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Amy A. Bartol – The Kricket Series Reading Order

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<— AMY BARTOL SUPER-BARGAIN ALERT!!! This is the author of the much loved “Premonition series” and here is her other one! Great reviews (a ton of ’em!) and all three of the books in this series are super-bargain priced right now! It’s YA sci-fi dystopian.

Kat: All 3 books in the series are on sale…

Nikki: Under Different Stars by Amy Bartol! Love this series!!

About book #1:

Kricket Hollowell never wished upon stars. She was too busy hiding in plain sight, eluding Chicago’s foster care system. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, she now eagerly anticipates the day she’ll stop running and finally find her place in the world. read more

Book Review – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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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. read more

Book Review – The Martian by Andy Weir

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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. read more

Evangeline Anderson – Alien Mate Index Series Reading Order

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<— 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! read more

Guest Review (my sister!!) – Exiled (Brides of the Kindred Book 7) by Evangeline Anderson

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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. read more