The Infernal Devices 1: Clockwork Angel 
Cassandra Clare
Kindle eBook
Pages: 500
Walker 6 Sep 2009
ASIN: B0046EDMZ6
Text to speech: Enabled
Genre: Steampunk, Mystery, Sci Fi & Fantasy, YA Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Paranormal Romance, 
Amazon: £4.04 (June ‘12)
My Rating: Hit

Blurb:
A prequel to the Mortal Instruments Series 
Magic is dangerous - but love is more dangerous still.. when sixteen-year-old Tessa Grey arrives in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets, Friendless and hunted, Tessa seeks refugee with the Shadowhunters, a band of warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons. Drawn ever deeper into their world, she finds herself fascinated by - and torn between - two best friends and quickly realises that love may be the most dangerous magic of all. 

My Review:
Tessa Grey is all alone in New York, her parents are dead and she’s been living with her Aunt Harriet since, but now, too, she has passed on and a steam liner ticket bound for London, England awaits her. To reunite her with her older brother Nathaniel ‘Nate’. Her brother and a whole new world that’s a long way away from civilised conversation and poetry recitals over china teacups and the sun drenched Central Park in the midst of summer.

Unbeknownst to Tessa she is different, she is not human. Tessa will have to shake off her memories and past loyalties to embrace who and what she is, she may be in the ‘grey’ but there’s a whole world waiting for her in London, that knows exactly who she is and what she can do, once she’s been enlightened. it’s prudent to remember that magic is neither good, nor evil, it depends wholly on who wields it. Tessa learns, however reluctantly, to wield her special power and now she must choose which side to fight on. The Shadowhunter’s who offer her refuge in the institute, who vow to protect humans (mundanes) from the demons that pass through the worlds. Or will she be tricked and unable to leave her brother Nate, who is no longer who he used to be and align with the Magister, the head of a new clockwork army that threatens both Shadowhunter’s and Mundanes alike. 

Clare’s writing draws you in so quickly and brilliantly that it made me want to wave this book in people’s faces and say,”This!, this is why I love to read!!” There are only a handful of special books that can make you leap up and punch the air and shout YEAH!!! and let out that inner child we all bury deep inside ourselves and this series is one of them. Victorian London is delicately and wonderfully described, it’s not hard to see the story roll out like an epic movie in front of you eyes, you can even smell it. 

You’ll quickly begin to become friends with the Shadowhunter’s, Charlotte, Henry, Will, Jem and maybe even the snobby Jessamine and loath the Magister and his twisted Downworlder crowd, they leap of the page and into your hearts, you fight along side them, you catch your breath when things don’t go quite to plan. You want to slap Will’s face and ask him to be serious for once in his life and spend a day with Henry in his lab playing with all the toys, I mean.. experiments. 

500 pages fly by as the pace is well set and it packs a punch with information and emotion. Leaving you wanting more, at least I do. I can’t wait to pick up Clockwork Prince and start the Mortal Instrument series! 

Switched (Trylle Trilogy book 1)
Amanda Hocking
eBook
Pages: 336
Tor 5 Jan 2012
ASIN: B005I3P94Q
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £0.89
Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, YA, Fiction, Romance,
My Rating: Epic Miss

Blurb:
Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she’s not the monster her mother claimed she is – she does feel that she doesn’t quite fit in The new girl in High School, she’s bored and frustrated by her small town life – and then there’s the secret that she can’t tell anyone. Her mysterious ability – she can influence people’s decisions, without knowing how, or why … When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night – her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist. Förening, the home of the Trylle. Everything begins to make sense to Wendy. Among the Trylle, she is not just different, but special. But what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. With everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But dark forces are conspiring – not only to separate them, but to see the downfall everything that Wendy cares about. The fate of Förening rests in Wendy’s hands, and the decisions she and Finn make could change all their lives forever

My review:
This was stepping out of my comfort zone sort of, I’ve read Vampire, Werewolves, Fey and Angel type books within the paranormal genre, but not Trolls so it was my first introduction to a Troll book and series. I was looking forward to it. As usual I didn’t read any reviews before I read Switched and although my expectations from the blurb were pretty accurate I overall didn’t enjoy it.

