Review #75 - The X Files: Earth Children are Weird by Kim Smith

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Title: The X Files: Earth Children are Weird

Author: Kim Smith

Publisher: Quirk Books

ISBN 13:  978-1683690276

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In The X Files: Earth Children Are Weird, best pals Dana (Scully) and Fox (Mulder) have pitched a tent in the backyard for a sleepover. But the night is full of strange sounds, lights, and shadows. Surely there’s a rational, scientific explanation for everything . . . or is there?

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Review #74 - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

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Title: The Knife of Never Letting Go

Author: Patrick Ness

Publisher: Walker Books

ISBN 13:  978-1406357981

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Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...

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Review #73 - Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

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Title: Alanna: The First Adventure

Author: Tamora Pierce

Publisher: Simon Pulse

ISBN 13:  978-0689878559

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In a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors, Alanna of Trebond wants nothing more than to be a knight of the realm of Tortall. So she finds a way to switch places with her twin brother, Thom. Disguised as a boy, Alanna begins her training as a page at the palace of King Roald. But the road to knighthood, as she discovers, is not an easy one. Alanna must master weapons, combat, and magic, as well as polite behavior, her temper, and even her own heart.

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October Wrap Up and November TBR

So in October 2017 I managed to read a total of 8 books.

In order of reading I completed Nevernight by Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff, Because you love to hate me by Various, Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett, This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake.

 

I really enjoyed This Mortal Coil and am looking forward to getting the finished copy as I read an arc from Netgalley. I enjoyed Even the Darkest Stars a lot and it has been one of the best buddy reads I have done this year I think. Once I stopped reading the footnotes I enjoyed Nevernight and Godsgrave a lot though the ending of Godsgrave has me antsy for the next book. Most disappointing read in a long time was A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars which really missed the mark for me.

So in November I don't have too much of a busy month planned so I am hoping to get some good reading done. So my as always somewhat provisional TBR for November is as follows; The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Alanna the First Adventure and In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce, A Shiver of Snow and Sky by Lisa Lueddecke, The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden and Golden Son by Pierce Brown.

Review #72 - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

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Title: Three Dark Crowns

Author: Kendare Blake

Publisher: Macmillan

ISBN 13:  978-1509804559

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In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomach-ache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of beasts.

But becoming the Queen Crowned isn't solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it's not just a game of win or lose . . . it's life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins.

The last queen standing gets the crown.

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Review #71 - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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Title: The Bear and the Nightingale

Author: Katherine Arden

Publisher: Del Ray

ISBN 13:  978-1785031052

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In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to the children of the family, tales of old magic frowned upon by the church.

But for the young, wild Vasya these are far more than just stories. She alone can see the house spirits that guard her home, and sense the growing forces of dark magic in the woods... 

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Review #70 - A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe

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Title: A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars

Author: Yaba Badoe

Publisher: Zephyr

ISBN 13:  978-1786697981

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Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying refugees. Her people.

Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them:

A bamboo flute. A golden band. A ripening mango which must not fall . . . if Sante is to tell their story and her own.

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