{Review} The Ever Never Handbook (The School For Good & Evil) by Soman Chainani (illus.) Michael Blank

Page Count: 304

Published on: July 12, 2016

Published by: HarperCollins

Genre(s): Fantasy, Middle Grade, YA, Graphic Novel, Guide

Source: Hardback - personally purchased

Age Rating: YA

Where To Find It: Goodreads // Amazon // Book Depository

Twitter: @SomanChainani

Facebook Page:  [click here]

My Rating: 4.5 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

Welcome to the School for Good and Evil! The greatest of heroes and villains have come through our classrooms before they ventured into the Endless Woods to find their stories . . . and now you will join their ranks.

Use this handbook as a guide to help you navigate through your years at school. Everything you need is inside: what to bring, what to wear, and most importantly, how to stay out of the Doom Room. Here, you’ll learn about your classes, meet your professors, and get an inside look at our first-year traditions like the Trial by Tale, the Circus of Talents, and the Snow Ball. And should you need advice, you won’t have to look far for role models: our most illustrious alumni are here to help—and from—

Evs and Nevs! Forget this official stuff—I’ll tell you everything you really need to know to survive and all the good stuff the teachers won’t tell you.. Plus, I have the secret scoop on Sophie, Agatha, and Tedros. . . . Meet me inside!—Hester

Experience the School for Good and Evil like never before with this must-have companion to the bestselling series. Glorious illustrations invite you to pore over maps, see characters for the first time, and get an inside  look at what it’s like to be a student at the most enchanted school of all.

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[MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR BOOKS #1-3]

Hey, guys!

     I've been dying to get my hands on The Ever Never Handbook for the longest time. Thankfully, during the last major bookoutlet sale (that I took part of), I was able to get my hands on a copy. I've been totally in love with this series since the summer of 2015 and I'm so excited for the new spin-off series that will start in October 2017. 

     This was a great refresher to the last three School for Good & Evil books. It's been about two years since I read the last book, but reading the Handbook really caused me to want to reread the series. Not to mention I already wanted to reread to prep for Quests For Glory. I hadn't realized how much I missed Chainani's world until actually reading the handbook. I found it really interesting when the handbook delved into the actual changes that were brought on by Sophie's new position as the Dean of Evil. There were often moments where events from book 3 were mentioned and I found myself tearing up. This isn't an actual novel, but it still managed to hit me in the feels.

     This book was so colorful and captured the aesthetics of the Ever School and Never School so perfectly. I loved every minute of this book. I totally flew through it, but I'm so glad that this book is a thing. This book captures the world perfectly, it answers the questions that I (and other readers) have been asking since book one. I loved getting a glimpse into the lives of the new students and a glimpse into what to expect in book 4. I was a bit surprised to read about Sophie's attitude, but not really. I can't wait to read Quests for Glory! October cannot come fast enough! 

If you loved the School For Good & Evil, or if you love fairy tale retellings you'd love this book. I recommend that you read it after the first three books. There are spoilers, so some of the references would go over your head unless you've read the first three. 


My SFG&E Reviews: 

• The School For Good & Evil: [click here]
• A World Without Princes: [click here]
• The Last Ever After: [click here]

Other Series You'd Love: 

• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
• The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley

Happy reading!
Olivia
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The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee

Page Count: 448

Published by: HarperCollins

Published on: August 30, 2016

Genres: YA, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary

Source: Hardback

Where To Find Them: Goodreads // Amazon

Twitter: @katharinemcgee

Rating: 3 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

WELCOME TO MANHATTAN, 2118.

A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something…and everyone has something to lose.

LEDA COLE’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.

ERIS DODD-RADSON’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.

RYLIN MYERS’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will this new life cost Rylin her old one?

WATT BAKRADI is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy for an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.

And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is AVERY FULLER, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.Amid breathtaking advancement and high-tech luxury, five teenagers struggle to find their place at the top of the world. But when you're this high up, there's nowhere to go but down....

