Summer TBR

It's that time of the year again. People are posting their lists of books they want to read this summer. I felt like this was the perfect post for my blog, because I have a lot of books I want to get to in July and August. These are books I've been wanting to get to for ages or books I'm just really excited about. Let's dive straight in!

The Diviners - Libba Bray: Creepy, Haunting Crime Investigation

Title: The Diviners

Author: Libba Bray

Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers 

Puhlication date: September 18th 2012

Series: The Diviners (#1)

Purchase: Kobo, Amazon

Rating: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

                       

                    

Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened. 

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2015

This is a year-long reading challenge hosted over at My Reader's Block. The purpose of this challenge is to choose a level and read the chosen number of books from your TBR that were on there prior to January 1st 2015. 

You can say I am quite late to the party. I join in when this post goes online. This means that I will not count the books I read from my TBR the first few months of 2015. I will start counting when this post is actually on my blog. 

To start it off, I chose the lowest level possible because I can still upgrade my level. But from the moment I upgrade, I cannot go down anymore. The level I chose, is:

Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile.

I did not choose my books beforehand, because I feel like I am obligated to read them and I want to read what I am in the mood for. At the moment, I am reading:

Title: The Secret History
Author: Donna Tartt
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Penguin Books
First Publication: 1992
Genre: Contemporary thriller
Synopsis: A group of eccentric misfits at an elite New England college go beyond the boundary of normal morality and at last slip - inexorably - into evil.
Goodreads | Amazon 



This book has been on my TBR since September 13th 2014, since I was currently reading it prior to this post I will count it towards my goal. If there are any new additions to my reading challenge, I will make a new post with the update next month. 

Are you doing any challenges? Which ones?

Review: Bomb - Sarah Mussi

Title: Bomb
Author: Sarah Mussi
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
First Publication: May 7th 2015
Genre: Young adult thriller
Source: Netgalley
Synopsis: When Genesis goes on a blind internet date, she just wants to get over her ex-boyfriend Naz. But when Genesis wakes up the morning after the date, she can't remember a thing. To her horror Genesis has become an agent of mass destruction, a walking weapon in the hands of a terrorist cell.
Goodreads | Amazon
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I received Bomb from Hodder Children's Books in exchange for an honest review.
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Bomb drowned me in tears. My heart ached for these characters. Extremely captivating read. It kept me up all night wanting to finish it.

After waking up in a cellar, Genesis doesn't quite remember what happened to her. But it all comes back to her, mostly in the beginning of the book. Imagine being in Gen's position, though. Strapped to a bomb, waking up alone in a dark unlit room. I would be scared out of my mind and actually, so is Gen herself. The way Gen handles everything throughout this book is so well developed and realistic. I adored Gen's personality. Her emotions felt so real to me. She undergoes some serious character development and I loved her for every single moment of it. Even after she had developed a lot, she still bounced back into her old thought patterns which I thought of as lifelike. Nobody you hold dear can be forgotten within an hour. The characters in this book definitely did not get over their grief in an hour, luckily. They hurt, they bled and they cried. 

Stacking the Shelves #1

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted over at Tynga's Reviews. This meme is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks.