The Reward Challenge is almost the complete opposite to a book buying ban as you'll end up buying lots of new books throughout the challenge but only after you've completed a certain amount of reading. It was hosted by Good Golly Miss Holly, so thanks to her for starting it!
OK, so I already had 39 counts, and I read Killer Frost which counts 5 times as a End of Series 2014 Book, LLFL Book, NetGalley Book, and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2013 Book, Hungry which counts 4 times as a 2014 Dystopia Book, NetGalley Book and SAC 2014 Book, Come Home to Me which counts 3 times as a NetGalley Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, Royally Lost which counts 3 times as a Edelweiss Book and a SAC 2014 Book, Royally Lost which counts 4 times as a 2014 Retelling Reading Challenge Book, DAC Book and a Historical Fiction 2014 Book, Murder Game which counts twice as a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, Fire which counts twice as a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book. So I have 62 counts total for next week.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 38
OK, so I have done some more reading, and I read Killer Frost, Eternal Kiss of Darkness.
Yep. Happy reading!
Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.
What it is:
You pick a book, read it. Then you look at the last letter of the title, for example, "The Adventures of Tom Saywer." Then you take that last letter, and search you TBR piles for a book starting with the last letter, so continuing the example, someone could read "Rotters" next, and then a title that starts with "s."
Rules:
1. Have fun!
2. Read!
3. The last letter of the book you read must be the first letter of the next book you read.
4. Words like "the," "a," "and," and those such don't count as the first letter.
5. If a letter becomes overused, like d, e, l, w, ext, and you run out of books that you really want to read for this challenge, cycle in letters that don't often get used like a, b, i, k, p, ext, and note what you cycle in, where!
Yep. Happy reading!
Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.
What it is:
You pick a book, read it. Then you look at the last letter of the title, for example, "The Adventures of Tom Saywer." Then you take that last letter, and search you TBR piles for a book starting with the last letter, so continuing the example, someone could read "Rotters" next, and then a title that starts with "s."
Rules:
1. Have fun!
2. Read!
3. The last letter of the book you read must be the first letter of the next book you read.
4. Words like "the," "a," "and," and those such don't count as the first letter.
5. If a letter becomes overused, like d, e, l, w, ext, and you run out of books that you really want to read for this challenge, cycle in letters that don't often get used like a, b, i, k, p, ext, and note what you cycle in, where!
First Lines Friday #134, January 31st
First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.
-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!
"It did not surprise Fire that the man in the forest shot her. What surprised her was that he shot her by accident. The arrow whacked her square in the arm and threw her sideways against a boulder, which knocked the air out of her. The pain was too great to ignore, but behind it she focused her mind, made it cold and sharp, like a single star in a black winter sky. If he was a cool man, certain in what he was doing, he would be guarded against her, but Fire rarely encountered this type. More often the men who tried to hurt her were angry or arrogant or frightened enough that she could find a crack in the fortress of their thoughts, and ease her way in."-Fire by Kristin Cashore
This is an opening! I need to read more! What about you guys? Happy reading!
-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!
This is an opening! I need to read more! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Follow Friday #117, January 31st
Q: Time for Book Spine Poetry again! Take a picture of your book spines spelling out something epic.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Random Reads #114, January 30th
Third Sentence Thursday #129, January 30th
Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!
1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)
4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!
Nothing today!
What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!
Nothing today!
What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!
Will the Time Come #139, January 30th
Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!
Want to Join?
-Pick a book you have been meaning to read
-Do a post telling us about the book
-Link the post up in the linky
-Visit the other blogs
What if a killer took control of you?
Vee Bell’s gift (or curse) of “sliding”—slipping into the mind of another person and experiencing life, briefly, through his or her eyes—has been somewhat under control since she unwillingly witnessed the horrific deaths of her classmates six months ago.
But just as things are getting back to normal, Vee has a very bizarre experience: she loses consciousness and finds herself in a deserted area, at the edge of a cliff, with the broken body of the boy who took advantage of her on the rocks below.
As Vee finds herself in stranger and stranger situations with no memory of getting there, she begins to suspect that someone she knows has the ability to slide—and that this “slider” is using Vee to exact revenge on his or her enemies.
Vee Bell’s gift (or curse) of “sliding”—slipping into the mind of another person and experiencing life, briefly, through his or her eyes—has been somewhat under control since she unwillingly witnessed the horrific deaths of her classmates six months ago.
But just as things are getting back to normal, Vee has a very bizarre experience: she loses consciousness and finds herself in a deserted area, at the edge of a cliff, with the broken body of the boy who took advantage of her on the rocks below.
As Vee finds herself in stranger and stranger situations with no memory of getting there, she begins to suspect that someone she knows has the ability to slide—and that this “slider” is using Vee to exact revenge on his or her enemies.
Why the time hasn't come yet...
I have no idea, but I want to read it so, so much! It sounds terrific and I loved the first book! What about you guys? Happy reading!
I have no idea, but I want to read it so, so much! It sounds terrific and I loved the first book! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Waiting on Wednesday #143, January 29th
Expected Publication: April 8th, 2014
From Goodreads:
In the Forest of the Dead, where the empire’s worst criminals are exiled, twin sisters Moria and Ashyn are charged with a dangerous task. For they are the Keeper and the Seeker, and each year they must quiet the enraged souls of the damned.
Only this year, the souls will not be quieted.
Ambushed and separated by an ancient evil, the sisters’ journey to find each other sends them far from the only home they’ve ever known. Accompanied by a stubborn imperial guard and a dashing condemned thief, the girls cross a once-empty wasteland, now filled with reawakened monsters of legend, as they travel to warn the emperor. But a terrible secret awaits them at court—one that will alter the balance of their world forever.
Expected Publication: April 8th, 2014
From Goodreads:
A city in flames. A trust betrayed. A perfect love destroyed.
Has Aria lost Hunter, her one true love?
Ever since rebellion broke out in Mystic City, pitting the ruling elite against the magic-wielding mystics, Aria has barely seen her boyfriend. Not surprising, since Hunter is the leader of the mystic uprising, and he'll do whatever it takes to win freedom for his people—even if that means using Aria.
But Aria is no one's pawn. She believes she can bring the two warring sides together, save the city, and win back the Hunter she fell in love with.
Before she can play peacemaker, though, Aria will need to find the missing heart of a dead mystic. The heart gives untold powers to whoever possesses it, but finding it means seeking out a fierce enemy whose deepest desire is for Aria to be gone—forever.
Oh, 2 awesome books! I can't wait for them, they are both looking so good, and I love Kelley Armstrong's writing, and I loved Mystic City! I want more!! What about you guys? Happy reading!
WWW Wednesday #146, January 29th
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?
Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing for starting and hosting this meme!
I'm reading Cruel Beauty, and yeah, it's so fantastic and I really want to read it!
I read Royally Lost, and it was such a great book! I enjoyed it so much!
I'm going to be reading Murder Game, and I can't wait to read it again!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?
Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing for starting and hosting this meme!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Teaser Tuesday #146, January 28th
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Today's teaser comes from Royally Lost by Angie Stanton, page 14.
"Yes, but these streets are terrible. They should blacktop them like we do in the U.S."
Well, I think they're pretty significantly older, and that would be pretty bad to just blacktop them! What about you guys? Happy reading!
•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Today's teaser comes from Royally Lost by Angie Stanton, page 14.
"Yes, but these streets are terrible. They should blacktop them like we do in the U.S."
Well, I think they're pretty significantly older, and that would be pretty bad to just blacktop them! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Monday, January 27, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #138, January 27th
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #137
Teaser Tuesday #145
WWW Wednesday #145
WOW #142
Will the Time Come #138
Third Sentence Thursday #128
Random Reads #113
First Lines Friday #133
The Reward Challenge Round 92 Part 3
Follow Friday #116
Tours:
The Billionaire Banker: Review
Week 4 Reviews:
Matt Archer: Bloodlines
Stolen Songbird
So this week I want to read Killer Frost, Hungry, Come Home to Me, Royally Lost, Cruel Beauty, Murder Game, and Fire.
Yeah, I've got my psychometry magic, my talking sword, Vic–and even the most dangerous Spartan on campus at my side, in Logan freaking Quinn, but I'm no match for Loki, the evil Norse god of chaos. I may be Nike's Champion, but at heart, I'm still just Gwen Frost, that weird Gypsy girl everyone at school loves to gossip about.
Then someone I love is put in more danger than ever before, and something inside me snaps. This time, Loki and his Reapers are going down for good … or I am.
In Thalia's world, there is no need for food—everyone takes medication (or "inocs") to ward off hunger. It should mean there is no more famine, no more obesity, no more food-related illnesses, and no more war. At least that's what her parents, who work for the company that developed the inocs, say. But when Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that most people live a life much different from hers. Worse, Thalia is starting to feel hunger, and so is he—the inocs aren't working. Together they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food.
H. A. Swain delivers an adventure that is both epic and fast-paced. Get ready to be Hungry.
When Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behavior that resulted from her difficult childhood. Now she's back in the small town that was the closest thing to "home" she ever knew—the town where she can be with the sister who's her only family.
There's just one catch. Aaron Amos still lives in Whiskey Creek, at least until he moves to Reno to open a branch of the Amos brothers' auto body shop. And no matter how hard she's tried, Presley hasn't been able to get over him. Seeing him again makes the longing so much worse. But she hopes she can get through the next few months, because she can't fall back into his arms…or his bed. She's come too far to backslide now. And there's a secret she's been guarding—a secret she'll do anything to protect.
Nikolai has everything a guy could ask for-he's crown prince, heir to the throne, and girls adore him. But the one thing he doesn't have...is freedom. Staging a coup, he flees his kingdom and goes undercover on his own European tour.
When Nikolai and Becca meet, it’s their differences that draw them together. Sparks fly as they share a whirlwind of adventures, all the while dodging his royal guard. But Becca's family vacation ends in a matter of days. Will Nikolai and Becca be forced to say goodbye forever, will his destiny catch up to him, or will they change history forever?
Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.
Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.
With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.
But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.
As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Week 4 Review: Stolen Songbird
For those who have loved Seraphina and Graceling comes another truly fabulous fantasy...
For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.
Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity.
But something unexpected happens while she’s waiting – she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She begins to make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods – part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.
As Cécile becomes involved in the intricate political games of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer’s daughter. She becomes a princess, the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus forever.
My Review:
This was a fantastic book! So complex, so good, loved the characters, loved to hate the world, and yeah, it's so freaking good!!! They were interesting, never boring, and very, very unique, I mean, intelligent trolls? Not something that we as a popular book culture, what with Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter, have led us to expect, and that uniqueness, is just one reason why I loved this book!
Cecile was an amazing character, she was strong against the odds, and she found out things about herself that were quite important, like that she was a witch, and she persevered through being kidnapped, and then forcibly married in troll fashion, and then be trapped down in Trollus for the rest of her life. Which, seeing as she was human, and how the full blooded trolls treated humans, and half bloods, well, that life just might be shorter.
And there was this one part, where she went down in the mining, to work with the half-bloods, to see how bad their lives actually were, and work for 12 hours. And she saw some good and bad in the situation, to how horrible it could be, to some trolls who were decent and caring. The way the half-bloods were treated, just argh!!! Blood boiling!!!
There was another scene, with this pretty prominent troll family, and through her quick thoughtfulness, she pretty much got a half-blood free from a bad situation, even in the girl didn't appreciate her efforts. I just loved that Cecile won against the troll, in that case!!!
And I haven't mentioned Tristan, who was so complicated, and Cecile's husband, the future king of Trollus, who was the opposite of Cecile, who planned out everything, and his actions for events years in the making. So yeah, Cecile was good for him. To loosen up, just a tad, because running the rebellion, yeah, pretty stressful!!
Marc, and the twins! They were great secondary characters, and according the the author, each get a character arc throughout the trilogy! If I ever wanted to play a game, the twins are the ones I'd want to play with me, of course, with others, too, because, yeah, it's the twins! And poor Marc, so torn apart over his love's death, and blaming himself for it. Such great characters! Can't wait for the next 2 books, to see all these characters again, to get more!!!! Especially after that ending, which was going to be earlier, but thank goodness there was that last chapter added, because yeah, I don't think I could have stood having the book end at was is now the second last chapter!
Lastly, is the cover. I mean, it' gorgeous, and the rose that she holds, it has significance, and you can kinda see Trollus in the background, the fantastic city...buried under a mountain. And her dress! So pretty! I can't wait to see the title, cover, synopsis, and read the 2nd, and 3rd book! It's going to be evil waiting for it!!!
Author: Danielle L. Jensen
Series: The Malediction Trilogy #1
Read: January 24th, 2014
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Because it sounded good, and it's a Historical Fiction 2014 Book, DAC Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Strange Chemistry
Expected Publication: April 1st 2014
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Week 4 Review: Matt Archer: Bloodlines
When seventeen-year-old Matt Archer set out on his last mission in the Australian Outback, he thought it would be like every other hunt.
Not even close.
After only two days on the ground, his best friend is possessed, a long-lost family member has returned and hidden truths have come to the surface. Add in a coven of witches bent on bringing about the end of the world and, well, this trip has started to suck. Badly.
As his power and strength continue to grow, so does Matt’s concern that he’s becoming more and more like the creatures he’s been charged to hunt: a monster.
Faced with some of his biggest challenges to date, Matt has to decide what he needs to protect most—his family, his team…or himself.
My Review:
While I wish that this book had opened up right after where Legend ended, it did start a few days later, so good enough! And yeah, this book was pretty packed, learning more about the monsters, that there's more bad guys, and yeah, there's a reason why the book is called Bloodlines!
Yeah, there's the whole thing, where the blood of the wielder's ancestors, and how the knives have been waiting until the blood was concentrated, strong enough, to fight the battle against the darkness, and in this book, they get just that further-they learn that Matt will face the ultimate bad guy, and Will will face the Fire prime monster.
And we learn that the battles were circles-one for the bad witch, and one for Mamie. Because Mamie is very important, she's the important good shaman, and yeah, she can do quite a few things, and that's why she get's kidnapped in this book by Bears not helped into this world with the witches.
This is also the book with his dad, and we get to learn more about him, how he's a CIA agent, and how, after being in the darkness for so long, he really doesn't have any emotions, he's more of a robot, and yeah, he doesn't really care about his kids, but he'll use them to get close again with his wife, since they didn't actually divorce. Because she's really the only one that he actually cares about, which sucks for Matt and his siblings!
Loved this book so much, and yeah, I can't wait how it's going to play out, the wielder's program being outed to Congress!
Author: Kendra C. Highley
Series: Matt Archer #4
Read: January 23rd, 2014
Source: Bought
Reason Why: Love this series! And it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book!
Publisher: Smashwords/Self Published
Published: January 1st 2014
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Friday, January 24, 2014
The Reward Challenge Update 92 Part 3
The Reward Challenge is almost the complete opposite to a book buying ban as you'll end up buying lots of new books throughout the challenge but only after you've completed a certain amount of reading. It was hosted by Good Golly Miss Holly, so thanks to her for starting it!
OK, so I already had 29 counts, and I read The Billionaire Banker which counts twice as a review book, Matt Archer: Bloodlines which counts twice as a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, Stolen Songbird which counts 6 times as a DAC Book, Historical Fiction 2014 Book, NetGalley Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book and a WoW Book. So I have 39 counts total for next week.
OK, so I already had 29 counts, and I read The Billionaire Banker which counts twice as a review book, Matt Archer: Bloodlines which counts twice as a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, Stolen Songbird which counts 6 times as a DAC Book, Historical Fiction 2014 Book, NetGalley Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book and a WoW Book. So I have 39 counts total for next week.
First Lines Friday #133, January 24th
First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.
-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!
"My voice rose an octave, resonating through the Goshawk's Hollow marketplace, drowning out the bleating sheep and the hammer of the blacksmith down the way. Dozens of familiar faces abandoned their business, expressions uniform in their nervousness as they anticipated the note I had dreaded daily for the past month. She liked an audience for my failures."-Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen
Obviously this "she" is not a nice person! I need more! This book is really amazing! What about you guys? Happy reading!
-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!
Obviously this "she" is not a nice person! I need more! This book is really amazing! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Follow Friday #116, January 24th
Q: What books are you looking forward to reading in 2014?
Thursday, January 23, 2014
The Billionaire Banker: Review
When Lana Bloom learns the devastating news that her mother is dying, she is faced with a terrible dilemma. The one thing that can save her is the one thing she does not have.
For young and innocent Lana, the unthinkable is her only choice.
When she walks through the door of that exclusive restaurant she has no idea of the seismic shift her life is about to take, for the highest bidder will not be the rich man she has accompanied.
Fate drops her at the feet of the deeply mysterious and dazzlingly gorgeous American banker, Blake Law Barrington. Throbbing with raw masculinity and arrogance, this is a man who owns all that he pursues.
And now he wants her.
Lana cannot deny she is both intrigued and intoxicated by the world Blake inhabits and the smouldering passion he stirs in her body, but she is also fearful for this man is addictive and right now she is very vulnerable. She knows she should focus only on the arrangement, but how can she?
When he has opened a door that cannot be closed…
My Review:
I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting, with a proposition that led to a romance, to a love, and then that this is just the beginning, and then how it ended? Just wow. I want to say what happened, but that'd be spoiler-y, and for review reviews shouldn't have that. Yep.
The pages in this book flipped in quite a quick pace, because this story, these characters, this plot, and this world, were just so fantastic, interesting, intriguing, and just enjoyable, with the added benefit that it's a book one in a series, so we know there's going to be another book, and yeah, that's just fantastic.
The romance was mostly, well, lets just say that on Goodreads, one shelf that it's on is Adult Fiction > Erotica. So while that might not be for everyone, I found that there was a sweet romance with that, with a bit of a mystery with the whole upper crust operations, that pretty much had everything for an older then 15 year old reader.
