REVIEW: No One Gets Out Alive

Darkness lives within . . . Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So when she takes a new room at the right price, she believes her luck has finally turned. But 82 Edgware Road is not what it appears to be. It's not only the eerie atmosphere of the vast, neglected house, or the disturbing attitude of her new landlord, Knacker McGuire, that makes her uneasy - it's the whispers behind the fireplace, the scratching beneath floors, the footsteps in the dark, and the young women weeping in neighbouring rooms. And when Knacker's cousin Fergal arrives, the danger goes vertical. But this is merely a beginning, a gateway to horrors beyond Stephanie's worst nightmares. And in a house where no one listens to the screams, will she ever get out alive?

*ARC provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

No One Gets Out Alive is a horror, mystery novel which is wrote with great description that makes you connect with the characters.  It has you sitting on the edge of your seat and the storyline is well thought out and is not predictable.   

No One Gets Out Alive is due for release on 23 October 2014.

REVIEW: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other.

This book tells the story of a man and his son's struggling journey to the south in a world that does not exist anymore.

Each day they travel as far as they can with what daylight they have and camp during the night in all weather conditions savaging for food, clothes and blankets. When things seem to get to the point of ending they push that little bit further and survive. 

This is a very powerful journey which i found difficult to put down and shows the love and bound between the man and his son.

REVIEW: Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi - pure-bloods - have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals - well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.

Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:

Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.

Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem - staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

I was sucked into this book from the very start, definitely one I couldnt put down!

Half-Blood is about a girl called Alexandria (Alex) who is taken away from the Covenant 3 years ago by her mother who is a pure blood after she had a confrontation with the Oracle who told her something that scared her and made her go on the run, but she never told Alex what was said.  Alex ends up witnessing her mothers death by a daimon and goes on the run to return to the safety of the Covenant.  When she is attacked she is rescued by the Sentinels who then take her to the Covenant where she realises things have changed in the 3 years she has been away.

Her Uncle is now Dean and her step-father is minister of the Council, and it is proposed on her return to go live her her step-father and become enslaved to him which is like being sentenced to death, she goes against this and stands her ground insisting on returning to the Covenant and working hard over the summer to get up-to-date on her training, she is then put under the supervision of Aiden, a Sentinel and pure-blood, to train her.  

Following Alex's story, her training, finding out the reason why her mother ran from the Covenant and what the future holds for her has me excited to read the next book in the series, Pure.

August Wrap Up!

During the month of August I took part in a Team Challenge on Goodreads.com, Wheel-A-Thon, which was a spell-it-out of genre selected each week.  I was able to read 11 books this month.

1.   Angelfall by Susan Ee FINISHED 07/08/14 ★★★★★
2.   The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky FINISHED 09/08/14  ★★★
3.   If I Stay by Gayle Forman FINISHED 10/08/14 ★★★★
4.   Silence by Natasha Preston FINISHED 13/08/14 ★★★★★
5.   A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness FINISHED 14/08/14 ★★★★★
6.   Broken Silence by Natasha Preston FINISHED 15/08/14 ★★★★★
7.   Where She Went by Gayle Forman FINISHED 19/08/14 ★★★★★
8.   Splintered by A.G.Howard FINISHED 22/08/14 ★★★
9.   Innocents Lost by Michael McBride FINISHED 23/08/14 ★★★★★
10. Lucky Us by Amy Bloom FINISHED 25/08/14 ★★★
11. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han FINISHED 31/08/14 ★★★★

I read some amazing books this month but my favourite has to be Angelfall by Susan Ee, this book had me hooked from start to finish, following Penyrn and her journey of determination to find and rescue her sister who had been kidnapped by the angels.  Looking forward to reading the sequel World After.