Monday, April 23, 2012

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #46, April 23rd

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 #45
Teaser Tuesday #54
WWW Wednesday #54
WOW #50
Will the Time Come #46
Third Sentence Thursday #36
Random Reads #21
First Lines Friday #42
Follow that Blurb Reading Challenge Update 43
A-Z Book Challenge Update 16
The Reward Challenge Round 39
Follow Friday #24
2012 Dystopian Reading Challenge Update 16
YA Historical Fiction Update 11
Last Letter First Letter Reading Challenge Update 4
In My Mailbox #45
I Have An Update #44

Week 16 Reviews:
Pure
The Other Life
Shadows on the Moon
Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink
dancergirl
Dead on the Dance Floor
Early to Death, Early to Rise
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Anna Dressed In Blood
Fury
The Replacement
Bewitching
The Space Between
Destined
 
Tours:
The Bridge of Deaths: Review

Random:
We have a Cover!!!

OK, so I got 32 posts in 7 days, which was a lot of fun, there were some pretty good bookish updates this week! Like the cover for Sacrifice! Yep. So what did you guys do this week? Happy reading!
 
So this week I want to read Bloodrose, The Nightmare GardenWaterfall, Cascade, Torrent, Pants on Fire, The Savage GraceClaiming the Highlander, The WarriorLord of the Wolves, That Fatal NightThe Restorer, I Am Jay, and A Temptation of Angels.
 
Currently Listening To: Time-Bomb by All Time Low
Currently Reading: The Savage Grace by Bree Despain
Currently Watching: My Shows!
Calla has always welcomed war.

But now that the final battle is upon her, there's more at stake than fighting. There's saving Ren, even if it incurs Shay's wrath. There's keeping Ansel safe, even if he's been branded a traitor. There's proving herself as the pack's alpha, facing unnamable horrors, and ridding the world of the Keepers' magic once and for all. And then there's deciding what to do when the war ends. If Calla makes it out alive, that is.
Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn't going to succumb to madness because of a latent strain—she will lose her faculties because she is allergic to iron. Aoife isn't human. She is a changeling—half human and half from the land of Thorn. And time is running out for her.

When Aoife destroyed the Lovecraft engine she released the monsters from the Thorn Lands into the Iron Lands and now she must find a way to seal the gates and reverse the destruction she's ravaged on the world that's about to poison her.
What do you do when your knight in shining armor lives, literally, in a different world?

Most American teenagers want a vacation in Italy, but the Betarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives among the romantic hills with their archaelogist parents. Stuck among the rubble of the medieval castles in rural Tuscany, on yet another hot, dusty archaeological site, Gabi and Lia are bored out of their minds...until Gabi places her hand atop a handprint in an ancient tomb and finds herself in fourteenth-century Italy. And worse yet, in the middle of a fierce battle between knights of two opposing forces.

Suddenly Gabi's summer in Italy is much, much more interesting.
Mom touched my underdress—a gown made six hundred years before—and her eyes widened as she rubbed the raw silk between thumb and forefinger. She turned and touched Lia’s gown. “Where did you get these clothes?”

Gabi knows she’s left her heart in the fourteenth century and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives. When they arrive, weeks have passed and all of Siena longs to celebrate the heroines who turned the tide in the battle against Florence—while the Florentines will go to great lengths to see them dead.

But Marcello patiently awaits, and Gabi must decide if she’s willing to leave her family behind for good in order to give her heart to him forever.
When Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in the third and final book in the River of Time series.

Gabi and Lia Betarrini have learned to control their time travel, and they return from medieval Italy to save their father from his tragic death in modern times.

But love calls across the centuries, and the girls are determined to return forever—even though they know the Black Plague is advancing across Europe, claiming the lives of one-third of the population. In the suspenseful conclusion of the River of Time series, every decision is about life … and death.
Katie Ellison is not a liar.

But she can't exactly tell the truth, either—not when she's juggling two boyfriends, secretly hating the high school football team everyone else worships, and trying to have the best summer ever. At least Katie has it all under control (sort of). Her biggest secret, what really happened the night Tommy Sullivan is a freak was spray-painted on the junior high gymnasium wall, is safe.

That is, until Tommy comes back to town. Katie is sure he's going to ruin all her plans, and she'll do anything to hang on to her perfect existence. Even if it means telling more lies. Even if, now that Tommy's around, she's actually—truthfully—having the time of her life.
A troubled soul. An impossible choice. A final battle.

