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*ARC* The Lucky Ones - Review

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The Lucky Ones By: Liz Lawson Published: April 7, 2020 by Delacorte Press 352 pages Genre: Young Adult, Standalone, Contemporary Source: Netgalley ARC Goodreads   / Amazon Summary: For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, This Is How It Ends, and All the Bright Places, comes a new novel about life after. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all? May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn't know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through--no one saw and heard what she did. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her. Zach lost his old life when his mother decided to defend the shooter. His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister...and the one faithful friend who stuc...

*ARC* And I Darken - DNF Review

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And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga #1) By: Kiersten White Published: June 28, 2016 by Delacorte Press 498 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: This vividly rendered novel reads like HBO’s  Game of Thrones  . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Ambitious in scope and intimate in execution, the story’s atmospheric setting is rife with political intrigue, with a deftly plotted narrative driven by fiercely passionate characters. Fans of Victoria Aveyard’s THE RED QUEEN, Kristin Cashore’s GRACELING, and Sabaa Tahir’s AN EMBER IN THE ASHES won’t want to miss this visceral, immersive, and mesmerizing novel, the first in a trilogy. NO ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to su...