Book Review: The Demon Inside (M.L. Sparrow)

The Demon Inside

by M.L. Sparrow

Genres: Young Adult, Sci-fi, Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic 

Darcy was a perfectly normal teenage girl, enjoying the summer after completing her A Levels with her boyfriend Alec. Until the night strange creatures begin falling from the sky, infecting people and transforming them into crazed, animalistic cannibals. 
Having lost everything in one foul swoop - her parents, her home and all future plans - all Darcy can do is try to protect the people she does have left. Together, she and Alec, along with her younger sister, sarcastic best-friend, Alec's alcoholic father and the family dog, set off on a journey to find somewhere safe in a world where everything is different. 
However, when they do finally discover a haven, a place to call home again, can they remain? And who will survive?

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This was some Nicholas Sparks type stuff right here. Ugh. I hate this. I loved the book...LOVED, LOVED, LOVEDDDD it, but the ending was so heartbreaking. Whyyyyyyyyyy?? I don't even know what to say. It was such a great, immersive read. It was very fast-paced, and I like that when I'm reading. It went straight into the action, and the action was the good kind.


There isn't much to say other than 'You should read this book. It'll make you fall in love and then break your heart into pieces. You will have strong feelings for every single character (whether it's love or hate), and you won't, for a single second regret spending the four and a half hours it takes to read this book.'

M.L. Sparrow did an amazing job writing The Demon Inside. The ending broke my heart, but I think that it really says something about how she allows you to connect with the characters.

Please, use the links below, read this book. I am almost one hundred percent sure that you will NOT regret it.

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Book Review: After Oil (Kristan Cannon)

After Oil

by: Kristan Cannon

Genres: Speculative , Post-Apocalyptic

WE THOUGHT WE HAD NO REASON TO WORRY... WE WERE WRONG. 
The residents of the small town of Whitefish are no strangers to snow. Used to being forgotten and having to dig their own way out, no one thought anything of it during one of the coldest winters on record when help just never came. But as fuel runs out and raiders press in on all sides, Derek, Sheridan, and Garrett it's not just the snow they need to dig their way out of... 
BETRAYED BY HIS OWN 
Garrett is left stranded with limited resources and a team desperate to survive... perhaps a little too desperate when his own assistant leads a mutiny and Garrett finds himself left out in the cold. 
FROM DOCTOR TO QUEEN 
Working in a busy ER, Sheridan saw the best and worst of humanity - but now she finds herself leading the last bastion of civilization - with Derek as her Master Ranger. 
FROM SALESMAN TO MASTER RANGER 
Derek, a salesman nearing retirement, and his wife find themselves far from home with little more than the clothes on their back - and lucky enough to find themselves at least among friends on Sheridan's ranch just outside of Whitefish. 
Driven to find answers, and his own place in a new world, Derek forms the Rangers from a group similarly displaced citizens and lost wanderers to lead them to find Garrett and bring back one, tiny but bright spark of hope to a fledgling nation... in the form of the solar field on Sheridan's farm.

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I've been very slowly ~too slowly~ reading this book for the last several weeks. It was a bit slow to the start, but once you get into it...well, let's just say...you really get into it.

One minor thing that I had a problem with was all of the convenient items the Queen had laying around in her barn...I think they lowkey expected the end of the world...hmmmm *rubs imaginary mustache*. But you soon get over the minor mistakes and begin to focus on the bigger picture; that this book is worth your time. You can read my review of Kindred and Ashes, or The Felix Chronicles to know that I would tell you if this book was horrible. I wouldn't lie to you guys, I have nothing to gain from it.

The hardest thing for me to get over was the obscene number of characters..who, sadly, have quite similar names.  In one of my other reviews, I'd mentioned that a crazy large number of characters immediately turns me off of a book...but for the sake of the author (and the fact that I REALLY wanted to read this), I pushed through it. I'm guessing you're wondering what my trick is for remembering all of the character's names....Well, what you do (only if you read on an ebook) is highlight all of the characters names....and then, when you get crazy tired of that, you just mash most people together until they do something to set themselves apart. If they don't do something that makes you put a name to the face, then they aren't plot material.

