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Fifteen- year- old Meg Shanley knows two things: first, her older sister Lucie is the only family...
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Everealm (Everealm, #1)
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Breestlin cannot escape her destiny to become ruler of her father's kingdom, but she never planned...
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Gallant in Books
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Gallant
By V.E. Schwab
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Sixteen- year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father, and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, and her father by degrees, and her voice was a thing she never had to start with. She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she's never met, her father's older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty, save for the servants. Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don't go out after dusk, and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate's western edge. Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood…
At first I was unsure it took a few chapters for me to get comfortable with it but once I was I just didn’t want to put it down. I’m really liking the gothic horror feel at the minute and this was done so well. A 16 year old non verbal girl just looking for a home and family to call her own. Abandoned by her mother and brought up in an awful place to find she has a family with a dark history. Loved it!!!!
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was...
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It's 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been a student in London for two years, practicing at...
Summer 1993 (2017)
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In the Summer of 1993, Frida, a six-year-old little girl, leaves Barcelona and her grandparents for...
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Isabel Smith (34 KP) rated Wicked River: a novel in Books
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The story is told from the point of view of three different individuals: the newlywed Natalie, her ambitious niece Mia, and a primitive outdoorsman named Kurt. Natalie and her husband, Doug, experience a honeymoon from hell when their exciting backcountry trek through the beautiful, vast Adirondack Park in New York morphs into a sinister fight for survival. When her aunt Natalie and new uncle Doug are gone longer than expected, Mia notices right away and suspects something is amiss. She’s young, but she’s got good instincts because her aunt and uncle are indeed in grave danger – they face the triple threat of being lost in the treacherous wilderness, running out of food and water, and being hunted by the madman named Kurt who lives amongst the woods. Blood is shed, allegiances are tested, and the body count is on the rise as multiple missing persons investigations and an epic search and rescue operation are launched.
There is a little something for everyone in Wicked River. I loved everything about it. Jenny Milchman has a knack for using the right metaphor at the right time to create such vivid imagery it feels as if the reader is alongside the characters in the picturesque yet hazardous Adirondack region. This is the first novel I’ve read by her, but she is now on my radar and I will have to catch up on her other works as well as keep a lookout for upcoming projects.
Catacomb (Asylum, #3)
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The heart-stopping third book in the New York Times bestselling Asylum series follows three teens as...