Title: Series: Rating: Author: Format(s): Pages: Description: Ready Player One Ready Player One 9.9/10 Ernest Cline eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook 384 A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut – part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed. It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you
Title: Series: Rating: Author: Format(s): Pages: Description: Nite Fire: Flash Point Nite Fire 9.8/10 C. L. Schneider eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook 400 Not all things born in the shadows are meant to be pulled into the light. Slated for execution, shapeshifting assassin, Dahlia Nite, flees her world to hide in the human realm. As payment for the shelter they unknowingly provide, Dahlia dedicates herself to protecting humans from what truly lives in the shadows. Moving from town to town, she hunts the creatures that threaten an unsuspecting human race; burying the truth that could destroy them all. But the shadows are shifting. The lies are adding up. And when Sentinel City is threatened by a series of bizarre brutal murders, light is shed on what
Title: Series: Rating: Author: Format(s): Pages: Description: A Thousand Faces A Thousand Faces: Book 1 8.7/10 Janci Patterson eBook, Paperback 292 In her debut YA science fiction novel, Janci Patterson presents a thriller that #1 NYT bestseller James Dashner calls “a fantastic book” and #1 NYT bestseller Brandon Sanderson calls “hands down one of my favorite novels of the year.” In the world of high-stakes espionage, it pays to be able to change your face. And that’s just what sixteen-year-old Jory and her family of shape-shifting spies can do—alter their faces and bodies to look like anyone. Jory is in training to be a full member of the family business—when she can convince her parents to let her help with their elaborate cons. But when
Title: Series: Rating: Author: Format(s): Pages: Description: Blanchland Blues N/A 9/10 Tom Dell’Aringa eBook, Paperback 415 pages Since being dishonorably discharged from the Star Corps, pilot John MacAlister has been struggling to make ends meet with less-than-legal cargo runs across the cosmos. He’s desperate to get his life back, but every time John thinks he’s found that “one last job,” some new disaster lands him back at square one. After he crashes on the Moon, John finds himself in debt to a shady lawyer who makes him an offer he can’t refuse: Locate teenage runaway Meryl Amelson and bring her back or rot in jail. John knows whatever they want her for can’t be good – but what choice does he have? At least that’s
Title: Series: Rating: Author: Format(s): Pages: Description: Essence Of Magic Ruby Morgan: Book 1 9.2/10 L. J. Rivers eBook, Paperback, Hardcover 246 – 274 WHAT WOULD YOU PAY FOR A TASTE OF MAGIC? My name is Ruby Guinevere Morgan. I’m half Fae, with healing powers and the ability to throw the occasional force field. When I left my home town to study journalism, I made a promise to my mum to stay hidden from the Harvesters hunting for magical blood—like mine. My first week at university, and I’m already about to break my promise. See, I tend to poke my nose into places where it doesn’t belong, and I can’t look away when the disappearance of a girl on campus is connected to the hottest