Emancipated by M.G. Reyes

Emancipated by M.G. Reyes

Published by: Katherine Tegen books

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary

Tagline: No Parents, no limits, no alibis

If you haven't seen the book trailer for this, then you can here.

But be warned. The book and trailer are completely different.

The plot of this book is basically stuffing a bunch of teenagers in one house with the overall theme of emancipation from their parents. Each teen has a deep dark secret, or are just hiding stuff to make them more interesting. However it fails.

Unfortunately I wasn't emotionally invested into any of the characters and couldn't care less if they were in trouble or died. They just weren't there. Maybe it's the length of the book compared to the amount of backstory/story the characters had, or maybe it was just because their problems were painfully obvious.

Our characters are: Candice (actress/wannabe), Grace (letter-writer), Paolo (tennis guy), John-Michael (driver), Myra (coder) and Lucy (musician). Yes I have summed them up with one- two words simply because that's how I could tell the difference between them. I want to point out that Myra was useless. She added nothing to the story in my opinion, in fact they are all irrelevant because it's simply John-Michael's story that we get the most about. Of course there are little tidbits about everyone else, but he is the only reason we read to the end.

A most unimpressive book.

Emancipated can be bought in the UK in a hardback only at Amazon but in the states you can grab a copy from Amazon US

Partials (The Partials Sequence #1) by Dan Wells

Partials (The Partials Sequence #1) by Dan Wells

Published by: Balzer + Bray

Genre: Young Adult dystopian, sci-fi

Tagline: The Only Hope for Humanity isn't Human

I only got through  18% of the book before I closed down the app and stared out the window for the remainder of my journey into Manchester from where I live.

The book follows the aftermath of some sort of virus that prevents babies from living after a set amount of days and so the youngest member of the area they reside in is 13 maybe 14 years old which is slightly worrying. However that's not the weirdest part, that comes when the reader discovers all females from the age of sixteen must try to become pregnant which rings the freaky alarm bell loud and clear. 

Therefore Kira who I assume to be the protagonist goes about her days as a medical intern and whatnot. I didn't get far enough to be bothered to learn more about her. She's kinda meh in all fairness. What happened to badass female characters in a dystopian world? But she's got a love interest *sigh*. I honestly could not care what happened to her, I was just annoyed that I had spent time wasted on the book I thought would be amazing. 

The book can be bought on Amazon UK here, Waterstones here and on Amazon US here

Alpha Girl (Wolfling #1) by Kate Bloomfield

Alpha Girl (Wolfling #1) by Kate Bloomfield

I'm not sure why I gave this two stars. It deserves way less.

As a reader of Vampire Academy which features a teacher-student relationship which is not presented in a creepy way, I was aware that this book had a similar relationship between characters. What I wasn't aware of was that it would be presented in a really creepy way that made me want to delete the book from my Kindle and never speak of it again. I think the fact I wanted to claw the memories from my mind sounds very dramatic but like I've said, this book was creeeepy!

There is a thin line between that older man being nice and romantic and then just plain old creepy. This went over into the creep zone that is nothing like the Lonely Island Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0). I was eating my lunch at work as I read disgusting scenes, I was travelling home when I wanted to slap the bloody protagonist. There were too many negative emotions for me to have at least one positive. It was that bad a book.