Hello, once again, welcome to my belated reading roundup. My new role at work has kept me extremely busy, we had guests and I’ve been dealing with a sick, unhappy kitty. I swear cats can smell one grain of crushed up medication in a spoonful of delicious, tasty food. I’m really sorry for the forced pill popping Lushka, but I did try it the easy way first. Fortunately, she seems to be on the mend. Anyway, enough of the excuses. Since my last roundup I’ve read three books and I’m part way through three others. What I read The first book I read was The Young Elites by Marie Lu. This is the first book in a YA fantasy trilogy telling the story of Adelina, who, like some other young people, has been left with special powers after an illness. Marie Lu has said her inspiration for Adelina was Darth Vader, and being aware of this helped me a lot – Adelina is a rather dark character. While I enjoyed the book – I loved the Renaissance style setting – a lot, it didn’t leave me with any desire at all to pick up the sequels. Strangely, I had the…
Welcome back to the second part of my BEA 2016 book haul. There are lots of exciting books still to come! The first book I’d like to mention is Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Kay Kristoff. This is the sequel to last year’s awesome YA sci-fi thriller Illuminae. Like its predecessor, Gemina’s formatting plays an integral part in the story, and this is a cool looking ARC. I plan to re-listen to Illuminae in audiobook format to refresh my memory before starting Gemina – the audiobook was fantastically well done and actually won an Audiie at this years Audie awards. Go Team Illuminae! Gemina was another of the hot books at BEA, with people starting to line up hours in advance of the ARC drop. I was one of the last people in line to actually get one, and I was so happy. You can pick it up for yourselves in October 2016. One Paris Summer by Denise Grover Swank is a young adult contemporary about a young woman who spends a summer in France after her parents’ divorce and father’s remarriage. I’m hoping it will be in a similar vein to Stephanie Perkins’ Anna and the French Kiss which…