Didn’t really know what to expect when I started this. To begin with, it was slow going as nothing seemed to be happening. However once you got about a quarter of the way through, the plot and characters got more interesting and the action took off, which caused it to become a real page turner for me. Recommend read as it’s a little something different from the normal.

Moonlight Reader started the TBR Thursday, and I think it's a good way to a) show what new books I've got and b) confront myself with my inability to lower my TBR. In fact, since I started recording it, it has risen significantly. I get the feeling I'm doing something wrong here...

It's been such a busy week for me. Next week - to complete my Christmas feelings, ahum - I've two important exams all the while I also need to write an article about my research-internship and some genius decided that December 26th (which is a holiday where I come from; and my little sister's birthday) is the perfect day to hand in the final review of my internship. While also studying for three major exams in January.

Anyway, what it bottles down to is: I'm stressed.

Reading however is a good way to set my mind at rest sometimes. I'm especially glad I finished the 840(!) pages long biography of Ivan Pavlov (the Russian physiologist known for his experiments on dogs with bells buzzers. They make a great deal about that 'mistake' in the book. The book biggest mistake is that, while interesting, it's also a couple of hundred pages too long.)

(I'd also bought some AC games, from Steam's Black Friday sale, but I don't get Uplay to work. Which is quite a downer because especially since I paid for the games I want to be able to actually play them. They are not installed to look pretty and take up space).

But back to books. It might have been too good a week as there are so many new additions. I've heard on a lot of my requests so I got loads of new ARCs. Well, perhaps it's almost Christmas after all...

TBR pile currently stands at 249. (+13)

(Netgalley ARCs at 85 (+8))

All new additions are ARCs I hope to be able to read soon!

I received a copy of this from a giveaway here on booklikes.

Short Review;

Wow, this is so completely different from anything I have read before, it was fantastic I just wish it was longer! 

Long Review;

I had never heard of this book until I stumbled across it on here, and now its time to spread the word.

Say the phrase No two are ever alike, and most think of snowflakes or fingerprints. But Steths, with their ability to hear heartbeats – and the emotions within them – know that each one of those is unique as well.

Sixteen-year-old Devin Chambers wants nothing more than a football scholarship, his ticket to a life beyond the hardscrabble neighborhood he calls home. But it’s his abilities as a Steth that get him noticed by the prestigious Faulkner Academy.

Being a “Faulkner man” means a life of privilege and influence. In the wrong hands, it also means having the power to destroy lives, as Devin learns when he encounters a man being framed for terrorism. He hears innocence in the man’s heart, but it’s a belief no one else shares, and he’ll have to risk his new life and bright future to save a condemned man from the death penalty. (taken from Goodreads)

This starts out a little slow, there's a fair bit of character and world building which I enjoyed and sets up some good ground work for the next book. There better be a next book by the way.

I really love how some of the characters have supernatural gifts but they aren't ridiculously unbelievable, given evolution these types of things may be possible at some stage, its far more likely then being able to shoot lasers from your eyes at least.

I loved the characters in this, they are so well written and I got surprisingly attached to Devin and Travis, when they had a little bro fight I was so devastated!

I don't want to give to much away as this was fantastic not knowing at all where it was going, so give it a go, if you like books like The Athena Effect by Derrolyn Anderson or the Bloom trilogy by A.P Kensey then I think you will absolutely enjoy this.

Also, that ending, my god please say there's a book 2.