The plot was a bit sluggish throughout most of the book and I didn’t really start getting into it till almost the end. The pace was hard to follow, it would drag and then zoom and then drag again like a time line hadn’t really been thought out and followed it was just a series of events that were rushed to get them in because others went on so long. I thought it would be more troll culture, history based as the lead is taken from the human world into a the troll world but it’s really just a series of conversations which can get quite boring and leave you feeling that you haven’t been given enough plot to be kept interested. I understand that it’s the first book in a series and that it’s just the ‘set up’ but a little more to go on would have been nice. It hasn’t left me wanting to grab the second and third books like other series have.

I have to admit that if I don’t click with the main character than I’m usually not going to like the book and this is what happened with Switched and Wendy. I just found Wendy a bit to whiney and predictable, and it typical paranormal romance style as soon as she meets Finn she turns pathetic, stupid and can’t think for herself or bare to be alone. I really, really hate weak characters like that. I’m not saying every girl character needs to be stone cold Katniss Everdeen. I’m just saying a little back bone wouldn’t hurt.

Finn was interesting at the start, going from creep to love interest but again he soon lost steam and bored me with his lack of facts, making me think he really didn’t know any more than Wendy, when he should have done. He came through in the end though. I didn’t think the majority of the characters were that engaging or had much substance, they seemed to just feel like names on the page instead of people, friends you could actually see in your head or see bits of them in your actual friends.

The only character I was really interested in that didn’t get enough spot light was Rhys.

This was the first book by Amanda Hocking that I’ve read and as always with books I don’t like, I like to read other books by the author to get an overall view of their writing style to see if I like it or not, But sadly, the Trylle Trilogy is not for me.

That’s Another Story
Julie Walters
eBook
Pages: 368
Phoenix 16 April 2009
ASIN: B002VBV1PO
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £4.99
Genre: Autobiography, adult humour,
My Rating: Hit

Blurb:
The long awaited biography from the nation’s best loved actress

My Review:
I really enjoyed this. I haven’t read many biographies – I want to but for some reason I just keep pushing them back in the priority list.

Julie Walters writing is funny, intelligent and honest. The book covers her school years, how she constantly felt pressured by friends and teachers to be something she wasn’t, her family loves and losses, her career, how it all started, her favourite parts she’s played over the years, the men in her life, and her proudest achievement, being a mother.

Although I opted for the ebook and not the audio book, Julie Walters friendly and familiar voice rings loud on every page. My favourite parts of the book were when Julie talks about working as a nurse and her fondness for the older generation, how we have so much to learn from them and they are not just annoying people wanting to be waited on hand and foot and telling us we’re no good, we don’t know anything or we have a life so much easier than they did and should be thankful. It was really touching.

I’m also a big Victoria Wood fan so of course, those chapters where they work together were great to read.
It get’s quite dark in some places when she remembers some awkward and dangerous encounters with men. I wasn’t sure if it was just the norm for the time she was growing up, because she was an emerging personality or just because she happened to put herself in questionable situations.

Overal there wasn’t a single page or chapter that I didn’t find interesting or that didn’t have me laughing and engaged. I’d recommend it to any Julie Walter fan.

