October and November Reading Wrap Up 2018 | Blogmas

October and November Reading Wrap Up 2018 Blogmas

Hi friends! Today’s Blogmas post is a wrap up of both October and November since I seemed to have missed last months! I still have a ton of full reviews to write, but I really love these wrap ups because I get to talk about the books I’ve read without having to write full reviews just yet heh.

Reeling from the latest attack by a mysterious enemy, the Quatra Fleet Academy is finally admitting students from every planet in the solar system after centuries of exclusivity.

Hotshot pilot Vesper, an ambitious Tridian citizen, dreams of becoming a captain - but when she loses her spot to a brilliant, wisecracking boy from the wrong side of the asteroid belt, it makes her question everything she thought she knew. Growing up on the toxic planet Deva, Cormak will take any chance he can get to escape his dead-end life and join the Academy - even if he has to steal someone's identity to do it. Arran was always considered an outsider on icy Chetire, always dreaming of something more than a life working in the mines. Now an incoming cadet, Arran is looking for a place to belong - he just never thought that place would be in the arms of a Tridian boy. And Orelia is hiding a dark secret - she's infiltrated the Academy to complete a mission, one that threatens the security of everyone there. But if anyone finds out who she really is, it'll be her life on the line.

These cadets will have to put their differences aside and become a team to defend their world from a cunning enemy - but the danger might be lurking closer to home than they think...

Light Years was a great book, an academy in space? I’m there. It’s no secret that I love space books so I really loved this one, I just wish I had read it much earlier!

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Published by Gollancz on November 6th 2018
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Pages: 513
Goodreads

Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.

Skyward was AMAZING. Brandon Sanderson wrote a YA Space book and of course I was there. My full review can be found here so if you want more fan-girling go check that out!

The Light Between Us by Katie Khan
Series: ,
Published by Doubleday on August 9th 2018
Pages: 320
Goodreads

Isaac and Thea were once close, but they've grown apart.

Thea works tirelessly, convinced she can prove everyone around her wrong - convinced she can prove that time travel is possible. But when one of her attempts goes wrong, she finds herself picking up the phone and calling her old friend.

Isaac is in New York - it's the middle of the night, but when he sees who's calling him, he cannot ignore his phone. At Thea's request, he travels home, determined to help her in her hour of need.

But neither of them are prepared for what they will discover when he gets there.

I LOVED The Light Between Us! It was so interesting and the science in it seems so well thought out. There were twists and turns and it was written so well.

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Published by Bloomsbury Children's on January 29th 2019
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy
Goodreads

Fall in love, break the curse.

It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.

Nothing has ever been easy for Harper Lacy. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, she learned to be tough enough to survive. But when she tries to save someone else on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s instead somehow sucked into Rhen’s cursed world.

Break the curse, save the kingdom.

A prince? A monster? A curse? Harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe. But as she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what’s at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall . . . and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.

So this is a Beauty and the Beast retelling and I really enjoyed it! It was different to what I expected and I can’t wait for the next one!

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Published by Mira Books on September 21st 2007
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy
Pages: 409
Goodreads

Choose:A quick deathOr slow poison...

Yelena has a choice – be executed for murder, or become food taster to the Commander of Ixia. She leaps at the chance for survival, but her relief may be short-lived.

Life in the palace is full of hazards and secrets. Wily and smart, Yelena must learn to identify poisons before they kill her, recognise whom she can trust and how to spy on those she can’t. And who is the mysterious Southern sorceress who can reach into her head?

When Yelena realises she has extraordinary powers of her own, she faces a whole new problem, for using magic in Ixia is punishable by death...

Poison Study was a reread and I really enjoyed delving into these characters again.

You know your life is bad when you miss your days as a poison taster...

With an execution order on her head, Yelena has no choice but to escape to Sitia, the land of her birth. With only a year to master her magic - or face death - Yelena must begin her apprenticeship and travels to the Four Towers of the Magician's Keep.

But nothing in Sitia is familiar. Not the family to whom she is a stranger. Not the unsettling new facets of her magic. Nor the brother who resents her return. As she struggles to understand where she belongs and how to control her rare powers, a rogue magician emerges - and Yelena catches his eye.

