Following my heart, one book at a time...
Station Eleven: A novel
I backtracked to one of my older TBR lists and pulled this one out of the files. Having one-clicked it over a year ago (and having just come off the magnificence that was “The Martian”), I was in the mood for more of that insurmountable “end-of-the-world/starting over” feel.
Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and an after, a line drawn through his life.
The Martian: A Novel
<— OMG I LOVED IT!!!!!!!! One of the best books I’ve ever read, wholeheartedly experienced, had panic attacks over, and rejoiced in. Back and forth, all of it at the same time, in no particular order. It tried to kill me, as Mars kept trying to kill him, and OMG!!!!! WHAT. A. STORY!!!!!!! What a journey!
It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving.
The worst part? Where I shake my head and want to scold myself? I could have “LIVED” this a long time ago. My friend Fabi has been trying to get me to read this for a year or two, now. Oh yes. She knows good books.
<— NEW SERIES by Evangeline Anderson and it’s already three books deep!!!
About book #1:
My name is Zoe McKinley. I have a boring life, an awful job, and a boss that throws staplers at my head. What could be worse?
How about being abducted by Aliens?
Being dragged through a mirror, naked and screaming, onto an extraterrestrial ship was bad. Finding out I had been sold to a huge alien male who looks like the Devil was worse. But learning he wanted to trade me to an intergalactic petting zoo was the worst of all!
Exiled: Brides of the Kindred 7: (Alien Scifi Romance)
Review by Johanne Pearl Couturier
Back to Montreal Canada (thank you to my sweet sister for her welcoming home), I continued reading Evangeline’s Brides of the Kindred series. I thought this book was kind of slow to start… but it is only because I am not at all like Lissa. She is a very very shy person who’s been raised with very strict principles… principles that are kept strict on her planet by injecting a chemical to the population to make sure they get sick if they don’t follow them.
Imitation (The Imitation Series, Book 1)
Review by Johanne Pearl Couturier
When I first read the blurb, I got curious. I thought it very interesting to see the world through a clone’s eyes… but when I started reading the story, wow! From the start, there is that idea that if we reproduce someone’s every cell, we should get a perfect copy. But what about the rest? The memories, the experiences, the character…
In this book, we go through Ven’s thoughts and dreams while she leaves the only place she has known since her first breath, the underground city where everything she does is controlled for her to be able to imitate perfectly the human she was cloned from… But is cloning making exactly the same person? It is very refreshing to follow her as she experiences real life for the first time and, while her human counterpart is bored with her rich life, Ven is just amazed by so much discoveries… she would love to shout her joy but she has to keep her head high and pretend to be a bitch. They never told her how long she would have to be the replacement… nor how dangerous it could become.