Book Review Every Other Day By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

What a great read. I have read Jennifer Lynn Barnes Raised by Wolves series which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I thought I would give Every Other Day a shot and it did not disappoint.  The book focuses on Kali a girl who every other day she is a normal teenager then ever day in between she becomes something else. She still looks like herself but she gets the urge to hunt supernatural beings and she heals at an accelerated rate. She has no idea why she is this way or even what she is. Then on one of her human days Kali spots a mark on a fellow student and she knows she has been marked for death by a supernatural creature. So Kali decides to try and save the girl and from that moment nothing will be the same for Kali again.

  I loved this story and the mysteries that followed. The characterization and world building was great. Some of Kali’s friend she makes along the way of her journey really helped make this story. Kali was a serious kick butt heroine and I love that in my lead character. It’s nice to see a girl who can take care of herself and she does it well. The mystery involving what Kali is was well written, but I feel I was left with more questions than answers in the overall scheme of things, which was kind of a disappointment.

    A very good plotted and well written story that grabbed me from the first few pages and didn’t let go till the end. The action, mystery and intrigue was very captivating. Overall Jennifer Lynn Barnes does it again with another terrific read; I can’t wait for the sequel so I can hopefully get some of my questions answered. 

Book Review- Partials By Dan Wells

Let me start off by saying wow I absolutely LOVED this book. The amount I love this book even surprises me. I honestly wasn’t sure if I was going to like Partials or not. The premise seemed to be a little more sci-fi then I tend to like, but I figured I would give it a shot and boy did it not disappoint. 
Partials is set in the year 2076. Humanity has all but been extinguished after the war with the Partials, engineered organic beings that appear to be human. The population has been reduced to tens of thousands by a weaponized virus that only a fraction of humans are immune. The survivors have come together at Long Island. Trying to pick up the pieces of what is left and too survive. The problem is no baby has been born immune in over a decade and time is running out. Kira is a sixteen year old girl who works in the Maternity ward trying to find a cure for the babies. When her best friend announces that she is pregnant it causes Kira to take a deeper look at the problem and try to find a cure before her friend’s baby is born. Little does she know that that deeper look will send her fleeing with the unlikeliest of allies and the answers are closer than anyone could believe. 
I found this book to be very fast paced. The world and character building were very believable. I felt myself being drawn into the world Dan Wells had created and I didn’t want to leave. Even when I got to the last page I wanted more of this awesome story. I loved Kira she was a strong girl who didn’t need someone to rescue her all the time. She could stand on her own two feet very well. The secondary characters were just as likeable and they weren’t weaklings either. 
My only problem was the story ended to soon I wanted more of it and I hope when book 2 comes out in the series we get answers to some of the questions we were left hanging with. I really enjoyed the scientific explanations throughout the story. Dan Wells get kudos for going deeper into the explanations then a lot of authors I have read lately who seemed to just graze the threshold. Overall a fantastic read and I cannot wait for the next one. 

Book Review- Kill Me Softly By Sarah Cross

Wow I surprisingly loved this book. I normally don’t get into retelling of fairy tales, but this story was really well done and I am glad I got the chance to review it. From the very first pages it hooked me and I ended up reading it all in one sitting. 
Kill Me Softly is about a teenage girl named Mirabelle Lively. She is about a week away from her 16th birthday. She lives with her 2 godmothers because her mother and father were killed when she was just a baby from a fire at her christening party. Her godmothers have always been good to her but she feels they have sheltered her from a lot of things out of life the most important being going back to Beau Rivage the city where she was born and her parents died at. So Mirabelle after careful planning decides to run away and go to Beau Rivage to find her parent’s graves. Upon arriving at Beau Rivage she meets a group of people who seem to be hiding secrets. In this group she meets 2 brothers Blue and Felix who couldn’t be more complete opposites. First there is Felix the sweet and caring older brother who seems to want to help her out and then there is Blue who is rude and mean and wants her to leave Beau Rivage. As she continues her search for her parents she realizes things are not quite what they seem in this city and she may be a part of something bigger than even she could have imagined. The boy she falls in love with kiss could turn deadly. 
This story had some really great moments and I loved the spin on the fairy tales it gives. Although there was some points in the story where I wanted to grab Mirabelle and shake her and tell her to stop being so naïve. That was just me though because in a lot of instances she was that naïve because her godmothers had sheltered and protected her from so much. I really enjoyed the world Sarah Cross created in this story and I hope I get to visit it again. My only real complaint was it seemed like the ending was really rushed and could have been done just a bit better. It was almost like the author said oh no I am on page 300 I need to wrap this up and shoved all kinds of things at us in a short amount of time. 
Overall I will definitely be reading this again when it finally comes out. I hope she writes more stories in the world she created because there was characters I would definitely like to see if they get there happily ever after or not. Thank you to Egmont USA and Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this wonderful story.