Saturday Pages: Their Fractured Light & The Darkest Minds!!!

Hiya there guys!!

I'm having the weekend off and so far not many plans other than reading and binge watching something on Netflix (quite probably Daredevil, so I'll be up to date once the second season comes out). And maybe getting some sushi for dinner if I do some around the house chores too ;)

For this first Saturday Pages of the new year I have another two books that I read in 2015 but I had failed to review yet!


Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The Starbound series has been a joy to my science fiction lover soul since I first got my hands on the first book, and now that I've read and loved the third and final one, my only complain is there I won't have any more of them to look forward to.

On Their Fractured Light not only we get alternating chapters of Gideon & Sofia's POV, but also there are some small... interludes I'd call them, with a different voice or voices that really do add some much to the story and bring the three books together in a rather unexpected way too!

Gideon and Sofia are a fantastic couple although their relationship ends up being complex and twisted due to their very own natures and their secrets. I really enjoyed how even lying to each other they found truths to hold on about each other, their own selves and what they really wanted to do and what risks were worth taking.

I was also very happy to see Flynn & Jubilee and Lilac & Tarver back! Getting them all as a big team, despite some hitches along the way was fantastic, because I loved having the other four back and they still didn't take away from Gideon & Sofia's spotlight!

There were some series twists and unexpected things dropped on us that really left me reeling and shocked and very very concerned for how my dears will save the day after the severly mind & heartwrenching twists were thrown into the story! I cannot say any more because big spoilers obviously, but wow... Amie & Meagan know how to throw things at you that both surprise you, break you and still make a lot of sense!

Quite simply put an amazing book and the perfect ending to this very beloved trilogy! Great characters, fantastic plot not only on this book but the overall for the whole trilogy! Irrestible science fiction, space opera style! Extremely deserving of 5 stars (with their respective star systems!).

My only complain? I don't think I'm ready to say goodbye to these characters!! I need more!! Maybe an extra epilogue? A novella? Something!!


The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I loved dystopian stories with an absolute passion till I got really burned on them, one of those problems of reading too much in the same genre, and so I have not read any dystopians and have been avoiding them for the past year. BUT, I had the whole series in my Kindle for quite a while and decided to read at least the first book to get myself acquainted with Alexandra Bracken's writing before diving into Passenger.

And soon enough I remembered why I used to love dystopian stories, why I rooted for their characters and why I was so hooked on them that I ended up burning myself up. The Darkest Minds is full of action, dangers, great characters and twisted plot that leave you breathless and a darkness and danger that cannot be discounted as something imagined and unprobable. Yes, mental powers are not likely to come after an illness, but the way the government and society reacted? Yep, not unlikely at all!

Ruby was an amazing character to root for, to worry about and to feel like smacking on the head on very rare occasions. Given her past and her fears, I could understand and forgive some of her less than stellar choices, thankfully rare as they were. I loved how she didn't want to be a leader or take risks at first, but she steps up when she knows she has to and when she needs to protect those she cares about.

I was very distraught about the ending because of the sacrificies that she makes, but since this is the first book in the trilogy, I'm both excited and scared to see what twists will come in the next books and to read about Ruby's journey!

Very much deserved 4 stars to the book that returned my love for dystopian books!


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Friday Reads: This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner!!!

Hello guys!

Friday is here! And although today it's once again not a typical Friday for me, well typical for me as a nurse, but not for the rest of people with more usual working times. I'm once again working this weekend and I'm hoping it will be decent working weekend and not one of those mad ones.

For this week's Friday Reads I have one of my most awaited books from last year, one that I didn't get until earlier this month because I preordered a signed (and personalized!) copy on Books of Wonder, but as soon as it arrived I dived right into it!



This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Last year I read and loved These Broken Stars and so I was extremely excited for the second book in this companion novels series. So as soon as I got my hands on my copy, and once I got back from work, reading started and I didn't stop till I finished, sleep be damned!

This Shattered World takes place in Avon, a planet that is still undergoing terraforming and development, that is behind on schedule and that has the very explosive combination of unhappy natives and an outpost of the military there to try and keep the peace.

Our characters, Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac, are in different sides of the conflict, with different opinions, motivations and goals in life. You could say that the only thing they have in common is being in the same bar, in the same planet, at the same time. Flynn is a pacifist part of a rebel group and Jubilee is known as "Stonefaced" Chase and has a reputation for being tough and quite simply kick arse!

Flynn is not a man of action but he ends up taking on Jubilee, kidnapping her and starting a load of trouble for them both. They start from opposite sides, and by spending time together, fighting, debating and lost in the wilderness, they find that they might understand each other more than they would have every expected. And they find themselves on the same side trying to stop a disaster of planetary dimensions.

Jubilee is a tough girl, a soldier that founds her purpose and a reason to go on after some tragedies in her past, and she's so dedicated, that she's got a reputation that precedes her and makes her the biggest target for the rebels. She made think of Zoe from Firefly and I was rooting for her and her kick arse self from page one! The banter with Flynn, that starts like flirting, changes to hostility and mistrust and ends up in understanding and something more was simply fantastic! I loved how their relationship progressed, with a slow burn and loads of chemistry all over!

I won't be saying all that much about the plot, or when & where do Lilac and Tarver come into this because it's a slippery slope with spoilers, but all I can say it's that we learn more about certain "others" that we already met and it makes me loath and fear even more Lilac's dad. And I'm even more worried about what will happen on book 3!

Another fantastic space opera that appeals to me in the same way that Star Wars and Firefly did, very much deserving of 4.5 stars!

I'm simply in love with all the Irish refences in the book when it comes to the rebels, the language, the legends, the independence fight, their underdogs feel... I'm a lover of all things Irish, so this one simply was a treat on itself.



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