Best Reads of 2014
I’ve read way less books than I wanted this year, which makes me a bit sad. Life has gotten a bit in the way of my reading and though I’ve had a very busy and fun year, I miss the many hours spent on the couch with a book. But the books I did read were all very, very good. I think there was only one book that wasn’t really my cup of tea, some books that I thought were ok, but most of them were such awesome reads! There are only 3 more days left in 2014, so it’s time to pick the Best Reads of 2014. It was…
Empress of the Sun – Everness #3 – Ian McDonald
Release date: January, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 389 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on…
Be My Enemy – Everness #2 – Ian McDonald
Release date: August 1st, 2013 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Everett Singh has escaped from his enemies with the Infundibulum – the key to all the parallel worlds. But his freedom has come at a price: the loss of his father to one of the billions of parallel universes in the Panopoly. E1 was the first Earth to create the Heisenberg Gate, the means to jump between worlds, but it was quarantined long ago. No one goes in… and nothing comes out. But E1 has something that Everett needs: the means to find his father. It’s lucky that…
Planesrunner – Everness #1 – Ian McDonald
Release date: January 1st, 2013 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one among billions of parallel earths. When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this teenager has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse—the Infundibulum—the map of all the parallel earths, and there are dark forces in the Ten Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it.…