Review: Shattered Veil by Tracy Banghart

Genre: Young Adult, Science-fiction, Romance

Publisher: Self-published

Publication:  February 28th 2014

Pages: 377 (Paperback)
             295 (eBook)
             372 (Kindle Edition)
Formats:: Kindle Edition, Paperback, eBook

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When everything that defines you is stripped away, who do you become?
War has invaded Atalanta’s quiet villages and lush woodlands, igniting whispered worries in its glittering capitol. Far from the front lines, 18-year-old Aris Haan, a talented wingjet flyer, has little cause for concern. Until her beloved Calix is thrust into the fray, and a stranger makes her an impossible offer: the chance to join a secret army of women embedded within the all-male military.

Aris’s choice to follow Calix to war will do more than put her in physical danger; it will make her question everything she believes about herself. When she and her enigmatic commander uncover a deadly conspiracy, her expert flying may be the only hope for her dominion’s survival…and her own.

It’s Mulan meets Battlestar Galactica, with a heroine who is strong enough to save a nation…but only if she’s willing to sacrifice everything, even the one promise she swore she’d never break.

Review: Ghost Hand by Ripley Patton

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
Publisher: - (Indie)
Publication: November 28th, 2012
Series: The PSS Chronicles series
Pages: 372


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Seventeen-year-old Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.

How does Olivia handle being the girl with the ghost hand? Well, she's a little bit morbid and a whole lot snarky.

Her mother thinks her obsession with death, black clothing, and the local cemetery is a bid for attention. But when Marcus, the new guy in Olivia's calculus class, stares at her like she's a freak, Olivia doesn't like it. And when her hand goes rogue, doing things she never imagined possible, Olivia finds herself running for her life with Marcus from a group of men bent on taking the power of her hand for their own nefarious purposes.


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ARC Review: On the Edge of Humanity by S.B. Alexander

I just signed up to Book Blogging a few weeks ago and started looking for ARCs instantly (as well as for challenges and memes). I soon found one that seemed rather intriguing, a vampire story. I'm usually a bit cautious with vampire stories, because I do love them, but there are only a few really good one, however, since it's not the kind of ARC that comes before publication, it actually was published in 2012, I could read a few reviews on Goodreads. Most of them were quite content, the uppermost one said she wasn't a fan of vampire stories but had loved this one. Well, unfortunately I can't share the love.

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Vampires
Publisher: - (Indie)
Publication: December 28th, 2012
Series: Vampire SEALs
Pages: 324

Format: eARC
Source: Book Blogging

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Sixteen-year-old Jo Mason is lost in a world where traipsing from one foster home to another is normal. She hates her life, she hates school and on most days, she hates living. If it weren’t for her twin brother Sam, she may already be dead.

Her normal world shifts one hundred and eighty degrees when she discovers her own blood tastes like candy and her eyes change colors like a mood ring. On top of that, her eyesight seems to be failing when she spies an otherworldly man sporting bloodstained canines trying to strangle a cop. The developments are shrouded when Sam goes missing between Anger Management class and History class.

She’s called to the principal’s office to meet Lieutenant Webb London, a Navy SEAL who is part of a secret team of natural-born vampires. His mission is to protect the twins from an evil cartel, but he’s too late. With Jo now under his protection, his team searches for Sam.

However, finding and rescuing Sam from the evil cartel may be the easy part. Jo learns she carries a dormant vampire gene that, if activated, could save him. As her normal world fades even more, pushing her closer to the edge of humanity, Jo must decide if her human life is more important than her twin brother.

With time as her enemy, she struggles to make a life-changing decision for both her and Sam.


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Abbreviations - Advanced Vocabulary of a Reviewer

Today as I was writing the review about Shimmering which book was written by an Indie author. And here we are. If you are brand-new to the review world/book blog, you might not know what's that mean along with POV, FMC, MMC, etc. I was like this first, too so here is my little compilation of what I learned since I started. :)

POV: Point of view. It refers to the character who narrates the story. "Divergent is in Tris's POV."



Indie: Independent author, that is who doesn't publish their book through a publisher, but by themselves. Read more: http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2011/12/09/self-publishing-indie-author-definition/



FMC: Female Main Character.



MMC: Male Main Character.



ARC: Advanced Reading Copy. Before a book officially gets published, the author or the publisher gives out a copy to people who then have to review it, often within a given time-frame. There are websites as well that help to conduct the book-review exchange such as NetGalley.



OP: Out-of-print. Not too much description required, I believe. Books that no longer being printed.



Pb or Ppr: Paperback.



unpag: Unpaginated. The pages are not numbered. 



DNF: Did not finish book. Book you did't finish reading, but review though. Reviews generally don't rate it in this case, but mark how many percent they read. E. g. DNF 48%.

Review: Shimmering (The Dark Origins #1) by D.L. Miles

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Publisher: - (Indie)
Publication: Jan. 15, 2013
Series: The Dark Origins
Pages: 229

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