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May 8, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Matched by Ally Condie

Cas­sia has always trusted the Soci­ety to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Match­ing cer­e­mony, Cas­sia knows with com­plete cer­tainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Soci­ety tells her it's a glitch, a rare mal­func­tion, and that she should focus on the happy life she's des­tined to lead with Xan­der. But Cas­sia can't stop think­ing about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cas­sia begins to doubt the Society's infal­li­bil­ity and is faced with an impos­si­ble choice: between Xan­der and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to fol­low. Con­tinue read­ing →

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February 2, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: A Million Suns by Beth Revis

God­speed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.

It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And every­where she looks, she sees the walls of the space­ship God­speed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed lead­er­ship of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision — no more Phy­dus, no more lies.

But when Elder dis­cov­ers shock­ing news about the ship, he and Amy race to dis­cover the truth behind life on God­speed. They must work together to unlock a puz­zle that was set in motion hun­dreds of years ear­lier, unable to fight the romance that's grow­ing between them and the chaos that threat­ens to tear them apart.

In book two of the Across the Uni­verse tril­ogy, New York Times best­selling author Beth Revis mes­mer­izes us again with a bril­liantly crafted mys­tery filled with action, sus­pense, romance, and deep philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending con­clu­sion: They have to get off this ship. Con­tinue read­ing →

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January 23, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth (And sort of a Giveaway.. Reminder)

In Beat­rice Prior's dystopian Chicago, soci­ety is divided into five fac­tions, each ded­i­cated to the cul­ti­va­tion of a par­tic­u­lar virtue—Candor (the hon­est), Abne­ga­tion (the self­less), Daunt­less (the brave), Amity (the peace­ful), and Eru­dite (the intel­li­gent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the fac­tion to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beat­rice, the deci­sion is between stay­ing with her fam­ily and being who she really is — she can't have both. So she makes a choice that sur­prises every­one, includ­ing herself.

Dur­ing the highly com­pet­i­tive ini­ti­a­tion that fol­lows, Beat­rice renames her­self Tris and strug­gles to deter­mine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a some­times fas­ci­nat­ing, some­times infu­ri­at­ing boy fits into the life she's cho­sen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hid­den from every­one because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she dis­cov­ers a grow­ing con­flict that threat­ens to unravel her seem­ingly per­fect soci­ety, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves… or it might destroy her.

Debut author Veron­ica Roth bursts onto the lit­er­ary scene with the first book in the Diver­gent series—dystopian thrillers filled with elec­tri­fy­ing deci­sions, heart­break­ing betray­als, stun­ning con­se­quences, and unex­pected romance. Con­tinue read­ing →

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January 17, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis

A love out of time. A space­ship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her par­ents as frozen cargo aboard the vast space­ship God­speed and expects to awake on a new planet, three hun­dred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slum­ber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into a brave new world of a space­ship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly real­izes that her awak­en­ing was no mere com­puter mal­func­tion. Someone—one of the few thou­sand inhab­i­tants of the spaceship—tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do some­thing soon, her par­ents will be next. Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hid­den secrets.

But out of her list of mur­der sus­pects, there’s only one who mat­ters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen com­ing. Con­tinue read­ing →

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July 15, 2011
by Patricia
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Review: Geisterflut by Stacia Kane

I am going to write a review in Eng­lish later. Geis­ter­flut by Sta­cia Kane Broschiert: 399 Seiten Ver­lag: Lyx (11. Feb­ruar 2011) ISBN-10: 3802583566 · ISBN-13: 978–3802583568 Ama­zon (EUR 9,95) // Leseprobe hier Klap­pen­text In einer Welt, in der die Geis­ter der Toten aufer­ste­hen und die Leben­den ver­fol­gen, sind Geis­ter­jäger sehr gefragt. Chess … Con­tinue read­ing →

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July 4, 2011
by Patricia
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Review: Psy|Changeling Series 5–9 by Nalini Singh

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Psy Changeling by Nalini Singh Genre: Para­nor­mal Romance Excerpt: Nalini Singh’s Home­page Fin­ished: Nope Rat­ing: | M – MA I’ve reviewed the first four books already, here. As men­tioned before, Nalini Singh was one of the first para­nor­mal romance authors I’ve ever come across. … Con­tinue read­ing →