Review: Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

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Title: Chasing the Shadows

Author: Maria V. Snyder

Publisher: Maria V Snyder

ISBN 13: 978-1946381040

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Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as the murdering looters, know.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills. I can manipulate the Q-net like never before. But the looters have blocked us from communicating with the rest of the galaxy and now they believe we've gone silent, like Planet Xinji (where silent really means dead).A Protector Class spaceship is coming to our rescue, but we still have to survive almost two years until they arrive - if they arrive at all. Until then, we have to figure out how to stop an unstoppable alien threat. And it's only a matter of time before the looters learn I'm not dead and returns to finish what they started.There's no way I'm going to let the looters win. Instead I'll do whatever it takes to save the people I love. But even I'm running out of ideas...

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Review: Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

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Title: Navigating the Stars

Author: Maria V. Snyder

Publisher: Maria V Snyder

ISBN 13: 978-1946381019

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"The answer is no, Lyra,” my mother utters her favorite—I swear—phrase.No means I have to travel with them to another planet—again.No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein."

Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can’t truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible—with one big caveat: the time dilation. But that never stopped Lyra's ancestors from exploring the Milky Way, searching for resources and exoplanets to colonize. What they didn’t expect to find is life-sized terracotta Warriors buried on twenty-one different exoplanets.... Make that twenty-two. As the Galaxy’s leading experts on the Warriors, Lyra's parents are thrilled by the new discovery, sending them—and her—fifty years into the future. Her social life in ruins, she fills her lonely days by illegally worming into the Q-net. The only person close to her age is the annoyingly irresistible security officer who threatens to throw her into the brig.After the planet they just left goes silent—meaning no communications from them at all—security has bigger problems to deal with than Lyra, especially when vital data files go missing. But that's just the beginning, because they’re not as alone as they thought on their new planet... and suddenly time isn't the only thing working against them.

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Review: Frostheart by Jamie Littler

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Title: Frostheart

Author: Jamie Littler

Publisher: Puffin

ISBN 13: 978-0241355220

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Way out in the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea.

There, a boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them... and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu.

But life is about to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash.

When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his family . . . ?

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Review: The Toll by Neal Shusterman

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Title: The Toll

Author: Neal Shusterman

Publisher: Walker Books

ISBN 13: 978-1406385670

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It's been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver.

In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.

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Faecrate Capturing the Devil Unboxing

In this post I am going to be unboxing the Faecrate Capturing the Devil box. (What follows will contain spoilers so please do not read if you don't want to know what is in the box)

The theme for this box was all dedicated to the Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalco.
Spoiler filled post under the cut

Review: Dead Spaces by Katherine Arden

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Title: Dead Voices

Author: Katherine Arden

Publisher: GP Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

ISBN 13: 978-0525515050

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Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent Smiling Man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire. Ollie, Coco, and Brian are determined to make the best of it, but odd things keep happening. Coco is convinced she has seen a ghost, and Ollie is having nightmares about frostbitten girls. Then Mr. Faland, a mysterious reporter and ghost hunter, arrives in the midst of the storm. Ollie, Coco, and Brian want to trust him, but Ollie's watch, which helped save them from the Smiling Man before, has a new cautionary message: BEWARE. With Mr. Faland's help, Ollie, Coco, and Brian reach out to the dead voices at Mount Hemlock who may need their help - but not all ghosts can or should be trusted.

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October 2019 Wrap Up

In October 2019 I managed to read a total of 13 books.

I didn't get as much read as I wanted to but overall I read a lot of good books so I was pleased. Much better than how I felt last month.