HIDE: Omnibus by Jax Spenser

When Keegan finally gets away from his brutal mother on his sixteenth birthday/ Things should get better but turn bizarre when his father picks up a hitchhiker in the desert. 

When I was contacted by Jax to read this novel I was really excited because... well obviously, Aliens. I was also really interested in it because I liked that it was a bind-up of a five part series. When this book arrived I was so happy with the way it looked (if you're an avid reader than you'll get what I'm saying). It's that shiny, thick spine, glossy style a lot of indie authors use, and it's personally one of my favorite styles. Also loved the cover art on both the bind-up and of the individuals. That aside, on to the actual review.

Omnibus is a bind-up of: Untethered, Singularity, Coherence, Freefall, and Redshift. All following sixteen-year-old Keegan Roe. Keegan suffers from blackouts and from a rough up bringing. After a turn of events he ends up with his father on a trip that ends up somewhere they didn't plan. 

This could be your last memory...

I love reading stories from a males point of view so again this added on too the reasons I was happy to read this. I wont lie however, I did have a little bit of a love hate relationship with Keegan. When I read the first two parts he got a little on my nerves. By part five I did end up liking him. I think I was just waiting for that moment when he finally grew a pair and just did something kick ass... Really wanted him to take control of his destiny. He does have a great deal of character development, but never exactly hit the mark I was hoping for. Hoping that when we get more into the story and when we get a part 6-whatever number that we can get a more grown up, tougher Keegan. At first his memory loss was something that I feared wouldn't grow on me either, but it did and I was real thankful for it. By the end it really turned into such a unique player in the story. The only side character I really think you need to know about is Lizzy Bruce. She was my favorite part/character in this series. She's had a lot of the characteristics I was hoping that Keegan would show. She was interesting while still maintaining to have such mystery surrounding her. She's probably who I'm most looking forward to seeing in the future.

As far as world building and plot I think this is Jax's real strength. He paints the perfect picture of a creep town, with vivid, and odd characters filling it. The pace of this story does start out slow but by the end you'll find yourself thankful that it took a cooler speed. The first two books Untethered and Singularity are all about introductions and world building, Freefall and Coherence are all about getting you hooked and placing Easter eggs, and Redshift really brings it all home. Redshift really sold me on this series. I loved the way all the memories, flashbacks, and little details finally get revealed. I thought I had a lot of things figured out, and was happy with the little twist that came into play. Hide takes a new spin on an old topic and gives it something extra. With how the story is left off I was left with a few remaining questions and wanting more... Not a bad problem as I see it.Seriosuly though that ending killed me I really nee to know what is going to happen next. By the end I was left thinking...

The Hide Series is a fun, light, brain twisting read that will have you craving more.

8/10 Stars 
-Angela  

Fictional Book Boyfriends Pt 3

About once a month we like to gather a small list of  what we and others like to call Dream-cast or Fictional Book Boyfriends. We've said it in the past we LOVE putting faces to the characters in our books (especially the men). We also LOVE seeing page to premieres. So we combined the two to do our spin on dream casting. We picked a few titles and show you who we imagined the leading men to be. We'll put the link to the previous ones at the bottom of this page. 

Slammed by Colleen Hoover 

girl moves to Michigan and falls for poet neighbor

Aaron Johnson as Will Cooper 
Because who doesn't think Aaron Johnson is beyond charming?!

Red Rising by Pierce Brown 

Boy disguise himself in a higher class to help lead a rebellion to free the suppressed lower classes. 

Douglas Booth as Darrow

All those rough edges has us love Douglas booth.

Never Never by Tarryn Fisher and Colleen Hoover  

Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen. Complete strangers since this morning.

Brando Eaton as Silas 

That boyish charm...Swoon.

Broken Skies by Theresa Kay 
Aliens have invaded earth and have always kept their distance until now. 

Wade Poezyn as Lir

Slap some scales on him and try and tell us he doesn't look like Lir!!

pt 1

pt 2

<3 A&L

Never Never by Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher

"Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen. Complete strangers since this morning."

Yup that's the whole books description. It's literally the only thing anyone can tell you about it. Never Never has so much mystery surrounding it and I'm sure if you've heard of it you've heard the sentence "WTF DID I JUST READ" following it. 


Never Never is a story surrounding two main characters, Silas and Charlie. They are in the middle of two different classes when they completely forget who they are. They can remember trivial things like what a tv show is, and that Kim K married Kayne but neither of them can remember their own names. I spent 95% of this book saying...

 No, seriously. I was so confused and craving answer until the last three pages... Where bombs start dropping and you start freaking out. The story is written from the two leading characters POVs and switches back in forth through out the whole story. Silas' parts are written by Hoover while Charlie's are written by Fisher. I LOVED THAT!!!! It made it so the characters were very different. I know you've read books and had to stop and question if it's the leading male or female talking. Having two authors with two different writing styles writing from two POVS made this story complete. I was worried when I heard what this book was kind of about that Hoover would let me down... NOPE! Silas was easily my favorite person in the book. Charlie is ok... BUT SILAS!!! LOVED HIM!!!!!! 

The romance in this book was great and didn't take away or overshadow what this story really is. This review isn't going to be long or detailed because I would end up spilling the beans about what happens... because I like everyone else, by the time this book ended was FREAKING OUT about how it was left. And yeah like everyone else I screamed...

HOW CAN YOU LEAVE PEOPLE HANGING LIKE THIS!!!!! IT'S CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IF YOU ASK ME!!!!! 

The ending was AMAZING!!!! When I got toward the end of the book I thought "hmmm Yeah this is probably going to get like 3 stars" (goodreads ratings) BUT when I got to the last few pages.... Lets just say it became a five star read real fast. Never Never will probably have the biggest WTF and Cliffhanger ending this year... I want to even say what books this reminds me of but I'm scared that will give something away. You just need to download this and read it for yourself....   

I SERIOUSLY NEED PART TWO LIKE MMMMM YESTERDAY!

10/10 Stars 
-Angela