Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any recollection of how she arrived, or memories from her life prior. All she knows is that somewhere out there, beyond the horizon, she has a sister named Kay, and it’s up to Cee to cross the ocean and find her.

In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara lives in an eco-city built for people who protected the planet―and now need protecting from it. With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, eco-cities provide clean air, water, and shelter. Their residents, in exchange, must spend at least a third of their time in stasis pods, conducting business virtually whenever possible to reduce their environmental footprint. While Kasey, an introvert and loner, doesn’t mind the lifestyle, her sister Celia hated it. Popular and lovable, Celia much preferred the outside world. But no one could have predicted that Celia would take a boat out to sea, never to return.
Now it’s been three months since Celia’s disappearance, and Kasey has given up hope. Logic says that her sister must be dead. But nevertheless, she decides to retrace Celia’s last steps. Where they’ll lead her, she does not know. Her sister was full of secrets. But Kasey has a secret of her own.

The ones we are meant to find is a new novel by Joan He. It was one of my most anticipated releases of 2021 so as soon as it got out i had to read it. It actually took me a little longer than i had planned but hey I got the review now haha.

This book has such an interesting concept that called me quite intensely but I'm not going to lie, the cover made me buy it, have you seen that BEAUTY? The art work is absolutely stunning and I love it.

Anyways back to the actual story. Going into it with just knowing the basics was probably the best idea ever, it has a surprising element to it that I feel like if you know it could ruin it all.

I am normally not really in to Sci-fi/ dystopian books but I was pleasantly surprised about this one.

You follow the main characters Celia and Kasey, two sisters who love and care for each other. Unfortunately, Celia goes missing and appears to be in a deserted island knowing not so much about herself but that she has a sister and she needs to find her. And that is all you need to know.

What I thought it was really interesting is that you follow both sisters POV, however, that was a bit of a bad thing too.

It obviously was very important to know both lives but I found that Kasey’s POV was a bit boring at times and maybe it was because I wasn't fully focusing on it but I got kind of lost and confused with her part.

I also loved the fact that they were so different from each other, Kasey is a genius and Celia is more of a like a party people person.

A part from that, everything you want to do is just keep reading I wanted to know what was going to happen next so so bad because almost every chapter ended with a cliff hanger.

Even if you don't really like dystopian books (like me) I do think you could like this, it is mystery packed which is something I always love.

So just for the ending and the whole story development, it is absolutely worth reading.

I was thrilled to read this one and I am so glad I did because I absolutely loved it!

For that I gave it

4.5/5⭐️

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Joan He was born and raised in Philadelphia but still will, on occasion, lose her way. At a young age, she received classical instruction in oil painting before discovering that storytelling was her favorite form of expression. She studied Psychology and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania and currently writes from a desk overlooking the Delaware River. Descendant of the Crane is her debut young adult fantasy. Her next novel, The Ones We're Meant to Find, will be forthcoming from Macmillan on May 4th, 2021.

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Girls started vanishing in the fall.

For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam.

What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenage girls, and the town reels from the tragedy. As Maggie's and Pauline's worlds collide and change around them, they will both experience love and loss.

And by the end of the book, only one of them will survive

Good morning, good evening or good night everyone! I hope your day is going amazing so far! Today I have a mystery/YA novel review, hope you like it!

I am not going to lie, I went into this book absolutely skeptical about it. Basically it has such a cliche story, the girl who moves to a new town, meets this weirdos and girls start to disappear. tell me you have never read or watched a movie or TV show about this and I will not believe you, we all already know the many different ways the story can end yet I decided to pick it up quite excited and intrigued about it.

I was absolutely disappointed about this one and not just that but also confused as to how the hell did it finished and why it had such a weird ending. I am obviously not going to spoil anything here, but if you have read the book, scroll all the way down and you will find my thoughts on it including spoilers.

To me, it felt like a 300 pages long book in which nothing happened, and whenever there was an actual move in some of the relationships of the characters it all went back and everything was undone if that makes any sense haha.

