Morning Star by Pierce Brown My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars This review contains spoilers for Red Rising and Golden Son Book synopsis: The Helldiver of Lykos was carved a Gold and thrown into the wolves to take the Society down as an insider. After succeeding at the Institute, Darrow is taken under Nero au…
Category: YA science-fiction
Golden Son by Pierce Brown (Book Review)
Golden Son by Pierce Brown My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars This review contains spoilers for Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Click here for a non-spoiler review of Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Book Review) Book synopsis: Darrow was born a Red, down in the mines of Mars, a Helldiver risking his life daily to…
Book Haul (November 2016)
We are steadily heading towards the end of the year and I’m proud to say that November has been a modest book buying month for me – compared to the previous extravaganza hauls I posted! After my October post (A very crucial bookish realisation) about how buying books should be a more well-thought process for…
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Book Review)
Red Rising by Pierce Brown My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars What this book is about: Life as a Red is a daily struggle, a constant laboring endeavour to mine and work, a grind to extract precious Helium-3 from the depths of the red planet’s subterranean field. Earth is dying. Reds are the chosen ones,…
Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black (Book Review)
Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars What this book is about: In the distant future planet Earth and its citizens have been in war with alien forces reffered to as “Valentines” or “Romeo”. Earth has been defending its place in this universe for many years now and seems…
Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine (Book Review)
Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars What this book is about: We are back in 1812 and Arabella aged 16 is playing with her brother a game of shorosh khe kushura. She is determined that this time she will be able to beat him. Life is simple and…
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (Book Review)
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey My rating: 1.5 of 5 stars What this book is about: Cassie is an average teenage girl whose main concerns revolve around school, her friends and boys. Especially one boy named Ben Parish. But when the aliens or the Others decide to take over the Earth, Cassie and the…
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