The CLay Lion YA

The Clay Lion in my opinion is one of the best time travel books for young adults ever!  The well thought out process of not only the theory of time travel but of the consequences of changes in time lines and the understanding the difference between fate and destiny and why things happen for a reason even if we don't understand what it is.  The author goes through major issues of fate, destiny, love, loss, personal choice and grief, all twisted together.  Brooke, the main character, must figure everything out for herself in her life through her trips and grow enough to learn when to let go.  I still don't have the proper words to describe how I feel about this most wonderful book it just kind of left me with my mouth open.  However, this is also another of those awesome books that is hard to talk about for fear I might give something away.  But I will say the audible version was GREAT, the narrator Lorelei King worked magic and really brought the book to life with her wonderful use of voices and obvious love of the book.  She really put some life into the audio, you might not want to get out of the car.

5 STARS

The Game of Lives (The Morality Doctrine Series) YA

Michael is a gamer who loves to game, but what happens when the game becomes real.  When the game you where once playing was fun is now a race for humanity and you are not sure who your friends are anymore.  You only know that you are the only one that can save humanity from that which has escaped from Pandora's proverbial box.

Like the other two books in the Mortality Doctrine series this one is no different, James Dashner will keep you up way past your bedtime reading his face paced, action packed, suspenseful, twist around every corner, thought provoking, page turning book. Written in true Dashner style this book and the others in this series will quickly become favorites of young adults and adults alike just as his Maze Runner series did.  This book will keep you wondering what will James Dashner think of next.

5 STARS

Tails of the Apocalypse

This is fourteen short stories about animals in a dystopian, post apocalyptic worlds, all written by awesome writers, in which part of the proceeds of each book will go to Pets for Vets, so please what is not to love?  These are amazing stories, yes I will be up front, sometimes the animal dies, but it is worth it, being a veteran myself and helping with the working dogs on my base may have skewed my perspective  a little on how much I feel  and love the way these animals interact with the human aspect of the stories, but these animals are all heroes.  This is book is for all those hero animals that didn't come home or the ones that help the two legged heroes that come home not quite whole.  So give it chance I think you will love it as much as I did, but keep the Kleenex close.

5 STARS

Athel (Mayake Chronicles Part2) YA

Athel is a back with his sister, Akaela and friends and they are on a hunt to find things to help defend their city from the Gaijin.  But in doing so they get wrapped up in a puzzle to find the lost entrance to the underground city of Astraca.  Either way it is a race to save the Mayake people.

In this book you find out more about both races of people as thee is a extra added character that adds a twist to the book.  It is fascinating to watch the characters grow especially Metal Jaw.  Everything blends so wonderfully, these books are so great with all the action and suspense, I can not wait for part three.  If you find yourself like me and can not wait more don't over look Giorgi's two short stories that are set in this world, The Gaijin Girl, and the Tails of the Apocalypse in which the there is a short about Athel's falcon Kael.

5 STARS

White Jade The Project Book 1 Adult

When Selena's Uncle is killed over a very old book very few people in the world can even read.  Selena is one of the those few that can help find the book and help translate it.  For that she is thrown into Project's world.  Project is a covert intelligence unit that reports directly to the President (PONTUS).  This becomes a life and death struggle not only for Selena and her Project partner Nick, but also between the United States and China.
This is a great fast paced action thriller, with secrets, adventure, discovery, traps, and weapons around every corner, or at least most corners.  The author does a awesome job to no trivialize when Nick and Selena are forced to take others lives, and I like that, with some other books with agencies and military authors tend to take a very cold approach.  The characters a very well rounded and balance each other out very well.  The story is also well developed and thought out.  Narrator Jack de Golia is awesome putting his spin on the characters voices and giving the story a heartbeat.  his narration has kept me in my car longer than necessary on many occasions.
This book is only the first of many in the Project Series and I can't wait to get more!

5 STARS

NEED YA

When a new social networking site called NEED is introduced into the towns high school population it spreads like wildfire, even though it is by invitations only and has very strict rules.  But when Kaylee truly asks for a need, things as different for her but she's not sure why, but when things start turning bad for those around her, she wants out.  But at what cost?
This is a really cool book and it is very hard for me to tell you much about it without giving anything away.  So I'm going to say this book is full of friends, frienemies, action, adventure, suspense, and intrigue, and you should be counting the days until it comes out, it is that good!

5 STARS!

The Academy ADULT

The Academy is the awesome second book to the Lost Tales of Power series, and it picks up several years later.  Master Vydor now has a functioning academy in his own realm and plenty of students applying to be accepted there.  At this point in time there is one in particular, James, applying who if is successful in his first initiate years and becomes a student will change his name to Shadow, he has already served in the Imperial Navy and left with honor, and this book will show how his honor is tested again and again and how he does defending it.
I have fallen in love with this series and others of Trigili's.  I wish it hadn't been such a huge time jump , as I really liked Vydor in the first book and missed his younger ever present self.  But quickly became engrossed with James so all is good.  I also like how war and killing is never trivialized in these books, the good guys do have to kill bad guys , but they have to deal with their emotions about those actions afterwards, and that is the reality of war, not what you usually see in movies and such.  The characters are all so well put together, so complex, but each developing so nicely as the book went on and to hear narrator Jack de Golia do the voices was awesome he is such a great narrator bringing out the heartbeat of the story, he just keeps you on the edge of your seat all the time, he is so great.  If all that isn't enough to hook you the action and suspense thrown in should do it for sure, awesome book, awesome series.

5 STARS