This week I’m recommending you five books because of their
covers. Sometimes you just have to go blind into a book and let it take you by
surprise. So here’s a rainbow of 5 awesome books ;)
PS: All covers are linked to Goodreads!
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
Series:
stand-alone
Genre:
new adult, contemporary, forbidden love, drama.
My review: here.
Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt
more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their
alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As de
facto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And
the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so
completely—has also brought them closer than two siblings would
ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their
clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their
relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop
what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and
shocking finale, only one thing is certain: A love this devastating has no
happy ending.
The Kill Order by James Dashner
Series: prequella
from The Maze Runner trilogy
Genre: young
adult, dystopia, sci-fy.
My review: /
Synopsis:
Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas
entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease.
Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But
surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of
rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there’s something
suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it’s mutating, and all evidence
suggests that it will bring humanity to its knees.
Mark and Trina are convinced there’s a way to save those left living
from descending into madness. And they’re determined to find it—if they can
stay alive. Because in this new, devastated world, every life has a price. And
to some, you’re worth more dead than alive.
Endgame: The Calling by James Frey
Series: Endgame
#1
Genre: young
adult, sci-fy, dystopia, thriller, romance.
My review: /
Synopsis:
Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid
smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed
gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they
had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told us someday
they would come back, and when they did, a game would be played. A game that
would determine our future.
For ten thousand years the lines have existed in secret. The 12 original
lines of humanity. Each had to have a Player prepared at all times. They have
trained generation after generation after generation. In weapons, languages,
history, tactics, disguise assassination. Together the players are everything:
strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle,
beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak. They are good and evil. Like
you. Like all.
When the game starts, the players will have to find three keys. The keys
are somewhere on earth. The only rule of their Endgame is that there are no
rules. Whoever finds the keys first wins the game. Endgame: The Calling is
about the hunt for the first key. And just as it tells the story of the hunt
for a hidden key, written into the book is a puzzle. It invites readers to play
their own Endgame and to try to solve the puzzle. Whoever does will open a case
filled with gold. Alongside the puzzle will be a revolutionary mobile game
built by Google’s Niantic Labs that will allow you to play a real-world version
of Endgame where you can join one of the lines and do battle with people around
you.
Will exuberance beat strength? Stupidity top kindness? Laziness thwart
beauty? Will the winner be good or evil? There is only one way to find out.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Series:
stand-alone
Genre: young
adult, contemporary, romance.
My review: here.
Synopsis:
Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did
absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's
decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more - she wants to
dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's
horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where
she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than
anything she's experienced in real life.
Without Wren, Cath is completely on her own and totally outside her
comfort zone. She's got a surly room-mate with a charming, always-around
boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the
civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . .
And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has
never really been alone.
Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new
people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn
about love than she ever thought possible.
Made For You By Melissa Marr
Series:
stand-alone
Genre:
young adult, fantasy, mystery, romance, thriller, gothic
My review: /
Synopsis:
When Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital, she’s confused—who in her
sleepy little North Carolina town could have hit her with their car? And why?
But before she can consider the question, she finds that she’s awoken with a
strange new skill: the ability to foresee people’s deaths when they touch her.
While she is recovering from the hit-and-run, Nate, an old flame, reappears,
and the two must traverse their rocky past as they figure out how to use Eva’s
power to keep her friends—and themselves—alive. But while Eva and Nate grow
closer, the killer grows increasingly frantic in his attempt to get to Eva.
For the first time, New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr has
applied her extraordinary talent to contemporary realism. Chilling twists,
unrequited obsession, and high-stakes romance drive this Gothic, racy
thriller—a story of small-town oppression and salvation. Melissa’s fans, and
every YA reader, will find its wild ride enthralling.
Ignite by Lily Paradis
Series: Ignite
#1
Genre:
young adult, contemporary, romance, drama.
My review: here.
Synopsis:
After her father’s untimely demise in a mining accident and her mother’s
abandonment, Lauren Lindsay is no stranger to loss. She’s used to living life
for one person: herself. That is, until another family tragedy thrusts three
children into her care and uproots her life in ways she could never imagine.
Lauren's first instinct is to run, until she meets their striking,
mysterious neighbor Dean Powell. Their immediate chemistry and his connection
with her late father just might be enough to keep her in town long enough to
uncover pieces of her past that she never had answers to. Dean’s shady past and
her reluctance to trust him could cost her the life she's always been searching
for, but will she run back to her old life?
Or will she choose to stay and live the life her father always imagined
for her?
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