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Book Review: The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer [Audiobook]

Ambrose wakes from a coma on a space ship and knows his mission is to rescue his sister, but he remembers nothing about the launch, nor the info that there's another person on the ship. As time goes on and the two boys grow closer, they discover more and more strange clues that something is off about this...

Quick Reviews: Bright Spark // Keen Sense // Quick Fire // Clear Sight // & More

This time for quick reviews I have the Psions of SPIRE series by Alex Silver! All four main books, plus two extra novellas. This is a series with diverse queer rep about people with psionic abilities (telekinesis, empathy, etc.). Each book focuses on different characters, but they're all connected into one storyline, so I recommend reading them in order. I enjoyed...

Book Review: Ignite Me (Shatter Me Book 3) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

When Juliette wakes up in the last place she ever expected to be and receives terrible news, she finally decides that she's not the timid person she used to be and is ready to fight. Warner has the resources, Juliette has the strength, her friends have their own strengths and powers, and they all have the same goal: kill the Supreme Commander and take down The...

Book Review: Unravel Me (Shatter Me Book 2) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

Now part of a group of rebels, many of whom have special abilities like her, Juliette starts trying to hone her powers as the group prepares for war. Juliette thought she'd be happy at Omega Point, but she's not so sure she fits in, and her relationship troubles, as well as an unplanned hostage situation, complicate...

Book Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me Book 1) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

At 14, Juliette was taken from her parents and eventually left to rot in an asylum because her touch has the power to kill people. Years later, she's given the chance at a better life, in exchange for becoming a weapon of torture, and she'll have to decide if she's willing to pay that price or if she'd rather take her chances on the run with the only boy who's ever shown her...

Book Review: Firestarter (Timekeeper Book 3) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]

Clock mechanic Danny, clock spirit Colton, and their friends are still trapped on an airship, being threatened into going along with plans they don't believe in. But when a greater enemy emerges, they'll have to reconsider what's right and wrong and who their allies...

Book Review: Chainbreaker (Timekeeper Book 2) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]

Danny and Daphne, clock mechanics, get sent to India to help figure out why clock towers are falling and how time is continuing on without them, but a mysterious stranger keeps showing up and seems intent on getting to Danny. When Colton realizes Danny could be in danger, he sets off to try and save...

Book Review: Timekeeper (Timekeeper Book 1) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]

In an alternate world where time is controlled by clock towers, relationships between mechanics and clock spirits are forbidden. But when Danny, a mechanic, meets Colton, a clock spirit, he finds himself falling in love, while also unraveling the mystery of a nearby stopped...

Book Review: Mazarin Blues (Hep Cats of Boise Book 1) by Al Hess

It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...

Book Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [Audiobook]

Henry has a genetic condition that causes him to time travel against his will. It's not an easy life, but then he meets Clare, who already knows him from the many times his older self visited her in the past as she was growing up. This is their love...