26 June 2015

Review #256: The Dry by R.L. Nolen



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” 


----Jim Morrison



R.L. Nolen, an American author, has penned an enticing as well as thrilling middle grade book, The Dry , which traces the journey of a 12-year old boy who embarks on a path to search for his newspaper journalist father who went missing after he went to look for the missing children, possibly involved in child slavery, in some dilapidated part of a strange and mysterious mine town.


25 June 2015

Review #255: Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian




My rating:
5 of 5 stars


"It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember... We will always reject any attempt to erase its record, even for some political advantage." 


----Yossi Beilin, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister


According to Wiki,

The Armenian Genocide, carried out during and after World War I, was the Turkish Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian population which approximates to almost 1.5 million.



Aline Ohanesian, an Armenian authors, pens a thoroughly spellbinding as well as completely heart-breaking novel, Orhan's Inheritance which centers around the timeline and horrific period of Armenian Genocide in the year of 1915 through an enriching and soulful story of Orhan, who is a young Turkish man, searches for the pieces of his family past after his grandfather leaves their family home to a mysterious woman.

24 June 2015

Review #254: Ghost Image (Sophie Medina #2) by Ellen Crosby



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”


----Diane Arbus, an American photographer



Ellen Crosby, an American authors, pens her new book in the Sophie Medina series, Ghost Image, where Sophie Media, a photo journalist, finds her best friend-cum-Franciscan dead in the middle of a holy church, followed by the revelation behind an age old mystery related to a particular kind of seed and plant which is believed to be very extinct, little did she knew that her friend's discovery would even shake up the whole political world and other beneficiaries from D.C to London.


22 June 2015

Review #253: The Heir (The Selection #4) by Kiera Cass



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”

----Kiera Cass



Kiera Cass, the best-selling author of The Selection series pens her fourth book in this enchanting dystopian series, The Heir that traces the love story of Prince Maxon and America's daughter, Eadlyn, who too follows the same path like her father's to find a suitable husband for herself.



19 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #48: With Catherine Hunt



Hello and welcome folks,
Today in yet another author Q&A Session, we have the debut author, whose psychological thriller, Someone Out There have scared and intrigued quite a lot of readers' minds. Yes, today we have, Catherine Hunt, who is here to talk about her journey, her debut book, and about her life beyond books and all.

Stay tuned and keep reading.

Read the review of Someone Out There

Review #252: The One (The Selection #3) by Kiera Cass



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that.”


----Kiera Cass



Kiera Cass, the best-selling author of The Selection series pens her third book in this enchanting dystopian series, The One which features a young lady who fought hard enough to win over the prince Maxon's heart as well as the crown, but as the competition is closing in to the last stage, so the threats and attacks on the palace from the external world are increasing with each passing minute.


Review #251: The Dolls (The Dolls #1) by Kiki Sullivan



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” 


----W.B. Yeats, an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature



Kiki Sullivan, an American author, has penned a thrilling as well as an enchanting YA tale of magic, friendships, love and lots of herbs and sexy dolls, The Dolls which happens to be the first book in The Dolls series, where a group of friends with strange magical powers (harnessed from various weird kind of herbs) try to protect their town from external attacks like soldiers trying to drive a sharp knife through the hearts of those girls, that's the bottom line of this book.


Feature & Follow #14: Show off your tattoo!



Morning my dear friends,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!