Review #24 - Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh

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Title: Flame in the Mist

Author: Renee Ahdieh

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

ISBN 13: 978-1473664425

Synopsis:

Mariko has always known that being a woman means she's not in control of her own fate. But Mariko is the daughter of a prominent samurai and a cunning alchemist in her own right, and she refuses to be ignored. When she is ambushed by a group of bandits known as the Black Clan enroute to a political marriage to Minamoto Raiden - the emperor's son - Mariko realises she has two choices: she can wait to be rescued... or she can take matters into her own hands, hunt down the clan and find the person who wants her dead.

Disguising herself as a peasant boy, Mariko infiltrates the Black Clan's hideout and befriends their leader, the rebel ronin Ranmaru, and his second-in-command, Okami. Ranmaru and Okami warm to Mariko, impressed by her intellect and ingenuity. But as Mariko gets closer to the Black Clan, she uncovers a dark history of secrets that will force her to question everything she's ever known.

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Review #23 - The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr

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Title: The One Memory of Flora Banks

Author: Emily Barr

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN 13: 978-0141368511

Synopsis:

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO TO TRUST WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN TRUST YOURSELF?

I look at my hands. One of them says FLORA BE BRAVE.

Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is.

Then she kisses someone she shouldn't, and the next day she remembers it. It's the first time she's remembered anything since she was ten.

But the boy is gone. She thinks he's moved to the Arctic.

Will following him be the key to unlocking her memory? Who can she trust?

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Review #22 - Gemina by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman

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Title: Gemina

Author: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Publisher: Rock the Boat

ISBN 13: 978-1780749815

Synopsis:

Hanna Donnelly is the station captain’s pampered daughter and Nik Malikov is the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. Together they struggle with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, blissfully unaware that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall with news of the Kerenza invasion

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Review #21 - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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Title: Strange the Dreamer

Author: Laini Taylor

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN 13: 978-1444788983

Synopsis:

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around - and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?

The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries - including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?

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Whimsify April 2017 Unboxing

So this post is the unboxing of the April 2017 Whimsify box (What follows will contain spoilers so please do not read if you don't want to know what is in the box)

Whimsify is a monthly subscription box for lovers of young adult fantasy and sci-fi books which contains a new release as well as 4-6 high quality bookish items that go with the theme.

The theme for the month of April was More than Machine (Spoiler filled post under the cut)

April 2017 Unboxing - May the odds be ever in your favour by Bookworm candles & crafts

So this post is going to be an unboxing of the April 2017 Bookworm candles and craft box (What follows will contain spoilers so please do not read if you don't want to know what is in the box)

Bookworm candles and craft box is a monthly subscription box which contains 6-8 bookish related items always including a candle, soap or body product and other surprise items all pertaining to the theme.

The theme for the month of April was May the odds be ever in your favour. (Spoiler filled post under the cut)

Book Box Club Unboxing

In this post I am going to be unboxing the April 2017 Book Box Club box. (What follows will contain spoilers so please do not read if you don't want to know what is in the box)

Book Box Club is a monthly book subscription box. Each month you receive a specially selected YA book release and 2-4 hand picked goodies which fit in with the theme. Book Box Club also hosts a members only online book club where subscribers get a chance to chat to each other as well as the author about the book.

The theme this month was Belles and Beasts. (Spoiler filled post under the cut)