#The Nahx Invasions

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Now Reading: Zero Repeat Forever by G.S. Prendergast

So pretty! 🖤

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Cold Falling White

Check out Sammie’s review of Cold Falling White by Gabrielle S. Prendergast:

http://angelicimpressions.blogspot.com/2020/02/cold-falling-white-nahx-invasions.html

Lauren is getting better, so hopefully reviews will come out more regularly again.

[adultintheyasection]

I really wanted to like “Zero Repeat Forever.”  It has so much that I love: aliens, survivalism, nightmare-inducing scenarios.  Unfortunately, it fell very flat.  The chapters featuring Raven seemed to drag on in an effort to make the “forever” in the title seem literal.  I also did not find her character likable at all.  The only redeeming parts of the book were Eighth and diversity.  I can’t recommend it to even the biggest of alien invasion fans.

This unbiased review is based upon a complimentary copy provided by the publisher.

Content Warning:

Language, Sexual Situations, Violence, Underage Drug and Alcohol Use

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (November 19th, 2019) ___

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao

Force Collector by Kevin Shinick & Tony Foti

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New Sequels:

Cold Falling White (The Nahx Invasions #2) by Gabrielle S. Prendergast

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) by Holly Black

Veiled by Desire (Laith #2) by Candace Robinson

From Flame & Ash (Elements of Five #2) by Carrie Ann Ryan

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Happy reading!

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Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle Prendergast

Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle Prendergast

Zero Repeat Forever by Gabrielle Prendergast   Reminiscent of Stephanie Meyer’s The Host, Zero Repeat Forever features an apocalyptic alien invasion. But this story lacks the rich world building and the characters are one-dimensional. I am obedience. I am malice. I think Eighth’s character is particularly undeveloped and I struggled to connect with him, feeling zero emotional empathy (the…

[sleepy-bookworm]

Congratulations to @gsprendergast + Zero Repeat Forever for winning the Sheila A. Geoff Children’s Literature Prize here in BC! Zero Repeat Forever is one of my favourite books in general. But with that said, Zero Repeat Forever is my favourite alien invasion story! And that’s saying a lot because I’m INCREDIBLY picky about alien invasion novels. I am genuinely looking forward to reading more of the Nahx Invasions, whenever that may be.💖👽🖤 . . . #zerorepeatforever #thenahxinvasions #gsprendergast #simonandschusterbooksforyoungreaders #simonandschustercanada #simonandschuster #books #bookphotography #bookstagram #signedcopy #itwasachristmasgift #ilovethisbook #nojoke

[drsnowrose]

2021 In Review

thanks for the tag! @fictionalcomforts

Top 5 Movies You Watched This Year

Tick, Tick... Boom! (im in tears.)

Spiderman No way Home (screaming, crying, laughing, throwing up, crying again.)

Encanto (very cute and the songs were amazing.)

Spencer (loved it.)

Way down (cute)

Top 5 TV Shows You Watched This Year

WandaVision (best marvel series in my opinion.)

Hawkeye (2nd best marvel series in my opinion.)

Money Heist (i very much liked it.)

Nine Perfect Strangers (whatched it with my mum and we really liked it.)

does SNL count as a series? bc i love it.

Top 5 Songs of 2021

Therapy, Tick, Tick... Boom! (i cannot begin to describe my love for this song.)

We Don't Talk About Bruno, Encanto (stuck in my head 24/7.)

Goodbye, MARINA (i couldnt feel more identified.)

11:11, Ben Barnes (makes me cry every time i listen to it dont ask me why.)

deja vu, Olivia Rodrigo (i scream this song when im in pain.)

Top 5 4 Albums You Heard This Year

Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land, MARINA.

Tick, Tick... Boom! Soundtrack, Netflix.

Songs For You, Ben Barnes.

Encanto Soundtrack, Disney.

- The rest are random songs from different albums :DD.

Top 5 Books You Read in 2021

The Core of the Sun, Johanna Sinisalo (a perfect mix of dytopia, feminism and drama, this book is awesome.)

Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (it's a thriller but it's soo warm and tender and i literally love it.)

Snow & Rose, Emily Winfield Martin (it's other version of this fairytale, very comforting.)