Recommended Editions:
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Sisters Red
Jackson Pearce
eBook
Pages: 364
Hodder Children’s Books 7 April 2011
ISBN: 1444900587
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £4.49
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, YA Fiction, YA Romance, Thriller, Paranormal Romance,
My Rating: Miss

Blurb:
The story of Scarlett and Rosie march, two highly-skileed sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves) – who pray on teen girls – since Scarlett lost her eye years ago while defending Rosie in an attack. Scarlett lives to destroy the Fenris, and she and Rosie lure them in with red clocks (a colour the wolves can’t resist). Though Rosie hunts more out of debt to her sister than drive. But things seem to be changing.The wolves are getting stronger and harder to fight, and there has been a rash of news reports about countless teenage girls being brutally murdered in the city. Scarlett and Rosie soon discover the truth: wolves are banding together in search of a Potential Fenris – man tainted by the pack but not yet fully changed. Desperate to find the Potential to use him as bait for a massive werewolf extermination, the sisters move to the city with Silas, a young woodsman and long time family friend who is deadly with an axe. Meanwhile, Rosie finds herself drawn to Silas and the bond they share not only drives the sisters apart, but could destroy all they’ve worked for.

Review:
Sisters Red is a retake on the Red Riding Hood story, Scarlett is an 18 year old stubborn, relentless Werewolf killer who comes across as the selfish, arrogant head of the household and cannot understand why her sister, Rosie, and even her hunting partner, Silas, want more to life than just killing. Rosie is shy and cowers from Scarlett, she can hunt as good as Scarlett and Silas but feels obliged to kill even though she doesn’t have the same drive and ‘live’ to kill as her sister but she does it anyway because Scarlett saved her life. Silas is 21 and shares Rosie’s ideal of living for other things besides hunting and killing, he gets closer to Rosie who’s 5 years younger and leaves Scarlett even more confused and angry with thoughts of betrayal. The chapters alternate between Rosie and Scarlett, letting you see both points of view.

This was meant to be an Audio Book review (the one time I see a good deal on Amazon and don’t check the Audible sample beforehand) but I couldn’t stand the American narrator for even half an hour so I had to default to the Kindle edition. I’m not going to lie I was disappointed with this book, I read the reviews which I don’t usually do before hand and watched some on youtube, I thought the hype would be right for a change but not in this case. The plot was overly predictable and boring towards the end, the characters irritated me early on in the book and it was a drag to keep on going. I did stop myself, read something else and started to read it again but the same problem resulted. Just not for me I guess, I’m not really into ya romance, and this falls into that genre but I like to keep trying and pushing out of my comfort zone. I always loved Red Riding Hood as a child and thought this would just be an updated extension but I expected too much or expecting something different entirely. The werewolves were an interesting take but the two female leads were just at odds, too much of one and not enough of the other, it just didn’t work for me. There was some early confusion at the beginning with not realising legal drinking age limits were different in the UK from the US. Other things uncommon in British terminology such as ‘floor boards’ in a car threw me off for a bit I had to retrace several pages to make sure I hadn’t missed something, like they had left the car and entered the cottage again, also no table of contents in the Kindle edition always a tick off. I felt the plot in general was slow paced and annoyingly prolonged instead of tantalisingly interesting and unputdownable. It’s put me off reading Sweatly but not Jackson Pearce. 

Also the whole age gap between Silas and Rosie just made me cringe.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
eBook
Pages: 349
Quirk Books 7 June 2011
ISBN: 1594744769
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £7.29
Genre: Fantasy, YA, Fiction, Mystery,
My Rating: Hit 

Blurb:
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here—one of whom was his own grandfather—were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Review:
Jacob and his Grandpa are very close, for years Grandpa Portman has shared wonderful stories of his childhood growing up in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, with his friends who could do many peculiar things, such as, float to the ceiling, instantaneously make and hold fire, have amazing strength, be completely invisible and even bring people back from the dead.

As Jacob grows up he doesn’t put so much trust in his Grandpa’s amazing fairy tales, but as his Grandpa gets more agitated and his parents wave it off as dementia, Jacob slowly starts to realise that there might be more fact than fiction in his Grandpa’s tales and when his Grandpa is killed by one of the monsters he’s always warning Jacob about, it leaves no doubt in his mind. He sets of on a journey to discover this strange home for children, to meet them and to fight these monsters that killed his Grandpa and threaten to kill him.

