Review: Unwind

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

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...

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Little Surprises

by Ikhlas // 14 February, 2012 // No Comments

Hi all! I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day at all, other than giving my friends chocolates, etc. but today I just received the loveliest surprise! I recently entered Hachette Book Group Canada‘s giveaway for the book The Way We Fall and just...

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Review: Shatter Me

by Ikhlas // 9 January, 2012 // 5 Comments

Shatter Me tells the tale of seventeen-year old Juliette, who hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. That’s because when she does, bad things happen. Like death and destruction. She was given up by her parents about four years ago to...

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Review: Divergent

by Ikhlas // 12 October, 2011 // 3 Comments

Veronica Roth’s debut Divergent was marketed as a new Hunger Games, as it too deals with a dystopian future, a future in which sixteen year olds make difficult decisions. Beatrice Prior is one of those sixteen year olds. She lives in...

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Look out for Dark Inside

by Ikhlas // 24 July, 2011 // 2 Comments

The other day, I had the immense pleasure of getting and reading the Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of Dark Inside, the debut YA dystopian novel by Jeyn Roberts. Told through alternating points of view of 4 teens, Dark Inside tells the story...

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