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Author: K.A. Riley Ascend is the third book in The Cure book series by K. A. Riley. In the first two parts (part 1, and part 2), we learnt of the Directorate that locked people who could afford it into a luxurious world called the Arc. The reason was the disease called the Blight, which…
Author: K.A. Riley Awaken is the second book in the Cure Chronicles by K.A. Riley. The story continues from the first book (The Cure, see blog here) when Ashen Spencer, the daughter of the founder of the Consortium, who fights the Directorate, escapes the Arc – a structure built after biological warfare that houses millions…
Author: K.A. Riley The Cure is the first book in the book series of the same name. It is a dystopian story of deadly biochemical warfare where a disease called the Blight kills adults. Thus, whilst children before the Blight looked forward to coming out of age, in this story this means a certain death…
Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan The Watchers have a story centred in Ireland, and we meet people who have found themselves locked up in woods with mythical and dangerous creatures, the watchers who hunt humans during the night but sleep and hide during the day. I did not watch the previous iterations of this film, so…
Author: Matt Haig The Humans is a sci-fi novel by Matt Haig, the author of the Midnight Library and How To Stop Time, both sci-fi books I enjoyed immensely. The Humans starts a bit slow, and I was not immediately engaged because of the somewhat psychopathic character of the alien who narrates the story and…
Author: Matt Haig WOW, The Midnight Library surprised me. It was a recommendation from one of my book clubs, the British one and I assumed it was one of the books about communities written by British authors, which we normally read. As it turns out, a British author also wrote the Midnight Library, but it…
Author: Eva St John The Quantum Curators series by Eva St John has five books and this blog is about book 3, so it has been a while since I have followed the adventures of Julius and Neith and it is my favourite genre, so you can guess I loved this book. I love the…
Eva St John This is book 2 of the Quantum Curators series. I wrote about the first one here The second book starts with Julius going through training to become a Quantum Curator. When I started to read and realised what he is doing, I thought whether I would miss the Earth if dragged to…
Eva St. John Rating: 5/5 I just finished reading this book, as part of the #WECAN project book club I founded and boy, was this a good proposal for the book club. I stayed up last night until 3 am as I was unable to let it go and then I kept reading today until…