The Nahx Invasions, G. S. Prendergast (your friend and neighbor alien apocalypse.)

The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (currently reading it and i must say i love it.)

5 Positive Things That Happened in 2021

i made new friends besides my usual group of four.

i started to deal and improve with my social anxiety.

i discovered the marauders fandom (i was already a harry potter fan but yk)

i went on vacation with my family on the summer.

baccalaureate or high school or the equivalent in your country, it's treating me well. ^^

Tags (no pressure):

@heartshapedimagine @aziraphale-wants-wholock

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Cold Falling White (The Nahx Invasions, #2) by G. S. Prendergast https://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/59474-cold-falling-white https://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/59474-cold-falling-white

[quietya]

I don’t know why there aren’t more alien invasions in YA books, but there needs to be.

Zero Repeat Forever by G.S. Prendergast

He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. Until a human kills her… Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from the human resistance. Shelter in place. Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn’t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have? Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend. Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend on trusting each other…

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Cover Reveal!

Today Gabrielle Prendergast and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for COLD FALLING WHITE, the sequel to her Sci-Fi Book ZERO REPEAT FOREVER which releases November 19, 2019! Check out the awesome cover and enter the giveaway!

On to the reveal!

About The Book:

Title: COLD FALLING WHITE (The Nahx Invasions #2)

Author: G.S. Prendergast

Pub. Date: November 19, 2019

Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 352

Find it:

Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo

The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping follow-up to Zero Repeat Forever, which VOYA called “an edge-of-your-seat page-turner.”

Xander Liu survived the end of the world—just barely. For more than a year he has outsmarted, hidden from, and otherwise avoided the ruthless alien invaders, the Nahx, dodging the deadly darts that have claimed so many of his friends. When the murder of his friend Raven leaves him in the protective company of August, a rebellious Nahx soldier, Xander is finally able to make his way back to human controlled territory and relative safety.

But safety amongst the humans is not what it seems. Nothing is anymore.

Raven remembers dying in the arms of August. She remembers the pain, and the way he cried as she faded away. But months later when she wakes up on a wide expanse of snowy sand dunes, shackled to a boy she thought was dead too, she has a lot of questions. What has happened to her and the other reanimated humans gathered on the dunes? What is the meaning of the Nahx ships that hover ominously above them? And most pressing of all, where is August, who promised to keep her safe?

In the shadow of an unforgiving Canadian winter, Xander and Raven find themselves on opposite sides of an alien war neither of them signed up for. Left with little choice about their roles in the great battle that now seems inevitable, they search for answers and allies, all while feeling inexorably drawn back the place it seems their respective fates were determined, and to the one who determined them: August.

Title: ZERO REPEAT FOREVER (The Nahx Invasions #2)

Author: G.S. Prendergast

Pub. Date: August 29, 2017

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 496

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo

The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end of the world.

He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind.

Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.

His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting.

Until a human kills her…

Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from the human resistance.

Shelter in place.

Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn’t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have?

Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend.

Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend on trusting each other…

ZERO REPEAT FOREVER Book Trailer:

https://youtu.be/cjgfYAe9HDI

About Gabrielle

Gabrielle is a writer, teacher and designer living in Vancouver, Canada.  You can read about her books here. She is represented by Barbara Poelle at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency.

In 2014 she was the Writer in Residence at Vancouver Public Library. In 2015 she was nominated for the BC Book Prizes and chosen to tour the province to promote BC Books. In 2017 Gabrielle took part in the TD Canada Children’s Book Week Tour. She has also been nominated for the White Pine Award

and the CLA Award. Gabrielle won the Westchester Award for Audacious. Audacious was included in CBC’s list of 100 YA Books That Make You Proud to be Canadian. A poem from Capricious was chosen for the 2014 Poetry in Transit Program. Pandas on the East Side was chosen as an Ontario Library Association Best Bet for Junior Fiction in 2016. It was also nominated/shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Award, The Red Cedar Award, the Diamond Willow Award and the Myrca Award.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a signed Zero Repeat Forever hardcover, USA and Canada Only. Enter Here:

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/e2389ba2920/?

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Cover Reveal: COLD FALLING WHITE by G.S. Prendergast

Today Gabrielle Prendergast and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for COLD FALLING WHITE, the sequel to her Sci-Fi Book ZERO REPEAT FOREVER which releases November 19, 2019! Check out the awesome cover and enter the giveaway!

