I really liked the concept of this one! It started off really well, Lily and Maisie waking up in their house. Except, they soon discovered it wasn’t their house.

Where were they? How did they get there? Who put them there? Why?

The first half of the book was really enticing and I was eagerly anticipating answers to all these questions.
It was fast paced, it was a page-turner and left me wanting more.

However, the second half just didn’t execute that. The ending, while I didn’t guess it, just didn’t make sense. It felt like I was reading a different book and left so many open questions from plot holes.

1. How Ewan ended up there didn’t really seem to add up?
2. The Sam storyline, why was it necessary?
3. If we’re going to drop the random bomb shell of everything leading back to her father, it needed more depth.

I kept flicking and as the % slowly got closer to 100, I realised I wasn’t going to get the answers I needed. Then everything just wrapped up in one tiny chapter.

I started loving it and had really high hopes but I just didn’t.

Thank you One More Chapter (Harper Collins UK) and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I struggled with this, a lot and almost DNF’ed on multiple occasions. I stuck with it because it was so short and to be entirely honest, the last 20%-ish did get a bit more interesting.

I struggled with the writing style. I found it very bland and honestly, I was bored and disinterested for a lot of the story. I found Frances to be an unlikeable character and only towards the end did I start warming to her.

I just felt that the characters and their relationships had no depth. It was all words but I didn’t feel any connection to them or feel invested in what happened to them.

Imagine waking up and going about your day as normal. You have your breakfast and drop your kid(s) to nursery or school. Then you come home and there’s a knock on the door.

You’re confronted with the evidence that the child you’ve raised for the last 2 years, isn’t actually yours.
What do you do with that information? This is a child you love, YOUR child. Does the biology matter?

Well that’s exactly what happened to Pete Riley and his partner Maddie, when a man called Miles comes to the door and says that the child they’ve raised is actually his biological son, while he’s been raising their biological son. The two were swapped at birth.

Things begin amicably between the two sets of parents, almost in a way that is too good to be true. They love the son they’ve raised but are also drawn to the son that’s genetically theirs. The story develops as they muddle their way through what is the best course of action for their sons, leading to disagreement and conflict between the parents.

Delaney entices the reader from the beginning with a fast paced, easy read from the POV of Pete and Maddie. Covering their complex range of emotions for each other and the situation they’ve found themselves in, as they try to figure out how it all could possibly have happened.

A thoroughly enjoyable book which I read in a single sitting.

Thank you to Quercus and NetGalley for the e-ARC.

Elena Fairchild is a mother, wife, teacher but most of all, she has a high Q.
A system in place to quantify a persons worthiness based on intelligence and background. With a prestigious husband and 2 daughters in the upper tiers, everything should be perfect.

Until her youngest daughter fails her monthly test and gets sent away, leaving Elena to question the entire system, one she helped to create.

Q was an enticing read and the fluctuation between past and present really helped to build the character of Elena and how she’d come to be in the position she’d found herself in.

As the story quickly develops, the reader is left to reflect on the importance of not letting history repeat itself.

Thank you to NetGalley and HQ publishing for the ARC!

This book has a really gripping prologue, it’s short and intense and I was so ready for more!

The pace of the book was generally quite fast but I found that it lulled quite a bit in the middle while just waiting for more to happen! However, the beginning and end were the perfect pace for me!

In the middle, there just seemed a lot to unravel all of a sudden while you’re trying to piece things together and figure out what’s going on.

In regards to characters, I found our protagonist Liv to be intriguing. The mystery of her forgotten past was the obvious driver of the story. I did pretty much piece this together before the end but only in the last 20%.

Overall, I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable read! The writing was engaging, not too complex. Characters were likeable and the plot was enticing throughout. The only reason it wasn’t five stars was because of the lull in pace during the middle!

Okay so I absolutely loved this. Shusterman created a world that I was completely absorbed by.
It was detailed and thought-provoking, without being so outrageous that it becomes hard to get your head around! The prospect of a world so advanced that natural death is no longer a thing. It truly got me thinking about human nature and the repetitiveness of it.

The writing was fast paced and chapter sizes were a good enough length that I was always happy to commit to another one, so I ended up reading it in two sittings.

But mainly, my love was for Citra and Rowan. This is a very character driven novel but by no means does it skimp on the plot! They were both morally good but so blatantly human and they struggled with the tasks they were faced with. They also had so much character development but came out better versions of themselves than they were at the beginning. This wasn’t some ramped up love story but about their growth as people and their willingness and desire to do what is fundamentally right.

I’m really excited to read more in this series and I can’t believe that I’d only recently stumbled across it. Thoroughly recommend!