🚀 Sci-Fi Favs 🚀

I’ve been slowly dipping my feet into the sci-fi genre and have really enjoyed what I have picked up so far. I’m mostly only read series at this stage, I haven’t really encountered many stand-alone’s that I have captured my attention enough for me to want to read, though there have been a few. I think there are definitely some sub-genre’s that won’t appeal to me but until I actually pick up a few and give them a try I will never know… I am definitely open to any recommendations!

Here are a few sci-fi books I have loved:

Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown

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Impossible Times series by Mark Lawrence

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Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson

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Warcross Duology by Marie Lu

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Single Word Titles

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is single word titles, so I figured I would go through all of the books I read recently and pick out the last 10 books I read that only had single word titles and what I rated them.

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson – ⭐️3/5 stars

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Sadie by Courtney Summers – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Sparrow by L.J. Shen – ⭐️2/5 stars

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You by Caroline Kepnes – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Supernova by Marissa Meyers – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Bunny by Mona Awad – ⭐️3/5 stars

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Stardust by Neil Gaiman – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Finale by Stephanie Garber – ⭐️4/5 stars

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Recent Book Haul

This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt is my most recent additions to my shelves. So these are the last 10 books that I have purchased and added to my collection!

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

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Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

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The Crown’s Fate by Evelyn Skye

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Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin

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Frozen Tides by Morgan Rhodes

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Gumiho: Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

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Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen

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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

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Sadie by Courtney Summers

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Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan

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Quarterly Reading Recommendation

This is my fourth and final instalment of my quarterly reading recommendations for 2019. Every 3 months I have been looking over all the books I’ve read in that time and picking out my top 10 favourites. Since its now the end of the year I will going through all four of these lists and picking out my overall top 10 favourite books of the year which I will be posting next week!

So in no particular order my reading recommendations for October – November – December are:

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

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My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

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You by Caroline Kepnes

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The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

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Dispel Illusion by Mark Lawrence

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Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

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Gathering Darkness by Morgan Rhodes

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Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin

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Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto

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Starsight Review

44320715._SY475_This was a great continuation to this series. Brandon Sanderson really took the foundations that he laid down in Skyward and continued to build depth and layers to the story that is just so entertaining and enthralling to read!

Spensa’s character remains quite consistent throughout most of the story until she has her epiphany moment towards the end of the book. She realises that she has judged some of these aliens based purely on her bias and minor interactions. I like that similar to the first novel she is able to reflect on her actions and accept when she has done something wrong and acknowledge her flaws and actively work towards shifting her perspective.

We don’t get a whole lot of Jorgen in this book, which made me a little sad, as he was one of my favourite characters. I think what little insight we gained from his experience with Gran Gran that leads him to a pretty astronomical discovery was still essential in terms of the overall plot line. I just wish we got a little more scenes between him and Spensa! That little taste at the start of the book wasn’t enough for me.

M-bot has definitely evolved in this book. I’m not sure I like the direction his particular plot line seems to be leading to. Hopefully he doesn’t fulfil all of those fears it seems his previous owners predicted might occur. All of the fail safes and programs written into his software prohibiting him from doing certain things seems reasonable to me and the fact that he’s even questioning those rules and asking Spensa is he is alive doesn’t bode well for me! I really like his character and I don’t want him turning into an antagonist.

The scope of the book is blown wide open in this instalment to the series. In Skyward even though Spensa is airborne they still pretty much revolve around what is happening on the ground. I like that we are given a completely different and foreign setting, but maintain a sense of continuity with the flight training Spensa has to undergo.

It boggles my mind how Brandon Sanderson is able to piece together such intricate storylines that still manages to surprise me at every turn. Characters and interactions that I dismissed as trivial and unimportant turn out to be vital to the continuation of the plot. You really need to pay attention to every little detail he puts in because somehow it will be revealed as a key piece of information that the whole story is revolving around.

⭐️4.5/5 stars This was absolutely fantastic 100% recommend!
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