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Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken

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Title: Passenger (Passenger #1) Author: Alexandra Bracken Pages: 496 Genre: Fantasy/YA Release Date: January 5, 2016 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion/HBG Canada Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Kobo *Received for review from publisher* Summary ( Goodreads ) passage , n. i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ii. A journey by water; a voyage. iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the a...

My Top Favorites of 2015

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Hey everyone!!! This year has been an amazing year so far! I have only one more semester of my program left and these past few months have kept me busy and I have not read that many books since September. But next year will be better! Here are some of my favorite books of 2015:  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon   The Return (Titan #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout --> Review    Red Queen (Red Queen #1) by Victoria Aveyard - Review A Court of Thorns and Roses (#1) by Sarah J. Maas - Review     Wicked (The Wicked Saga #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Review An Ember in the Ashes (#1) by Sabaa Tahir - Review    Ice Like Fire (Snow Like Ashes #2) by Sara Raasch  Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry   Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) by Sarah J. Maas -Review The Deal (#1) by Elle Kennedy -Review  The Boy Most Likely To (My Life Next Door #2) by Huntley Fitzpatrick Six of Crows by Leigh Bar...

Waiting on Wednesday: Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken

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Title: Passenger (Passenger #1)  Author: Alexandra Bracken  Pages: 464 Publisher: Disney Hyperion  Release Date: January 5, 2016  Summary (Goodreads)  Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years  through time .  Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies--the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods ha...