[REVIEW] The Space Between Heartbeats

Series: N/A
Author: Melissa Pearl
Genre: young adult, contemporary, romance, paranormal, ghosts, fantasy, death, suspense
Published: September 8, 2015 (first published October 31, 2012)
Publisher: Alloy Entertainment
Purchase: Amazon

Nicole Tepper has it all—beauty, popularity, and the perfect boyfriend. But after a party she can’t remember, she wakes up in a ghostly state, trapped between life and death. Nicole’s injured body is lying in a wooded area, but she has no idea where—or how long she has left to live.

Only one person can hear her now: Dale Finnegan, a loner classmate that Nicole has relentlessly bullied. Dale’s the last person in school who would want to help her, but he sets their tangled history aside to try to save her life. As they dig into what happened at the party, they discover her boyfriend isn’t as perfect as he seems—and neither are her friends. With the clock ticking down and her life slipping away, Nicole must face a hard truth: Was what happened to her a terrible accident? Or does someone want her dead?

This is a new, revised edition of the previously released novel Betwixt.

OCTOBER ROUNDUP

October reads :)

Hello,

October officially ends my first semester. YAY!! Then, I have three, THREE, more weeks vacation. DOUBLE YAY!! I'm really crossing my fingers that I'll be able to read a good amount of books from my TBR list and watch a decent amount of anime :D

I started with Return Once More and Throne of Glass last week. ICYM my thoughts on Return Once More, review can be found by clicking the link below. I just finished Throne of Glass and I LOVE IT! The romance && the mystery && Celaena && Crown Prince Dorian!! My thoughts will be posted soon :)

{ BOOK REVIEWS }

OCTOBER BOOK HAUL (aka the book buying ban haul)

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Queen of Tomorrow by Sherry D. Ficklin | Not Quite Dead by Lyla Payne | Celestial (short story collection) | Talented by Sophie Davis | The Dark of Twilight by Kate Danley | White Hart by Sarah Dalton | The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen | The Standout by Laurel Osterkamp | The Dead List by Martin Crosbie

Hello,

...and YAY for a (somehow) successful book buying ban! I only bought The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas and  an e-book copy of The Queen of Tearling because it's only $3.99 which is crazy (it was even $1.99 a week before I bought it. ugh.). Anyway, I'm really glad about that. The rest of my e-books, as usual, are free from Amazon. The last two, The Standout and The Dead List came from kindle scout and the Queen of Tomorrow is a book I won from Eileen's blog, BookCatPin

[REVIEW] They Call Me Alexandra Gastone

Series: Alexandra Gastone #1
Author: T.A. Maclagan
Genre: young adult, thriller, suspense, mystery, espionage, romance
Published: May 20, 2015
Publisher: Full Fathom Five Digital
Purchase: Amazon | Full Fathom Five Digital

When your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real? 

Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation.  

She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash. 

Milena was trained to be a sleeper agent by Perun, a clandestine organization from her true homeland of Olissa. There, Milena learned everything she needed to infiltrate the life of CIA analyst Albert Gastone, Alexandra’s grandfather, and the ranks of America’s top intelligence agency. 

For seven years, “Alexandra” has been on standby and life’s been good. Grandpa Albert loves her, and her strategically chosen boyfriend, Grant, is amazing. 

But things are about to change. Perun no longer needs her at the CIA in five years’ time. They need her active now. 

Between her cover as a high school girl—juggling a homecoming dance, history reports, and an increasingly suspicious boyfriend—and her mission in this high-stakes spy game, the boundaries of her two lives are beginning to blur. 

Will she stay true to the country she barely remembers, or has her loyalty shattered along with her identity? 

[REVIEW] The A.B.C. Murders

Series: Hercule Poirot #13
Author: Agatha Christie
Genre: adult, suspense, mystery, thriller, crime fiction, detective, 
Published: February 1, 2011 (first published 1935)
Publisher: HarperCollins

"Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be."

There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. 

A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident - but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal. mistake. 

"Agatha Christie has provided entertainment, suspense, and temporary relief from anxieties and traumas of life both in peace and war for millions through the world." -P.D. James, New York Times bestselling author.

[REVIEW] Return Once More

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Series: The Historians #1
Author: Trisha Leigh
Genre: young adult, science fiction, time travel, romance, fantasy
Published: September 29, 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark
Purchase: Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play

If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you? 

Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love. 

If you could save your one true love from an untimely death, would you be able to resist? 

Sixteen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians—a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past—and she can’t resist a peek at her long-dead soul mate in Ancient Egypt. Before she knows it, she’s broken every rule in the book, and the consequences of getting caught could destroy more than just her new romance. 

Or would you have the strength to watch him die? 

But when Kaia notices a fellow classmate snooping around in a time where he doesn’t belong, she suspects he has a secret of his own—and the conspiracy she uncovers could threaten the entire universe. If her experience has taught her anything, to changing history means facing the consequences. The Historians trained her to observe and record the past, but Kaia never guessed she might have to protect it— in a race across time to save her only chance at a future.