Mind Games by Teri Terry

Title: Mind Games 

Author: Teri Terry
Genre: Young Adult / Sci Fi
Publisher: Orchard Books
Publication Date: 5th March 2015
ISBN: 9781408334256
Stand Alone/Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 448 pages
First Lines: A school shouldn't be quiet.  I slip down the stairs, Hex a shadow behind me, matching my exaggerated careful, slow steps

Synopsis:  
Luna is a no-hoper with a secret: in a world of illusion, she can see what is real. But can she see the truth before it is too late?

Luna has always been able to exist in virtual and real worlds at the same time, a secret she is warned to keep. She hides her ability by being a Refuser: excluded by choice from the virtual spheres others inhabit. But when she is singled out for testing, she can’t hide any longer.

The safest thing to do would be to fail, to go back to a dead-end life, no future. But Luna is starting to hope for something better, and hope is a dangerous thing...

My Thoughts:
This took me a little while to get through this book as a few personal things popped up and ate away at reading time.

I have to admit, I was a tad bit confused at the beginning of Mind Games with the incident and the shoe.  I couldn't work out to begin with why Luna had left it until a bit further along when it became more clear.  I'm not sure whether I was just feeling a bit slow when I read it or what it was.

I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline and the characters.  Luna was definitely an enjoyable character and I liked that she tried her best to stick to her guns when it came to being a refuser.

I liked Hex and Gecko but were a little sus on both of these characters.  I didn't really warm up to them until towards the end, and I took to one more so than the other, for obvious reasons.

I also really enjoyed the little surprise gem when reading through and one of the worlds at Pare Co linked up to Slated, another of Teri's books that I really enjoyed as well.

For me there were some really good twists that i did NOT see coming at all and when they were revealed I was shocked!!  One or two I had anticipated but certainly not where the book ended up going.  Thumbs up for that!!

I'm looking forward to reading some more of Teri's work, as I like the world building and the characters!

Book received from:  Hatchette UK

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13 Days of Midnight by Leo Hunt

 

Thanks to Hachette Books through Netgalley :)

 

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I read through first three books so quick.  I'm looking forward to reading The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater on 29th September 2015.

Synopsis

The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

In a starred review for Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Kirkus Reviews declared: "Expect this truly one-of-a-kind series to come to a thundering close."

What are you waiting on?

MBOB: Paper Towns

Synopsis

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...


I think I've watched this trailer half a dozen times!!  Seriously.  I think from everything I've seen in the trailer, it looks like the movie will live up to the books awesomeness.  Fingers crossed at least!

Without further ado.  Here is the Paper Towns Trailer!

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I came across this on Books With Bite and absolutely love the cover and synopsis!  13 Days of Midnight by Leo Hunt will be out 2nd July 2015

Synopsis

When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance. Luke has been left in charge of his father's ghost collection: eight restless spirits. They want revenge for their long enslavement, and in the absence of the father, they're more than happy to take his son. It isn't fair, but you try and reason with the vengeful dead.

Halloween, the night when the ghosts reach the height of their power, is fast approaching. With the help of school witchlet Elza Moss, and his cowardly dog Ham, Luke has just thirteen days to uncover the closely guarded secrets of black magic, and send the unquiet spirits to their eternal rest. The alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

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Am curious to see what Lock and Mori by Heather W Petty is about.  This will be released on the 15th September 2015.

Synopsis

FACT: Someone has been murdered in London’s Regent’s Park. The police have no leads.

FACT: Miss James “Mori” Moriarty and Sherlock “Lock” Holmes should be hitting the books on a school night. Instead, they are out crashing a crime scene.

FACT: Lock has challenged Mori to solve the case before he does. Challenge accepted.

FACT: Despite agreeing to Lock’s one rule—they must share every clue with each other—Mori is keeping secrets.

OBSERVATION: Sometimes you can’t trust the people closest to you with matters of the heart. And after this case, Mori may never trust Lock again.

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