I still haven’t read the next two books in the series, but I’m sure I will at some point. Meyer is a great storyteller, and her characters come to vibrant life on the page. I know this series is on many favorites lists, but it all started with Cinder.

I never got around to reading the two follow-up books (which seems to happen to me a lot!), but I hope to some day. Man, I loved this book! It was beautifully written, heartbreaking (as all the best books are!) and atmospheric.

Not sure why I never reviewed this…I have a copy of the follow-up, This Shattered World, ready and waiting for me to read! Goodreads.ĩ. Plus it’s a fantastic survival story with unexpected depth and emotion. This book has everything-action, romance, and great characters. Two teens are stranded on an uninhabited planet, after their space ship crashes. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. For some reason I missed downloading McQuein’s follow-up to this book, Meridian, but I plan on catching up with it at some point. Wow, this book blew me away with its originality! Almost as much a horror story as it is science fiction, I loved the creatures called the Fade. Price’s future is a chilling one, where teens rent their bodies to Enders, elderly people who want to experience what it feels like to be young again. Once again, she writes a complicated love story, this time between two different races (and I mean that one of them is an alien!). Wow, Sharon gets two books on my list! I think I loved this one even more than Ghost Planet. The Ophelia Prophecy by Sharon Lynn Fisher. Give this one a try, you won’t be disappointed. I had so much fun with this one! Yes, it’s a romance, but Fisher has some serious world-building skills as well. If you’re looking for a series written by a master storyteller, I suggest reading this one. This is the first book in Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, and it was amazing.

It’s also a love story, and I loved the way Clarke’s story takes place over many years of the characters’ lives. This is another example of a quiet and thoughtful science fiction story, where robots are commonplace. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke. This is the front-runner so far for my favorite book of the year-and I’ve read some damn good books! This beautifully written, sad, but hopeful story is set slightly in the future, after a killer flu rampages humanity. If you haven’t grown tired of me singing the praises of this book, then allow me to gush about it some more.

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