On to the reveal! 

About The Book:

Title: COLD FALLING WHITE (The Nahx Invasions #2)

Author: G.S. Prendergast

Pub. Date: November 19, 2019

Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 352

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping follow-up to Zero Repeat Forever, which VOYA called “an edge-of-your-seat page-turner.”

Xander Liu survived the end of the world—just barely. For more than a year he has outsmarted, hidden from, and otherwise avoided the ruthless alien invaders, the Nahx, dodging the deadly darts that have claimed so many of his friends. When the murder of his friend Raven leaves him in the protective company of August, a rebellious Nahx soldier, Xander is finally able to make his way back to human controlled territory and relative safety.

But safety amongst the humans is not what it seems. Nothing is anymore.

Raven remembers dying in the arms of August. She remembers the pain, and the way he cried as she faded away. But months later when she wakes up on a wide expanse of snowy sand dunes, shackled to a boy she thought was dead too, she has a lot of questions. What has happened to her and the other reanimated humans gathered on the dunes? What is the meaning of the Nahx ships that hover ominously above them? And most pressing of all, where is August, who promised to keep her safe?

In the shadow of an unforgiving Canadian winter, Xander and Raven find themselves on opposite sides of an alien war neither of them signed up for. Left with little choice about their roles in the great battle that now seems inevitable, they search for answers and allies, all while feeling inexorably drawn back the place it seems their respective fates were determined, and to the one who determined them: August.

Title: ZERO REPEAT FOREVER (The Nahx Invasions #2)

Author: G.S. Prendergast

Pub. Date: August 29, 2017

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 496

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end of the world.

He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind.

Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.

His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting.

Until a human kills her…

Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from the human resistance.

Shelter in place.

Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn’t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have?

Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend.

Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend on trusting each other… 

ZERO REPEAT FOREVER Book Trailer:

About Gabrielle:

Gabrielle is a writer, teacher and designer living in Vancouver, Canada.  You can read about her books here. She is represented by Barbara Poelle at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency.

In 2014 she was the Writer in Residence at Vancouver Public Library. In 2015 she was nominated for the BC Book Prizes and chosen to tour the province to promote BC Books. In 2017 Gabrielle took part in the TD Canada Children’s Book Week Tour. She has also been nominated for the White Pine Awardand the CLA Award.

Gabrielle won the Westchester Award for Audacious. Audacious was included in CBC’s list of 100 YA Books That Make You Proud to be Canadian. A poem from Capricious was chosen for the 2014 Poetry in Transit Program. Pandas on the East Side was chosen as an Ontario Library Association Best Bet for Junior Fiction in 2016. It was also nominated/shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Award, The Red Cedar Award, the Diamond Willow Award and the Myrca Award.

ZERO REPEAT FOREVER Website |Website |  Twitter | Facebook | Intstagram | Pinterest| Goodreads

Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a signed Zero Repeat Forever hardcover, USA and Canada Only.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

source https://www.tmbacorbett.com/2019/04/cover-reveal-cold-falling-white-by-gs.html

[libraryinthecountry]

#HappyNewYear! Here’s to new books and new friends! ⠀ What is the last book that took you by surprise? ⠀ I finished #ZeroRepeatForever by @gsprendergast yesterday and it totally blew me away! Thank you to @simonteen for sending me this copy, I am so excited to be working with @storygramtours to talk about Raven and Eighth’s story! ⠀ This book is PERFECT for fans of Partials and The 5th Wave. If you enjoy alien invasions, survivor stories but also forbidden love (à la Beauty and the Beast), this is the story for you. I am dying to see what happens in the next book! What a crazy ending! This story is gritty, yet endearing. I enjoyed it so much I ended up getting the audiobook so I could listen to it while I worked around the house. ⠀ If you want more info, check out the summary below and the link in my bio! ⠀ Summary: ⠀ He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. ⠀ Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. ⠀ His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. ⠀ Until a human kills her… ⠀ Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from the human resistance. ⠀ Shelter in place. ⠀ Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn’t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have? ⠀ Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend. ⠀ Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival depends on trusting each other… ⠀ #bookstagram #bookworm #booknerd #bookphotography #bibliophile #booklover #bookaddict #instareads #bookblogger #bookish #beautifulbooks #booktag #prettybooks #goodreads #bookdragon #yabooks #bookstack #scifibooks #ZeroRepeatForeverTour #GabriellePrendergast #SimonTeen #storygramtours https://www.instagram.com/p/BsGrkEBH9Is/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j574tf3rcma0

