TITLE: Aurora Rising AUTHORS: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff GENRE: Sci-fi AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else […]
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TITLE: LIFEL1K3 AUTHOR: Jay Kristoff SERIES: Lifelike, #1 RELEASES: May 29th, 2018; Knopf Books for Young Readers GENRE: Sci-fi/Dystopian AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: On a floating junkyard beneath a radiation sky, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months […]
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TITLE: Nevernight AUTHOR: Jay Kristoff SERIES: The Nevernight Chronicle, #1 RELEASED: August 9th, 2016; Thomas Dunne Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely […]
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TITLE: Obsidio AUTHOR: Kristoff, Jay; Kaufman, Amie RELEASED: March 13th, 2018; Knopf Books for Young Readers GENRE: Sci-fi AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources […]
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This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Read In 2017! I specifically opted not to pick any debut authors – these are just authors that were published pre-2017, but I didn’t check out until January 1st or later. NOTE: If any of these dates […]
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This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is Ten Characters Who Would Make Great Leaders! I like to change the challenge up a little sometimes, so I decided to name ten fictional characters who I would like to learn a thing or two from (and what those […]
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I originally was going to focus this week’s post specifically on fantasy and sci-fi books, but I realized that it left me with no excuse not to pick multiple titles from the same series (looking at you, ACOTAR and The Lunar Chronicles!). Instead, I thought I’d just give you guys a rundown of my ten favorite reads of the year so far – any genre! I limited myself to one title per series, which is why you won’t see a few of my beloved titles in this list.
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