Month: January 2018

📚 REVIEW – BATMAN by Marie Lu

Posted January 24, 2018 by Emma in 2018 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, DC Icons, Marie Lu, Most Anticipated, Penguin Book UK, Series, Superheros, YA / 1 Comment

Batman (DC Icons #2)
by Marie Lu
Publisher – Penguin
Release Date – January 4th 2018
Buy – Amazon | Book Depository

The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world’s greatest super hero: BATMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu.

Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal’s getaway – disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase.

Sentenced to community service in Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city’s most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorizing Gotham City.

She’s a mystery Bruce has to unravel but can he trust her? The Nightwalkers target the rich, and Bruce’s name is next on their list.

When you think it can’t get any better with Wonder Woman, you then meet Bruce Wayne…

This series is bloody brilliant, it’s almost nostalgic in a way when as readers we have probably seen all the films. I didn’t grow up with the series, or Michael Keaton, I grew up with Christian Bale and Ben Affleck but in-between those versions of Batman, I did watch Michael Keaton and I even saw the series (never again mind you, that was awful and totally embarrassing in this day and age, no offense to all that enjoyed it though.) But in the films its the same old story in a way, some darker, some more in detail, some in a different angle completely but what this series does is take it before, to Bruce Wayne and his story, to the crucial point where he first loves and opens his heart…
So Bruce was well, I would say average but he’s a billionaire, he’s just turned eighteen which means he has access to his trust fund and is also the owns the company WayneTech. But all he wants is to just escape, he doesn’t want to be judged by paparazzi about his parents murder, or followed with what he’s going to do next. So on the night of his eighteenth birthday, his reckless nature decided to get the better of him when he gets mixed up in a car chase by capturing of one of the Nightwalker’s, the new villain of Gotham. Bruce ends up in Arkham Asylum on his community service, but his curious nature wants to find out what these Nightwalker’s want and how to save Gotham. Maybe his sentence will be lead on the right path, or onto the Nightwalker’s hit list?
Like I said before, what I really loved was getting know Bruce as a character, he still carries a lot of emotion, darkness, fear, grief but you also saw a kinder, gentler self to him as a teenager especially to his guardian, Alfred, and also to his mentor Lucius Fox. In the films, you see him taking charge, you see him being a boss, but what about those who were his charges, that looked after him, guided him to where we know him to be. There was also genuine vulnerability to him as well, I always felt that Bruce found it hard to trust or love, but his love for his friends Harvey and Dianne was so visible, it’s like when they are around, his heart is on his sleeve. 
Marie Lu – bestselling author but also my first from her and probably in my eyes the best book to start off with. She has stripped Bruce down to the core, to the darkest depths and she has done it justice. More than that, she’s put her stamp on it. I admit it must be hard to create a story based on such an icon, but also it wasn’t just the characters but also the atmosphere of the book too. She captured the very essence of Batman, especially with Arkham Asylum, that was chilling, echoes of the crazies around you, as well as the poorest and cold surface of Gotham City. 
Each of these superheros are making their debut in this series, the beauty of it is is that we see them, striped to the core, naked, we relish in the story that made them into their alter ego. Marie Lu exposed the real person behind that mask and distorted voice, and it poured out of every page of Batman: Nightwalker. Addictive, action-packed, thrilling, dark, pulse-racing, this book is for anyone, whether they are starting their journey with superheros or already established, you won’t be disappointed! 
Rating – 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


Thank you to Penguin for sending me a copy in exchange for a honest review. 
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📚REVIEW – THE FANDOM by Anna Day

📚REVIEW – THE FANDOM by Anna Day

The Fandomby Anna DayPublisher – Chicken HouseRelease Day – January 4th 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Cosplay ready, Violet and her friends are at Comic-Con. They can’t wait to meet the fandom of mega movie, The Gallows Dance. What they’re not expecting is to be catapulted by freak accident into their favourite world – for real. Fuelled by love, guilt and fear, can the friends put the plot back on track and get out? The fate of the story is in their hands … A fast-paced, genre-flipping YA fantasy adventure from a brand new author, writing in homage to […]

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📚BLOG TOUR REVIEW – ZENITH by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings

📚BLOG TOUR REVIEW – ZENITH by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings

Well hello again everyone, I’m back with your another blog tour review. Again this is one of my most anticipated books of 2018, I was lucky enough to read it over Christmas, and it was truly magnificent. So today I share with you my review, but before that here is a little bit more about the book.  Zenith (The Androma Saga #1)by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay CummingsPublisher – HQ Release Date – 11th January 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To […]

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📚BLOG TOUR REVIEW – THE EXTINCTION TRIALS by S.M. Wilson

📚BLOG TOUR REVIEW – THE EXTINCTION TRIALS by S.M. Wilson

Hello Everyone, The start of the new year is all blog tours for me, two in two days! First up is the highly anticipated book from debut author Susan Wilson. It came out a little before original publication, in late December! I couldn’t wait to be part of the blog tour, and I’m very lucky that the publicist squeezed me in… Today I share with you my review of The Extinction Trials, but before that, here is a little bit more about this book. The Extinction Trials (The Extinction Trials #1)by S.M. WilsonPublisher – UsborneRelease Date – January 1st 2018Buy […]

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📚 ARC REVIEW – SECOND BEST FRIEND by Non Pratt

📚 ARC REVIEW – SECOND BEST FRIEND by Non Pratt

Second Best Friendby Non PrattPublisher – Barrington StokeRelease Date – 15th January 2018Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Jade and Becky are best friends, but when Jade’s ex-boyfriend lets on that everyone thinks Becky is the better of the two, Jade finds herself noticing just how often she comes second to her best friend. There’s nothing Jade is better at than Becky. So when Jade is voted in as Party Leader ahead of her school’s General Election only to find herself standing against Becky, Jade sees it as a chance to prove herself. If there’s one thing she can win, […]

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🎆Happy Booky New Year🎆

🎆Happy Booky New Year🎆

Best Books of 2017 & Books I’m most anticipating in 2018!  HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! It’s been a long time I admit – the last post on here was November but to be honest I don’t feel I’ve been around much at all lately. Reading has been sparse, I’m lucky to have read one book in two weeks, which too me is really bad, or I would pick a book up and put it back down again. It doesn’t mean I haven’t stopped buying books though – that’s kind of backwards thinking really. But 2018 is a new year and you know […]

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