The Last Star by Rick Yancey Pages : 338 Genre : YA, Speculative Fiction Series : The 5th Wave, book 3 My Rating : 2.5/5 About the Book  : The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And...

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Pages : 342 Genre : Sci-fi, Thriller Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In...

Red Rising by Pierce Brown Pages : 382 Genre : Sci-fi/Fantasy Series : Red Rising, book 1 My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already...

We Stand on Guard by Brian K. Vaughan & Steve Skroce Pages : 160 Genre : Graphic novel/comics Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : Set 100 years in our future, WE STAND ON GUARD follows a heroic band of Canadian civilians turned freedom fighters who must defend their homeland from invasion by a technologically superior opponent…the United States of America. My Thoughts : First I want to start by saying that I...

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Pages : 320 Genre : Speculative Fiction Series : Themis Files, Book 1 My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl...

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Pages : 405 Genre : Fiction, Speculative Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl...

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski Pages : 355 Genre : YA, Fantasy Series : The Winner’s Trilogy, book 1 My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave...

The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey Pages : 320 Genre : YA, Speculative Fiction Series : The 5th Wave, book 2 My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the...