I didn't liked the characters, didn't liked the main character nor de love interest, he and she felt plain to me and like there was no background story. I felt like you never really got to know the boy and his father (who was the weirdo in town), who was a character that I was really interested in knowing more about him (the father) since he had quite a personality yet he did not have any lines.

As for the main character, Maggie, I didn't understand her. For me it is essential to get to know the environment and growing up of the characters in order to understand and feel them, like to know the present you gotta know the past and even if there were a couple references, you really didn't know much about her and her past live back in the previous city that she lived in before she moved.

Like I said before, the plot was absolutely plain and there was so much that did not make sense AT ALL. I can't say much about it without spoiling so just know that you are going to finish the book even more confused than how you started it.

So for all of this, maybe it just wasn't the book for me, I think other people had enjoyed it, but since this is a personal review. Also if some of you have read this book and feel like i havent understand the concept of it, pease let me know!

SPOLIER ALERT!!!!!!

Alright lets get into it. The incredible cliff hanger in the end like, the book was about girls disparaging and there was no murderer found?! like HOW I don't understand that, what is literally the point of it all then? The plain and weird relationship between them?

Yeah, this boy who is absolutely in love with a stunning girl but when she leaves because there is murderer on the loose, he gets bored and lonely and hooks up with her best friend, tells her he loves her but when the stunning girl comes back, suddenly he realized that he had loved her for the entirety of his life so fuck the other girl, because she is not as pretty. Sorry but that's how it felt to me.

Also the fact that there was a murderer out and about, killing teenage girls is absolutely scary right? You wouldn't wanna even leave the house right? Well it makes sense that Maggie went running ALONE and also that her parents casually went away leaving her ALONE, it blew my mind.

1/5⭐️

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I grew up moving all over the world, but I consider my childhood home a lake town in northern New Jersey where I used to spend way too much time walking in the woods with my cat, watching the clouds, and making things up. I've loved writing and reading about strange and mythical things since I can remember. I’m deeply drawn to the magic in real things and am always trying to capture it with what I write. 

I began my career as a book editor at HarperCollins in NYC before starting to write full-time in various nooks and crannies around the world. These days I spend most of my time in Asheville, NC, where I live with my husband, our son, our persnickety dog, a fish, and a baby-on-the-way who apparently loves potato chips. I have a BA in British Literature from the University of Maryland and hold an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. 

Besides writing and reading, I love to cook, knit, hike, run, bike, make Claymation videos, and attempt to play the banjo. 

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After moving back to Ohio, Alice is stuck sharing a bedroom with her brother, and worse, sharing his dreams! The bright spot in her life is her best friend, Jamie, but there's more history between their families than Alice realized, and there are secrets buried deep in their small town that only she’ll be able to explore...but only in her dreams!

Good morning, good evening or good night everyone! I hope your day is going amazing so far! Today I have a graphic novel review, that I actually quite enjoyed.

Alice from dream to dream is a GN with a really interesting plot. The fact that she could jump onto everyone's dreams was such a great story and I thought it had a lot of potential.

I also really liked the background story or the moral of the book, the fact that she could forgive and the relationship that she has with Jaime was so cute!

Something that I noticed that I thought was so great was the fact that she reached out for help for dr. Snow, I find that often in books or TV shows the main characters shallow all of their problems when asking for help to an adult/professional is what everyone should do. Reaching out for help is absolutely fine and that should be shown more.

It is also such a relatable story, I feel like most people could see themselves reflected into Alice, she is going through a hard time at school, financially, she has to sleep with her brother because there is no other room available and she has been transferred to another city because of her father job. It is so important to be able to feel the characters because probably what they are going through is something that you know and have experienced.

THIS NEXT PART CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!

If I had to change something about this book would be the fact that Taisha was forgiven too fast and too easily, obviously is really important to learn and be able to forgive but the fact that they came to being friends after everything that Taisha did and how bad she behaved and treated Alice was just not okay.

With all being said, I gave this book a solid

4.5/5⭐️

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Giulio Macaione (nacido en Catania en 1983) creció en Palermo pero vive en Bolonia. Después de su debut en Mondo Naif en 2005, publicó varias novelas gráficas con Kappa Edizioni, Comma 22, Editions Physalis y Renbooks.

