Tag: science fiction

— ARC review, book review, young adult —

The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte (ARC Review)

April 12, 2020

Seventeen-year-old Tempe was born into a world of water. When the Great Waves destroyed her planet, its people had to learn to survive living on the water, but the ruins of the cities below still called. Tempe dives daily, scavenging the ruins of a bygone era, searching for anything of value to trade for Notes. It isn’t food or clothing that she wants to buy, but her dead sister’s life. For a price, the research facility on the island of Palindromena will revive the dearly departed for twenty-four hours… Read More The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte (ARC Review)

— calendar girls —

Calendar Girls (April 2020): National Library Week: Favorite Book You Discovered At The Library

April 6, 2020

Welcome to my April 2020 Calendar Girls Books post! And for those of you who missed it, there have been some updates made to this blog event. You can read all about the updates here. Additionally, Adrienne @ Darque Dreamer Reads has resumed co-hosting Calendar Girls Books alongside myself and Dani @ Mousai Books! The… Read More Calendar Girls (April 2020): National Library Week: Favorite Book You Discovered At The Library

— book review, young adult —

The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Review)

March 9, 2020

When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen…but he is in fact something much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and deeper into a world she’d only heard about, a world where everything she thought she knew will be turned on its head… Read More The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Review)

— ARC review, book review, young adult —

Cold Falling White by Gabrielle S. Prendergast (ARC Review)

February 16, 2020

Two teens fight for their lives after an alien invasion in this heart-stopping follow-up to Zero Repeat Forever. Humans. Clones. Aliens. No one is safe anymore. It’s the end of the world. Xander Liu survived the alien invasion—just barely. For more than a year, he has outsmarted, hidden from, and otherwise avoided the ruthless intruders, the Nahx, dodging the deadly darts that have claimed so many… Read More Cold Falling White by Gabrielle S. Prendergast (ARC Review)

— Adult, book review —

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Review)

February 12, 2020

The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as necromantic skeletons. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy… Read More Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Review)

— book review, comic/graphic novel, young adult —

Topside by J.N. Monk & Harry Bogosian (Review)

November 23, 2019

When Jo, a headstrong maintenance technician, makes an error that destabilizes her planet’s core, she only knows one way to fix things: leaving her underground home for a trip to the planet’s dangerous, unruly surface. Soon she’s wandering through deserts, riding on the backs of giant beasts, and cutting deals with con artists and bounty hunters. Meanwhile, agents of the core are in hot pursuit. J. N. Monk and Harry Bogosian (co-creators of the web-comic StarHammer) present a wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way… Read More Topside by J.N. Monk & Harry Bogosian (Review)

— ARC review, book review, young adult —

Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (ARC Review)

May 3, 2019

I’ve been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I’ve always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. Now I’m done hiding. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start.When Ari crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the newest reincarnation of King Arthur… Read More Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (ARC Review)

— book birthdays —

Book Birthdays: March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019

Here are the books (on my radar) that are celebrating their Book Birthdays today (a.k.a. books that are being published in Canada today)! Happiest of Book Birthdays to all of these lovely new releases! I’m excited and honoured to be sharing a Birthday with them!

— ARC review, book review, young adult —

No One Here Is Lonely by Sarah Everett (ARC Review)

March 10, 2019

Our entire lives are online, but what if the boy you love actually lives there? For fans of Adam Silvera comes a story about the future of relationships.Eden has always had two loves: her best friend, Lacey, and her crush, Will. And then, almost simultaneously, she loses them both. Will to a car accident and Lacey to the inevitable growing up and growing apart… Read More No One Here Is Lonely by Sarah Everett (ARC Review)