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Veronica Roth: Divergent

Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
Jessica Townsend: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor)
Kavita Kane: The Fisher Queen's Dynasty
Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush
Sabaa Tahir: An Ember in the Ashes

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Book Review: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor)

Blurb Not only does Morrigan Crow's curse means she's blamed for all bad luck, she's also destined to die on her eleventh birthday. She bravely accepts her doom, but in a very surprising twist of fate, before the clock strikes twelve on Eventide and the howling shadow wolves arrive, she is whisked away by a remarkable man called Jupiter North and taken to the city of Nevermoor. Morrigan cannot believe her luck when she is given a once in a lifetime chance to join the Wundrous Society -- a place of mystery, magic, and protection. Only first she must pass four impossible trials using an exceptional talent (which she doesn't have). Racing against time can Morrigan claim her place in the wild, Wundrous city before the shadows catch up with her? Review Amazing !!!! Morrigan Crow is one of the amazing characters in this book. She is smart, witty, kind and brave. She is lonely and she never had friends. The only thing she wanted was people to love...

Book Review: The Underground Railroad

Blurb Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than the most; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is approaching womanhood where it is clear that even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box-car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Thus Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, seeking true freedom, pursued relentlessly by a terrifying slave catcher named Ridgeway. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africa...

Book Review: The Fisher Queen's Dynasty by Kavita Kane

Blurb 'I learned to love like a man- to love without feelings. And I shall never forget this lesson.' Matsyagandha, Kali, Yojanagandha, Daseyi - the queen of Hastinapur, Satyavati. Abandoned as a baby, preyed on by a Rishi, she hardens herself, determined that the next time she is with the man, she will be the one to win. And win she does: the throne of Hastinapur for herself and the promise that her sons will be heirs to the kingdom. But at what cost? In a palace where she is disdained and scorned, Satyavati must set aside her own loss and pain if she is to play the game of politics. She learns to be ruthless, unscrupulous- traits that estrange her from everyone around. Everyone, except the man she cheated of his birthright. A piercing, insightful look at the grand matriarch of the Kuru family, the woman who set off the sequence of events that ended in the bloody battle of Kurukshetra. "The Fisher Queen's Dynasty" will re-align your reading of ...

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