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#01 Cero se Repite Siempre (Serie The Nahx Invasions) Gabrielle Prendergast - Pdf Español

#01 Cero se Repite Siempre (Serie The Nahx Invasions) Gabrielle Prendergast – Pdf Español

Muevo mi cabeza levemente, con cuidado de no molestarlo, y presiono mi oído contra su abdomen. SU CORAZÓN. Puedo oírel latido de su corazón. Él tiene corazón.OCTAVO es un soldado de bajo rango del ejército Nahx carente de voz propia, pero sabe cuál es su deber: proteger a su compañera, y dejar que sea ella quien dispare, quien mate a los humanos.RAVEN es una chica de dieciséis años de edad que…

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Review: Zero Repeat Forever (The Nahx Invasions #1)

Review: Zero Repeat Forever (The Nahx Invasions #1)

Title: Zero Repeat Forever Author: Gabrielle Prendergast Pub. Date: August 29th, 2017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 496 Formats: eGalley  Trigger Waring: Suicide & Racism       He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let…

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MULTI REVIEW POST BONFIRE - ARC via Netgalley READ: 8/19-22/17; RELEASED: 11/9/17 "Can you ever outrun your past? From actress, producer, and writer, Krysten Ritter, a psychological suspense novel about a woman forced to confront her past in the wake of small-town corruption. It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good. Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret—a ritual called “The Game,” it will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her. With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote, rural town of just five claustrophobic miles,  Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide." Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. I read the majority of this in hospitals and waiting rooms in the midst of being ill. Do I have any regrets? Nope. I originally requested this because I've been a fan of Krysten's for ages and was excited and then I read the summary and whoo boy. It's not a perfect debut (there were some parts that seemed more destined for the small or big screen instead of a novel especially the end reveal) but the story and the way Ritter manages to capture imagery and feeling within the pages makes it easy to see in your mind and get lost in the mystery and the intrigue of the world she's created. Very much looking forward to reading more from her. ------------------------------------------ THE PUNCH ESCROW - Paperback ARC READ: 8/3-5/17; RELEASED: 7/25/17 4.2/5 "Dubbed the “next Ready Player One,” by former Warner Brothers President Greg Silverman, and now in film development at Lionsgate. It's the year 2147. Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled us to control aging. We’ve genetically engineered mosquitoes to feast on carbon fumes instead of blood, ending air pollution. And teleportation has become the ideal mode of transportation, offered exclusively by International Transport―the world’s most powerful corporation, in a world controlled by corporations. Joel Byram spends his days training artificial-intelligence engines to act more human and trying to salvage his deteriorating marriage. He’s pretty much an everyday twenty-second century guy with everyday problems―until he’s accidentally duplicated while teleporting. Now Joel must outsmart the shadowy organization that controls teleportation, outrun the religious sect out to destroy it, and find a way to get back to the woman he loves in a world that now has two of him." Thank you to the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. This one was a nice surprise. I was contacted by the publisher and offered this one. I had to wait to get out my thoughts about it because of real life events that went beyond my control. So sorry this is late. I found the whole thing really interesting from the carbon sucking mosquitoes to the AI and the cloning that takes place. Not once did I find this to linger or be slow in the pace and I loved that the main character was an average "Everyman" with his own set of issues that just so happens to go on this journey. Add to the fact that I hope there's a sequel and I'll be completely looking forward to it. ------------------------------------------ ZERO REPEAT FOREVER - ARC via Netgalley READ: 8/1-2/17; RELEASED: 8/29/17 3.8/5 "The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beastin this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end of the world. He has no voice or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. 
Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. Until a human kills her… Sixteen-year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her fellow campers can only stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn’t like feeling helpless, but what choice does she have? Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend. Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend on trusting each other…" Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. The pitch for this is Beauty and the Beast meets The Fifth Wave. I liked one more than the other but was still an optimist about reading this because with life happening I needed a fun escape. I liked this take on aliens and mythology (I've read enough alien fiction in my teens since Roswell to have a grasp of what's new or not and what's been done before), that I hadn't considered and I liked the authors take on aliens for Nahx. Raven, the main character was a tad all over the place (maybe it was the pacing of the novel) but I did enjoy the originality of the novel and how it unfolded. I'll look forward to the second one because even though I wasn't shocked by the twist it's still a good novel. ------------------------------------------ CHRISTOPHER WILD - ARC via Netgalley READ: 8/9/17; RELEASE: 2017 "Three lives. One man.Christopher Marlowe was the first rock star poet, a spy, an atheist, a gay rebel whose controversial plays thrilled audiences and challenged the government. CHRISTOPHER WILD is Kathe Koja’s new novel, a daring remix of eras—the glitter and threat of Elizabethan England, a grimy mid-20th century, and a dark near-future of constant surveillance—as Marlowe loves and fights and writes his way through every life" Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. Alright, time for the confession, I picked this up because I'm an English major and I got into TNT's now canceled show on Shakespeare. I wanted to like this but found myself struggling at times even if this novel is beautifully constructed. ------------------------------------------ THE WHISPERING ROOM - ARC via Netgalley READ: 8/10-12/17; RELEASE: 11/21/17 4.2/5 "Jane Hawk—fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner."No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.”These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide—and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals—Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America’s future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue—and become the nation’s most wanted fugitive—in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough. Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them." Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. Alright, when we last left the characters I was excited for a sequel and found that I had more questions instead of answers. Kootnz still has a brilliant strong character in Jane and he doesn't falter here. The only complaint I had much like last time is that Koontz is still a bit wordy in his descriptions but even though that makes it longer it's still enjoyable even though the pace drags a slight bit in still itching to get my hands on the next novel to see where he takes Jane especially after that ending. ------------------------------------------ NOTES FROM THE UPSIDE DOWN - ARC via Netgalley "Jump inside the world of Stranger Thingsand discover everything you need to know about the hit TV show. Grab your Eggo waffles and get ready for a visit to Hawkins, Indiana—just don’t forget the fairy lights! If you devoured Stranger Things on Netflix and you’re looking to fill the demogorgon-sized hole in your life, then look no further than Notes from the Upside Down. Thisfan-tastic guide has every fact you could ever wish for—from insights into the origins of the show, including the mysterious Montauk Project conspiracy theory; a useful eighties playlist (because, of course); and much more. If you’ve ever wondered why Spielberg is such a huge influence, which Stephen King books you need to read (hint: pretty much all of them), or how State Trooper David O’Bannon earned his name, then this book is for you. Entertaining, informative, and perfect for fans of eighties pop culture, Notes from the Upside Down is the Big Mac of unofficial guides to Stranger Things—super-sized and special sauce included." Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. I really, really fell in love with this show when it debuted and since then I've always looked for a book like this. I'm a casual fan but enjoy the little tiny backstories and what not from tv shows. Overall a great edition to companion books with a really bright and catchy cover. ---------------------------------------- BREAKING BAD 101 - ARC from Netgalley "AMC’s Breaking Bad is among the most beloved, critically acclaimed American television series of our time. Created by Vince Gilligan, the series charts the transformation of high school science teacher Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) into a cold, calculating meth kingpin. Breaking Bad 101 collects esteemed critic Alan Sepinwall’s (Uproxx) popular Breaking Bad recaps in book form, featuring new, exclusive essays and completely revised and updated commentary—as well as insights from and interviews with the creative masterminds behind Breaking Bad. The ultimate critical companion for one of the greatest television dramas of all time, Breaking Bad 101 offers fans Sepinwall’s smart, funny, and incisive analysis of the psychology and filmmaking craft behind each episode and celebrates the series’ unique place in pop-culture history."   Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy in exchange for an honest review. I liked this book. I'm a huge fan of the TV series and found this to be a nice walk down memory lane especially with the episode recaps and I like how they manage to tie in Better Call Saul as a nod to the shared universe that the characters all live in. A nice edition to companion books and fans of the show (even if the cover isn't very eye catching).