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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-extraordinary-means-robyn-schneider/feed/ 0 Book Review of The Last Star by Rick Yancey https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-last-star-rick-yancey/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-last-star-rick-yancey/#comments Fri, 03 Nov 2017 13:26:42 +0000 http://hookedtobooks.wpengine.com/?p=934 I’m always wary about finishing sci-fi series’. There’s always a lot hanging on the end of a trilogy, especially one where there’s been an apocalyptic scenario. Either the world will end, or it won’t.

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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-last-star-rick-yancey/feed/ 1 Book Review: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-if-i-was-your-girl-meredith-russo/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-if-i-was-your-girl-meredith-russo/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:58:12 +0000 http://hookedtobooks.wpengine.com/?p=921 This is one of those books that is very hard to forget. While I had some issues with this book, and at times found it a little predictable, it doesn't much matter. This is one of those books that matters because of what it talks about: in particular the issues presented to teen trans girls in a world that isn't ready for them.

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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-if-i-was-your-girl-meredith-russo/feed/ 0 Book Review: A Door to Nowhere by @madelinestanford https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-door-nowhere-madelinestanford/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-door-nowhere-madelinestanford/#respond Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:55:22 +0000 http://hookedtobooks.wpengine.com/?p=1015 Having read Like Hell by Madeline Stanford some time ago, I was expecting this story to be good, and it didn't disappoint. The story is centred around Aurora, whose Grandmother predicts the dates on which the pair of them will die. When her Grandmother's prediction for her death date comes true, Rory starts a countdown to her own death and starts trying to live life to the full.

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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-door-nowhere-madelinestanford/feed/ 0 Book Review: The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-art-normal-lisa-williamson/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-art-normal-lisa-williamson/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:14:28 +0000 http://hookedtobooks.wpengine.com/?p=981 I’ve had this book for a while, and I put of reading it for some time. Mostly because I’ve become very wary about books focused on being transgender. Not because the stories are bad, or unimportant. Mostly because they tend to be very similar. It’s only been two weeks since I read Meredith Russo’s debut, If I Was Your Girl, and so I was worried the story lines would be too similar. However, this book gave me a very pleasant and refreshing surprise.

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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-art-normal-lisa-williamson/feed/ 1 Book Review: Leslie’s Study of Femininity by @justlyd https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-leslies-study-femininity-justlyd/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-leslies-study-femininity-justlyd/#respond Fri, 20 May 2016 11:14:57 +0000 http://hookedtobooks.wpengine.com/?p=878 No one can resist a woman that can kick ass, and Leslie in Lydia Carr’s story is one of those ladies. She may not be a soldier, or a warrior, but she’s a woman that is unafraid to say what she thinks, and I’m totally in love with her. That’s why I’ve read this story no less than three times.

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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-leslies-study-femininity-justlyd/feed/ 0 Book Review: A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-little-something-different-sandy-hall/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-little-something-different-sandy-hall/#respond Tue, 17 May 2016 09:29:24 +0000 https://www.hookedtobooks.com/?p=857 I saw this book on a shelf in Waterstones, and I knew I had to have it. I went home right away and put it on my birthday wish list. It wasn't the plot that excited me initially - it was the way the story is told.

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]]> https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-little-something-different-sandy-hall/feed/ 0 Book Review: The Walled City by Ryan Graudin https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-walled-city-ryan-graudin/ https://www.hookedtobooks.com/book-review-walled-city-ryan-graudin/#respond Mon, 16 May 2016 11:50:46 +0000 https://www.hookedtobooks.com/?p=838 While on first glance The Walled City appears to be a dystopian fiction, the book is actually based on a very real place: The Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong was once home to a Chinese military base. There was no architectural plan, which led to makeshift buildings being thrown up without a proper plan. The result was a haven of drug lords, poverty and a home for black markets and brothels.

The Walled City is based entirely on this premise.

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