I liked this book for the dystopian element, I disliked it for the silly teenaged angst (yes it is a YA book, I should have expected) I hated it in its treatment of rape ...the why didn't you fight them attitude....and befriending the rapist because boys gotta do what's necessary and he has learn...
Sooooo.... I dropped a star from the previous two books. This one just had too much graphic violence for me. I got pretty tired of the battle yuck! I absolutely HATED when a certain character, whose name I will not divulge for the sake of not spoiling the book, died! I was a little shocked by tha...
This is the third installment of the Razorland series. Deuce and Fade have left Sanctuary to find help from the approaching Horde of Freaks at other settlements. On there return they find Sanctuary is under full attack. After rescuing as many as possible, they bring their people to a new settleme...
3 1/2 I see why all the love. Nice heroine, human without uber powers, rare yes, but still purely human in her weaknesses. I am probably one of the few readers who's actually happy she's not going back to her ex. I wonder what went wrong along the 5 book series. Many friends have DNF it, some re...
Sirantha Jax is tasked with going to Ithtor to try to convince the insect-like race to ally with the Conglomerate against the Morgut, who are attacking Conglomerate outposts and murdering everyone. The Ithtorians have isolated themselves against everyone, but agreed to the visit by Jax and her p...
When I picked this up I didn't realize it was in the middle of a series, and then I was on an airplane so I was stuck with it.The story was fine, but somewhat abrupt without the history with the characters. I will say that it's a female lead (although I think the cover artist got her all wrong, ...
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the progress of Nadia and Ty's relationship, and Nadia just as a protagonist. She was smart and kind and not the least bit annoying, which is huge for a new adult protagonist. The writing was good. Def not Ann's best but not bad for new adult. This was what I r...
I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this book, as it's a bit out of my normal preferred genres--I don't read much straight-up science fiction at all.But, it showed up as a recommendation on amazon, and after reading the preview at GR, I decided to give it a shot.I was so glad I did. I rea...
Ann Aguirre never fails to amaze me with her ability to take me deep into the heart of the story. I swear that I feel everything her characters feel even if they aren’t the narrator of the story. Hell Fire is just another of Aguirre’s success stories. I loved Corine, Chance and Jesse from Blue Di...
This one really put me down. It gets one star because the head character is really annoying, and the ending to this suck, IMHO. I'm not going to continue reading this series, most of the time I try to finish series I start reading, but this one I just didn't like that much, and a lot of it is bec...
I enjoyed this enough to read it twice. The blend of natural and supernatural made it easy to accept the supernatural aspects of the story. The main character was easy to relate with. After reading this I read the next 3 books in the series in quick succession and was disappointed that I would ha...
Wow. This book definitely rivals the first one of this series. It is beautifully written with an amazing focus on politics without disregarding the consequences of it all to our main characters. The plot is creative, rich and so complex. More amazing was how our Jax managed to navigate such a min...
This is one of my favourite books of the series and in particular I loved the insight into Ithtorians as a culture and in particular to Vel as Jax's friend. I loved the way in which relationships grew, changed, were damaged and not easily repaired. I loved the continued reinforcement of the impor...
This is a pretty good book--urban fantasy isn't my favorite but I enjoy the discovery of magic that the main character goes through. I would label this a 3.75. I felt like even though the character is going through so much stuff she actually keeps her cool the whole time. I haven't read all the b...
Look, at least part of this is my own fault because I didn't realise this book was part of a series when I borrowed it from the library. So I had no idea who the characters were, what their history was, and what their motivations were. As much as it frustrates me when authors like Janet Evanovich...
"As Long As You Love Me" is an appealing and touching New Adult contemporary romance. The second book in author Ann Aguirre's "2B Trilogy" features irresistibly imperfect characters who face very real issues which will resonate with many readers. Lauren Barrett and her best friend, Nadia Conrad, ...
I didn't realize this was the third book in a series when i started it and I had know problem following along because everything in this book is centered around Max and Courtney.These two share an apartment ( though in seperaste bedrooms), and though there have been a few random makeout sessions ...
As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. But her fun's not over. A group of rog...
This can’t last, however. Once he has some bullets for his figurative gun, I’m going down. It’s only a matter of time before the peace I’ve won for Shane and Lila runs out. So now I have to decide what kind of person I am—the good girl I’ve been pretending to be or Shadow Sage, bad enough to ruin...
Now that’s service. Tons of people milled around outside, radiating an air of excitement. In the mob, I recognized Devon. Tapping him on the shoulder, I asked, “What’s up?” “Word is, Wade’s coming back today.” “Is he doing any better?” I had mixed feelings, considering how peaceful life had been ...
and Pru gave her a look. “You’re making that up,” she’d replied. “No, I’m serious. It’s a real thing. You think sex was good before, but when you’ve just agreed to be bonded, it’s wildly intense. You’ll find out for yourself.” Now, lying in bed with Dom, she wondered what her friend would say now...
I tightened the towel around me, conscious of how alone I was. The other girls had finished up and headed off to their next classes, leaving me in the locker room. Once, under these exact circumstances, I could’ve expected a truly heinous prank. Inside me there was still a frightened kid waiting ...
But then, she’s always alone. My least favorite part of the job is investigation and reconnaissance. And that’s saying a lot because there’s so much to hate. Since losing my free will, I count the days. Minutes. Hours. Seconds. I know precisely how long I’ve been serving them. There’s no way to b...
Seems like she has company. He continued to the common room, where a handful of men were snoring. A few were propped up on the tables; others had passed out underneath them. Between Ike’s wake and the celebratory revels, Queensland had been liquored up a lot lately. Cook w...
Dred slipped up behind them, picked up a scalpel and killed the patient while Jael broke the doctor’s neck. She sighed, staring at the bodies. If everyone had played their parts, that should be the last of them, apart from the pilot and jumper. In the hall, Tam and Martine...
For obvious reasons, they don’t require us to pass through the scanners. That would alert the system that Vel and I aren’t who we claim to be. So Tarn comes down to meet us, obviating the need for such measures. I follow him to their private lift; they have the entire top floor of the building, a...
I out-line the circumstances, and he inclines his head, making some notes on his handheld. “I will file the report, then.” So that’s it. Official news. I promised Mac on Perlas that I would look out for Evie—that I was saving her by taking her away. Hurt jabs my stomach in shrapnel shards, splint...
“There’re so many reasons why we shouldn’t—”“But we only need one why we should.” I’m smiling now, confident that I know where this is going.“And what’s that?”“Because we want to. Pick me up tomorrow night at eight. You know where I live.” He helped me move in, after all.“We can have dinner,” he ...
In the old days, that would’ve meant the Teflon crew had stuck something on my back or circulated a new rumor. This time it signified a different kind of attention, but it was no easier to bear—for different reasons. Kian probably knew how this felt, and maybe he’d wanted to caution me about this...
The others milled in various stages of boredom, until he needed Booke to pose for a picture. Then Stenton referred me to a local witch who could help us leave the country with our false passports.“How long will Booke’s cooked documents take?” I asked.He considered. “Ordinarily, a couple of days, ...
He downed his drink in one gulp, then escorted us back to the main room, where he returned to gathering up documents for the colonel. Eventually he presented us with a leather folio, similar to the one that housed my precious maps. The scientist wore a hard expression as he handed the papers over...