerged from the cultivation tanks after a year floating inside. Body intact. Mind broken. Memory gone. Now she undergoes regular testing as doctors work to find out … well, she’s not exactly sure what. The tests must have something to do with the reason she can’t remember her knot—the single lucid memory the other insane soldiers on Orbito Four still possess. Whatever the researchers are searching for, if it aids the soldiers in the deathly war against the lethal alien […]

Posted July 20, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Dystopia, Review / 18 Comments

Review: Starflight by Melissa Landers

Starflight (Starflight #1) by Melissa Landers Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Blurb: Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She’s so desperate to reach the realm that she’s willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. When […]

Posted July 10, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Review, Sci-Fi / 20 Comments

Review: The Retreat by Kelly St. Clare

The Retreat (The After Trilogy #1) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 4 stars Genre: Dystopian/ sci-fi Blurb: Keepers of Earth. One hundred and fifty years ago, global warming brought humankind to the edge of extinction. In a desperate bid for survival, four thousand genetically enhanced soldiers–the last slice of humanity–were sent to eight space stations. To serve. To protect. Then the Critamal arrived, uninvited. Waves of aliens now work to break through the Orbitos’ defences, the black-shelled creatures seeking to colonise the vacated and barren world. War is their reality. All Romy can do is fight alongside her knot and […]

Posted July 5, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Dystopia, Review, Sci-Fi / 18 Comments

Review: Fantasy of Flight by Kelly St. Clare

Fantasy of Flight (The Tainted Accords #2) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 5 stars Genre: Fantasy Blurb: Fantasy of Flight is the second action-packed title in The Tainted Accords. My veil is gone and I need it back. *************************************************************************** Stuck in the lethal Outer Rings of Glacium, I must fight to survive while keeping my true identity the gravest of secrets. Only then can I continue the search for Prince Kedrick’s murderer and navigate my way back to King Jovan’s castle. No one can discover I’m the Tatuma of Osolis – the princess of their enemy world. . . especially […]

Posted June 28, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Paper Cranes by Jordan Ford

Paper Cranes (a Fairytale Twist novel) by Jordan Ford Rating: 3 stars Genre: Fairytale Retelling/ Contemporary Romance Blurb: Tristan Parker is lost. After living through his parent’s bitter divorce, Tristan surprises everyone when he decides to uproot his life and move across the country with his dad. Disenchanted, Tristan deals with his pain by shutting out the world… until one day, when trying to retrieve a lost baseball, he climbs a tower and meets a girl. Helena Thompson is like no one Tristan has ever encountered. She’s quirky, weird, and lives in an imaginary world—her only way of coping with […]

Posted June 23, 2017 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 8 Comments

Review: Fantasy of Frost by Kelly St. Clare

Fantasy of Frost (The Tainted Accords #1) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy Blurb: I know many things. What I am capable of, what I will change, what I will become. But there is one thing I will never know… The veil I’ve worn from birth carries with it a terrible loneliness; a suppression I cannot imagine ever being free of. Some things never change… My mother will always hate me. Her court will always shun me. …Until they do. When the peace delegation arrives from the savage world of Glacium, my life is shoved wildly out […]

Posted June 14, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 14 Comments

Review: Renegade by Dale Ivan Smith

Renegade (Empowered #0.5) by Dale Ivan Smith Rating: 3 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Superhero Blurb: Out of billions of people, a handful possess superpowers. Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to listen to and control plant life. For now, her being Empowered is a secret, but she will face a stark choice when the world learns about her new ability: either put on the blue jumpsuit and become a member of the Hero Council and follow any and all orders, or forswear ever using her power for any reason. Mat refuses both choices, and instead goes underground, […]

Posted April 22, 2017 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 10 Comments