Glitches – Marissa
Meyer
Pages:
32
Publisher:
Tor
Release
Date: 5th
December 2011
Series:
The
Lunar Chronicles, #0.5
Edition:
e-novella,
Kindle freebie
Synopsis
Cinder,
a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious
past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll
that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch...
Mini-Review
I’m always game for a foray
into my favourite fictional worlds and the land of The Lunar Chronicles is definitely one of them! Glitches takes place before Cinder when Cinder is being placed with
her new family in the Eastern Commonwealth.
Seeing her as a scared and
bumbling eleven-year-old trying to get used to her new body was heart-breaking,
but it also made me love Cinder I already knew even more. Her strength and capability
is even more impressive when you see where she came from. Then you throw in the
horrible Adri and sweet Peony and you’re left with a bucket full of emotion. Glitches re-ignited my excitement for Cress and made me glad I have one more
e-novella from the series, The Queen’s
Army, waiting for me!
One Perfect
Christmas – Paige Toon
Pages: 100
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 5th November 2012
Edition: e-novella, purchased
Synopsis
One Perfect
Christmas picks up with Alice and Joe one
year on... He’s a bigger star than ever, and Alice has managed to maintain her
anonymity. But how long can that last? With this be their first – and last –
perfect Christmas? And where is Lukas?
Mini-Review
One Perfect Christmas picks up with Alice and Joe
being reunited after being separated by his filming schedule at the wedding of
Alice’s uni roommates, Jessie and Emily. We get the answer to who Alice chose
that was left on an evil cliffhanger at the end of One Perfect Summer and get taken through important moments in
Alice’s relationships with Lukas and Joe in the past year: coming home from the
Cornwall cottage, telling Lukas she wants
divorce and Alice coming to terms with Joe’s career.
It was
lovely to be back in Cambridge as it was snowy and gorgeous and to be reunited
with Alice and Joe as they start their new life together and plan for the
future. I love knowing that characters I’ve fallen in love with will get their
happily ever after with the love of their life; I’m such a sap sometimes!
One Perfect Christmas is a wonderful short conclusion
to the novel and I’m already counting down the days until Paige Toon’s next
offering.
The Bane Chronicles 2: The
Runaway Queen – Cassandra Clare; Maureen
Johnson
Pages:
60
Publisher:
Margaret K
McElderry
Release
Date: 21st
May 2013
Series: The Bane Chronicles #2
Edition:
e-novella,
purchased
Synopsis
While
in France, immortal warlock Magnus Bane finds himself attempting to rescue the
royal family from the French Revolution – after being roped into this mess by a
most attractive count. Naturally, the daring escape calls for invisible air
balloons...
Mini-Review
Oh, Magnus, how I love thee. I really
loved The Runaway Queen. It was a lot
less serious that What Really Happened in
Peru – Maureen Johnson is one of the authors after all – and I just loved
it. Revolutionary France, gorgeous aristocracy, a hot air balloon ride across
Paris and Mary Antoinette wither head still firmly attached.
Maureen Johnson’s sense of
humour really came through in The Runaway
Queen and I think it fit Magnus perfectly. I liked this one a lot more than
the first and hoping they carry on in such a fashion. Bring on Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale!
Sophie
Nice novella selections. "Glitches" looks especially attractive.
ReplyDeleteI never knew about Glitches! I'm going to go and have a look for it now! :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen as many reviews for The Runaway Queen as there were for What Happened in Peru. Everyone was all MAGNUS BANE when that came out and then I barely heard anything about this one. Shame. But possibly because of that I still haven't read it. Perhaps I'll just wait until the stories come in book format?
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