Month: January 2015

REVIEW – BREAKING NOVA by Jessica Sorensen

Posted January 31, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 20 Comments

Breaking Nova (Nova #1)
by Jessica Sorensen
Publisher – Sphere
Release Date – October 9th 2015
Buy – Amazon | Book Depository

Nova Reed used to have dreams-of becoming a famous drummer, of marrying her true love. But all of that was taken away in an instant. Now she’s getting by as best she can, though sometimes that means doing things the old Nova would never do. Things that are slowly eating away at her spirit. Every day blends into the next . . . until she meets Quinton Carter. His intense, honey brown eyes instantly draw her in, and he looks just about as broken as she feels inside.

Quinton once got a second chance at life-but he doesn’t want it. The tattoos on his chest are a constant reminder of what he’s done, what he’s lost. He’s sworn to never allow happiness into his life . . . but then beautiful, sweet Nova makes him smile. He knows he’s too damaged to get close to her, yet she’s the only one who can make him feel alive again. Quinton will have to decide: does he deserve to start over? Or should he pay for his past forever?

Please note: This book isn’t for younger readers. 

Breaking Nova is nothing like Jessica’s Secret series, it’s far more emotional, complicated and such a heart felt novel that it simple takes your breath away. I literally only just finished this book at the time of writing this and I’m already on Saving Quinton. As Jessica first brought me to the NA genre, I find myself binge reading her entire collections of novels.

Miss Sorensen certainly doesn’t stray away from her lost, broken and soul/life-searching characters when we have Nova and Quinton. Told through her classic dual perspective, we see the how one moment, can shatter them completely. Nova Reed wants to be a drummer, but that was the old version of her before everything happened with first her dad and her boyfriend, three years later. At the beginning of the book we see a glimpse of happiness in her life, when Landon her best friend and loved one, but only briefly until she is left alone underneath the stars… now she lives counting her life away, from when the sun comes up then down while just trying to get through each day as it comes. Quinton Carter, wants to be an artist, marry his beautiful girlfriend and have children, it was his life plan… now that plan no longer exists, when he killed his girlfriend, Lexi and her friend, Ryder. But he also died that day, though resuscitated by the paramedics. Now he has to live each day, alone, haunted, broken and despaired of the what he believed he was his fault.

Now whilst you’ll probably thinking what a depressing book this is. Although I did ultimately feel quite emotional towards Nova and Quinton, I found that I was enthralled and captured by Jessica’s writing throughout the their relationship and that of the plotline. Both Nova and Quinton suffer from blocking out their past, if you ask them a question they will either refuse to answer or they just can’t remember because they don’t want too. Between them they make one person, standing alone they really find themselves at a loss. When they both met through their friends, they both saw the sadness that radiated off each other. Whilst it isn’t the best one-liner for starting relationships, they found that they shared something that no-one else can identify with, and they both needed to that connection, that life isn’t always cruel.

Like I said, I found both characters to be so much stronger stylistically and I found I didn’t need to connect with them like you do but I just wanted to see what they’re story is. It was their trauma, their life that made me so addicted to the novel, that I really couldn’t put it down. Whilst there were some parts that could be considered shocking, it isn’t what you call unusual in this day and age either. I don’t know what it was about Breaking Nova that I enjoyed a lot more, Jessica, still retained her writing style, her knack for wonderful and heartbreaking characters, throughout the dual POVs.

I’m lucky enough to receive the next book already, because there is no way you could leave it like Breaking Nova did. So please be aware that there is a cliffhanger which is not unusual with Jessica which I learnt form The Secret of Ella and Micha. I can’t tell you what made it that much better, it’s fast paced, thrilling and emotional ride between two very vulnerable and breakable characters. All you need to know is…. Read their story and you will be Breaking your love this series.