Okay, back on topic, the descriptions of scenery were superb. I've never been to Canada, but I can probably navigate Sudbury.....Okay, that's a lie because I'm horrible at directions, but someone with decent directional skills wouldn't have any issue at all.

Now the real question here is "But was it worth it? Was it worth falling behind on your reviews to finish this book?"

Well, my lovely readers, the answer to that  is yes. It was so worth it. It's worth it because this could very well be OUR future! You can picture this world because it's OUR world! It's not some alien-ridden, volcanic-ash-covered, post-apocalyptic wasteland....it's the snowy Canadian countryside. I mean, really, this future is almost inevitable. It's not a question of if this will happen, but a question of  when, and will we be prepared. Will we survive after oil?


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Book Review: Delirium (Lauren Oliver)

Delirium
By: Lauren Oliver
Genres: Romance (Love), Young Adult, Sci-Fi (Dystopia), Adventure

Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

Delirium has been on my list for AGES. I even got to the point where I bought the PHYSICAL book....and still, it sat on my desk/shelf for a good two months. I only picked it up because of an EpicReads' post about the best last lines of books. Delirium was obviously on the list/video lol.


I must say, I REALLY wasn't disappointed. Typically, when I hear about how good a book or movie is my expectations go through the roof....and then come crashing back down to earth and are shattered. I flew through the 400 something pages in less than 24 hours...and Sophie was staying with us. Thankfully, she understands my obsession and is basically at home in my house.....She feeds herself, plays Xbox with my brother, goes through my fridge, I mean, it's basically like having a part-time sibling.

Anyway, back to the review.

I loved this book and I can honestly see why it was graced with the pearl-glittery inside cover...It was so great. I can only take the time to read the first one (even though I've gotten the rest of the trilogy) because of a little thing called 'responsibility' and 'my mom is threatening my life if I don't get back on schedule'.  I thought it was fast-paced, but it may just have been the fact that I wanted there to be MORE pages.

While I did guess a big plot detail, I was totally okay with it because this book makes you eager to turn the next page. It makes you skip paragraphs to get to the good parts, and then have to skip back because you missed something. It makes you fall in love and get frustrated and heartbroken and then fall in love again. It gives you hope and scares the crap out of you. It makes you remember why you ever loved reading in the first place. And I really hope that Grace comes back because she's one of my favorite characters.


I'm going to keep this review rather short because it WASN'T a requested book, but really, if you like dystopia/love/romance/Giver-ish books, buy Delirium....You will NOT regret it....

Delirium gave ME the disease. (I'm sorry, that was so cheesy).


A  bit of free advice: Buy this book online. I bought this book IN the Barnes and Noble store FOR TEN FREAKING DOLLARS, but when I was looking for the links for you guys they had it listed in paperback EVERYWHERE FOR SIX DOLLARS OR LESS! For two more dollars that I paid I could have purchased a HARD COVER! Nooo, whyyyy?! Still, #noregrets I loved this book. I shall ask for physical copies for an acceptable holiday.

I have to go before it gets any worse...Keep your noses in the pages and I will blog yeewww laterrr!

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Book Review: In Vitro Lottery (Ed Ryder)

In Vitro Lottery

by: Ed Ryder

Genres:  Drama, Dystopia

"We are the last natural generation Kate. What happens next will be in the hands of others."

Decades after the Norwegian Death killed over half the world's population, the children of the survivors can only reproduce via complex fertility treatment. Some can afford it, but for everyone else in a vigilant and isolated Great Britain, there is the In Vitro Lottery.
Kate is happy with her own small existence working in a coastal power station, but when her numbers come up and tragedy strikes she is sent on a collision course with the clinic head Victor Pearson, the political pressure group IVFree and the Government to answer two simple questions: who really controls the future and how far will they go to protect it?

A dark and dystopian tale, In Vitro Lottery explores the consequences of when desire and grief turn to obsession, and asks at which point do scientific ethics end and pragmatic necessity begin? 

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