Classic Monday: 1984 by George Orwell

1949326 pages Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions a legacy...

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New Releases This Week

Six awesome books all released on Tuesday, May 1...

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The 2012 Debut Author Challenge: Completed

  Ms. Book Queen is participating in the 2012 Debut Author Challenge over at http://thestorysiren.com The objective: To read & review a minimum of twelve young adult or middle grade debut novels between the dates of January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2013. The deadline to join is May 31, 2012. The books I have read and reviewed are linked: Cinder by Marissa Meyer Under the Never Sky by Veronica...

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Elemental Review

260 pages Release date: May 1st, 2012 Just because Ella can burn someone to the ground with her mind doesn't mean she should. But she wants to. For ten years—ever since she was a small child—Ella has been held prisoner. Now that she has escaped, she needs answers. Who is she? Why was she taken? And who is the boy with the beautiful green eyes who haunts her memories? Is Ella the prophesied Destructor… or will she be the one who's destroyed? Review...

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Darkness Falls Review

286 pages When the disease spread through the world, people had no choice but to go into hiding. The Colony is hidden deep underground, far away from the vampires—humans that were transformed by the disease. The vampires are hideous, starving, and they will kill any human they come across.Seventeen-year-old Kayla is a Bellator, a warrior that protects The Colony. In order to survive, there are three rules she must follow: Rule #1—Never go out...

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Glitch Review

320 pages Release date: August 7th, 2012 In the Community, there is no more pain or war. Implanted computer chips have wiped humanity clean of destructive emotions, and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network. When Zoe starts to malfunction (or "glitch"), she suddenly begins having her own thoughts, feelings, and identity. Any anomalies must be immediately reported and repaired, but Zoe has a secret so dark it will mean certain...

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Classic Monday: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1950179 pages The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a...

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Upcoming Reviews

ARC: Crimson Rising by Nick James Middle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky Elemental by Emily White Skylark by Meagan Spooner Glitch by Heather Anastasiu Bought: Darkness Falls by Jessica Soren...

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Redemption Review

360 pages Release date: September 2012 Guillaume: For five hundred years I've existed as a gargoyle. Perched atop an old Montreal church, I've watched idly as humanity wanders by. With the witch Marguerite gone, there is no one left to protect, nothing to care about. I never planned to feel again. But then a girl released me from my stone restraints, allowing me to return as a seventeen-year-old human boy. I must find out all I can about this...

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Vote for my blog in the Independent Book Blogger Awards on Goodreads!

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Arena One Review

300 pages New York. 2120. American has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to...

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Working Stiff Review

306 pages Bryn Davis was killed on the job after discovering her bosses were selling a drug designed to resurrect the dead. Now, revived by that same drug, she becomes an undead soldier in a corporate war to take down the very pharmaceutical company responsible for her new condition... Review: This novel was actually better than I thought it would be. For a zombie mystery novel it has a lot of action and a pretty original storyline. I liked...

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Classic Monday: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1960 376 pages The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.This is a wonderfully deep and educational novel that teaches a lot about kindness, prejudice,...

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Back from Vacation

So I'm back from my 2 week vacation! As you may have noticed I managed to make some posts in that time using an app on my iPad called BlogPress. Its an amazing app to use when making blog posts on the go. Definitely recommend that if you have an iP...

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Cloaked Review

341 pages I’m not your average hero. I actually wasn’t your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all. It all started with the curse. And the frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission. There wasn’t a fairy godmother or any of that. And even though I fell in love along the way, what happened...

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Storybound Review

416 pages In the land of Story, children go to school to learn to be characters: a perfect Hero, a trusty Sidekick, even the most dastardly Villain. They take classes on Outdoor Experiential Questing and Backstory, while adults search for full-time character work in stories written just for them. In our world, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild has always felt invisible. But all that changes when she stumbles upon a mysterious book buried deep in...

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Vote for the Independent Book Blogger Awards!

Voting is now open for Ms Book Queen on Goodreads for the Independent Book Blogger Awards! /**/ Vote for this blog for the Independent Book Blogger Awards! Vote - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location:Trinidad & Tobago - Posted using BlogPress from my iP...

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Classic Monday: The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton

1898 1049 pages Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. I love books full of entertaining short...

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Upcoming Reviews

ARC:Exiled by J.R. Wagner Hippocampus by Tom TancinElemental by Emily WhiteMiddle Ground by Katie Kacvinsky Bought:X-Isle by Steve AugardeThe Emerald Table by P.J. HooverStorybound by Marissa Burt...

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Independent Book Blogger Awards

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Fear Review

509 pages It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear. Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally—turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. In...

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Pure Review

329 pages There is need. And then there is Fate... Being destined to become some kind of supernatural electrical outlet isn't exactly awesome--especially when Alexandria's "other half" is everywhere she goes. Seth's in her training room, outside her classes, and keeps showing up in her bedroom--so not cool. Their connection does have some benefits, like staving off her nightmares of the tragic showdown with her mother, but it has no effect on...

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Classic Monday: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

1899 239 pages Weary of her storybook, one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty hare underground -- to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all of literature. The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat -- each more eccentric than the last -- could only have come from that master of...

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Vacation!

I'm leaving on vacation today for two weeks until April 15th. Hopefully I can update my reviews where I am and I will definitely be readi...

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