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"Sometimes, love and chaos are the same thing."
~The Thousandth Floor~

Hey, guys!

      I bought this book in August on a whim and I kind of regret it. This book had the potential to be really interesting and addicting, but I really don't think it was my cup of tea. This could be compared to the drama that frequents the plot of Gossip Girl, so something of that nature. I've never been a fan of shows or novels like this.

      The Thousandth Floor follows a group of teens that live in the luxurious Tower. The higher the floor, the wealthier the inhabitant. Each of the characters has their own problems that they face in the novel. Their stories eventually intertwine and get very messy and complicated. Most of the drama started with stupid decisions, bad communication, or petty teenage egos. I really enjoyed that this book was told from all 5 of the main character's perspectives. It resulted in a really well rounded and interesting story. Even though I didn't enjoy the drama, I really was interested in the outcome of the story. 

Rylin: I really enjoyed Rylin's character. She was such a genuine character and used the most common sense of the main characters. I really loved her drive and the love she felt for her sister. Their sister dynamic was super sweet and I really wanted more of that.

Eris: Eris was probably my favorite character. She had the best character development of the bunch. I really liked her eventual family dynamic and her romantic relationship was super cute and beneficial to her character. Not only was it cute, it was really realistic. 

Leda: Leda was a nutcase. She was just stupid. I really didn't get much from her character. She was just really hooked on either her past, something paranoia-related, or something really superficial. I never really understood why she was so unhappy in the end. She was just psycho.

Watt: I liked Watt too. His character was really witty and interesting to read about. The technology surrounding his character was really fascinating and I really liked him as a character. He made really dumb decisions most of the time, but I found him to be really intelligent and fun to read about.

Avery: Avery was another odd character. She's been engineered to be the most beautiful girl in the world, but she is actually kind of selfish....Her story was kind of twisted, but understandable. I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

      Overall, this character was decent but it was just stupid drama. I don't think I'd read anything like it again. It wasn't my thing. If you like shows like Gossip Girl, then you'd probably like it. Because it's not my kind of thing, then it wasn't written for me. 

Comment down below if you liked this book!

Happy reading and Happy New Year!
Olivia
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Keeping the Beat by Marie Powell & Jeff Norton

Page Count: 368

Published by: KCP Loft

Published on: April 4, 2017

Genres: Realistic Fiction, Romance, YA, Contemporary, 

Source: Paperback ARC– provided by publisher

Where To Find Them: Goodreads // Amazon

Rating: 3.5 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

It was supposed to be the best summer of her life. Instead, seventeen-year-old Lucy finds her best friend, Harper, shot dead in an LA swimming pool. How did things ever go so wrong? The story circles back to trace the steps that led to this disaster.

Only Harper McKenzie could have taken five girls from their school and reinvented them as Crush, the top prospect to win the international talent contest Project Next. As soon as the band finds its footing, it scores a huge win in the UK semifinal. Next stop, LA! 

The girls will spend a luxurious summer in Hollywood, living as reality TV stars while they prepare for their performance in the Project Next final. With a mansion to themselves, they’re the toast of the town … living every girl’s dream come true. 

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Hey, guys!

          The newly formed publishing company, KCP Loft, contacted me for an honest review. They sent me a large package with their four spring releases and I started Keeping the Beat right after I moved into my new house. We don’t have Wi-Fi, and I managed to bring most of my review books that I needed to read, and Keeping the Beat was the first of the KCP Loft books that I dove into.

              

      Keeping the Beat follows five young girls from England as they begin their rise to fame as a girl band. As these young girls begin their journey to stardom, each character is fleshed out and their point-of-view is given as the story progresses. Each character has their own story and their own struggles throughout this book and each character added a unique perspective to the overall story. The writing style of this novel was very compelling and made it very fast paced. I managed to read this book in a day.