This book is amazing, I wish I had read it sooner and I have no idea why I didn’t. Ransom Riggs is fast becoming one of my favourite authors, his writing style is entertaining, smart and a pleasure to read. This book is over 300 pages long but you just fly through it, I read it in a couple of sittings because I just couldn’t put it down. The characters leap of the page with imagination and substance it’s brilliant. I wish I could be defy gravity and live on the ceilings, imagine how much space I could utilise in my house with twice the floor space?

Although I couldn’t see the vintage photography that’s included in this book, it didn’t diminish the atmosphere, the only lag was that I couldn’t read the letter that Grandpa Portman left Jacob, I missed valuable information which might have made the story have a bit more depth to it but I don’t think overly that this lack of information ruined the book, you can still enjoy and understand the story just as well without it. The descriptions were adequate enough for the characters in the photographS,  to come alive in your minds eye..

I haven’t read many time travel books but I think I could easily get into this genre after reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. I love being transported into other worlds and other times and this is done so well in this book. The blurb was a little misleading, hinting that the children themselves were a possible threat but there are far worse things than the children when your life is at stake. It’s well paced action will leave you wanting more and it not to end at all, the twists at the end came from nowhere! and have you rooted at the spot cheering on for the bird.

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About the Author
Ransom Riggs is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of the Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters viral video book trailer (named Best Book Trailer of the Year by Amazon.com!). He’s also the author of Quirk’s Sherlock Holmes Handbook. He is a screenwriter and filmmaker by trade. This is his first novel

Fever
Lauren DeStefano
eBook
Pages: 352
Harper Voyager: 16 Feb 2012
ISBN B0064E9RUK
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £6.99
Genre: YA, Fiction, Dystopian,
My Rating: Miss

Blurb:
For 17-year-old Rhine Ellery, a daring escape from a suffocating polygamous marriage is only the beginning…

Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again, With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago – surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness

The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous – and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion.. by any means necessary.

In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price – now that she has more to lose than ever.

Review: 
Fever is the second book in the Chemical Garden series, Rhine has escaped the mansion with Gabriel and now they are on their way to find Rhine’s brother Rowan, but obstacles block their every turn. They meet a new cast of characters, equally as untrustworthy but some may prove to be allies in this world gone crazy.

After really enjoying the previous book, Wither, I feel completely let down by Fever. To have escaped so dramatically at the end of the first book, only to fall right back into a trap so soon after the second book takes off, left me feeling jilted. It would have been nice to read several chapters of glorious escape and freedom before being trapped by a smart capturer or another set of Gatherer’s but to just walk into a trap, going against every one of Rhine’s instincts just to humour Gabriel’s naive optimism started it off on a bad note for me and it didn’t really get any better.

I struggled to stay in focus with this book. I was easily distracted and wanting to do other things which is not a good sign. It did have some interesting scenes with Lilac and when they meet her mother Claire, the touching scene with Silas when Rhine gets some air and finds a dead girls body lying face up in a ditch, with eyes wide open demanding for her attention. Yelling “it could have been you, it should have been you”.

I felt that Gabriel who had so much mystery and depth about him, back at the mansion, seemed to fall flat and just a tag along, a lost sheep with no real purpose. Which I guess is the point really because he’s just looking out for Rhine and not leading her, she’s leading him. But I felt that he was a ghost and really didn’t add anything, if he had died back in the circus it might have flowed better for me, the circumstances more desperate.

I still have not finished Fever and I don’t know if I will, I hate giving up on books but I really need to move on with my other April reads, I’ve wasted so much time on this already. I think I’d like to come back to it another time when I have more time to invest in the story and maybe I will feel differently about it. If that happens I will redo this review.

I typically don’t like spending more than £5 on an eBook but because I really enjoyed the first book, I thought it was a risk I could take with Fever. I was wrong. I don’t recommend buying this book at the current price.

I’m not sure if there are anymore in the Chemical Garden series and if there are I won’t be jumping to read them at this time, however I still really do like Wither, which is an interesting and descriptive stand alone book.

