Sunday 7 December 2014

Letterbox Love #69


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



1 comment:

  1. 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.

    I think I have Red Rising waiting to be read

    Enjoy all of your books and my haul can be found here

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