The 100 by Kass Morgan

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life... or it could be a suicide mission. Clarke was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. Wells came to Earth for the girl he loves - but will she ever forgive him? Bellamy fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, and Glass managed to escape, only to find that life on the ship is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on earth. In a savage land, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.


First of all if you've seen the tv show, know that this book is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like it. The main characters, Wells, Clark, Bellamy... they're all there but the only thing that is the same is the fact that they were sent to earth. That's it. It's a shock and kind of disappointing if you're attached to any of the characters on the tv show that never existed in the book. There are new characters too. It's an interesting concept and I'm excited to see what the series holds in contrast to the show. Easy read. Quick story plot development.

5 out of 10

The Wedding by Julie Garwood

Journeying from England to Scotland to wed a highlander, Lady Brenna was resigned to the arranged match. But when a band of fierce, painted warriors captured her en route, she fearlessly met their demand to marry their leader, the quick-tempered laird Conner MacAlister. She couldn't know that her capture was merely the first act of vengeance against her betrothed, Conner's sworn enemy... nor that she had once proposed to Conner as a child. Now, chosen to bear the laird a son, Brenna is caught in the crossfire of a furious clan war.

This is an older romance novel, copyrighted in 1996. The story line, plot and character development are all exceptional. I really enjoyed watching the story move along at a quick pace without any effort. However, the only down side is that there are two or three very explicit sex scenes, which put a damper on my love for the book. Other than that, the novel is a classic romance about two very stubborn prejudice people falling in love despite the cultures, circumstances and war that threaten their very lives.

6 out of 10

The Pharaoh's Daughter by Mesu Andrews

Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt's good god Pharoah, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her or her siblings at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment that awakened in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a child. Now she is to become the bride of Sebak, the kind but quick-tempered captain of Pharoah Tut's army. In order to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect herself from the underworld gods, Anippe must launch a series of deceptions, even invoking the Hebrew midwives - women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own people in the Nile.
When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great river, Anippe believes Egypt's gods have answered her pleas, entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and her son, Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal danger.
As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan for them all?


First of all, this book is a novel that is not Biblically based so if that bothers you,  then don't bother. However, if you're open to different interpretations, each resulting in the main aspects of the Moses story being biblically true, then I would highly recommend this book. I love that it is based on the woman who raised Moses, instead of Moses himself or his birth mother. There is so much turmoil and mystery and suspense, surrounded by an unbreakable faith of the Hebrews that it is breathtaking. A great story, graphic at times, but written by a great Christian author.

8 out of 10.

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.
One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from the "civilized" world become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is the story of May's breathtaking adventures: her brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to teh great chief Little Wolf; and her conflict of being caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives.

This is an extraordinary tale of adventure, intrigue, risk, life, death, love and sorrow. I had no idea before reading this book that the One Thousand White Women was an actual pact made between Chief Little Wolf of the Cheyenne and President Ulysses S. Grant - one thousand white women as Cheyenne brides in exchange for one thousand Cheyenne horses. Why you ask? Well, the book explains it like this:
When a Native American of a certain tribe (for example, the Crow) takes a Cheyenne bride, the child they have together is a mix of Cheyenne and Crow. The child traditionally will take his or her mother's people as their own. So in the thoughts of this Chief Little Wolf, if Cheyenne warriors took white brides, then their children would integrate into the white culture, blending the Cheyenne and the white people in harmony and peace.
Of course, the book only goes to show that such a pact was not kept and was barely even registered on behalf of the U.S. government as a deal at all. The journals of May Dodd are graphic, realistic, horrifying and exhilarating. The good parts are really good and the more terrifying parts are memorable to the extent of knowing and realizing how truly hard life was between the Native people and the white man.

I will definitely read this again down the road. Word of warning: There is graphic material involved including violence and sex, rape and murder. But if anything of which May Dodd wrote about is true, then what I have read has opened my eyes to the injustices the Native American people faced and still face today at the hands of a people who are racist.

7 out of 10

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in 17 years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse Carla. But then one day a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black - black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. Maybe we can't predict the future but we can predict some things. For example, I, Maddy and certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's most certainly going to be a disaster.


I love this book. This book is an easy read and easy storyline. There's enough Intrigue and mystery in it to keep you captivated for a long time. I found myself on the edge of my seat when Maddy decides to take a risk. I found myself falling in love with a story just as she was falling in love with Olly. This is a feel-good story with a happy ending.

9 out of 10