Monday, August 8, 2011

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #9, August 8th


It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #8
Teaser Tuesday #17
WWW Wednesday #17
WOW #12
Will the Time Come #10
First Line Friday #4
A-Z Reading Challenge Update #6
Follow that Blurb Reading Challenge Update #5
In My Mailbox #9
I Have an Update #7

Week 31 Reviews:
Time of the Eagle
Reign or Shine
Reign Check
Shade
Shift
The Beginning of After
The Light
Destruction from Twins
The Textile Planet
The Dark

Tours:
Consequence; Review

Random:
Netgalley Month Wrap Up
I Love My Ipod!

So that was a good week, and it was nice and fun :) I got 20 posts in 7 days, so yeah, happy with that.

This week I want to read Inside Out, Outside In, Insatiable, Fire Study, Rooms, Storm Glass, Sea Glass, Spy Glass, Exchange, Flames of Surrender, and Dragon Aster.

Currently Listening To: Sleeping!!!!!
Currently Reading: Roooms
Currently Watching: Torchwood



Keep Your Head Down.

Don't Get Noticed.
Or Else.

I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to girl to lead a revolution.
 
Me? A Leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion - between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the hook, and could go off on my own again - while still touching base with Riley, of course. He's the one upper I think I can trust. But then we learned that there's outside and then there is Outside. And something from Outside wants In.
 
Sick of vampires? So is Meena Harper.


But her boss is making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them.

Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die (not that you’re going to believe her; no one ever does).

But not even Meena’s precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side . . . a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire-hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, he already is dead. Maybe that’s why he’s the first guy Meena’s ever met that she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena’s always been able to see everyone else’s future, she’s never been able look into her own.

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . .
If she even has one.
The apprenticeship is over—now the real test has begun.


When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before....

Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is fraught with allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty. Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself—and save the land she holds dear.
As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers—particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade—require Opal's unique talents to prevent it happening again. But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap in to a new kind of magic as stunningly potent as it is frightening. And the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear. With lives hanging in the balance—including her own—Opal must control powers she hadn't known she possessed…powers that might lead to disaster beyond anything she's ever known.
Student glass magician Opal Cowan's newfound ability to steal a magician's powers makes her too powerful. Ordered to house arrest by the Council, Opal dares defy them, traveling to the Moon Clan's lands in search of Ulrick, the man she thinks she loves. Thinks because she is sure another man now her prisoner has switched souls with Ulrick.


In hostile territory, without proof or allies, Opal isn't sure whom to trust. She can't forget Kade, the handsome Stormdancer who doesn't want to let her get close. And now everyone is after Opal's special powers for their own deadly gain....

After siphoning her own blood magic in the showdown at Hubal, Opal Cowan has lost her powers. She can no longer create glass magic. More, she's immune to the effects of magic. Opal is now an outsider looking in, spying through the glass on those with the powers she once had, powers that make a difference in the world.


Until spying through the glass becomes her new power. Suddenly, the beautiful pieces she makes flash in the presence of magic. And then she discovers that someone has st olen some of her blood—and that finding it might let her regain her powers. Or learn if they're lost forever…

6 comments:

  1. I'll have to check some of these out. Thanks!

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  2. It looks as though you have a wonderful week of reading ahead, enjoy.
    My Monday: http://www.rundpinne.com/2011/08/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-51.html

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  3. Yeah! Because there is some awesome books in there (Maria V. Synder at the top!)

    And yes, I did, and yes, I am :)

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  4. Great looking books! I want to read the Outside In and Inside Out books.

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  5. oh, thank you for reminding me about insatiable by cabot. i forgot i wanted to read that one, and has now been added to my kindle wish list. =D

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  6. Yep :) And you must! They are so great!!!!!!! And no problem! I did, a bit, too, since I couldn't find it anywhere that I could afford, till I saw it on saturday in the library! And now I have to look for Overbite, the sequel, whcih came out last month I believe. It hasn't gotten the best of reviews, but I really want to read it!

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