Author: Albert Espinosa
Genre: adult, science fiction, fantasy
Published: July 2, 2015
Publisher: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, GRIJALBO
Purchase: Amazon
Can you imagine a future where everyone has given up sleeping?
From the creator of the television series Red Band Society and author of the international bestseller The Yellow World comes this uniquely special novel.
What if I could reveal your secrets with just a glance? And what if I could feel with your heart just by looking at you? And what if --in a single moment-- I could know that we were made for each other? Marcos has just lost his mother, a famous dancer who taught him everything, and he decides that his world can never be the same without her. Just as he is about to make a radical change, a phone call turns his world upside down.
Albert Espinosa has a peculiar talent for generating immediate congeniality around him, for shifting people's moods toward the positive and for reconciling them with themselves and the world, when needed.
* * *
Everything You and I Could Have Been... has a really interesting premise and it did lived up to its attention grabbing blurb. I LOVE the storytelling - first person, he tells memories with his mother to explain things about him, he points out certain interesting realities, the way everything unveils was smooth. Marcos is really a really great MC. At first, I thought I won't like him or I'd get bored with him but I was stand corrected. I really liked Marcos and how he talks about what he truly think of things. The world was really fascinating. I was really absorbed when everything was fully explained. Who the 'stranger' really was and where he came from was not something I expected. And I totally did not see the ending coming. It was greatly written. This story will definitely stick to my mind (especially the world Espinosa created).
* * *
~I received this book in exchange for an honest review~
* * *
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #3Author: Marissa Meyer
Genre: young adult, science fiction, retelling, fantasy, paranormal, romance, adventure
Published: January 27, 2015 (first published February 4, 2014)
Publisher: Square Fish
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.
Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker; unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can.
* * *
I'm not going to spoil the first two books of the series here. I LOVED Cinder. I LOVED its cinematic writing. I LOVED Cinder and Kai. I enjoyed Scarlet. I enjoyed Cinder and Thorne's antics.
I immediately fell in love with Cress. From that unexpected beginning to Cress and Thorne's adventure. From the way the romance build up to the revelation about Cress' identity. Cress was a really lovely heroine. I love her innocence - how she sees Thorne and the world. I like her naive personality. I like how everything fall into place - how everyone found everyone again. It felt like everything was all meant to be. I mean sure I expected them to find each other because of the things that happened but how Meyer wrote everything was just so perfect. The action at the end was really great. I was at the edge of my seat. And how everything turned out really made me more excited for Winter (although I'm honestly not excited to read Winter's part of the story because of well... how I read a part of her in here. I really hope I'd still like her though.).
I immediately fell in love with Cress. From that unexpected beginning to Cress and Thorne's adventure. From the way the romance build up to the revelation about Cress' identity. Cress was a really lovely heroine. I love her innocence - how she sees Thorne and the world. I like her naive personality. I like how everything fall into place - how everyone found everyone again. It felt like everything was all meant to be. I mean sure I expected them to find each other because of the things that happened but how Meyer wrote everything was just so perfect. The action at the end was really great. I was at the edge of my seat. And how everything turned out really made me more excited for Winter (although I'm honestly not excited to read Winter's part of the story because of well... how I read a part of her in here. I really hope I'd still like her though.).
* * *
