Books I Didn’t Finish: August & September 2018

Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean Genre: High Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Houghton Mifflin eARC, 384 pages Source: NetGalley In a palace of illusions, nothing is what it seems. Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace’s enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete—all except yōkai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined […]

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on 4 October, 2018 | 0 Comments

Books I Didn’t Finish: April & May 2018

ISAN by Mary Ting Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Vesuvian Books (5.1.2018) eARC, 330 pages Source: Netgalley The world has changed. Scientists warned it would happen. Meteors devastated the Earth. World Governments developed plans to help surviving citizens. The United States disbanded and salvageable land was divided into four quadrants—North, South, East, and West—governed by The Remnant Council. Struggling to survive, seventeen-year-old Ava ends up in juvenile detention, until she is selected for a new life—with a catch. She […]

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on 28 June, 2018 | 1 Comment

Books I Didn’t Finish: January & February 2018

Furyborn by Claire Legrand Series: The Empirium Trilogy #1 Genre: High Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Sourcebooks Fire (5.22.2018) ARC, 491 pages Source: I own it (Illumicrate) When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. […]

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on 3 March, 2018 | 3 Comments

Books I Didn’t Finish in 2017

I had a terrible year in reading! I was in a massive reading slump for months on end, and during those months I picked up countless books and couldn’t get into anything. I was going through 4-5 books before I found something I could stick to. On the bright side, I rated books much higher because I DNFed the ones I wasn’t enjoying. I may have only read 20 books, but out of those only 3 of them were under 4 […]

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on 30 December, 2017 | 6 Comments

Books I Didn’t Finish: Fall 2016

Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige Series: Stealing Snow #1 Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s (9.20.2016) eARC, 375 pages Source: NetGalley Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent her life locked in Whittaker Psychiatric—but she isn’t crazy. And that’s not the worst of it. Her very first kiss proves anything but innocent…when Bale, her only love, turns violent. Despite Snow knowing that Bale would never truly hurt her, he is taken away—dashing her last hope for any sort of future in the mental ward she calls home. […]

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on 11 November, 2016 | 6 Comments

Books I Didn’t Finish: July & August 2016

Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken Genre: High Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Egmont USA (3.23.2010) Hardcover, 354 pages Source: I own it The day the rains came was like any other, blistering air coating the canyon in a heavy stillness…. Just as the rains come after ten long, dry years, a young wizard, Wayland North, appears, to whisk Sydelle Mirabil away from her desert village. North needs an assistant, and Sydelle is eager to see the country – and to join him on his quest to stop […]

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on 8 September, 2016 | 0 Comments

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