Letterbox Love all of the lovely, lovely books I’ve gotten in the post, bought and everything else. Summaries are taken from the cover, or Amazon/NetGalley/Goodreads in the case of e-books, unless otherwise stated. Hosted by Narratively Speaking.
For
review:
The Year of the Rat, Claire
Furniss (paperback)
To
Pearl, there’s nothing sweet about her premature half-sister, Rose. It was Rose
that caused her mother’s death and Rose that turned her world upside down.
To
Pearl, Rose is The Rat.
Achingly
sad, yet refreshingly real, The
Year of the Rat will make you laugh, cry
and hold your loved ones a little tighter.
This one is going to be so hard
to read, but it got so much loved when it came out in hardback earlier this
year so I’ll give it a try. Thanks S&S!
The Age of Miracles, Karen
Walker Thompson (paperback)
One
Saturday morning the world wakes to discover that the rotation of the earth has
begun to slow. As birds fall from the sky and days grow longer, people start to
flee – but there is nowhere on earth to escape to.
Julia
is already coping with the disasters of everyday life. And then there’s Seth:
tall and quiet and always on his own; the skateboarding boy who knows all about
disaster. As the world faces a catastrophe, Julia and Seth are facing their
very own unknown.
I’ve been wanting to read this
for AGES. Thanks S&S!
Bought:
Red Rising, Pierce
Brown (e-book)
The
Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission
is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the
planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity’s last hope.
Or
so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it’s all a lie. That mars has
been habitable – and inhabited – for generations, by a class of people calling
themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows
as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.
Until
the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises
himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down
his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield – and
Darrow isn’t the only student with an agenda.
Break
the chains. Live for more.
I haven’t heard a whole lot
about this, but I am intrigued.
Sophie
The Age of Miracles sounds really good....I have to add this to my list. The Year of the Rat wasn't what I expected from reading the synopsis so this is another to add to my list.
ReplyDeleteI think I have Red Rising waiting to be read
Enjoy all of your books and my haul can be found here