Book Review: Smoke and Mirrors by Michael Faudet

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"The further we run away from out heart, the quicker we lose sight of who we really are."

         STORY:9/10

            CHARACTERS: 8/10

            THE FEELS: 7.5/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 8/ 10

PLOT: 7/ 10

OVERALL RATING: 8/10

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things—both finalists in the 2016 and 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards.

Michael Faudet’s latest book takes the reader on an emotionally charged journey, exploring the joys of falling madly in love and the melancholy world of the brokenhearted. Beautifully captured in poetry, prose, and short stories, Faudet's whimsical and sometimes erotic writing has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of readers from around the world.

Book Review: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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“How you love yourself is

how you teach others

to love you.” 

OVERALL RATING: 7.5/10

                     THE FEELS: 8/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT:7/ 10

  

    Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

   This book will surely hit your heart and will make you think of things in life that we people always took for granted. This is a very feminist book (for me) and I think that is what really molded the identity of this book. It is not to that quality of Faudets' and Leavs' pieces but this one, by Kaur, is making it's own identity, it's own style. This book will inspire reader to "keep going" . There will be stages in life-- in love--- that will challenge us or test us and this book tells the story of an individual who dipped herself into those tests and rise above them with strength and dignity. The poems in the book will move the readers. The piece is very realistic and readers can easily relate to the contents. A must read for people who wants to be inspired by words and keep moving on in life that is full of unfathomable circumstances. 

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Book Feature:Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the  OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

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Book Feature: Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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"Thou shalt kill."

   A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

   Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

   Two teens are forced to murder maybe each other in the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the "New York Times" bestselling Unwind dystology.  In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ( gleaned ) by professional reapers ( scythes ). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe s apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do.  Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe s apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the winning apprentice s first task will be to glean the loser, Citra and Rowan are pitted against one another in a fight for their lives."

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Book Review: Rebel Spring (#2 of Falling Kingdoms) by Morgan Rhodes

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“Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.” 

OVERALL RATING: 5.5/10

            STORY: 7/10

            CHARACTERS: 5/10

            THE FEELS: 5/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 7/ 10

PLOT: 8/ 10

Synopsis: After a bloody siege, Auranos has been defeated, its young queen orphaned and dethroned. The three kingdoms—Auranos, Limeros, and Paelsia—are now unwillingly united as one country called Mytica. But the allure of ancient, dangerous magic beckons still, and with it the chance to rule not just Mytica, but the whole world over...

At the heart of the fray are four brave young people grappling for that magic and the power it promises. For Cleo, the magic would enable her to reclaim her royal seat. In Jonas's hands, it frees his nation, and in Lucia's, it fulfills the ancient prophecy of her destiny. And if the magic were Magnus's, he would finally prove his worth in the eyes of his cruel and scheming father, King Gaius, who rules Mytica with a punishing hand.

When Gaius begins to build a road into the Forbidden Mountains to physically link all of Mytica, he sparks a long-smoking fire in the hearts of the people that will forever change the face of this land. For Gaius's road is paved with blood, and its construction will have cosmic consequences.

Book Review: The Boy in the Burning House by Tim Wynne-Jones

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OVERALL RATING: 8.5 /10

            STORY: 8/10

            CHARACTERS: 8/10

            THE FEELS: 10/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 10/ 10

PLOT: 8/ 10

How does it feel to lost your father mysteriously? I mean, loosing him in just a glimpse of an eye and having no idea why did it happen? The novel, The Boy in the Burning House is an Edgar Award winner novel of Tim Wynee-Jones. A novel that revolves around the world of Jim Hawkins. Jim Hawkins lost his father two years ago. Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she’s the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim’s father’s childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer.

Book review: Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld

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OVERALL RATING: 7.5 /10

            STORY: 7/10

            CHARACTERS: 6/10

            THE FEELS: 9.5/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 10/ 10

PLOT: 8/ 10

Nobody is safe in the secret hour. Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Time freezes. Nobody moves. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour — only they are free to move about the midnight time. These people call themselves Midnighters. Each one has a different power that is strongest at midnight: Seer, Mindcaster, Acrobat, Polymath. For years the Midnighters and the dark creatures have shared the secret hour, uneasily avoiding one another. All that changes when the new girl with an unmistakable midnight aura appears at Bixby High School. Jessica Day is not an outsider like the other Midnighters. She acts perfectly normal in every way. But it soon becomes clear that the dark creatures sense a hidden power in Jessica . . . and they’re determined to stop her before she can use it. A story of courage, shadowy perils, and unexpected destiny, the secret hour is the first volume of the mesmerizing Midnighters trilogy by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.

Book Review: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.” 

OVERALL RATING: 9 /10

            STORY: 8/10

            CHARACTERS: 10/10

            THE FEELS: 9/ 10

            ENTERTAINMENT: 10/ 10

PLOT: 9/ 10

I was quite scared on the things that John Green stored for us, the readers, in his new novel Turtles All the Way Down. Why? First, he needs to, not beat, but at least give justice to the success of The Fault in Our Stars. Second, it has been a while since he showed us his greatness, the wait should be worth it. But after reading the book (just less than an hour ago), I was not disappointed. Here are some of the reasons why I love the Turtles All the Way Down.

J.G. Recipe

What I really love about John Green’s works is the fact that his pieces really relate to the readers. In this new novel, he tackles mental health. Again, John Green never failed to deliver when it comes to how his work can easily relate to his readers. I am not saying, that his readers have mental health issues. What I mean is that, no matter what issues or disorders are being serve by his book (like cancer for TFIOS), he always knows how to connect them to the interests of the readers. This thing – or whatever he is doing to make this “relating” stuff work, I call it the J.G. (John Green duh) Recipe.

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