Review: The Future of Us

by Ikhlas // 24 February, 2012 // No Comments

The Future of Us In 1996 Josh and Emma are in high school. They used to be best friends, but everything changed between them when Josh tried to kiss Emma.

Now he tries to fix things by bringing over an AOL CD, which has 100 free hours of internet on it, something that Emma needs after her dad sent her his old computer. When she logs on, she stumbles onto a website she’s never heard of it: Facebook.

Suddenly she can see everyone’s future, told through status updates, relationship updates, posts, friends, etc. Josh can’t understand how or why they can access this future website, but they both begin to try to change things in the present, so that they change the future that they see on Facebook. They become so invested in the future, so that they stop living in the present. Continue reading →

New Adult Book by JK Rowling

by Ikhlas // 23 February, 2012 // No Comments

Hi guys!

Just learnt some exciting news, and wanted to post about it here, in case you haven’t heard it…

Its just been announced that JK Rowling has written a new book for adults, which is going to be published by Little, Brown!!!! To say I’m excited is a severe understatement. 🙂 I can’t wait!

There isn’t really much information about the book other than the fact that a) it is new (duh) and b) its for adults.

Funnily enough, there’s a generic image they keep using in the announcement of this book, so I might as well share it here:

Are you excited yet? ^_^

Here’s a quote from the woman of the hour herself”

“Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world. The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life.”

I’ve been a Harry Potter/JK Rowling fan since the tender age of ten and have grown up with Harry and his friends, like many other people my age. Its hard to say whether this new book will have the same magic as Harry, especially since we don’t have any plot description or details whatsoever, but if its by JK Rowling, the world will be waiting and watching.

What do you think the new book will be about?

Ikhlas

Review: We’ll Always Have Summer

by Ikhlas // 20 February, 2012 // No Comments

We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3) Belly has always known her whole life that she’s going to Belly Fisher one day. She thinks that that day is coming soon, not with her first love, Conrad, but with her best friend Jeremiah.

Jeremiah and her have spent the last two years together, and even ended up going to the same college. Jeremiah is caring and sweet, everything Conrad never was.

But when Belly discovers something that Jeremiah did when they were going out, she’s forced to re-evaluate her choices. But time is short as Belly races toward one last summer as a single girl before she forever becomes Belly Fisher, forcing her to decide who her heart belongs to once and for all. Continue reading →

Review: The Lost Saint

by Ikhlas // 17 February, 2012 // No Comments

While trying to save her boyfriend, Daniel Kalbi, Grace Divine was infected by the werewolf curse by none other than her brother. Since then Jude Divine has been missing from his family, and despite all the searching Grace’s family does, he is yet to be found.

But then one night Grace gets a mysterious phone call from someone who sounds a lot like Jude, telling her to stay away from someone. He hangs up before she can get more information and this begins Grace’s crazy search all over town for her missing brother.

At the same time, a bunch of attacks keep happening in town, attacks that make Grace think her brother is involved. She teams up with cute, but mysterious Talbot, who is also an Urbat, to try and fight the forces of evil, despite Daniel’s insistence that Grace not use her powers, lest the wolf take over. But human and wolf instincts collide as Grace races towards things she can’t control.

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Review: Unwind

by Ikhlas // 16 February, 2012 // No Comments

Unwind (Unwind, #1) In a not too distant future, the pro-life and pro-choice camps fight each other in the Heartland War. Both sides win, but in an unorthodox way. Parents can’t abort children at conception; instead they have the option to ‘unwind’ children from the age of thirteen to eighteen. All parts of an unwound teenager are reused for other human beings, thus continuing the sanctity of life.

Connor is a big pain to his parents. He doesn’t do well in school and gets into fights. He is being unwound.

Risa is ward of the state. Parentless and hopeless, Rissa can’t achieve anything greater than what she has already achieved at the orphanage. She is being unwound.

Lev is a tithe. He has grown up in a warm and loving family knowing his future. He believes it is God’s plan. He is being unwound.

These three characters meet while on the run from the authorities, and discover that if they can all make it to eighteen, then they can survive. But what they don’t plan on is the relationships they all develop with each other, leaving them with questions of the price of human life and dignity.

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