Top 5 Wednesday - 7th March 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. 

March 7th March: Freebie

So since today's topic is a free for all I decided to go with my top 5 pre-orders of 2018 (I have not included Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton or The Invasion by Peadar O'Guilin as at the time of writing this I have already received them).

Review #28 - Poe Dameron vol 3 Legend Lost by Charles Soule

Details:

Title: Poe Dameron vol 3 Legend Lost

Author: Charles Soule

Publisher: Marvel

ISBN 13: 978-1302907426

Synopsis:

It's a sad day for Poe Dameron and the Resistance, as they mourn the loss of a fallen comrade. But their fight is far from over - the First Order must be stopped! And Captain Phasma knows just how to get Terex to toe the line.

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Review #27 - Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter

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Title: Vassa in the Night

Author: Sarah Porter

Publisher: Tor Teen

ISBN 13: 978-0765380548

Synopsis:

In Vassa's neighbourhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumbling out again could become an issue. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. So when Vassa's stepsister sends her out for light bulbs in the middle of night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mission. But Vassa has a bit of luck hidden in her pocket, a gift from her dead mother. Erg is a tough talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and a ferocious cunning. With Erg's help, Vassa just might be able to break the witch's curse and free her Brooklyn neighbourhood. But Babs won't be playing fair. Inspired by the Russian folktale "Vassilissa the Beautiful" and Sarah Porter's years of experience teaching creative writing to New York City students, Vassa in the Night weaves a dark yet hopeful tale about a young girl's search for home, love, and belonging.

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Review #26 - Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco

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Title: Hunting Prince Dracula

Author: Kerri Maniscalco

Publisher: Jimmy Patterson

ISBN 13: 978-0316551663

Synopsis:

Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine...and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend. 
But her life's dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school's forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.

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Review #25 - The Fandom by Anna Day

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Title: The Fandom

Author: Anna Day

Publisher: Chicken House

ISBN 13: 978-1910655672

Synopsis:

Violet and her friends love being part of the fandom for The Gallows Dance. But at Comic-Con, they’re somehow catapulted into the story itself – for real. Trapped in a twisted world where they’ve accidentally killed the original hero, Rose, there’s only one way to survive: Violet must fill Rose’s shoes and put the plot back on track. No story is worth dying for … is it?

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Review #24 - York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby

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Title: York: The Shadow Cipher

Author: Laura Ruby

Publisher: Walden Pond

ISBN 13: 978-0062306937

Synopsis:

It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before.

Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher—a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.

Tess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment—until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long held by the people of New York.

And if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.

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February Wrap Up and March TBR

So in February 2018 I managed to read a total of 14 books.

In order of reading I completed Furthermore by Teherah Mafi, Poe Dameron vol 2 by Charles Soule, The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson, Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone, Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell, Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst, Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend, Shadowblack by Sebastien de Castell, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card vol 2 by CLAMP, York by Laura Ruby, The Fandom by Anna Day, Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco, Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter and Poe Dameron vol 3 by Charles Soule.

  

  

  

 

Stats -  

Hardback = 5

Paperback = 4

Graphic Novel = 3

Audiobook = 2

2*'s = 1

3*'s = 1

4*'s= 3

4.5*'s= 5

5*'s= 4

14 books was definitely far more than I expected to read, I was hoping to read a good amount but didn't expect to match January.  My 5 star reads were Spellslinger, Shadowblack, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card vol 2 and Poe Dameron vol 3. Spellslinger and Shadowblack were re-reads but this time I listened to the audiobooks which were amazing. The most disappointing read for me this month was Vassa in the Night, this sounded really interesting but just ended up being weird. I didn't get what was happening a lot of the time and just found the whole thing lacked cohesion.

So in March I have quite a few busy weekends and I am on holiday for a week. So my hesitant TBR for March is as follows; Outalkers by Fiona Shaw, State of Sorrow by Melinda Salisbury,  Release by Patrick Ness and Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer.