29 June 2015

Review #259: Only We Know by Simon Packham



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.” 


----Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author



Simon Packham, an English YA author, pens his latest YA book, Only We Know, that traces the story of a young teenage girl named Lauren, who moves to a new town with her parents and her younger sister, the only slight problem is that the whole family is trying to run as well as hide away from Lauren's little secret, so they all have to maintain a very low profile to not to attract any undue attention towards themselves. What is that secret?


27 June 2015

Review #258: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...” 


----Christina Westover, an American novelist



Patricia Highsmith, an American classic novelist, has penned an incredible tale of love and despair between two same-sex human beings, originally known as The Price of Salt. Later it was re-published with the title, Carol. And in the wake of Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage across all the states of USA, I chose to write the review of this beautiful same-sex love story which I read quite a few years ago.


Review #257: Powerless (The Hero Agenda #1) by Tera Lynn Childs, Tracy Deebs



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.”


----Michael Grant, an American author


Tera Lynn Childs, an award-winning best-seller author and Tracy Deebs, pseudonym of Tracy Wolff, pens their new YA book, Powerless which is the first book in The Hero Agenda series, that is all about superheroes and their superpowers and it is mostly about those who don't belong in this lucky category or rather say someone who doesn't have any powers. This is Kenna who belongs in a world of heroes and villains and despite her ordinary condition, she fights hard for herself to make herself a part of this world, where everything is not so laid out like it is supposed to be.


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.