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Title: Lock Down (Supernatural Prison #1)Author: Aella BlackEdition: KindleRating: 5/5 When Phoebe Atkinson survives a fire that should have killed her, she finds herself locked up in Leavenworth, a prison for teens with supernatural abilities. Some of the powers are deadly – super strength, werewolf shifting – while others are quirky – a girl who …
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Title: The Fourth Species (Tomorrow’s Ancestors #3)Author: AE WarrenEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 I’ve been waiting to read book three in this intriguing series, and I’m happy to say that I enjoyed coming back to the world created in the first two books. After a future climate disaster, humans have created a superior species using genetic engineering. …
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Title: Quarton: The Bridge (Quarton #1)Author: Ian HornettEdition: KindleRating: 4/5 A clever sci-fi novel with an intriguing premise, the first book in the Quarton series sets the scene for an enduring interplanetary and intergenerational conflict. On a dying planet, a group of scientists races to build a bridge across space. The plan is to escape …
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Title: On The Edge (Dwelling Hunter #1)Author: MJ GlennEdition: KindleRating: 4/5 Ebony Wick is a highwaywoman. She grew up in a cruel orphanage in the Dwellings, escaping to join the city’s street gangs at the age of ten. Now she lives alone in the forest, raiding carts and coaches for goods she can sell to …
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Title: Graduation Day (The Testing #3)Author: Joelle CharbonneauEdition: KindleRating: 4/5 I’m giving book three of the Testing Trilogy four stars instead of five, mostly because the ending felt rushed. I’ve enjoyed the series, and I wanted more from the final book – or even another sequel so the author could give extra time to tying …
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Title: Independent Study (The Testing #2)Author: Joelle CharbonneauEdition: KindleRating: 5/5 Book two of The Testing Trilogy sees Cia and the other survivors enrolled in the Early Studies programme, designed to prepare them for their final training. Based on their performance in the Early Studies exam, each student is admitted to one of the five university …
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Title: The TestingAuthor: Joelle CharbonneauEdition: KindleRating: 5/5 This book has everything you’d expect from a YA Dystopian novel, and it hits each beat perfectly. Teenagers taken from their homes to be tested for the next stage of their lives. Danger, manipulation, and cruelty at the hands of the authorities. A competition where success means a …
Title: SlayAuthor: Brittney MorrisEdition: PaperbackRating: 5/5 Seventeen-year-old Kiera has top grades, a great boyfriend – and Slay, a massively popular online game that she coded herself. While her friends and family know all about the grades, as well as her boyfriend and their plan to go to college together, no one in her real life …
Title: King of ScarsAuthor: Leigh BardugoEdition: PaperbackRating: 4/5 More Grishaverse! More Nikolai! More Zoya! More Nina! I was so excited to read another Grishaverse novel that I accidentally picked this one up before the sequel is available in paperback, and now I’m counting the days until its publication. The story picks up pace as the …
Title: The ForeversAuthor: Chris WhitakerEdition: AudiobookRating: 3/5 This is a UK-set high school novel with a difference – the world is probably ending, and the characters are living their lives against the clock. It’s a powerful idea, following a group of teenagers as they navigate an uncertain future in a world that is slowly falling …