Rema: a distant world of magic and beauty where the gods are slowly dying. The City of Water is held hostage as greed becomes the standard and a race of elemental demigods are suppressed for their powers. It would seem all is lost if not for the chance estrangement of a singular Earthling girl. Her search for answers surrounding . . .
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This is a story about a sixteen year-old boy named Seth Drak. He doesn’t think that there is anything out of the ordinary about him except for his above average grades that landed him in the top school in Manhattan when he was in the fourth grade. This all changes when the Alecard twins transfer. Transfer students were weird enough, . . .
Meet seventeen-year-old Emily Hunte, a teenager living in America during the Great War on Technology. When the attacks in Chicago start, her older sister and trained soldier, Amber smuggles her into a survivalist compound in the wilderness of Alaska—one of the few safe places left in the world. To survive in this cutthroat community, Emily has to take on the . . .
The Australian suburb of South Hertling has known its share of misfortunes—supervillain attacks, unexpected time rifts, attempted robot uprisings and crashed spaceships, to name but a few. But finally the suburb has some good news! It is opening day of a new attraction in which for the first time ever, the public can see extinct creatures in captivity—Trilobite . . .
Most years, I think, are skippable. They suffer from this indescribable mundanity, this relentlessly oscillating day in day out. Those years you could summarise in a sentence or two. To say that 2014 was the best year of my life would be unfair to years 1997 through to 2013, and all the years that followed. But it was certainly the . . .
Years ago magic entered our modern world and changed everything. Twenty years later, the world has Access Facilities to help budding magic users and the MDE to help manage, police, and control magic. Raven Delias is a normal teenage girl who is getting her Core magic awakened like everyone her age. She just wants to get into a good school . . .
Hui Yue had a pleasant life. He was gifted with good looks, a shrewd personality and athletic abilities far above the norm. Every student at his university would call him perfect, however Hui Yue himself knew that the one thing he wanted the most was the one thing he could not have, his childhood friend from his previous life, Li . . .
Neith is pretty much waiting to die. Rigid controls and an abundance of technology contribute to some semblance of order for those who remain in the last clean city, Feichangbei. While the epidemic is over, the survivors’ victory is only temporary. There have been no living births in 16 years. The third generation numbers less than 2,000, and the third . . .
I always wanted to be a selfish person. Why? Because they get to keep everything. So I decided to be the most selfish person in the world. One who will always put himself before others. Everything would have worked out, but I met her. Her name is Mai. And, somehow she changed me. . . .
Zak Sykes is a shifter. He can shift objects using the power in his heart known as eks. He gained this power when he was twelve years old on White Valentine’s. On that particular February 14th a massive white light engulfed Downtown York, destroying everything and taking the girl of his dreams from him. Now, six years later, Zak, along . . .
Delphina’s life dissolved the day her mother threw herself into the ocean, never to return. She finds meaning in life working for an elite group of scientists and time travelers, bringing back extinct species from the past. In search of an extinct amphibian, Delphina’s journey back in time starts with a disastrous explosion that will destroy a fragile ecosystem . . .
I’m rich! Gahahahaha! Wait . . . . Noooooooo. I’m eating it? Someone stop me, for once in my life I am considered a billionaire but now I have to resort to eating gold for dessert or my scales will become dull and weak. Sigh . . . .The woes of being a dragon. Especially when I can’t just leisurely spend it on my own whims anymore. Sob. . . .
“Why not wear a cape? Don’t superheroes usually wear capes?” He cracked a boyish grin and took a step away from me, like he’d suddenly inherited a windfall of energy. “Nah. Not unless they want a death wish. Capes are hazardous for your health, Madeline.” He looked me directly in the eyes, and I suspected he was about to . . .
Nov 13, 2009: This is what I would call a popcorn read – the kind of light-hearted, fun writing that quickly becomes a guilty pleasure.
Breathless follows the typical YA fantasy plot: small town unremarkable do-gooder girl meets mysterious, haunted boy, they fall in love, face death and danger along the way, and end up happy.
What makes Breathless stand out is that it is not, in fact, fantasy. There are no moping werewolves or [more . . .]
Jul 1, 2015: Cruise Control does have cruisers, of a kind, but there’s not much control.
In the future of the future, six years after the worst Valentine’s Day ever, we follow a gang of friends battling monsters. Or make that two gangs of former friends and rivals.
This is the strength of Cruise Control. A large ensemble cast with eighteen year olds who like and dislike each other based on personal background, peer pressure [more . . .]