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Recensie: King’s Cage

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30226723Auteur: Victoria Aveyard
Titel: King’s Cage
Serie: Red Queen #3
Genre: YA Fantasy, dystopie
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2017
ISBN: 9780062310712
Aantal pagina’s: 528
Gelezen: Oktober 2017
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In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl’s spark is gone, who will light the way for the rebellion?

Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother’s web in an attempt to maintain control over his country—and his prisoner.

As Mare bears the weight of Silent Stone in the palace, her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing, training, and expanding. They prepare for war, no longer able to linger in the shadows. And Cal, the exiled prince with his own claim on Mare’s heart, will stop at nothing to bring her back.

When blood turns on blood, and ability on ability, there may be no one left to put out the fire—leaving Norta as Mare knows it to burn all the way down.
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Recensie: Cruel Crown

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25944381Auteur: Victoria Aveyard
Titel: Cruel Crown
Serie: Red Queen #0.1 & 0.#2
Genre: YA Fantasy, dystopie
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2016
ISBN: 9780062435347
Aantal pagina’s: 208
Gelezen: September 2017
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Two women on either side of the Silver and Red divide tell the stories no one else knows.

Discover the truth of Norta’s bloody past in these two revealing prequels to #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller RED QUEEN.

Queen Song
Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary—how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lie ahead for her in royal life.

Steel Scars
Captain Farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected. As she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital, she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation—Mare Barrow.
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Recensie: Warcross

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29385546Auteur: Marie Lu
Titel: Warcross
Genre: Young adult, fantasy, science-fiction
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2017
ISBN: 9780399547966
Aantal pagina’s: 368
Gelezen: februari 2018
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For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.

Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.
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Recensie: Glass Sword

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23174274Auteur: Victoria Aveyard
Titel: Glass Sword
Serie: Red Queen #2
Genre: YA, fantasy, dystopie
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2016
ISBN: 9780062310668
Aantal pagina’s: 444
Gelezen: September 2017
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Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control.

The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.

Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.

But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat.

Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?

The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they’ve always known—and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.

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Recensie: Red Queen

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22328546Auteur: Victoria Aveyard
Titel: Red Queen
Serie: Red Queen #1
Genre: YA Fantasy, dystopie
Taal: Engels
Jaar: 2015
ISBN: 9780062310637
Aantal pagina’s: 383
Gelezen: Augustus 2017
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This is a world divided by blood – red or silver.

The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.

That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.

Fearful of Mare’s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.

But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance – Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.

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Showcase

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ShowcaseGoed, ik weet dat het geen zondag is, maar alsnog wil ik jullie een showcase geven. Dat wilde ik eigenlijk van het weekend al doen, maar vrijdag, zaterdag én zondag zaten vol met familieverplichtingen dus ik ben er simpelweg niet aan toe gekomen. Maar omdat ik toch wat toffe boeken heb (één in het bijzonder waar ik superduper mega blij mee ben, je weet welke ik bedoel als je me op instagram volgt, dus als je dat nog niet doet, moet je dat misschien gaan doen) wilde ik jullie niet langer laten wachten. So let’s go!
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Showcase Sunday

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ShowcaseWell, look at that! Eindelijk een nieuwe Showcase Sunday coverfoto! Kan ik dat ook weer van mijn to do lijst afhalen 🙂 Anyway, zoals jullie gemerkt hebben, doe ik mijn showcases niet meer iedere week. Dat komt omdat ik toch niet iedere week boeken koop (wel vaak, misschien moet ik mezelf eens gaan inhouden…) en dan heb ik niet zo veel te vertellen. En, een goed gevulde showcase is ook leuker dan wanneer ik maar één boek kan laten zien, vinden jullie ook niet?
Vandaag heb ik wel weer een stapel boeken voor jullie. Dus yay!
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