I have decided to switch things up a bit with the blog - I am going to be doing genre themes. This means each week I will feature five books from the same genre, with a different genre each week.
This week the feature genre is Young Adult. Here are the books I'd like to share with you:
Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth - 4 Stars ****
She survived. That's not good enough.
When Ebola struck Manhattan, Ava Panic was a bright high
school sophomore. Two years later, Ava's still kicking. Also hitting, biting,
and gouging eyes.
Nine out of ten didn't make it. Half the survivors are feral
teens like Ava. During the Starve, their gangs terrorized the city. The Army
finally stopped the dying, and resettled desirable refugees into the
countryside.
But no one wants the gang rats, least of all the adults in
the city. The generations loathe each other.
The new nation of Hudson hopes Army discipline can salvage
these kids. Ava is game. Because the Army holds all the cards now. And if the
streets taught her anything, Ava knows that only the ones with power survive.
But for this to work, either the Army or gang rat Ava will have to change.
If you enjoy vivid characters, compelling world-building,
and page-turning action, you'll love the climate change apocalyptic Calm Act
Feral America series.
Get it now.
The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde - 4 Stars ****
In the good old days, magic was indispensable—it could both
save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading: drain
cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery.
Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency
for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And
then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon at the
hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer.
If the visions are true, everything will
change for Kazam—and for Jennifer. Because something is coming. Something known
as . . . Big Magic.
Awaken by Michelle Bryan - 4 Stars ****
They destroyed her village. But they left Tara alive. That
was their first mistake.
When everything she loves lies in ruins, Tara must run. From
the deadly sand lands. From a merciless Prezedant.
And from the lies she’s been told her entire life.
With nowhere else to go, she heads to the town of
Rivercross. But if Tara thinks she’ll find safety there, she’s mistaken. And
the answers she receives raise only more questions.
And fear.
For her surviving kin. For what she must now do. Because
being a New Blood is dangerous. She’ll be feared. She’ll be hunted.
And if she doesn’t find the power within herself soon, the
crazed Prezedant’s grip on the world will become unstoppable.
The Fifth Sense by Erik Nickerson - 3 Stars ***
Vision is an illusion, a hoax created by manipulators and
savages to corrupt the purity of innocent minds. Fall in line. Be a good
citizen. Never open your eyes.
Young Apple Peterson is not a good citizen.
How could she be? She does not echolocate well. Her singing
sucks. Her hair is coarse. (And no one likes a girl with coarse hair.) All the
cool teenagers smell like fresh mint, feel like soft velvet, sound like
ecstatic songbirds, speak only words of loyalty, and never, ever pretend that
eyes are actually good for anything.
Apple is not cool, and she knows that something is
desperately wrong with her world. But is she willing to bet her life on it?
Two Spells by Mark Morrison - 3 Stars ***
Sarah and her twin brother Jon are heirs to an ancient
magical realm and its most valuable treasure, an enchanted library. The library
endows readers with the supernatural means of crossing into the uncharted
inner-sanctum of the second dimension, inhabited with peculiar and sometimes
perilous creatures.
The children are emboldened with a wondrous mystical gift
that no other being has ever possessed. But fate intervenes and triggers a
disastrous inter-dimensional war that disrupts the fabric of time and space
spanning multiple universes, tearing destiny a new and savage pathway.
The two must rescue their world from a phantom hybrid alien
race controlled by a demented dark-wizard, Jeremy Sermack. They will either
assimilate or be exterminated.
Will they be the saviors the prophets spoke of, or will they
retreat to the perceived safety of their distant homeland?
That wraps up YA week. I hope you see something you like.
As always, thank you for stopping by.
~Michelle
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