Owlcrate Unboxing December 2019

In this post I am going to be unboxing the December 2019 Owlcrate. (What follows will contain spoilers so please do not read if you don't want to know what is in the box)

Owlcrate is a monthly book subscription box from the USA. Each month you receive a brand new young adult novel and 3-5 bookish items along with exclusive goodies from the author.

The theme this month was Tales of Trickery (Spoiler filled post under the cut)

Bookmas - Top 5 Duology's

Bookmas - Top 5 Duology's

December TBR

Generally unless I am taking part in a readathon I don't tend to set TBR's but below is a selection of books I am hoping to read by the end of 2019.

November 2019 Wrap Up

In November 2019 I managed to read a total of 20 books.

I read far more this month than I expected to which I think was in part thanks to the Beliveathon which I read 11 books for. And it was a pretty good reading month for me. Let's hope December is just as good.

Review: The Conspiracy of Magic by Harriet Whitethorn

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Title: The Conspiracy of Magic

Author: Harriet Whitehorn

Publisher: Stripes Publishing

ISBN 13: 978-1788950367

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In a world where magic is so powerful it has been outlawed, Cass is a rare creature ­– an obtuse, someone who is unaffected by magic. But what has always felt like a handicap becomes a strength when sorcerers and magicians begin to perform magical deceptions with malicious intent. The Queen of Minaris is in grave danger and it’s up to Cass to protect her. But how can Cass defeat the sinister magician behind it all with no powers herself?

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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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