I Heart Robot

Book Review

Title: I Heart Robot

Author: Suzanne Van Rooyen

Rating ★★★★★

Page Count: 304

Date Published: March 31, 2015

Publisher: Month9Books

Genre: YA Sci-Fi 

Perspective: Duo Quinn & Tyri

Meet the Author: Suzanne Van Rooyen

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Synopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Tyri wants to be a musician and wants to be with someone who won't belittle her musical aspirations.

Q-I-99 aka 'Quinn' lives in a scrap metal sanctuary with other rogue droids. While some use violence to make their voices heard, demanding equal rights for AI enhanced robots, Quinn just wants a moment on stage with his violin to show the humans that androids like him have more to offer than their processing power.

Tyri and Quinn's worlds collide when they're accepted by the Baldur Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. As the rift between robots and humans deepens, Tyri and Quinn's love of music brings them closer together, making Tyri question where her loyalties lie and Quinn question his place in the world. With the city on the brink of civil war, Tyri and Quinn make a shocking discovery that turns their world inside out. Will their passion for music be enough to hold them together while everything else crumbles down around them, or will the truth of who they are tear them apart?



My Thoughts:

The author and publisher Month9Books were kind enough to provide me with an E-copy in exchange for an honest review. I simply adored this book!! It made me cry tears of joy and sadness at the same time. It was such a beautiful read.

Quinn and Tyri had the same passion for music and they have been accepted to the Baldur Junior Philharmonic Orchestra, but that is where their similarities end. Quinn is a rogue robot whose whole life revolves around music and trying to be more human in a world where robots are fighting to be treated as equals. I really loved Quinn and his character development; he was such a sweetie and I loved how he wanted to fix the relationship between robots and humans peacefully. Tyri is your regular teenager, who just wants her mother to understand how important music is to her. Tyri is such a strong character; I loved how she never took crap from her boyfriend and how she saw the robots as more than just electronics. 

This book was written so beautifully, the world building and character development was just amazing! I loved it so much! The twists in this book caught me by surprise; I just loved how it kept me guessing.  I didn't want this book to end! When it did, I kept flipping the pages looking for more, but that ending, oh; that ending brought me to tears it was just perfect! I'm keeping my fingers crossed in hopes for a sequel. If you haven't picked this book up yet, I highly recommend you do! I love this book so much!!! 

-SandraTheBookWorm

The Waiting Room By: Alysha Kaye

The Waiting Room

Author Bio:

Alysha Kaye was born in San Marcos, TX, where she also received her BA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. She worked in marketing for a brief and terrible cubicle-soul-sucking time until she was accepted into Teach for America and promptly moved to Oahu. She taught 7th grade English in Aiea for two years and also received her Masters in Education from University of Hawaii. She then taught here in Austin, TX for a year at Ojeda Middle School (DVISD) and absolutely loved it, but wanted to move to the high school level. She now teaches freshmen at her alma mater, Jack C. Hays High School, and tries to squeeze in as much writing as possible between lesson planning. She had a dream about The Waiting Room once, and offhandedly wrote her boyfriend a love poem about waiting for him after death. Somehow, that became a novel.

Synopsis of The Waiting Room:

Jude and Nina are the epitome of that whole raw, unflinching love thing that most people are jealous of. That is, until Jude dies and wakes up in The Waiting Room, surrounded by other souls who are all waiting to pass over into their next life. But unlike those souls, Jude’s name is never called by the mysterious “receptionist”. He waits, watching Nina out of giant windows. He’s waiting for her. What is this place? How long will he wait? And what will happen when and if Nina does join him? The Waiting Room is a story of not just love, but of faith, predestination, and philosophy, friendship and self-actualization, of waiting.

The Waiting Room is available on Amazon (in print and Kindle) and also at Book People in Austin. Alysha’s WordPress blog has now reached over 2,200 followers—she not only writes about the novel and self-publishing, but also teaching, love, and life.

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Sanguine Mountain Camazotz Trilogy #1

Book Review

Title: Sanguine Mountain

Author: Jennifer Foxcroft

Rating: ★★★★★ 
Date Published: February 2015

Publisher: Self Published 

Meet The Author: Jennifer Foxcroft

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Synopsis: 

An anonymous letter shatters the world Connie thought she knew and trusted. The news that her parents aren't really her own leaves her angry, devastated and alone. The search for the truth leads her down a dark, desolate forest road where she meets a boy in the shadows who has secrets of his own.

Rockland’s life has been ruled by an ancient curse since the day he was born. Forever labeled a misfit and a rebel, he is desperate to convince his leaders that integration with the modern world will be the salvation of their kind—not their demise.

After their worlds collide in the middle of a dark forest, Connie and Rocks strike a deal to help each other find the answers they both need—away from her lying parents and the judgmental sneers of his colony. But, can they find love on their journey to discover who they are and where they belong in the world?

My Thoughts:

I fell in love with this book immediately! If you have not picked it up yet I definitely recommend you do; you won't be disappointed. The love story, the paranormal aspect, the hot guys in this book is just perfection.

Our main character Connie has just received a letter telling her she is adopted and to not go looking for her birth parents, but like anyone Connie ignores the warning and goes looking for her birth mother. I loved Connie's character so much she's so independent and when she sets her mind to something she goes through with it. On her way to go meet her mother her car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. When she gets off her car to look for help she stumbles into a party where she meets Rockland who has been cursed since he was born; I loved Rocks so much he is a total gentleman and a sweetheart which makes him one hundred times sexier than any bad boy I've ever read about. After their encounter that night Rocks decides to help Connie find her birth parents and Connie helps Rocks find out more about his ancestors and the curse. 

I love every second of this book! Jennifer Foxcroft stole my heart with all her amazing characters and the ending left me desperate for the next book; I need the book like yesterday. I can't wait to see more of Rocks world and learn more about him as you can tell I'm head over heels for Rockland lol.  I'm so glad I gave Sanguine Mountain a chance it definitely surprised me and has made it to my top 2015 reads. Like I said at the beginning you should definitely pick up this book! Like now!

-SandraTheBookWorm