Mini Review: Memento by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 10, 2020 | 0 Comments

I absolutely LOVED this origin story of how the crazy yet endearing AIDAN that we know was born! It’s kinda creepy, because you can see where he’s coming from even as he makes horrific choices. He always has the best interest of the fleet in mind, but is murder justifiable for survival? It brings into question humanity, and the morality of weighing one life against many, or even one deemed more valuable. Chilling! Even though this was only 82 pages, […]

Heartbeat Monthly (24): January 2020 + Book Signing!

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 9, 2020 | 0 Comments

January haul Bought Illuminae Hypatia & Alexander patches – from @tess_a_tofi_mezi_knihami on Insta Flick the Wick Howlers box Freebies Publisher/for promo Raven & Dove by Kaitlyn Davis (direct from the author) Aurora Burning by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman (Penguin Random House) We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian (Simon & Schuster) P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han, movie tie in cover (Simon & Schuster) The Deceivers by Kristen Stewart (Tor Teen) Scammed by Kristen Stewart (Tor Teen) All […]

Review: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 7, 2020 | 2 Comments

Why did I wait so long to read this?! I guess I thought I wouldn’t like it – it had some mixed reviews, and recently I’ve seen mostly bad ones, so I started questioning whether it would be a me book or not. But it totally was! I love how strange and haunting this book was – it’s definitely a darker fantasy. It pushed the boundaries of magical realism, without being annoying and full of wtfery like the genre usually is […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Predict Will Be 5 Stars

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 4, 2020 | 4 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I actually did some 5 star predictions on my 5 Star Books of 2019 post! I’ve already read Raybearer, which came close with 4.5 stars; I’ve also read Goddess in the Machine and Seven Deadly Shadows, and they were in fact NOT 5 stars, whomp whomp. Like I said on that post, predicting 5 star reads for me is super hard because I can never tell whether I’m going to love […]

Review: Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on February 3, 2020 | 0 Comments

You are made of dreams and this world is not for you. Okay, so I loved the Raven Boys series, and Ronan was my FAVORITE character out of the whole series. So imagine my elation when I found out that he had his own series coming out!!!!! I was kinda worried going in that this wouldn’t amount to the very tall pedestal of hype that I had raised it on in my head, but IT DID. OH, it did. RONAN […]

Books I Didn’t Finish: Winter 2019-2020

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 31, 2020 | 2 Comments

The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco Series: The Never Tilting World #1 Published by HarperTeen (10.15.2019) Genres: High Fantasy, Young Adult Format: Hardcover, 496 pages Source: I own it Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon. But seventeen years ago, one sister’s betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two. The planet ceased to spin, and a Great Abyss now divides two realms: one cloaked in perpetual night, the other scorched by an unrelenting sun. While one […]