Review: The Elite of the Weak by Precarious Yates

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Book 1 of Revelation Special Ops

Crawling through an air duct in Queens...spending all night alone in an African jungle...that's normal for teenage spy Hadassah Michelman. She wants to join Revelation Special Ops, a Christian organization that works to rescue kids from modern slavery.

Hadassah's life is about to get a whole lot crazier.

The spies of Revelation Special Ops are the elite of the weak. Weak because their hearts are broken for the oppressed. Elite because they keep the code.

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Review: A Time To Die by Nadine Brandes

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How would you live if you knew the day you'd die? 

Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government's crooked justice system.

But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall -- her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and about herself changes Parvin forever and might just save her people. But her clock is running out.

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Review: Thunder by Bonnie S. Calhoun

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The Time of Sorrows is long past.
The future of Selah and her people is shrouded in mystery.
And the clock is ticking.

Hidden in the tall grasses along a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a once-great city, a hunter crouches. It is the eve of her eighteenth Birth Remembrance and high time she proves to herself and her brothers that she can stand on her own two feet. Selah Rishon Chavez waits not for game but for one of the small boats that occasionally crash against the desolate shoreline. Because inside one of these boats she will find her quarry—a Lander.

These people from an unknown land across the ocean are highly prized by the Company and bring a good price—especially if they keep the markings they arrive with.

Everything falls to pieces when the Lander whom Selah catches is stolen by her brothers, and Selah wakes the next morning to find the Lander's distinctive mark has appeared on her own flesh. Once the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only one person who can help her—Bodhi Locke, the Lander her brothers hope to sell in the Mountain.

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Review: Rebels by Jill Williamson

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The remnant of Glenrock has been scattered. But they are not beaten.

The Safe Lands have long kept the true meaning of Liberation secret from their people. But after being sentenced to Liberation themselves, Mason and Omar soon discover the truth.

Levi watched his brothers’ public sentencing and tries to hold out hope they are still alive, He is forced to focus his attention elsewhere, however, when his new wife, Jemma, is captured and made the Safe Lands’ newest Queen. His only choice to save Jemma may be to take up Omar’s old role of undercover vigilante, leading the rebels in their quest to overthrow the government. But will Levi’s new role be enough?

Meanwhile, Jemma’s sister, Shaylinn, is ready to give birth to the “Safe Lands’” children … but not even Ciddah is sure they can be delivered safely in the midst of a rebellion. And Mason must face the fact Omar’s illness could be fatal.

If they can all unite their efforts, together they may be able to expose the Safe Lands’ lies to the people. But if they fail, they will all surely die.

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Review: Revolutionary by Krista McGee

Revolutionary by Krista McGee
Anomaly Trilogy: Book Three
Thomas Nelson / 2014

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All her life Thalli thought she was an anomaly. Now she must use her gifts to fulfill the role she was called to play: Revolutionary.

Back in the underground State against her will, Thalli is no longer the anomaly she was before. She has proven herself to be a powerful leader aboveground and returns with information that Dr. Loudin needs to complete his plan of uniting the world under one leader: himself. But he, too, has information. A secret he has kept from Thalli her entire life. A secret that, once revealed, changes everything about the person Thalli thought she was.

Hoping to help Thalli rise up against the Scientists, both Berk and Alex join her underground, but their presence only brings more trouble for her. Now Dr. Loudin knows just the leverage to use on his captive, and she is forced to choose between the two of them. Is her first love her true love? Or does Alex ultimately claim her heart?

Unsure of everything around her, including her own identity, Thalli doesn’t know where to turn. She knows she needs the Designer, but he seems further away than ever. What she does know, though, is that if she doesn’t do something to stop Loudin, the fragile world aboveground will be lost once and for all.

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Guest Post: 10 Things I’d Be Glad to Ditch in a Dystopian Future by Lisa T. Bergren + Kindle Fire HDX Giveaway!!

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Review & Giveaway: Remnants: Season of Wonder by Lisa T. Bergren

Remnants: Season of Wonder by Lisa T. Bergren
Blink / 2014

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Our coming was foretold by the elders--- Those who would change the future, just as the planet teetered on the edge of darkness.
Born on the prophesied day with birthmarks in the form of a crescent moon, they knew us immediately. Swaddled and screaming, we were spirited away by those who hid us, trained us, and kept us safe until our time came.
They poured their lives into us. Some died to save us.
And now we, the Remnants, protected by Knights of the Last Order, have gathered.
Called until we breathe our last ... to save the world.

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Review: Outcasts by Jill Williamson (CSFF Blog Tour)

Outcasts (The Safe Lands #2) by Jill Williamson
Blink / 2014
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Uncovering the truth could cost them their lives.

Since entering the Safe Lands, Mason has focused on two things: finding a way to free his village from captivity, and finding a cure for the disease that ravages many within the walls of the Safe Lands. After immune-suppressive drugs go missing in the clinic, Mason discovers his coworker, Ciddah, may know more about the Safe Lands than imagined ... and may have an agenda of her own. At the same time, Mason's brother Levi is focused on a way to free the remaining Glenrock captives, while Mason's younger brother Omar decides to take the rebellion against the Safe Lands into his own hands as a vigilante.

Soon all three brothers are being watched closely---and when Mason stumbles onto a shocking secret about the Safe Lands meds, his investigation just might get those closest to him liberated.

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I read Captives, book one in the Safe Lands series, last year and really enjoyed it! I admit, I did forget some things from book one, so I think that is why it took me a while to get in sync with Outcasts' story/characters. But, once I did, I started to really enjoy the book and, from about the halfway mark on, I didn't want to stop reading!

The characters were very good, but it's difficult to name my one favorite. In Captives, Mason was my favorite (and I loved his character in this book, too!), but Omar may be my favorite from Outcasts...just because of how **possible spoiler** he realized his errors and is now struggling to get things right. **end of possible spoiler**

There were a few things in Outcasts that weren't all that believable to me; but, then again, this book is dystopian/futuristic sci-fi, so that didn't lessen my enjoyment of the story. Plus, there were some really cool futuristic gadgets/elements, which I found very neat!

Just a word of caution: like book one, there are some more mature elements to Outcasts, so I think this book is best suited for older teens (and adults!) who enjoy YA dystopian reads. I thought it was a great read and look forward to reading Rebels (book three) when it releases.

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Red Bissell Thomas Fletcher Booher Beckie Burnham Pauline Creeden April Erwin Victor Gentile Ryan Heart Timothy Hicks Jason Joyner Julie Bihn Carol Keen Shannon McDermott Meagan @ Blooming with Books Melanie @ Christian Bookshelf Reviews Rebecca LuElla Miller Joan Nienhuis Nissa Jalynn Patterson Writer Rani Chawna Schroeder Jacque Stengl Jojo Sutis Steve Trower Phyllis Wheeler Deborah Wilson

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Just a note: Captives (The Safe Lands) is currently $1.99 on Amazon Kindle!! Here is the link: Amazon

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