Quick, when you hear these book titles which book do you think of first?
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Book Review : Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy #1 )
“You’ve been captive for so long that you don’t even realize you want freedom anymore.”
– Lauren DeStefano, Wither
Synopsis : Genetic mutations have festered, reducing human longevity to twenty-five, even less for most women. To prevent extinction, young girls are kidnapped, mated in polygamous marriages with [Rich] men eager to procreate. Sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery, a recent victim of this breeding farm mentality, has vowed to break loose from its fetters
Wither is the taboo, energized and tumultuous story of three girls kidnapped and forced into marriage to the young Governor Linden.
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Books and Sensibility’s Thank You Followers Giveaway !
While at the Miranda Keneally Catching Jordan event in our local bookstore, we picked up an extra signed copy to giveaway to our readers. We decided with the Superbowl today and Valentine’s a few weeks later this was the best time.
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Soul Screamers Reading Challenge
Book Review Entwined By Heather Dixon
Synopsis: Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it’s taken away. All of it.
The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation.
Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest.
But there is a cost Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in [the] web until it is too late…
Book Review : Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
“Find me a cure for these tears, I’d really like to exhale for the first time in my life.”
Synopsis : Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. . . Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things . . . Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
I didn’t really know what to expect going into this novel, I was aware of all the hype, but I wondered what kind of story could be told about a girl with a deadly touch. From the first chapter the reader is thrown into Juliette’s isolated imprisonment, but when she gets a new roommate she soon finds herself running for her life in a world on the brink of destruction.
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