The Best New Reads

The 13th Reality by James Dashner

This is my current new read and I can hardly put it down to write this. Atticus (also known as Tick) finds his life forever changed when he receives a simple yellow envelope with a challenge: Solve the clues to save many lives or burn the letter and the madness will end.

He holds out while being chased by assassins, hornets let loose in his room, and smokey-looking phantoms whose cry will turn his brain to mush, but will he live and figure out the magic words by the deadline or will he be one who fails.

Join a wild crew of characters that covers the world and beyond and defeat the horrible Lemon Lady (aka Mistress Jane) and solve the clues before Tick does.

Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey

Here's another fairytale re-write, and one of the best so far. Dokey puts a strange twist on the classic tale; the stepmother is very kind yet unhappy, not cruel. After being forced to marry Etienne de Brabant and being sent to his country estate, she tries hard to settle in and learn the staff including the young Cindrillon.

Cindrillon has been raised by the wise, old housekeeper and doesn't want to hurt her new stepmother so hides her identity. Will she betray her father, or herself? Will she make it to the ball or hide in the house, unknown? Does her father ever acknowledge her? At what of the handsome stableboy Raoul?