      While the characters had very compelling, but they were very annoying too. Each character has such major issues with their new lives, but they don't handle them at all. They don't see reason when their mentors give them advice, and their personalities got kind of warped from their fame and they got even more annoying. I originally enjoyed most of the characters, but towards the end, I only enjoyed Lucy's attitude. I didn’t like Harper’s character from the beginning, and her actions throughout the book were just shade-y. I didn’t her as a person at all. Iza was super cute, but she would just act so stupid and out of character. The girls are between the ages 16 and 17 and they would always be drinking. As a 19-year-old, I just found it insanely stupid to allow such young girls to be drinking so excessively. I know that society has kind of okayed underage drinking, but I think it’s just dumb. I totally understand the changes to their characters, but it was just kind of annoying. It’s just very hard for me to understand why young girls would be totally fine and willing to blatantly act like imbeciles. Overall, I understand the changes to their characters because it’s a pretty realistic representation of how fame changes young people, but the characters just weren’t my cup of tea for most of the book. I really did enjoy their changes towards the end of the book, but I guess I’m just an old-fashioned person?

      I really liked the relationship between the band members for most of this book for the most part. They drifted apart very naturally for a section of the book, and I really enjoyed how their relationship was healed. The romantic relationships were kind of rocky for me. Iza and Luke were cute, but I didn't see as much development as I would have liked to read throughout the book. The relationship between Lucy and her guy was also another case of insta-love. Their relationship wasn’t very believable, the attraction was there, but it definitely wasn’t love. It has the potential to be really cute, and I’d love to see how their relationship progresses, but it was not love. Overall, each character had a relationship with someone, but it really wasn’t needed! Harper and her man were just doomed from the beginning. Harper was just a self-destructing character, and she never listened to reason. Her circumstances were pretty tragic, and I liked her at the end, but I wasn’t too thrown by her demise. The killer, on the other hand, was a complete surprise. That threw me for a loop. I’m not even going to comment about the drama with their manager guy. That was just…wow. Drama. I liked how it was written and handled, though. Strange, yet interesting. I also really loved Lucy’s relationship with their musical producer. It was great to see an adult that actually loved what he did and actually wanted to help the girls do their best and survive the fame and music industry. It helped that he recognized Lucy’s passion and helped her harness her abilities to help her do the best she could. I loved that aspect to the book.

      Overall, this was a pretty good book. I really enjoyed the characters for the most part, and their character arcs were really great to read. I really enjoyed the drama, even though I saw it as unnecessary. This is probably the closest to reality TV as you can get in young adult literature. It was addicting, fast paced, and I didn’t want to put it down. I pretty much finished this book in a few hours. I don’t have TV or Wi-Fi right now in our new house, so this was basically my reality-TV-fix for the week. I’m excited to see the other books that KCP Loft puts out next year.

Happy reading and happy holidays!

Olivia
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Little Nothing by Marissa Silver

Page Count: 352

Published on: September 12, 2016

Published by: Blue Rider Press

Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction

Source: Hardback - via publisher

Age Rating: PG-13

Where To Find It: Goodreads // Amazon

Twitter: @marisaleesilver

My Rating: 3 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

      A stunning, provocative new novel from New York Times bestselling author Marisa Silver, Little Nothing is the story of Pavla, a child scorned for her physical deformity, whose passion and salvation lie in her otherworldly ability to transform herself and the world around her.

      In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, stuns her parents and brings outrage and disgust from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf, beautiful in face, but as the years pass, she grows no further than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local doctor and freak sideshow proprietor, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable, magical transformation in and out of human form, as this outcast woman is hunted down and incarcerated for her desires, her body broken and her identity stripped away until her soul is strong enough to transcend all physical bounds. Woven throughout is the journey of Danilo, the young man entranced by Pavla, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, Little Nothing spans the beginning of a new century, the disintegration of ancient superstitions and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters, a wholly shocking and original story, and extraordinary, page-turning prose, Silver delivers a novel of sheer electricity.

