Author: Lucy Saxon
Goodreads Rating: 3.38
Pages: 384
Catherine Hunter is the
daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She’s
one of the privileged – she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is
protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout
the land. But Catherine longs to escape the confines of her life, before
her dad can marry her off to a government brat and trap her forever.
So
Catherine becomes Cat, pretends to be a kid escaping the Collections,
and stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. As they leave Anglya behind
and brave the storms that fill the skies around the islands of Tellus,
Cat’s world becomes more turbulent than she could ever have imagined,
and dangerous secrets unravel her old life once and for all . . .
Author: Marissa Meyer
Goodreads rating: 4.31
Pages: 452
Format: Finished Copy
Cinder, the cyborg
mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling
Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison--even though if
she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive. Halfway
around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out
there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the
grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters
Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's
whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably
drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery,
they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay
one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything
for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her
prisoner.
Author: Stephen Baxter
Goodreads rating: 3.56
Pages: 536
Format: Final copy
Next year. Sea levels
begin to rise. The change is far more rapid than any climate change
predictions; metres a year. Within two years London, only 15 metres
above the sea, is drowned. New York follows, the Pope gives his last
adress from the Vatican, Mecca disappears beneaths the waves. Where is
all the water coming from? Scientists estimate that the earth was formed
with seas 30 times in volume their current levels. Most of that water
was burnt off by the sun but some was locked in the earth's mantle. For
the tip of Everest to disappear beneath the waters would require the
seas to triple their volume. That amount of water is still much less
than 1% of the earth's volume. And somehow it is being released. The
world is drowning. The biblical flood has returned. And the rate of
increase is building all the time. Mankind is on the run, heading for
high ground. Nuclear submarines prowl through clouds of corpses rising
from drowned cities, populations are decimated and finally the dreadful
truth is known. Before 50 years have passed there will be nowhere left
to run. FLOOD tells the story of mankind's final years on earth. The
stories of a small group of people caught up in the struggle to survive
are woven into a tale of unimaginable global disaster. And the hope
offered for a unlucky few by a second great ark.
Author: Marissa Meyer
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Pages: 390
Format: Final Copy
Humans and androids
crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the
population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make
their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder,
a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a
mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her
stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the
handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an
intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty
and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her
past in order to protect her world’s future.
Author: Rob Thurman
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Pages: 337
Format: Final copy
What makes us human?
What makes us unique? And what makes us kill? Ten years ago, Stefan
Korsak's younger brother was kidnapped. Now a rising figure in the
Russian mafia, Stefan has finally found Lukas. But Lukas is now a
trained, genetically-altered killer who his creators want back. Saving
Lukas may be easier than surviving him.
Author: Heather Anastasiu
Goodreads Rating: 4.55
Pages: 320
Format: E-ARC from Netgalley
Zoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe.
Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement. Together, Zoe and her new team of superhuman fighters must risk their lives to rescue other glitchers and humans from the Chancellor's control. Challenges abound at every turn, and Adrien, who has become silent, distant, and tormented by his visions of the future, only adds to the growing certainty of defeat. But worst of all, as Zoe's team fights against impossible odds, distrust and betrayal leads to the terrible discovery that their greatest threat could already be lurking behind the safe walls of the Foundation.
Full of high-adrenaline action and shocking twists, Heather Anastasiu's Override is an exciting continuation of this popular young adult trilogy.
Author: Jessica Khoury
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
My Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 400
Reviewed by: Nicole
Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.
Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin--a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.
Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost.