Another thing about this series that bothered me, was the fact at the beginning of every chapter you have a small graphic which I couldn’t see and the first sentence of every chapter is in tiny print, not like the regular print of the book, which meant I missed valuable opening information at the start of every chapter. Not very VI friendly, but probably aesthetically interesting to sighted readers.

Wither 
Lauren DeStefano
eBook
Pages: 320
Harper Voyager (4 Aug 2011)
ISBN: B005VEB7RK
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £4.49
Genre: YA, Fiction, Distopian,
My Rating: Hit

Blurb
Sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery has only four years left to live when she is kidnapped by the Gatherers and forced into a polygamous marriage. Now she has one purpose: to escape, find her twin brother, and go home – before her time runs out forever.

Review:
In the future the Earth we know today doesn’t exist. The third world war wiped every country and continent off this planet – all except one, North America. A virus has emerged that kills the new generations. These new generation’s lifespan is decreasing, now males die at 25 and females die at 20. Another war is raging now, this time between pro naturalists who destroy research facilities saying the human race is fated and should be left to die out verses the dying generations who want to live a longer life and have an antidote.

Rhine and her twin brother Rowan have been orphaned by their parents who were geneticists, blown up in a facility explosion. They only have each other now and even that isn’t enough to stop the crawling street scum, the Gatherers, splitting them apart. These grey uniformed men and their white vans who patrol the city streets for unsuspecting girls to be sold as either brides to the wealthy, prostitutes or maybe just shot on the spot.

“We stumble when they let us out, we’ve forgotten how to use our legs. How long has it been days? hours? The big open sky waits in it’s usual place”

Rhine is lured in my a job advertisement, they need the money, trouble is it’s a trap and she’s bundled into a white van with several other girls. Rhine and two others Jenna (18) and Cecily (13) are pulled from the line up, they hear the others girls being shot, some of them were Jenna’s sisters. The three of them have been chosen by a wealthy man called Lindon Ashby, he’s 21 and has 4 years left to live, his first wife Rose is on her deathbed so he needs replacements stat. But even if the other girls are happy to die in that Florida mansion, Rhine is not and her new goal is to escape and find her brother.

My favourite parts of the book are the flashbacks of Rhine and Rowan in their parents home, setting traps, sleeping in the basement, guarding the trunks I could see it all in my head. And the gardens of the mansion, great descriptions.

I really enjoyed the character dynamic, I don’t have any sisters of my own but I have close friends and plenty of cousins so I could easily imagine the tension of teenage girls and jealousy issues. I was really pleased that Rhine was a strong character, that didn’t suddenly turn stupid and annoying when she encounters a good looking guy. Lindon is completely clueless but he is kind and loving so I did feel a bit sorry for him at the end.

Overal all I enjoyed it and I thought it was well paced, I would have liked a bit more action adventure at the end leading on to the sequel, the build up was good but I thought the ending was just a bit short for a cliffhanger, still fun, interesting and gripping none the less. Looking forward to book 2 Fever.
Don’t let the Amazon reviews put you off, get the sampler, you won’t be disappointed.

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About the Author:
Lauren DeStefano was born in New Haven, Connecticut and has never traveled far from the east coast. She received a BA in English from Albertus Magnus College, and has been writing since childhood. She made her authorial debut by writing on the back of children’s menus at restaurants and filling up the notepads in her mom’s purse. Her very first manuscript was written on a yellow legal pad with red pen, and it was about a haunted shed that ate small children.

Now that she is all grown up (for the most part), she writes fiction for young adults. Her failed career aspirations include: world’s worst receptionist, coffee house barista, sympathetic tax collector, and English tutor. When she isn’t writing, she’s screaming obscenities at her Nintendo DS, freaking her cats out with the laser pen, or rescuing thrift store finds and reconstructing them into killer new outfits.