Wrestling with the werewolf curse pulsing deep inside of her, Grace Divine was finally able to find her brother, but it nearly cost her everything.

With her boyfriend, Daniel, stuck in wolf form and Sirhan's death approaching, time is running out for Grace to stop Caleb Kalbi and his gang of demons. If she fails, her family and hometown will perish. Everything rests on Grace's shoulders.

The final installment in The Dark Divine trilogy brings Daniel and Grace's love story to a breathtaking conclusion.
To end a long-running feud, proud Scottish lass Maggie convinces her clan's women to refuse their men everything. But can she refuse the attractions of English baron and proud Highland warrior Braden McAllister?
Combining sensual romance, fast-paced adventure, and a band of unforgettable heroes, "New York Times" bestselling author MacGregor delivers the eagerly anticipated third installment in her high-concept medieval series about the Brotherhood of the Sword.
She was the heroine of her people….
With her extraordinary violet eyes, French Countess Melisande was a prize for any man. But the teenage hellion who rode into battle to defend her people belonged to the warrior who saved her life, made her his bride, then disappeared for years. Now Conar MacAuliffe had returned to claim his wife, now a ravishing woman determined to fight for her freedom at all costs. But the proud beauty who feared no man suddenly feared herself and the passionate embrace of the husband who vowed to never let her go.

He was the mighty viking conqueror they called…
Lord of the Wolves, a legendary warrior whose greatest challenge would come with the woman he was destined to wed. In the fiery Countess Melisande he would find his heaven and hell. Even as he waged war for her heart, he dared not to yield his own. Even as he laid sweet, seductive siege to her body, he tried to shield his soul. It would take a common enemy, a little trust, and a united front to awaken them both to a love that could change their lives forever.
In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, a young girl must come to terms with haunting memories from the voyage.

It is May 1912, one month after the horrific sinking of the Titanic, and twelve-year-old survivor Dorothy Wilton is sent home from school in disgrace when she strikes another student. Although she's expelled, her sympathetic teacher encourages Dorothy to write an account of her experience on the ship, with the hopes that it will help Dorothy come to terms with her trauma.

And so begins a truly remarkable story, which reads like a time capsule of the era: Dorothy writes about visiting her bohemian grandparents in England before setting sail back home, the luxurious rooms and cabins on board, a new friend she makes, and the intriguing people they observe. However, amidst all of this storytelling, a shadow lurks, a secret Dorothy is too traumatized to acknowledge - a secret about her own actions on that fatal night, which may have had deadly consequences.
Amelia Gray has always been aware of ghosts, and now she travels all over the South cleaning up forgotten or abandoned graveyards. When an enigmatic yet haunted police detective asks for her help to trap a serial killer, their growing attraction constitutes the very gravest of threats.
Even angels make mistakes in this page-turning epic romance

When her parents are murdered before her eyes, sixteen-year-old Helen Cartwright finds herself launched into an underground London where a mysterious organization called the Dictata controls the balance of good and evil. Helen learns that she is one of three remaining angelic descendants charged with protecting the world's past, present, and future. Unbeknownst to her, she has been trained her whole life to accept this responsibility. Now, as she finds herself torn between the angelic brothers protecting her and the devastatingly handsome childhood friend who wants to destroy her, she must prepare to be brave, to be hunted, and above all to be strong, because temptation will be hard to resist, even for an angel.

Michelle Zink masterfully weaves historical fantasy with paranormal romance to create a gripping tale of love and betrayal.

6 comments:

  1. I pretty much want to read all the books you are going to be reading this week.

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  2. I've been wanting to read The Savage Grace. I'll be interested to hear what you think!

    Here's what I'm reading

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  3. I really liked Claiming the Highlander :) Sometimes you just need a good Scottish Romance!

    Happy Reading this week! It's Monday! What Are YOU Reading??

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  4. I really need to pick up a Meg Cabot book - I enjoyed The Princess Diaries movies and think I will like her books.

    Have a good week!
    Kristin @ Always With a Book

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  5. Wow, you really kicked butt this week! Great job! ;)

    Happy Reading!

    Lisa @ Lost in Literature
    It’s Monday! What are you reading?

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  6. Yeah! Because they were really great books :)

    And I loved it! Really great, and I'm hoping for a 4th book, because a bad guy wasn't finished!

    Claiming the Highlander, and The Warrior, were 2 great books :)

    And pick it up! So funny! Loved it!

    Not really, these were some books, but I could've read more :)

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