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 The Collapsing Empire  (The Interdependency #1) By John Scalzi  2018 Locus Award Winner  Published Year: 2017 Page Count: 370 pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Hard Science fiction, Space Opera, Game for Throne, Thriller, Court Intrigues, 2026-read.  Rating : 5/5 😍😍😍😍😍 The Interdependency is the nation of systems where humans are spread out across the universe. There are around 47 habitable systems in all. On some of them, like the Hub, they live underground. On some, they don't have feasibility to inhabit the planet and hence live on scientific habitats or space stations. Only End is the planet where they live on the surface. These human occupied outposts are interconnected by flow streams. Where even if they use their fastest spaceships called Tenners, it would take them anywhere from decades to centuries to plod between these habitats, using and traveling through Flow, they can reduce the time to weeks or months. ...

 Prince of Thorns  (Broken Empire #1) By Mark Lawrence  Published Year: 2011 Page Count: 375 pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre: High Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Mages, Magic, Gore, Psychological Thriller, 2026-read.  Rating : 5/5 A boy of 10, bent on revenge for the murder of his mother and brother, gathers a band of thugs and marches forth. But his path is magically modified and we get to read his escapades and adventures for the next four years in first person narrative.  A young prince of nine years old, Jorg witnesses his mother and younger brother being brutally murdered by the troops of Count Renar. The prince survived the attack because he is thrown into the briar bush with thorns and either fear or absence of bravery keeps him silent and rooted to his spot. The thorns embed under his skin, causing fevers that last for weeks. After he recovers, he collects a band of outlaws/misfits/thugs and goes on a ride for vengeance. Something suspicious happe...

 They Both Die at the End  ( They Both Die at the End #1) By Adam Silvera  Published Year: 2017 Page Count: 370 pages  Medium Used: Paperback  Genre : Speculative Fiction, LGBTQ, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Facing Death, 2026-read. Rating : 5/5 😀😀😀😀😀 Death Cast is a company that has come into existence six years ago, in 2011. By some miraculous maneuvering, they can predict the death of a person within a 24 hour window. Every morning, the company representatives, called Heralds, call up the people who are dying that day (within the next 24 hours) and alert them to the bad news. Mateo is spending his time alone in his apartment when he gets the call. His mother died in child birth and his father is in a coma. He is eighteen years old and completely freaks out. He wants to go visit his dad and bid his goodbyes but is scared to leave the safe haven of his apartment. Rufus is a seventeen year old teen who is thrashing up his girlfriend's new bf,Peck,when he get...

 The Cruel Prince  (Elfhame #1, The Folk of the Air #1) By Holly Black Published Year: 2018 Page Count: 370 pages Medium Used: Paperback  Genre: High Fantasy, Suspense, Game for the Throne, Faeries, Cruelty, Princes, 2026-read. Rating : 5/5 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Jude and Taryn are twin sisters, spending a lazy, normal day with their parents who are busy doing household chores. They have an elder step sister Vivienne from their mother. A stranger pays an unexpected visit and murders the parents, whisks away the children from mortal world to his world of Faerie. Vivienne is his daughter and he feels obligated to not leave the offspring from his unfaithful wife behind. This stranger happens to be the war hungry and brutal military general of Faerie, Madoc. Ten years pass in Faerie, with the children developing into teenagers. While Vivienne doesn't like the world of Faerie, doesn't forgive her father Madoc for the murder of her mother and takes a girl friend from the human world, the t...

 You Should Have Known  By Jean Hanff Korelitz Published Year: 2014 Page Count: 425 pages Medium Used: iPad Air  Genre: Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detectives, Drama, 2026-read.  Rating : 5/5 😇😇😇🤗🤗 Grace Reinhart Sachs had been married to Jonathan Sachs for over eighteen years. They have a young son of eleven, Henry who is very well behaving, well mannered kid for his age. Grace is a psychotherapist, counseling in marriage issues and has a private practice in New York. Jonathan is a pediatric oncologist, dealing with cancer cases in children. Grace considers hers to be a happy family and herself, lacking in nothing. She is a very understanding and accommodating wife who gives her husband his space and time to deal with his work. The main character is Grace and we see a third person's perspective of her life and circumstances in the unraveling plotline. According to her, Jonathan is often gripped with pain and misery of other people, usually...