REVIEW: Captive - A. J. Grainger

Title: Captive
Author: A. J. Grainger
Series: None
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 29th January, 2015

I open my eyes. The cell is flooded with sunlight; the window is a slice of pale blue. Dust particles dance in the sparkling light, pirouetting in a golden line from the window to the opposite wall of the cell, where they seem to converge into shapes. It is like looking into a kaleidoscope.

Dad isn't here. No one is, but me.
Robyn Knollys-Green is an A-list celebrity, famous for being the daughter of one of the world's most powerful men. But not even the paparazzi can find her now.
Robyn begins to realise that she is trapped in a complicated web of global corruption and deceit - and that the strange, melancholy boy who has been tasked with guarding her might not be an enemy after all . . .
A thrilling, well-crafted, ever-relevant story from a talented new voice in YA fiction.

Top Ten Tuesday #58

Top Ten Books I Read In 2014

REVIEW: I Was Here - Gayle Forman

Title: I Was Here
Author: Gayle Forman
Series: None
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 29th January, 2015

From the bestselling author of If I Stay - this summer's YA blockbuster film.

This characteristically powerful novel follows eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds in the months following her best friend's shocking suicide.
As Cody numbly searches for answers as to why Meg took her own life, she begins a journey of self-discovery which takes her to a terrifying precipice, and forces her to question not only her relationship with the Meg she thought she knew, but her own understanding of life, love, death and forgiveness.
A phenomenally moving story, I Was Here explores the sadly all-too-familar issue of suicide and self-harm, addressing it with it sensitivity, genuity and honesty.

REVIEW: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart

Title: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Author: E. Lockhart
Series: None
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 6th November, 2014

Fifteen-year-old Frankie Landau-Banks has grown up a lot over the summer. She's no longer daddy's little girl - and almost immediately after starting the new semester at her highly prestigious school, she bags goofy-but-gorgeous Matthew Livingston as her boyfriend. They get along great but then Frankie discovers that Matthew is a member of a boys-only secret society that specialise in 'hilarious' pranks. Which hardly seems fair... especially when Frankie knows she's smarter than any of its members. And to prove this, she's going to teach them a lesson.

 

December TBR

I posted this a couple of days ago up in the land of Youtube and thought I'd share it with you guys here too! Here's my December TBR and my attempt at completing my Goodreads Challenge.

The Books

Snow Like Ashes - Sara Raasch

The Goddess and the Thief - Essie Fox

My True Love Gave to Me - Various

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender - Leslye Walton

Red Rising - Pierce Brown

The Map to Everywhere - Carrie Ryan & John Parke Davies

Let it Snow - John Green, Maureen Johnson & Lauren Myracle

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart 

The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon

The Mime Order - Samantha Shannon

The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

Harry Potter #90

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is now a full list of the topics to come in the Harry Potter section of my blog here.

REVIEW: Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Title: Red Rising
Author: Pierce Brown
Series: Red Rising Trilogy #1
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Source: Review Copy
Publication Date: 28th January, 2014

Ender's Game meets The Hunger Games in this, the first in an extraordinary trilogy from an incredible new voice.
Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.
Until the day Darrow learns that it is 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 at Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.
Until the day 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.