Colabora con la Editorial BAO con la que publicó las novelas gráficas Basilicò (2016) y Stella di mare (2018), ambas traducidas en Francia por Ankama (Basilicò, 2020) y Editions du Long Bec (Étoile de mer, 2019).

En 2018 creó para la editorial estadounidense BOOM! Studios la novela gráfica Alice: from dream to dream, nominada entre los Mejores Libros para Adolescentes de 2018 por la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York y traducida en Italia en 2019 por BAO Publishing con el título Alice from dream to dream. En 2020 se lanza la novela gráfica en dos volúmenes F *** ing Sakura para Panini Comic.

Sus cómics de producción propia son The End of Summer (2016), In the Darkness of the Trees (2017) y Any Morning (2019). Enseña en la Escuela Internacional de Cómics de Reggio Emilia. En 2021, para BAO Publishing, publica su nueva novela gráfica titulada Scirocco 

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 Books that will be coming out on May 2021!

{Hello everyone, I hope you all are having an amazing day! Today I decided to post SOME of the many many books that are going to be published on May 2021, there are a lot more but here are some of the ones that I am most excited about! I decided to post the long synopsis so that you can really know what is all about, i hope you enjoy it and dont forget to let me know which of all of them is your favorite! I think the one i am most excited about is "The ones we´re meant to find" it has such a stunning cover and it also sounds really interesting so you will defineltey see the review really soon}

                                                                      

 strange darkness grows in Allward.

Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea.

She soon discovers the truth: She is the last of an ancient lineage—and the last hope to save the world from destruction. But she won’t be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions:

A squire, forced to choose between home and honor.
An immortal, avenging a broken promise.
An assassin, exiled and bloodthirsty.
An ancient sorceress, whose riddles hide an eerie foresight.
A forger with a secret past.
A bounty hunter with a score to settle.

Together they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash, and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed.

                                                                    

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

                                                                    

Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any recollection of how she arrived, or memories from her life prior. All she knows is that somewhere out there, beyond the horizon, she has a sister named Kay. Determined to find her, Cee devotes her days to building a boat from junk parts scavenged inland, doing everything in her power to survive until the day she gets off the island and reunites with her sister.

In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara is also living a life of isolation. The eco-city she calls home is one of eight levitating around the world, built for people who protected the planet―and now need protecting from it. With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, eco-cities provide clean air, water, and shelter. Their residents, in exchange, must spend at least a third of their time in stasis pods, conducting business virtually whenever possible to reduce their environmental footprint. While Kasey, an introvert and loner, doesn’t mind the lifestyle, her sister Celia hated it. Popular and lovable, Celia much preferred the outside world. But no one could have predicted that Celia would take a boat out to sea, never to return.

Now it’s been three months since Celia’s disappearance, and Kasey has given up hope. Logic says that her sister must be dead. But as the public decries her stance, she starts to second guess herself and decides to retrace Celia’s last steps. Where they’ll lead her, she does not know. Her sister was full of secrets. But Kasey has a secret of her own.

                                                                   

Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered; as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss; as a US Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah nor Bailey could have anticipated.

                                                                 

 Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents--who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno--Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. After all, her father's never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn't "father material" before Juno was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard...and lonely.

But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that's predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands. At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly's founder, Dr. River Pena. This is one number she can't wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pena. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we'll pay you. Jess--who is barely making ends meet--is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the "Diamond" pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist--and the science behind a soulmate--than she thought.

                                                                  

Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.

But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.

To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future - outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.

                                                                   

Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Charlie's beginning to feel ready to say those three little words: I love you.

Nick's been feeling the same, but he's got a lot on his mind - not least coming out to his dad, and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder.

As summer turns to autumn and a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick are about to learn a lot about what love means.

Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

This is the fourth volume of Heartstopper, which has now been optioned for television by See-Saw Films. 

                                                                    

Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless.

Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie’s curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers.

When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spiraling out of control

                                                                  

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.

The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.

What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.

Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.