Review #6 - The Power by Naomi Alderman

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Title: The Power

Author: Naomi Alderman

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN 13: 978-0670919963

Synopsis:

All over the world women are discovering they have the power.
With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death.
Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control.

The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end?

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Review #5 - Artemis by Andy Weir

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Title: Artemis

Author: Andy Weir

Publisher: Del Rey

ISBN 13: 978-0091956943

Synopsis:

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto the moon. But it’s not enough.

So when she’s offered the chance to make a lot of money she jumps at it. But though planning a crime in 1/6th gravity may be more fun, it’s a lot more dangerous…

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Review #4 - Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

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Title: Beneath the Sugar Sky

Author: Seanan McGuire

Publisher: Tor.com

ISBN 13: 978-0765393586

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When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can't let Reality get in the way of her quest - not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)

If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn't have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests...

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Top 5 Wednesday - 10th January 2018

Top 5 Wednesday!

Top Five Wednesday was created by Laineyand is currently hosted by Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. There is more information at the goodreads group. 

January 10th: Books You Didn't Get to In 2017 
--These are books you didn't end up getting to in 2017, but really want to prioritize in 2018. 

So for todays topic I am going to list my top 5 books I want to read this year which I didn't read last year.

1. Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst. I was really excited for this when it came out and for some reason just didn't pick it up to read. I want to rectify that in 2018.

2. Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows. I've heard mixed reviews of this book but I have the arc as well as the finished copy so I really want to give it a go and see what I think. 

3. Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray. I have had this since it was released and still not picked it up. Claudia Gray is my favourite Star Wars writer and I really want to read this to see how I like it.

4. Our Dark Duet by VE Schwab. I admit I was saving this one as once this is done I don't have any other Schwab books to read but I really should finish the duology this year.

5. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas. Admittedly I put this off until I got my physical copy in November at a Sarah J Maas event in London but I really do not have any enthusiasm for it. I need to get it read before the last book in the series comes out this September though.

Review #3 - Batman: Nightwalker by Maries Lu

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Title: Batman: Nightwalker

Author: Marie Lu

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN 13: 978-0141386829

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Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal's getaway - disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase. 
Sentenced to community service in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city's most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorizing Gotham City.
She's a mystery Bruce has to unravel but can he trust her? The Nightwalkers target the rich, and Bruce's name is next on their list.

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Review #2 - An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

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Title: An Enchantment of Ravens

Author: Margaret Rogerson

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

ISBN 13: 978-1481497589

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A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts--even as she falls in love with a faerie prince--in this gorgeous debut novel.

Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost him his life.

Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt's ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love--and that love violates the fair folks' ruthless laws. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.

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Review #1 - The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

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Title: The Magic Misfits

Author: Neil Patrick Harris

Publisher: Little Brown Books

ISBN 13: 978-0316391825

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When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends and magic in a sleepy New England town. But like any good trick, things change instantly as greedy B.B. Bosso and his crew of crooked carnies arrive to steal anything and everything they can get their sticky fingers on. 
After a fateful encounter with the local purveyor of illusion, Dante Vernon, Carter teams up with five other like-minded kids. Together, using both teamwork and magic, they'll set out to save the town of Mineral Wells from Bosso's villainous clutches.

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