Books That I Have Bought in October!!
Updated: Added Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
1. Fire & Flood By Victoria Scott
Summary: Tella's Brother is dying. He's got cancer and Tella is helpless to save him. Or so she thought. When an invitation arrives for Tella to compete in the Brimstone Bleed, a deadly competition that will lead her through treacherous jungle and scorching desert, she doesn't think twice. Because the prize is a cure to any illness. But Tella will be facing more than just the elements.
GoodReads Score: 3.95/5
2. Messenger Of Fear By Michael Grant
Summary: "Who are you?" That was the first question I asked the boy in front of me. The pale, solemn young man in the black coat with the silver skulls for buttons.
But he didn't answer it. Instead he answered the question I never asked, but which was nevertheless what I really wanted to know.
Am I dead? No. Not dead, he told me.
But surely not quite alive, either. How could I be? I remembered my name-Mara. But, standing in the ghostly place, still shuddering at the memory of the creeping yellow mist that had awoken me in that strange, silent land, I could recall nothing else about myself.
And then the games began.
GoodReads Score: 3.84/5
3. The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman
Summary: NOBODY OWENS, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard,being raised and educated by ghosts.
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.
GoodReads Score: 4.09/5
4. Afterworlds By Scott Westerfeld
Summary: Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she's made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned and fledgling writers who take her under their wings…
Told in alternating chapters is Darcy's novel, a suspenseful thriller about Lizzie, a teen who slips into the 'Afterworld' to survive a terrorist attack. But the Afterworld is a place between the living and the dead and as Lizzie drifts between our world and that of the Afterworld, she discovers that many unsolved - and terrifying - stories need to be reconciled. And when a new threat resurfaces, Lizzie learns her special gifts may not be enough to protect those she loves and cares about most.
GoodReads Score: 3.80/5
5. Magisterium: The Iron Trial By Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Summary: Most people would do anything to get into the Magisterium and pass The Iron Trial.
Not Callum Hunt.
Call has been told his whole life that he should never trust a magician. And so he tries his best to do his worst-but fails at failing.
Now he Must enter The Magisterium. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister. And Call realizes it has dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
The Iron Trial is just the beginning, Call's biggest test is still to come.
GoodReads Score: 3.85/5
6: The Good Luck of Right Now By Matthew Quick
Summary: Bartholomew Neil is thirty-eight and lost. He's lived his whole life, up till a few weeks ago, with his devoted mum. But now she has died Bartholomew has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose life has been grounded learn how to fly?
So Bartholomew turns to Richard Gere, the man his mum adored from afar, in the hope he can offer some answers. In Bartholomew's letters to Richard Gere he explores philosophy and friendship, alien abduction and the mystery of women. The letters also reveal his heart-breaking need of a family, but when Bartholomew does manage to assembly a motley family of sorts, he seems to have taken on more than he bargained for...
GoodReads Score: 3.60/5
7. EndGame: The Calling By James Frey and Nil Johnson-Shelton
Summary: Twelve Players. Young in body, but of ancient people. All of humanity is descended from their lines. They were created and chosen thousands of years ago. They have been prepared every day since. They are not supernatural. None can fly, or turn lead to gold, or heal themselves. When death comes, it comes. For them, for all of us. They are the inheritors of the Earth, and the Great Puzzle of Salvation is theirs to solve. One of them must do it, or we will all be lost.
GoodReads Score: 3.70/5
8. Red Sparrow By Jason Matthews
Summary: In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become "Sparrow", a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency's most important Russian mole.
Spies have long relied on the "honey trap", whereby vulnerable men and women are intimately compromised. Dominika learns these techniques of "sexpionage" in Russia's secret "Sparrow School," hidden outside of Moscow.
As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and -- inevitably --forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiences are made and broken, Dominika and Nate's game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.
That's the end of the MID-OCTOBER Book Haul!!! Hope you guys like it and hope there are books that interest you! If you like the contents, do follow me, I would really appreciate it!