Rating – 5

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ARC REVIEW – ALL FALL DOWN by Ally Carter

Posted January 28, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 24 Comments
ARC REVIEW – ALL FALL DOWN by Ally Carter

All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1)by Ally CarterPublisher –  Orchard Books Release Date – February 5th 2015Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Grace can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row. Now, at age sixteen, she’s come back to stay – in order to solve the mystery of her mother’s death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose […]

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REVIEW – SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE by Morgan Matson

Posted January 23, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 28 Comments
REVIEW – SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE by Morgan Matson

Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson Publisher –  Simon & Schuster Release Date – May 6th 2014 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository The Pre-Sloane Emily didn’t go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn’t do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell.  But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There’s just a random to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-selected-definitely-bizarre-tasks that Emily would never try… unless they could lead […]

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ARC REVIEW – CONSPIRACY GIRL by Sarah Alderson

Posted January 20, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 21 Comments
ARC REVIEW – CONSPIRACY GIRL by Sarah Alderson

Conspiracy Girl by Sarah Alderson Publisher – Simon & Schuster Release Date – February 12th 2015 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Everybody knows about the Cooper Killings – the Bel Air home invasion that rocked the nation.There was only one survivor – a sixteen year-old girl.And though the killers were caught they walked free. Now eighteen, Nic Preston – the girl who survived – is trying hard to rebuild her life. She’s security conscious to the point of paranoia and her only friend is a French Mastiff bulldog, but she’s making progress. She’s started college in New York and […]

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REVIEW – THE HERE AND NOW by Ann Brashares

Posted January 14, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 18 Comments
REVIEW – THE HERE AND NOW by Ann Brashares

The Here and Nowby Ann BrasharesPublisher – Hodder’s Children’s Books (UK)Release Date – January 1st 2015Buy – Amazon | Book Depository  TIME TRAVEL AND FORBIDDEN ROMANCE FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take of an impossible romance.  There are rules. Never reveal where you’re from.Never be intimate with anyone outside the community.And never interfere with history.  Seventeen-year-old Prenna James emigrated to New York when she was twelve. But Prenna didn’t come from a different country, she came from a different time – […]

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REVIEW – LOOP by Karen Akins

Posted January 9, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 20 Comments
REVIEW – LOOP by Karen Akins

Loop (Loop #1)by Karen AkinsPublisher – St. Martin’s GriffinRelease Date – October 21 2015Buy – Amazon | Book Depository At a school where Quantum Paradox 101 is a required course and history field trips are literal, sixteen year-old time traveler Bree Bennis excels…at screwing up. After Bree botches a solo midterm to the 21st century by accidentally taking a boy hostage (a teensy snafu), she stands to lose her scholarship. But when Bree sneaks back to talk the kid into keeping his yap shut, she doesn’t go back far enough. The boy, Finn, now three years older and hot as […]

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ARC REVIEW – THE ORIGINALS: THE RISE by Julie Plec

Posted January 5, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 18 Comments
ARC REVIEW – THE ORIGINALS: THE RISE by Julie Plec

The Originals: The Rise (The Originals #1)by Julie PlecPublisher – Hachette Children’s BooksRelease Date – February 5th 2015 (UK)Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Family is power. The Original vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together always and forever. But even when you’re immortal, promises are hard to keep. Arriving in New Orleans in 1722, Original vampire siblings Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson believe they’ve escaped their dangerous past. But the city is lawless, a haven for witches and werewolves unwilling to share territory. The siblings are at their mercy…especially after […]

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New Year, New…BOOKS! Happy 2015!

Posted January 1, 2015 by Emma in Blog / 18 Comments
New Year, New…BOOKS! Happy 2015!

Hello Everyone, Happy New Year to you all. I hope you all celebrated in style! I mostly read until the strike if 2015… what couldn’t be better hey!? Well at least the world hasn’t ended, but sadly we haven’t seen hover-boards yet either.  2015… is it really!? It doesn’t feel like it. 2014 flew by but I hope that this year is even better! So it’s another year, which means some awesome books to come. These are some of my most anticipated reads of 2015 so far, of which have covers. Other novels that I’m excited about include the likes of Leigh […]

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