Starflight
By Melissa Landers
Genre: Young Adult Sci Fi
Personal Rating: 8/10

Solora Brooks is looking for a second chance. Marked as a felon, she is desperate for passage to the outer realms, a place where she can live and work without prejudice. But in exchange for passage she has to indenture herself to her Doran Spaulding--heir to a multi million dollar company, and the person that made high school heck for Solora. For the first few days servitude to Doran is as unbearable as Solora predicted. But then Doran looses his memory. Solora convinces him that their roles are reversed and gets some overdo payback.

This book was addicting! It's based off the 80's movie Overboard , but with a sci fi twist. This book is super action packed and hilarious. There wasn't a moment where a wasn't thoroughly entertained.The relationship between the two main characters, and the hilarious way it unfolded, felt genuine. Also, there wasn't much use of strong language in this book--no F-words--and no graphic sex scenes. The ending of the book did feel a little rushed, but their is a companion novel coming out next year, so hopefully that will expand the story a little more. Overall, this was a fantastic read!

Reign of Shadows
By Sophie Jordan
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Personal Rating: 6/10

Seventeen years ago, an eclipse shadowed the entire land of Relhok, leaving the world cloaked in darkness. This darkness not only made it impossible for food to grow, but it also made everyone pray to the Dwellers--creatures that thrived in the darkness. On the night of the eclipse, the royal family was murdered. Only the princess escaped and she remained hidden in a tower, safe. But Luna yearned for more than just safety. So, when her tower is discovered, she journeys with Fowler, a brave archer, into the woods. Into a world far more dangerous than Luna ever realized.

The only reason I picked this book up was because I've enjoyed the author's previous works. I did enjoy the writing--especially the descriptions and the way Sophie Jordan set up the world--but in the end there was nothing really original about this book. This was a fast read, and I did enjoy it, but I just felt like every plot point and character was overly familiar. Also, I didn't feel like the story really went anywhere, Most of the book is spent with the two main characters running through the woods, running from the same things over and over. Also, the romance between the two characters was terribly unrealistic. It was a romance that began with them hating each other, but somehow that changed in a matter of hours for no real reason.

This isn't a book I would really recommend, but it isn't something I would discourage anyone from reading. It's not a terrible book, just not the most exciting plot in my opinion.

Cinder
By Marissa Meyer
Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction
Personal Rating: 10/10

This is the first book in the very popular Lunar Series! I am very mad at myself for not picking up this book sooner! I've heard nothing but good things about the entire series, but I didn't think they would be my type of books for some odd reason. Even though this book is about 400 pages long, it reads very fast--I read the whole book in less than two days.

If you don't know what this book is about, basically it is a science fiction retelling of Cinderella. And the Cinderella in this novel is a cyborg mechanic. Sounds interesting, right? This book follows Cinder's journey of discovering her true identity, while trying to keep out smart an evil queen.

I really didn't think I would like these books very much, despite how much good I've been hearing about them. I loved the futuristic world that
Marissa Meyer set up, and I loved what she did with this fairy tale to make it like nothing I've ever read before. Her writing is honestly very enjoyable and easy to read. I never felt like I was reading a 400 page book! It went by so fast! Also, this book was very clean with very little language and no disturbing or graphic descriptions.