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“She believes her parents do not love her less, only that before, she had a child’s notion of love that did not include the small treacheries of delusion and fear and shame.”

Hey, guys!

      I was sent Little Nothing by Blue Rider Press for an honest review. This book's synopsis was really intriguing and I was really interested to see where this vague synopsis took me. I've heard so many great things about Marissa Silver's writing, but yet I finished the book being very confused. Maybe the concept was a bit over my head, but I really didn't understand this book. I really loved the first third of the novel, but once Pavla changed physically, the story went kind of downhill. 

      There wasn't much of a plot when it came to this book. I had no idea where Silver was trying to go or if she was writing in metaphors the whole time, but I was overall just very confused and eventually got bored. Not the "so bored that I'm going to DNF the book" bored, but the "this could have an interesting ending, but I'm bored so let's hurry up a bit" bored. This book is labelled under the magical realism genre, but I'm not even sure about that. 
I guess it was supposed to to be magical realism, but in reality it was just a mess. Don't get me wrong. There were definitely some really beautiful moments in this book, but I don't think I fully understood the symbolism behind this book. For the first fourth of the book, I had an idea of what was going to happen with Pavla's story, but Silver did a full 180 and changed the story completely. Maybe it's because I was so surprised regarding the plot twists or maybe it was because I anticipated something different, but I really overall was unimpressed by this book.

      Pavla was a really interesting character, but towards the end I really didn't care what happened to her. That sounds harsh, but I really didn't know enough of her story to care anymore. Danilo was getting on my nerves as well. I never really cared for his character, even in the beginning. He gave me a shady vibe and I guess his love for Pavla is beautiful, but by the end of the book I was kind of over the story. There were multiple transitions regarding the changes of the character's lives that were very abrupt. I really loved the parts about Pavla when she was a dwarf, but the other parts were really strange for me. I didn't connect with Pavla or Danilo or any of the other characters. The overall tone of the novel was tragic and bizarre. I'm not sure if I'm really into this book as a whole. 

This is one of those books that are written for a particular audience, and I don't think I'm apart of that audience. I'm not sure who I would recommend this book to, but if it interests you then I would check it out. The writing was beautiful and the story was very intriguing, but it was definitely not for me.

I hope you all enjoyed this review!

Happy reading!

Olivia

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City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2) by Cassandra Clare

Page Count: 453

Published on: March 25, 2008

Published by: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Genre(s): YA, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Fiction

Source: Paperback

Age Rating: PG-13

Where To Find It: Goodreads // Amazon

Twitter: @cassieclare

My Rating: 4.75 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.

To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings — and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?

In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.

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Hey, guys!

      About a week ago, I reviewed City of Bones the first book in the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. I really loved City of Bones, but City of Ashes definitely had the second book slump. It wasn't as good as book one, but it was still an excellent book. The Mortal Instruments is such a famous and popular series, but I'm reading it for the first time this year. 

      I really enjoyed the character development in this book. I learned so much about Clary, Jace, and the other amazing characters. I really enjoyed the plot progression too, the only problem I had was that it progressed really similarly to City of Bones. I really loved the awkward dynamic between Clary and Jace. After the confusing realization at the end of book one, it was so awkward and confusing but really hilarious to read about. 

      Overall, I really loved this book. I can't really reveal much because I don't want to reveal series spoilers, but I can't wait to read more of Cassandra Clare's books. Her writing is so addicting and I love her characters so much. 

      I can't wait to read City of Glass. I haven't had the time to binge read the series yet, but I plan on reading the rest of the series during my Christmas break in December. I bought books 3-5 on Amazon and a hardcover copy of book 6 at Goodwill. I can't wait to binge read the Shadowhunter world.

InSomnus by Molly Fennig

Page Count: 282

Published on: August 10, 2016

Published by: Createspace

Genre(s): I don't even know!

