Book Review- The Lonliest Girl in the Universe

The Lonliest Girl

What happens when your parents accidentally conceived on a spaceship, only to die, leaving you, an unlikely tween, alone in space?

Romy Silvers is now the only person on The Infinity, a spaceship headed for what is said to be a life-supporting planet after her parents, and everyone else aboard dies due to a fatal mistake in the system.

So when she discovers that another ship has been sent, she is elated. She communicates with the captain, a boy called J. Romy finds herself falling for him, but can you love someone you don’t know? Are there worse things than being alone?

I really enjoyed reading this; there were some parts where my sides ached from laughter and others where skin crawled with the skillful tension towards the end. It was just a thriller, and something different from all the other books.

Book Review- Who Runs the World?

Who Runs the WorldWho Runs the World?

A very serious question that deserves a very intelligent answer. It’s hard to believe that a single book could encompass all aspects of such a deep question, but Bergin dives right in and skillfully weaves the story where women do actually run the world.

The teenagers of today’s world are ‘grandmummas’ when this story occurs. After a deadly virus has wiped out all males, the female population have ‘grieved, pulled together and moved on’. They have made a new society, new laws, and are happy. So when 14-year-old River stumbles across a boy, everything the women have established, all the information they took as the truth, crumbles around them.

The story was really beautiful and interesting. I really like books that have different laws, government systems and structure than us and here is one. It has really made a name for itself, despite only being published in 2017, and I hope you take the time to read it.

Book Review- The Host

The HostThe Host. Doesn’t that sound really ominously cool? Like the kind of book where some alien species that look like silver worms invade Earth and inject themselves into their human Hosts? If yes, then either you’ve read the book or you have an insanely inhuman talent allowing you to analyse the full plot of the book based on the title and front cover. I seriously wish I could have that power; I could just look at a book and see if I was going to like it or not. That would really come in handy with all the crappy plots that are being weaved by over-confident writers. Ah, well.

Anyways, The Host is about a specific soul. She is known as Wanderer; she has visited more worlds that souls have taken over than most others of her kind. She then comes to Earth, where her host is Melanie Stryder. A host is basically the body of the native species on that planet that the soul is using to get around.The Hosts are not meant to be aware, they are not dead but have merely been replaced by another being. But Melanie is different. She can talk to Wanderer, give her dreams and share her memories. At first, Wanderer is terrified, but as she discovers more about Melanie, she is willing to risk everything for the humans she meets.

And on a very dramatic, reality-TV style plot twist, they are both in love with the same man. Oooh, I know.

I would recommend this to anyone who is a) a human and b) has a brain.

See you next post!

Hawi xx

Book Review- Crimson Poison

crimson-poisonCrimson Poison is an action-packed novel based in futuristic Hong-Kong.

Natalie Walker is an orphan heiress of her parent’s game empire, worth millions. Her crooked aunt tries to get her filthy hands on all the money that’s rightfully Nat’s, while Nat herself is on the case to stop a criminal mastermind with plans of world domination.

It was fantastic! I  really enjoyed every moment and found it hilarious yet sombre. I would recommend this to, really, anyone who likes any of my other books I’ve reviewed.

Let me know what you think in the comments!