Review #140 - Ms Marvel vol 2 - Various

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Title: Ms Marvel Vol 2

Author: Various

Publisher: Marvel

ISBN 13: 978-0785198369

Synopsis:

Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school Valentine's Day dance, but Ms. Marvel will crash it - in an attempt to capture Asgard's most annoying trickster, Loki! And when a mysterious, and really cute, stranger arrives in Jersey City, Ms. Marvel must deal with...a crush! Then, it's the moment you demanded, as Ms. Marvel meets her idol: Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan battle side by side! The Marvel Universe's last days have arrived, but Ms. Marvel has no time for silly things like armageddon - she's got to rescue her brother and keep her city from falling into chaos.

COLLECTING: MS. MARVEL (2014) #12-19, S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014) #2; AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2014) #7-8 (A stories)

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Review #139 - The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

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Title: The Explorer

Author: Katherine Rundell

Publisher: Bloomsbury

ISBN 13: 978-1408854877

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From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.

As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.

Except, it seems, someone has been there before them...

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Review #138 - This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada

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Title: This Cruel Design

Author: Emily Suvada

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN 13: 978-0141379289

Synopsis:

In bunkers and strongholds across the world, people are celebrating. There's a vaccine to the virus that has ravaged the planet for years.

But the celebrations won't last for long.

The vaccine isn't working. The virus is evolving. Catarina - genehacker, reluctant warrior - must find the one person who can help her. A man who is guilty of unimaginable crimes.

Time is ticking, she only has three days before shadowy gentech corporation Cartaxus will use lethal code to wipe out every person on the planet's surface.

Kill the hosts, kill the virus.

Forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts, Cat discovers that the biggest threat of all may be buried in her own mind.

The end of the world is approaching. Can she stop it? 

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Review #137 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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Title: Scythe

Author: Neal Shusterman

Publisher: Walker Books

ISBN 13: 978-1406379242

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In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do.

Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to glean the loser.

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Review #136 - Frostfire by Jamie Smith

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Title: Frostfire

Author: Jamie Smith

Publisher: Chicken House

ISBN 13: 978-1911077879

Synopsis:

Chosen for the honour of bonding with a frostsliver - a fragment of the sentient glacier that crests her icy home - Sabira embarks on the dangerous pilgrimage to the top of the mountain. But when a huge avalanche traps her on the glacier and destroys the pass, Sabira is determined to find another way home. In order to survive, she must face up to the merciless mountain - but there are dark and fiery secrets hiding in its depths ...

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Review #135 - The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth

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Title: The Light Between Worlds

Author: Laura Weymouth

Publisher: Chicken House

ISBN 13: 978-1911490036

Synopsis:

Six years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept from war-torn England and into a woodland fantasy kingdom. Now back in the real world, eldest sister Philippa is relieved, but Evelyn is grieving for the magical place she called home. When she goes missing, Philippa must confront the truth of what happened to them, and the lengths her little sister was willing to go for a chance to return to the kingdom of her heart ...

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November Wrap Up

So in November 2018 I managed to read a total of 12 books, .

In order of reading I completed Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell, Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend, A Storm of Ice and Stars by Lisa Lueddecke, Vengeful by VE Schwab, The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith, Soulbinder by Sebastien de Castell, The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth, Frostfire by Jamie Smith, Scythe by Neal Shusterman, This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada and The Explorer by Katherine Rundell.

 

 

Stats -  

Hardback = 2

Paperback = 6

Graphic Novel/Manga = 0

Audiobook = 4

Ebook = 0

 My 5 star reads were Tyrant's Throne, Soulbinder and Scythe. Tyrant's Throne was an incredible ending for this series and I absolutely adored it. Soulbinder was a re-read (this time I listened on audio) and I still adored it. Scythe, well this book just blew me away. I cannot believe I waited this long to read it and I am looking forward to reading the next book.

This month all of the books I read were worth reading, none of them were too disappointing at all.