Source: Paperback - From author

Age Rating: PG-12

Where To Find It: Goodreads // Amazon

Twitter: @mollyfennig

My Rating: 1.5 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

      Bryony "Bryn" Winters can harm people by dreaming. With no control over whom she hurts, a condition called Somnus, Bryn can't even be sure she won't kill her own family. Protecting them means running away and trusting a mysterious company that possesses as much authority as amorality. And when Bryn meets Cedar Blackthorne, a Somnus with captivating eyes, she can feel he's hiding something. So why can't Bryn help trusting him? And what if she's making a deadly mistake?

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Hey, guys! 

      I was sent a paperback copy of this book for an honest review. This will be a very honest review. I wanted to really love this book. I love reading books by young and upcoming authors, but I really did not like this book. It was cliche, the fantasy or dystopian world wasn't developed at all. The plot went everywhere. It was just a mess....I really wish that I liked this book but it needs extensive work...Maybe my Goodreads updates will kind of give you an idea of what I was saying all throughout my reading experience. Warning: I was really irritated so....

Guys....I had over 50 Goodreads updates. Within a couple minutes, I'd have another comment about the book that was either disappointing or I just got really pissed.... Here are a few of the highlights:

• Insta-love. It was insanely annoying.
• The characters gain random personality characteristics that would pop up randomly and then are either never mentioned again or are only mentioned when it was convenient. 
• While I'm on the topic of convenience, everything happened way to conveniently. Almost every huge plot event was completely random or was a knock off of major events in other YA novels. 
• The main character, Bryn, was so completely annoying. I cannot stand her. She's so whiny, inconsistent, and annoying. One moment she's a total badass, but then she's a total submissive weakling. 
• There were so many bits of this book that I felt were basically from other popular YA novels. (Hunger Games, Red Queen, The Selection, Shatter Me, & Divergent). 
• The main character was so dumb...she could never make up her mind. She made me so mad. If you read my Goodreads updates, then you'll probably get an idea of my frustration. 
• The writing was not great for me...The characters were not written very well and they were very two dimensional. None of them acted their age, they didn't make any good decisions, they didn't use common sense at all, they didn't have natural reactions, and it was so annoying.
• If you really don't want to read my updates, then I'll summarize it up a bit. (No I don't expect y'all to read them, but it kind of reveals my thought process while reading. I was just really disappointed. 
• There were so many plot holes and the characters were so annoying and there was so much insta-love! I really hated it. This book was just a mess.

      I really wanted to love this book. I think Molly has the potential to be a great writer, but I felt like there needed to be more originality.... 

Reviews of Books Mentioned:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ~ 5 stars
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard ~ 5 stars
• The Selection by Kiera Cass ~ 5 stars
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi ~ 5 stars
• Divergent by Veronica Roth ~ 5 stars

Happy reading!

Olivia
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Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur

Page Count: 204

Published on: November 4, 2014

Published by: Createspace

Genre(s): Poetry, Nonfiction, Feminism, Contemporary, Adult, Romance, Cultural, Mental Health, Sociology, Literature  

Source: Paperback -Borrowed

Age Rating: PG-17 -mature themes and topics

Trigger Warning: Rape & Abuse

Where To Find It: Goodreads // Amazon

Twitter: @rupikaur_

My Rating: 3 stars

Goodreads synopis:

milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

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Hey, guys!

      I was lent this book by one of my friends that I met at college (Thank you, Abby!) and I was really excited but kind of wary of this book of poetry. I had heard  from Abby that the book was really amazing, but I had heard from Whitney from WhittyNovels on YouTube that it wasn't that great. I kind of have to agree with Whitney. Overall, the book was kind of underwhelming. I mean the hype for this poetry is unreal, but I really wasn't impressed with most of it. Some of the poems were really beautiful and profound, but some of them just weren't. 