Bumped
Megan McCafferty
eBook
Pages: 341
RHCB Digital (4 Aug 2011)
ISBN 0061962740
Text to speech: Enabled
Amazon £4.36
My Rating: Hit

Blurb:
A virus has swept the world, making everyone over the age of eighteen infertile. Teenagers are now the most prized members of society, and would-be parents desperately bid for ‘conception contracts’ with the prettiest, healthiest and cleverest girls – cash, college tuition and liposuction in exchange for a baby. Sixteen-year-old Melody is gorgeous, athletic and has perfect grades, and has scored an amazing contract with a rich couple. And she’s been matched with one of the most desirable ‘bumping’ partners in the world – the incredibly hot, genetically flawless Jondoe. But Melody’s luck is about to run out. She discovers she has a sister – an identical twin, Harmony, who has grown up in a religious community opposed to the idea of ‘pregging’. Harmony believes her calling is to save Melody from her sinful plans. Melody doesn’t have time for this – she can’t wait to meet Jondoe and seal the deal. But when he arrives and mistakes Harmony for Melody, everyone’s carefully-laid plans are swept out of control – and Melody and Harmony are about to realise they have so much more than just DNA in common. Sharp, original and sassy, this futuristic take on teen pregnancy is totally readable and scarily believable.

Review: 
Bumped is set in the not to distant future of 2036. Twin girls Melody and Harmony were separated at birth. Melody was adopted by pro preggy parents who live in Otherside and Harmony was taken in by ‘Churchies’ who live in Goodside a Christian community who don’t use technology and shun you if you leave. The story is told through both girls points of view with the chapters alternating to put you in each of their minds. Technology has moved on a lot and because parents are bidding on ‘man brands’ to get the best specimen, security on the girls has gone over board, they are watched all the time with things like MiVu and are tracked on MiNet to make sure they aren’t going with ‘worms’ and down marketing themselves and their offspring, makes me think of 1984′s Big Brother tv screens in every home.

Harmony is very mysterious and doesn’t fully explain her reason for leaving Goodside to meet her twin, whom she hasn’t seen since birth. She’s confused about her mission and it turns out to be completely different from what she thought it was when she left Goodside.

Melody on the other hand is convinced that her twin showing up unannounced on her doorstep just as she is about to hook up with the most famous man brand, Jondoe, is her undoing and wants nothing more than for her sister to go back to Goodside. She’s also afraid that Harmony wants her to convert and leave Otherside to go back home with her, which she has no intention of doing, not when she’s worked so hard for the Purity Prize and lost the vote for Pro Pregg Allegiance and how could she leave Shoko now after what happened to Malia? She can’t, she won’t let it happen again.

There were a couple of things that bugged me about the book like the over use of the phrase ‘for serious’ and ‘rilly’ at first I thought it was a typo for ‘really’ but then as it was so prolific throughout the book I thought it must be spelt that way on purpose to emphasis the affected accent/hyperness of the speaker. Some of the language I didn’t really like but I guess in context to the book it’s there for a reason and even though as a 16 year old girl I never talked liked that and I’m pretty sure I don’t remember my friends talking like that, maybe it’s true to how American teenagers sound, or at least, what American teenagers sound like in the movies and on tv shows.

Overal I found the book well paced and entertaining, I really enjoyed seeing how the twins reacted to each other with them coming from completely different backgrounds and forming a bond despite the lack of common ground. Although it’s never stated it’s pretty obvious that Harmony is from an Amish community with terms like ‘shunned’ and no idea of terminology and shying away from using technology. I really appreciated that she wasn’t portrayed as a blind believer because all of us, in any faith, at some time, have doubts and that’s human, and to deny that is pointless. I thought Zen’s character was brilliant and probably my favourite overall, especially at the end when he confesses to Melody.

I was really surprised by the ending and I loved that. Looking forward to reading more books by this new author to me.

Recommended Editions:
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About the Author
Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty (born 1973) is an American author known for The New York Times bestselling Jessica Darling series of young-adult novels published between 2001 and 2009.^[1][2] McCafferty gained international attention in 2006 when novelist Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarizing the first two Jessica Darling novels. (Wiki)