“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
Another Shatter Me novella, this time focusing on the original love interest Adam. Similar to Destroy Me, this novella is set simultaneously to the actual book, just shown through a different perspective.
“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing. It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes by your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones, squeezing so tight you almost can't breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out of every corner. It's a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you're struggling to stand up.”
Following the antihero of the first book of the series, Warner. This also shows unseen pages of the infamous journal from the first book. Watch as he struggles between his desire to be good and his desire to please his father.
“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
Set in a dystopian universe, a young girl has spent years trapped within a mental institution, for seemingly no reason. She is far more dangerous than anyone knows, even herself. Capable of killing with just touch, she begins to feel barely human. What happens when another is added to her cell, changing up what has been her life for the past several years?
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is the second book in the dystopia Giver series. Kira was born with a twisted leg, but she and her mother have always had each other to depend on. Now that her mother is dead, Kira finds herself as a flawed orphan in a society that discards the weak. Kira, however, isn't as defenseless as everyone thinks, for she has a special gift that is able to keep her alive.
Summary: As war was raging out all across Pyrrhia (a dragon dystopian land), a prophecy emerged saying that 5 dragonets born on the 20th year of the war will rise up and end the ongoing conflict. Clay and the other 4 dragonets in the destiny had heard this story a thousand times, and given that they were stuck in a cave and raised by a group of rebel dragons only interested in the prophecy, they had to figure out how to get out and see the outside world.
