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Obsidio // Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff !!Spoiler Free!! Series ~ Illuminae Files #3 Genre ~ Sci-Fi, Romance, YA Page # ~ 624 ISBN ~  055349919X Published ~ 3/13/2018 Rating ~  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Synopsis ~      Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion?      Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys--an old flame from Asha's past--reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken. Thoughts ~      I- I can't even comprehend this absolute M

Avery's  2021 Reading Log/Goal Goal = 50 books Goodreads Challenge ~  https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/27670494 January ~ 4/50   1/1 -  47 pg. (start)                                   1/19 -  124 pg. (start) 1/2 - 109 pg.                                           1/20 - 0 pg. 1/3 - 0 pg.                                             1/21 -  88 pg. 1/4 - 0 pg.                                            1/22 - 0 pg. 1/5 - 57 pg.                                           1/23 - 0 pg. 1/6 - 0 pg.                                            1/24 - 56 pg. (finish) 1/7 - 83 pg.                                            1/25 - 0 pg. 1/8 - 8 pg.                                             1/26 -  40 pg. 1/9 - 50 pg.                                            1/27 -  49 pg. 1/10 - 114 pg.                                             1/28 -  61 pg. 1/11 - 49 pg.                                              1/29 - 80 pg. (finish) 1/12 - 94 pg. (finish)                                 1/

  Illuminae Files // Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Series Order ~ #0.5 - Memento (Haven't read yet) #1 - Illuminae   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ #2 - Gemina   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ #3 - Obsidio   ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Quotes ~ "He presses the trigger, and like roses in his hands, death blooms." -Illuminae "Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was Vengeance." -Gemina "Every story needs its hero. And its villain. And its monster." -Obsidio "I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short." -Illuminae "'You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?' The rifle clatters to the bloody ground. 'Hanna FUCKING Donnely, that's who.'" -Gemina "Hey, if hostile battleship takeovers were easy, everybody would do it." -Obsidio "You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me." -Illuminae "And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least t

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  Salt to the Sea // Ruta Sepetys !!!Spoiler Free!!! Genre ~ Historical, YA, Fiction Page # ~ 391 ISBN ~  0399160302 Published ~ 02/02/2016 Rating  ~  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ (4.5) (⚠Trigger Warning⚠: mentions of rape) Synopsis ~                While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The ship was overcrowded with more than 10,500 passengers — the intended capacity was approximately 1,800 — and more than 9,000 people, including 5,000 children, lost their lives.                Sepetys (writer of Between Shades of Gray ) crafts four fictionalized but historically accurate voices to convey the real-life tragedy. Joana, a Lithuanian with nursing experience; Florian, a Prussian soldier fleeing the Nazis w