     Most of the poems were quite random and didn't have any specific rhyme or structure. They weren't lyrical and were like regular sentences with weird spacing. The feminist message wasn't anything new, I had been hearing the message for years now and I've accepted the ideals for a long time. It wasn't anything new for me. It's what I've been reading online and hearing in the media for years now. It was very Tumblr-aesthetic and I think it was just really frustrating to have something so powerful to be so underwhelming. I really wish that I loved this but I didn't. 

      The overall look of the book is really elegant and lovely, but the insides are kind of pretencious and unimpressive. This book had the potential to be really fantastic and powerful, but it felt cliche and the poetic devices weren't used right at all. I will probably see more of Rupi Kaur's work on Tumblr, but I probably won't go out of my way to read a full novel of her poetry...


Things That Made Up For the Lame:
~Rupi Kaur's passion
~The aesthetic
~The illustrations
~The few poems that I loved

Other Verse Novels That I've Reviewed:

• The Good Braider by Terry Farish ~ 3 stars
• Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams ~ 3 stars

I would love to read more novels in verse or even a collection of poems. If you would like me to read a book in verse or even recommend a specific poem, I would love to check out your recommendations. I love poetry and I love getting your recommendations. Comment down below or contact me through my social media! 

Happy reading!

Olivia 
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{Review} Biome by Ryan Galloway

Page Count: 340

To Be Published On: December 6, 2016 

Published by: Self-Published

Genre(s): Science Fiction, YA

Source: e-Book -Provided by Author 

Age Rating: 

Where To Find It: Goodreads 

Twitter: @ryangallows

Author Website: {click here}

Book Website: {click here}

My Rating: 3 stars

Goodreads synopsis:

Inside the gleaming domes of Mars Colony One, sixteen-year-old Lizzy Engram and her fellow cadets work to make the Red Planet habitable. They spend their days growing plants in the giant biomes, eating meals pumped out of 3D printers, and waiting for the terraforming to be complete.

And every Sunday night, the doctors erase their memories.

Week by week the procedure is carried out, and the cadets don’t suspect a thing. Until one morning, Lizzy wakes up with all of the missing memories. And not just her own, but the memories of every cadet on the planet—from her closest friend, to the boy who fell in love with her every week since landing, to the numerous cadets who’ve simply disappeared.

Now balancing the desires, fears, ideas, and secrets of the entire colony, Lizzy has six days to figure out what the doctors are hiding—and how to stop them—before they erase her memories again.

Or worse, make Lizzy the next to disappear.

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Hey, guys!

I was sent an e-copy of Biome from Ryan Galloway for an honest review.

I was really excited to read this book. Unfortunately, I had a few issues when it came to structuring, content, and frankly, I wasn't too fond of the characters. 

      Biome follows Lizzy Engram who is a cadet in the Mars Colony. She and hundreds of other cadets are working nonstop in order to ensure the future colonies are able to inhabit Mars...But every Sunday night the cadet's memories are erased. One day, Lizzy wakes up with all of the missing memories. She begins a journey to discover why the memories have been uploaded into her head and to ensure the safety of the colony and the cadets who have been taking care of it. 

      This book has a very interesting premise and I really liked the concept that Ryan came up with. The beginning of the book was pretty good. It was a bit slow, but it picked up for a good chunk of time. Unfortunately, the middle of the book felt, to me, to be a bunch of filler space and I got bored really quickly and I didn't really have any connection with the characters and I found the main character to be really boring and unrelatable. Her whole attitude was really annoying and I didn't even care about what happened to her. 

Overall, the concept was really interesting and I liked the psychology aspects of it, but it the middle was really slow and boring and I didn't really care. This book caused me to get into a really nasty reading slump. 

I think that fans of science fiction and dystopian YA, then you'll really like this. I think I just read this during a time that I wasn't in the mood to read science fiction. I don't know if I'll read the sequel, but I kind of want to know how the story ends, but I don't want all of the details...I just want the bare bones....

Don't forget to check out this book when it comes out in December 2016!!!!

Happy reading, y'all!
Olivia
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