Review: Contender: The Challenger by Taran Matharu

  

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Title: Contender: The Challenger

Author: Taran Matharu

Publisher: Hodder Childrens Books

ISBN 13: 978-1444938999

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CADE CARTER HAS BEEN CHOSEN

In a realm of monsters and warriors, Cade is an unwilling contender in a deadly tournament controlled by the brutal alien overlord Abaddon.

Cade may have won the first round but the fight isn't over yet. For his next battle he must duel a seven-foot-tall, clawed monster - the reigning champion of an alien race.

LOSING WILL LEAD TO EARTH'S DESTRUCTION

Desperate for anything that may give him an advantage, Cade sets off on an expedition into the jungle to scavenge weaponry to help him win. But there he is captured by gladiators, and before he knows it he finds himself participating in a deadly new game where the prize is his freedom.

ROUND TWO IS ABOUT TO BEGIN ...

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Review: Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

 

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Title: Nick and Charlie

Author: Alice Oseman

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN 13: 978-0008389666

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Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they’re inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’ for God’s sake!

But as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough to survive being apart. Or are they delaying the inevitable? Because everyone knows that first loves rarely last forever…

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July 2020 Wrap Up

In the month of July I read 31 things and it was a fairly strong month with some new faves in there too.  

Review: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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Title: The Thursday Murder Club

Author: Richard Osman

Publisher: Viking (Release date 3rd September 2020)

ISBN 13: 978-0241425442

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In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

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Reading Rush 2020

I have belatedly decided I am going to take part in the Reading Rush  please follow the link for more details. 

This readathon last from Monday 20th July until Sunday 26th July.

Without further ado onto my TBR...

Review: Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

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Title: Cinderella is Dead

Author: Kalynn Bayron

Publisher: Bloomsbury YA

ISBN 13: 978-1526621979

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Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball … are forfeit.

But Sophia doesn't want to be chosen – she's in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. And when Sophia's night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding in Cinderella's tomb. And there she meets someone who will show her that she has the power to remake her world …

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Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag 2020

So up until the end of June 2020 I have read 125 books.

I have given 22 books 5 stars and 74 books 4/4.5 stars.

Without further ado onto the questions