Suddenly she is embroiled in battle of good against evil. And once again it will be her magical abilities that will either save her life...or be her downfall.

Same with Magic study, it was a reread and I was really enjoying it! I read them years ago. Sadly I couldn’t get on with the 3rd one so I stopped rereading at that point.

Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel in the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before...and surprising readers at every turn.

I’ve been rereading The Hunger Games trilogy and I LOVE it so much. I’ve been listening to them on audio and I’d forgotten how much got left out of the movies.

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.

Until the taps run dry.

Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.

Dry completely BLEW ME AWAY. It really makes you think. I honestly felt thirsty reading this and just felt so hooked I couldn’t put it down.

Killing Adam by Earik Beann
Published by Profoundly One Publishing on January 1st 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Pages: 224
Goodreads

The world runs on ARCs. Altered Reality Chips. Small implants behind the left ear that allow people to experience anything they could ever imagine. The network controls everything, from traffic, to food production, to law enforcement. Some proclaim it a Golden Age of humanity. Others have begun to see the cracks. Few realize that behind it all, living within every brain and able to control all aspects of society, there exists a being with an agenda all his own: the singularity called Adam, who believes he is God.

Jimmy Mahoney’s brain can’t accept an ARC. Not since his football injury from the days when the league was still offline. “ARC-incompatible” is what the doctors told him. Worse than being blind and deaf, he is a man struggling to cling to what’s left of a society that he is no longer a part of. His wife spends twenty-three hours a day online, only coming off when her chip forcibly disconnects her so she can eat. Others are worse. Many have died, unwilling or unable to log off to take care of even their most basic needs.

After being unwittingly recruited by a rogue singularity to play a role in a war that he doesn’t understand, Jimmy learns the truth about Adam and is thrown into a life-and-death struggle against the most powerful mathematical mind the world has ever known. But what can one man do against a being that exists everywhere and holds limitless power? How can one man, unable to even get online, find a way to save his wife, and the entire human race, from destruction?

Killing Adam is… a good book but I didn’t LOVE it. Interesting idea and a scary prediction of our future.

This Splintered Silence by Kayla Olson
Published by HarperTeen on November 13th 2018
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Pages: 368
Goodreads

Lindley Hamilton has been the leader of the space station Lusca since every first-generation crew member on board, including her mother, the commander, were killed by a deadly virus.

Lindley always assumed she’d captain the Lusca one day, but she never thought that day would come so soon. And she never thought it would be like this—struggling to survive every day, learning how to keep the Lusca running, figuring out how to communicate with Earth, making sure they don’t run out of food.

When a member of the surviving second generation dies from symptoms that look just like the deadly virus, though, Lindley feels her world shrinking even smaller. The disease was supposed to be over; the second generation was supposed to be immune. But as more people die, Lindley must face the terrifying reality that either the virus has mutated or something worse is happening: one of their own is a killer.

This Splintered Silence was amazing! A murder mystery in space, with a deadly virus involved? I was hooked an enjoyed this one so much.

What did you read this last month? Any of these? Let me know <3

Follow Jenniely on WordPress.com

Related Posts

• Related Posts
• By Adam Silvera
• 5 Star Books

The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard | 5 Star Book Review and Blog Tour

Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson | 5 Star Book Review and Blog Tour

World Book Day Celebration: Diverse Books for Kids & Teens

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis | 5 Star Book Review | Blog Tour

World Book Day Celebration: The Books that Shaped my Childhood Years

Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson | 5 Star Book Review and Blog Tour

Reading Wrap Up October – November | Blogmas

End of The Year Book Tag | Blogmas

Winter 2019 TBR | Blogmas

8 Books to Read this Autumn | Blogtober

The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard | 5 Star Book Review and Blog Tour

Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson | 5 Star Book Review and Blog Tour

World Book Day Celebration: Diverse Books for Kids & Teens

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis | 5 Star Book Review | Blog Tour

World Book Day Celebration: The Books that Shaped my Childhood Years