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Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

In the Final Empire under ash filled skies and a red sun, the Lord Ruler cruelly reigns. The skaa, who are basically slaves to the nobility, suffer cruelty every day. Vin is a orphaned girl who is in a street gang stealing from people who are wealthy and she is trying to survive in this dangerous world. She has certain powers that she doesn’t understand until she catches the eye of someone who knows what power she has. Kelsier is the leader of a group of elite thieves, and discovers what Vin is: a Mistborn. The powers come from different metals so you can jump, fight and control some emotions of other people. If you can use powers from all metals, not just one, and have high nobility heritage, you are a Mistborn. Kelsier recruites Vin and agrees to train her in how to use her powers. He also is planning his biggest challenge yet: overthrow the Lord Ruler. Planning a skaa rebellion and trying to start a war between the noble families are some of the schemes he and his group act on. Vin ...

This Time It’s Real by Anna Liang

Eliza Lin is a student at a international school in Beijing who has moved with her family to different places all around the world. This makes it hard for her to have many permanent friends and so she focuses on her grades and family. When she has do do a writing assignment for school, Eliza makes up a story about how she has a boyfriend. Her essay goes viral, exploding over social media and a writing magazine takes note and wants Eliza to write some articles for them. The problem is she doesn’t have a boyfriend. Enter Caz Song, a budding Chinese movie star who goes to her school. They make a deal with each other: Caz will pretend to be Eliza’s boyfriend and Eliza will help him with college entry essays. So Eliza writes articles for the magazine about her fake relationship with Caz, all while dealing with the fame that her writing and dating Caz creates. Things go awry when feelings start to develop between Caz and Eliza, and Eliza has to deal with almost losing her best friend oversea...

If I Live by Terri Blackstock

The third and final book in the If I Live series brings the story of Casey Cox and Dylan Roberts to a satisfying conclusion. Casey is still on the run and Dylan is trying to protect her. Detective Keegan is searching for Casey and wants to silence her permanently while upping his body count. Casey does manage to get a job with a lawyer which will help her later on. Dylan tries to protect Casey the best he can, but she is arrested in Memphis and Keegan gets to her first. Casey does manage to escape and Dylan catches up with her while evading Keegan. She eventually gets evidence to a reporter and turns herself in when it is safe to do so. She embraces faith in Jesus fully and leans upon that and Dylan’s love for her during the dark times. The ending wraps up well and it is nice to see Casey and Dylan’s faith and relationship grow.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 #christianfiction #fiction #faith #suspense #book

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

In 1948 Ruby Pearsall and Eleanor Quaries live different lives in different cities. Ruby lives with her aunt in Philadelphia and is in a special course to get into a good college. After an unwanted encounter with her mother’s boyfriend, she goes to live with her aunt. She starts a relationship with a Jewish man, threatening her dreams for college. Eleanor is attending the prestigious Howard University, working in the library with an archivist. There she meets handsome William Pride and her life changes forever. William and his family are wealthy and among the D.C elite. They start a relationship even though William’s mother doesn’t approve. Both Eleanor and Ruby find themselves pregnant with William marrying Eleanor, but Ruby has to go to a home for troubled girls who are pregnant. This home let’s well to do couples adopt the babies of single mothers. Ruby has to deal with racial discrimination and cruelty from the women in charge of the home. Eleanor has a couple miscarriages and is t...