The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
Read: January 2018
Favorite Quote:
"There's a drafting table in my cabin. But don't lay a finger on anything else."
"I assure you, Captain," Blake said. "My intentions are honorable."
Slate cocked his head; understanding dawned on his face. "I meant don't touch my stuff." He rolled his eyes. "I need some coffee." And then he strode off toward the hatch without a backward glance.
But Kashmir was watching, his arms folded, standing against the door to the Captain's Cabin. As we approached, he smiled thinly. "Don't they say the road to hell is paved with honorable intentions?"
"That's good intentions." I said, making a face.
"Ah, yes. Of course." He turned the knob and opened the door with a flourish. "But perhaps Mr. Hart can go to hell anyway."
Love and Gelato by Jenne Evan Welch
Read: January 2018
Favorite Quote:
"I want to try for another record tomorrow. What was that last kind I had? With the chocolate chunks?"
"Stracciatella."
"I'm naming my first daughter after it."
"Lucky her."
The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig
the sequel to The Girl From Everywhere
Read: February 2018
Favorite Quote:
(Quote #1)
I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't use to be this hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending to not be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.
I still don't know how it happened. Usually I'm better at guarding what little I have. But one day, I went looking for my heart and found it in Nix's hands.
(awww)
(Quote #2)
But when I'd fallen, she'd jumped, and inshallah, I had a chance now to say the things I should have said long ago. All I had to do was be brave.
Or at least pretend I was, long enough to blurt something out.
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hilter's Defeat by Giles Milton
Read: March 2018
Favorite Quote:
Quote #1:
He was the first to admit that he had been singularly ill-qualified for all his previous jobs. Just a few months earlier, he had accepted the editorship of Gardening Magazine. ‘Nobody could know less about gardening than me,’ he said. But it didn't stop him dispensing advice for his readers. ‘I would solemnly give them my views on whether it were better to plant globe artichokes in September or March.’18 Now, at last, he had fallen into a job for which he was extremely well qualified, one in which the only seeds to be planted were those of wholescale destruction.
Quote #2:
Not many weapons could relieve a man of his underwear.
Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The final book in the Illuminae Files Trilogy
Read: April 2018
Favorite Quote:
"You can't carry this entire ship on your shoulders, Kades."
"I can with you beside me. <3"
A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
Read: April 2018
Favorite Quote:
(Quote #1)
After being attacked by her and rolling out of his chair to avoid having stuff thrown in his eyes...
He didn't even bother rising to his feet after he'd rolled out of his chair. Instead he sat up, leaned forward and steepled his fingers. His fingers were long and slim, tapered and clean. He had the fingers of a scholar. Not a soldier.
"This is quite possibly the most exciting meeting I've ever had. Do continue."
(Quote #2)
"Wakey! Wakey!" shouted the vetala, slapping his face. "I jumped off because I thought you were a husk of a thing. But the pretty monster came back for you."
The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
Read: April 2018
Favorite Quote:
Kamala is a talking, people eating horse-like thing
“It is nice to be nice," said Kamala with a sage nod. "And it is also nice to eat people.”
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
Read: May 2018
Favorite Quote:
“We find things, just as we lose things. If you’ve lost your honor, you’ll find it again.”
Love and Luck by Jenna Evan Welch
Read: June 2018
Favorite Quote:
Labels aren't big enough for people. And once you try to categorize someone, you stop looking for who they actually are.
Legendary by Stephanie Garber
Read: June 2018
Favorite Quote:
"So," she said cautiously, "is all this your way of telling me you’re the villain?"
His chuckle was dark. "I’m definitely not the hero."
"I already knew that," Tella said. "It’s my story, so clearly I’m the hero."
The Art of French Kissing by Brianna R Shrum
Read: June 2018
Favorite Quote:
"Let me take your plate." Reid's voice startles me badly enough that I jump and apple juice sloshes over the side of my cup.
I narrow my eyes. "What?"
"Your fruit plate. It's empty."
I snort. "Why? Planning on poisoning it when I'm not looking?"
"Well, it's empty so that wouldn't be very effective."
My eyes narrow further. They are slits and I'm pissed. "Did you seriously walk all the way over here just to take my fruit plate?"
Reid's lips thin into a line and he runs his hand through the wild tuft of hair on his head, thumb brushing over the shaved sides. "Yeah. That and..."
He glances over at Riya who is doing a terrible job at attempting not to eavesdrop and Will, who is not pretending at all.
To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
Read: June 2018
Favorite Quote:
"It's you."
My eyes shoot upward. The prince of Midas stares down at us, horrified and awestruck. His lips tilt a little to the left. "Look at you." He whispers. "My little monster, come to find me."
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord
Read: July 2018
Favorite Quote:
“Strawberry milk,” I say, eyeing him as we head toward the counter. “Really.”
He turns to me. “Do you have something to say about my snack selections?”
“Nope.” I fall into line behind him. “I just didn’t realize you were a middle-school girl going to a slumber party.”
“And I,” he says, plunking his strawberry-fest down on the counter, “didn’t realize you were a soccer mom justifying her chocolate craving with the fact that raisins are a fruit.”
Wanderlost by Jen Marlone
Read: July 2018
Favorite Quote:
(Quote #1)
"Likeyoubye"
(Quote #2)
“A hug is just a strangle you haven't finished yet”