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Shelf-Confidence October BPC


Day 22: Yellow & Green

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Shelf-Confidence March BPC Day 2: Ombre

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Just One Word January BPC Day 11: Name

My name made out of books

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Etherworld | The Marvels | Wicked Games | Mini Reviews

Etherworld | The Marvels | Wicked Games | Mini Reviews

Today’s grouping of mini-reviews sort of feels like I am breaking with pattern. These three books are all vastly different. Usually I seem to review all audiobooks or all young adult or all adult fiction, etc. Today we’re going with a young adult sci-fi audiobook, a middle grade book, and a contemporary young adult audiobook. Variety is kind of great though, and maybe like me, you like a whole…

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Elusion by Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam | Audiobook Review

Elusion by Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam | Audiobook Review

Why Did I Listen To Elusion by Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam? Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam is a book that probably would have languished on my TBR mountain for a very, very long time if not for my brand new magical library card. When I saw an audiobook of Elusion available on Hoopla, I knew then and there that I had to borrow it. After two years, I have finally FINALLY read Elusion…

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Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam

Stars: 2/5

Elusion seemed to have so much potential to me. It was great idea about a virtual reality world. And considering the world that we live on nowadays where everyone is constantly on their phones, we aren’t that far away from the possibility of a reality that would use a virtual machine like Elusion. But, I guess, after reading Ready Player One and watching Sword Art Online, my expectations for virtual realities are high, and unfortunately, Elusion just didn’t cut it.

I felt like Reagan’s relationship with Patrick was awfully shallow and flat, despite the fact that they were supposed to be best friends since childhood; everything with Josh happened way too fast, and there wasn’t much of a build up for it; and she really have some anger management issues for attacking Avery just because she was sharing an opinion.

Not only did the relationships felt flat, but how everything happened outside and inside of Elusion was rather superficial and it felt a bit forced. Things didn’t happen naturally enough for me. Overall, it just wasn’t for me.

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Etherworld was satisfying in that this was not book two of a three book series, and this made me so happy, mostly because as the story was unfolding I couldn't figure out how it would possibly end in a way to need an additional novel. I love the virtual reality/Matrix like feel of the entire series. Etherworld picked up practically where Elusion left off, and moves pretty quickly through the story; at no point did I feel like it was just dragging on. This book is even less focused on the romance than Elusion was, and the main focus was mostly about getting everyone to safety and bringing the truth to light, but that doesn't mean that Regan and Josh don’t get a few precious moments together. My only problem with Etherworld was that as facts unfolded I was a little lost as to the motives behind some of the decisions the characters were making (I’m purposefully being vague to avoid spoilers), and because of that the story did feel a little bit forced. Otherwise, this is a great scifi/dystopian-like series. Rated: PG-13; because of eluded to Sex Genre: Young Adult – Dystopian, Romance Rating: 4 Stars