REVIEW: Our Animal Hearts by Dania Tomlinson

Genre: Historical Fiction

Publisher: Anchor Canada

ISBN: 0385689853

Format: Paperback, E-Book

Release Date: 29th May 2018


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Rating: 7/10


Synopsis:

Deep in British Columbia, at the turn of the 20th century, lies Winteridge: a small village perched on an enormous lake made famous by the monster said to haunt its depths.

Twelve-year-old Iris Sparks lives in Winteridge with her brother; her working-class Welsh mother, Llewelyna; and her blue-blooded father from England, a progressive bohemian who has brought his family to Canada for an adventure.

REVIEW: The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland

Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Publisher: Penguin Teen

ISBN: 0670067024

Format: Hardback

Release Date: 1st May 2018


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Website


Rating: 8/10


Synopsis:


For Napoleon's stepdaughter, nothing is simple -- especially love.

Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother's dashing fellow officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming mother, Josephine, has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by Hortense as a coarse, unworthy successor to her elegant father, who was guillotined during the Terror.

REVIEW: Heart of Thorns by Bree Barton

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

ISBN: 006244770X

Format: Hardback, Paperback, E-Book

Release Date: 31st July 2018


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Rating: 8/10


Synopsis:

In the ancient river kingdom, touch is a battlefield, bodies the instruments of war. Seventeen-year-old Mia Rose has pledged her life to hunting Gwyrach: women who can manipulate flesh, bones, breath, and blood.

Not women. Demons. The same demons who killed her mother without a single scratch.

REVIEW: The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult

Publisher: Viking Books

ISBN:  0425290212 

Format: Hardback, Paperback, E-Book, 

Audio-Book

Release Date: 1st May 2018

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B&N, Book Depository

Website, Twitter

Rating: 9/10

Synopsis:

A shrewd princess whose father is plotting against her. A brave soldier turned traitor. A loyal servant on a quest to avenge his family. A streetwise demon smoke hunter in desperate need of money. A charming thief with no clue about his true identity. 

REVIEW: The Silver Six by C.A Gray

Genre: Sci-fi, Young Adult

Publisher: Wanderlust Publishing

ASIN: B07BRYZ353

Format: Paperback, E-book

Release Date: 15th May 2018


Links: Goodreads, Amazon.com

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Rating: 8/10


Synopsis:

Rebecca Cordeaux’s entire world has been turned upside down. In a single day, she’s learned that Senate Leader Halpert and his Board of Advisors are actually illegal humanoid robots created underground twenty years ago—and they tried to have her killed. Her mother Karen, whom she always believed to be passionately against the cause of the Renegades, turns out to be their leader.

REVIEW: Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

ISBN: 0062438778

Format: Hardback, Paperback, E-Book

Release Date: 31st July 2018



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B&N, Book Depository

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Rating: 8/10


Synopsis:

Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. A freak. A curse. A witch.

A girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn’t so powerless after all. And, as the two girls catch the eyes—and hearts—of two charming princes, Evie believes that she might finally have a chance at her own happily ever after.

But her new friend has secrets of her own...

REVIEW: The Amateurs by Liz Harmer

Genre: Science Fiction

Publisher: Knopf Canada

ISBN: 0345811240

Format: Hardback, Paperback, E-book
Audio-book

Release Date: 21st March 2018


Links: Goodreads, Amazon.com, Indigo

Website, Twitter


Rating: 6/10


Synopsis:

PINA, the largest tech company in the world, introduces a product called port. These ports offer space-time travel powered by nostalgia and desire. Want to go back to when your relationship was blossoming? To when your kids were small, or when your parents met? To Elizabethan England? To 1990s Seattle? Easy. Step inside the port with a destination in mind, and you will be transported. But there is a catch: it's possible that you cannot come back. And the ports are incredibly seductive, drawing in those with weaker wills...

UNBOXING: Japan Crate, April 2018

I'm really excited to share with you my first unboxing of Japan Crate!

I've wanted to get my hands on one of these boxes for the longest opportunity 

and I finally took the plunge for April's box. I have to say it was worth every penny.

So let's jump right into what was included in April's box...