What has Germanic legends, Norse gods and aliens all wrapped up in a post-apocalyptic world? Wotan’s Dilemma by Hank Quense that’s what! This is a short story (about 100 pages long) in Hank’s Strange Worlds series. It is a very easy and fun read. (Might just have to check out some more of Hank’s work.) [… read more]
Terra Vonnel and the Skulls of Aries by D.C. Akers This book has smart young women that fight with swords, pirates, vampires and time travel and that’s just in the first five pages! While this book is designated as a YA book I thinkit is a nice easy read for any age. Book Description from [… read more]
Mila 2.0 Debra Driza This review also appears at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2013/02/mila-20-by-debra-driza.html Rating: D+ Release Date: 03/12/13 Synopsis: Mila 2.0 is the first book in an electrifying sci-fi thriller series about a teenage girl who discovers that she is an experiment in artificial intelligence. Mila was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was [… read more]
Ruby Red Kerstin Gier Grade: A+ This review can also be found at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2012/01/ruby-red-by-kerstin-gier.html Description from goodreads.com: Gwyneth Shepherd’s sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now [… read more]
What’s Left of Me Kat Zhang Rating: C- Synopsis: What’s Left of Me tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl fighting for her right to survive in a world where two souls are born into each body and one is doomed to disappear. Pitched as The Golden Compass meets Girl, Interrupted. Eva and Addie started out the same [… read more]
Pivot Point Kasie West Rating A+ This review can also be found at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2013/01/pivot-point-by-kasie-west.html Synopsis: Knowing the outcome doesn’t always make a choice easier . . . Addison Coleman’s life is one big “What if?” As a Searcher, whenever Addie is faced with a choice, she can look into the future and see both outcomes. [… read more]
Unraveling Elizabeth Norris Rating: A+ This review can also be found at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2012/03/unraveling-by-elizabeth-norris.html Synopsis from goodreads.com: Two days before the start of her junior year, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed—as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she’s [… read more]
Skies of Steel Zoe Archer Rating: B This review can also be found at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2012/10/skies-of-steel-by-zoe-archer.html Synopsis: In the world of The Ether Chronicles, the Mechanical War rages on, and appearances are almost always deceiving . . . The prim professor Daphne Carlisle may be a scholar, but she’s far more comfortable out in the field than [… read more]
Timepiece Myra McEntire Rating: C- This review can also be found at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2012/05/timepiece-by-myra-mcentire.html Synopsis from goodreads.com: A threat from the past could destroy the future. And the clock is ticking… Kaleb Ballard’s relentless flirting is interrupted when Jack Landers, the man who tried to murder his father, timeslips in and attacks before disappearing just as quickly. [… read more]
Hourglass Myra McEntire Rating: A+ This review can also be found at http://falln2books.blogspot.com/2012/01/hourglass-by-myra-mcentire.html Description from goodreads.com: One hour to rewrite the past . . . For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her [… read more]