Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

Hallow City

The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘 📘📘 📘📘
Genre - Teen & Young Adult, Time Travel, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Format - Audiobook

*Amazon Blurb*

Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.

*My Review* 

I haven't even had a chance to write my review and I've already downloaded Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children.

This is such a fun series. Reading about the adventures these children (are they actually children?) go on. They come across the most unusual things and wonder how they can possibly be real, while they themselves are unusual.

In this book the unusual children are trying to save Miss Peregrine as she's stuck in her bird form and if not changed back she will remain. The children fight through all sorts of obstacles to try and save their beloved Miss Peregrine.

The ending did come as quite a surprise and I can't wait to dive into the next book and find out what is going to happen.

Mother's Day & Birthday Weekend

That's right. Not only is it Mother's Day 👩 this weekend, but also my birthday 🎂 My daughter stayed with my mom Friday night so that my husband could take me to dinner. Instead of going out to dinner I opted to get Apple-bee's carry out and rent a movie. A night relaxing night at home is a wonderful gift.

Sorry to everyone who is afraid of clowns, just pretend this picture isn't here. Oh, you already saw it huh? Ooops.

Now I wanted to read It by Stephen King for a long time, but was overwhelmed at the length of the book. I finally read it last year (click here to check out my review) and since have wanted to watch the original It and then the new It movies. We did watch them, but not in that order. My husband wanted to watch the new one so we rented that one. I really enjoyed it until the end when I realized it was just Part 1 and not the whole book. So then it was on to the original movie. I preferred this layout of the movie, but wish I hadn't just watched the first part of the new movie with all the super special effects that weren't available in 1990. If they'd just kept the original movie and added all the special effects it would've been perfect.

Also, I did a thing today....

Yes, Read N' Reviews is now on Etsy. I've made some bookmarks that I'm working on getting uploaded and will work on getting making other "bookish" stuff. Please stop by and check it out, mark as a favorite and share....basically just show me some love. I mean it is Mother's Day and my Birthday after all.

TO ALL THE MOMS OUT THERE

(including pet moms...ya'll count too)!!!

Control Freakz by Michael Evans

Control Freakz 

by Michael Evans

Available on Amazon

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Rating (1-5) 📘 📘
Genre - Teen, Young Adult, Politics & Government, Fiction, Depression & Mental Illness, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Pages - 354

*Amazon Blurb*

Natalie had always known her dad's disappearance was connected to something much more sinister inside Area 51, but she never guessed that finding answers would require her to sacrifice everything. After the Great Crash and the election of President Ash, Natalie's dad disappears and her grandpa soon after ends his own life. But these tragic events shrouded in mystery pale in comparison to the horrors that ensue with the onslaught of Protocol 00.

After Protocol 00 is enacted, Natalie’s entire family is taken by the Protection Services Agency, along with the families of her two best friends, Hunter and Ethan. With nothing to lose and the threat of government hitmen kidnapping them at any moment, the three must battle to survive in a horrid, post-apocalyptic world run by President Ash and his invasive government. Risking ruthless leaders, attempted mind control, and her very existence on the planet, Natalie, along with Hunter and Ethan, will stop at nothing in their quest to learn the secrets that destroyed their lives. But there are unrivaled powers working against them, and with impending doom looming at any moment, there is no one to trust and nowhere to hide. In a life devoid of hope, happiness, and safety, Natalie must battle both the darkness lurking inside and out of her in order to regain one fleeting memory of her past that has all but fallen away for good, but it might already be too late.

*My Review* 

Where to begin....

The main character of the book, Natalie, is very unlikable. She is so negative and depressing. She is always complaining about how things have gotten as bad as they can get. Then a few chapters later she says the same thing. There was a lot of repetition in this book which drove me crazy. The work anxiety seemed to be mentioned on every page, sometimes more than one. I really just couldn't take Natalie's lack of anything throughout the book. She didn't try to make anything better, she didn't try to help anyone and constantly needed to be helped.

The author does do a wonderful job at writing a description of how something feels or looks, but I feel like the book was extremely OVER descriptive. The first 3/4 or more of the book was just all description and nothing else. Natalie and her two friends went from their home to a camp. That was all that happened until the very end. I wish the book was more like the ending with the characters actually moving and doing something.

All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

All The Missing Girls 

by Megan Miranda

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘 📘
Genre - Coming of Age, Suspense, Literary Fiction
Format - Audio-book

*Amazon Blurb*

It's been 10 years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne's case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

The decade-old investigation focused on Nic; her brother, Daniel; her boyfriend, Tyler; and Corinne's boyfriend, Jackson. Since then only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic's younger neighbor and the group's alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic's return, Annaleise goes missing.

Told backward - day 15 to day 1 - from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor's disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night 10 years ago.

*My Review* 

I'll start off saying that maybe this is one of those books that would be better to read instead of listen to. The whole story was sort of off to me. It worked it's way backwards, but also jumped from the then and now...I think. I was never sure where I was in the story. The entire time I was listening I couldn't wait for the end to see if I could figure it all out. By the time the ending came, I was able to understand the who, what and why of it.