Author: Crown of Midnight
Goodreads rating: 4.51
Pages: 420
Format: Final Copy BEA14
From the throne of glass
rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin
Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet
Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly;
she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.
Keeping up
the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes
she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the
mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships
suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the
Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her
best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.
Then
one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an
unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to
give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all
where her true loyalties lie...and whom she is ultimately willing to
fight for.
Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson
Goodreads rating: 3.40
Pages: 352
Format: Final Copy BEA14
From the author of THE
SUMMER PRINCE, a novel that's John Grisham's THE PELICAN BRIEF meets
Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN set at an elite Washington D.C.
prep school.
Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has
perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future.
But a chance meeting with Roosevelt David, a homeland security agent, at
a party for Washington DC's elite leads to Bird waking up in a
hospital, days later, with no memory of the end of the night.
Meanwhile,
the world has fallen apart: A deadly flu virus is sweeping the nation,
forcing quarantines, curfews, even martial law. And Roosevelt is certain
that Bird knows something. Something about the virus--something about
her parents' top secret scientific work--something she shouldn't know.
The
only one Bird can trust is Coffee, a quiet, outsider genius who deals
drugs to their classmates and is a firm believer in conspiracy theories.
And he believes in Bird. But as Bird and Coffee dig deeper into what
really happened that night, Bird finds that she might know more than she
remembers. And what she knows could unleash the biggest government
scandal in US history.