There were some hard bits, but yeah, they worked through it, and yeah, that was really great! This is a series, which means that there's going to be more conflict, which sucks for them, but makes for good reading for us!
Yep, this was a fantastic book that I loved, and I can't wait for the next book, and I hope you guys check this one out! Happy reading!
Author: Georgia Le Carre
Series: The Billionaire Banker #1
Read: November 27th, 2013
Source: Pump Up Your Books Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded really great!
Publisher: Georgia Le Carre
Published: November 1st 2013
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Georgia Le Carre writes contemporary and adult romance and is the bestselling author of the Amazon # 1 bestseller,the billionaire banker series.
She lives in a little old 19th century romantic cottage, surrounded by the most magical garden, filled with fruit and walnut trees and teeming with wildlife.
Her diet includes all things chocolate and a voracious appetite for Romance reads, particularly new authors with a fresh voice.
When she is not feeding words into Amy, her precious laptop, she can be found lost in a long walk in the woods, particularly on moonlit nights; and often with the man of her dreams.
Contact and Buy AKA Links:
Random Reads #113, January 23rd
Third Sentence Thursday #128, January 23rd
Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!
1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)
4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!
"And I can't live that way, imprisoned for my own good." -Matt Archer: Bloodlines by Kendra C. Highley, page 190.
Yeah, that wouldn't be living!
What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!
"And I can't live that way, imprisoned for my own good." -Matt Archer: Bloodlines by Kendra C. Highley, page 190.
Yeah, that wouldn't be living!
What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!
Will the Time Come #138, January 23rd
Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!
Want to Join?
-Pick a book you have been meaning to read
-Do a post telling us about the book
-Link the post up in the linky
-Visit the other blogs
This first novel in Michaels's new Regency trilogy is the story of a widowed London gentleman who hires a mysterious woman as governess for his young daughter. He quickly learns that she is the only one who can soothe his savaged soul.
Why the time hasn't come yet...
I don't know, I guess because I don't think I have a copy? What about you guys? Happy reading!
I don't know, I guess because I don't think I have a copy? What about you guys? Happy reading!
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Waiting on Wednesday #142, January 22nd
Expected Publication: April 1st, 2014
From Goodreads:
Be careful what you wish for…
You just might get it.
Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesn’t want to be the son of a demon who’s fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else.
But normality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When he gets sucked into an alternate reality where his mother has married his mentor and his Atlantean god best friend has become a human geek, he begins to understand that no life is free of pain, and that every person has a specific place in the universe… Even the son of a hated demon.
Most of all, he sees that his powers aren’t the curse he thought they were, and that the world needs a champion, especially one its enemies can’t imagine rising up to defend the ones he should destroy.
Old enemies and new friends square off for a major battle that will either restore Nick to his real world, or end him forever.
Expected Publication: April 1st, 2014
From Goodreads:
By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.
Common enemy, common cause.
When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.
And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.
But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.
What power can bruise the sky?
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?
Expected Publication: January 28th, 2014
From Goodreads:
The Scarlet Letter meets Minority Report in bestselling author Sophie Jordan's chilling new novel about a teenage girl who is ostracized when her genetic test proves she's destined to become a murderer.
When Davy Hamilton's tests come back positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome (HTS)-aka the kill gene-she loses everything. Her boyfriend ditches her, her parents are scared of her, and she can forget about her bright future at Juilliard. Davy doesn't feel any different, but genes don't lie. One day she will kill someone.
Only Sean, a fellow HTS carrier, can relate to her new life. Davy wants to trust him; maybe he's not as dangerous as he seems. Or maybe Davy is just as deadly.
Expected Publication: April 1st, 2014
From Goodreads:
Heartbroken but more determined than ever after a tense showdown in the woods, sixteen-year-old Tess once again returns to the safety of her community of Isolationists. Bolstered by new alliances and desperate to protect those she loves, this time she knows she can return stronger and more powerful than ever to take back what is hers.
As she trains in combat and grows more confident, Tess receives beautiful letters penned by her forbidden love, the chosen one James, from his prison in Templeton. He is now serving as a bodyguard to the creators—the team of scientists who created artificial life in the first place. And what he has discovered about the true origin of the illness that halted natural life could change everything.
Expected Publication: April 1st, 2014
From Goodreads:
Everyone mourns differently. When his older brother was killed, David got angry. As in, fist-meets-someone-else’s-face furious. But his parents? They got religious. David’s still figuring out his relationship with a higher power, but there’s one thing he does know for sure: The closer he gets to new-girl Bailey, the better, brighter, happier, more he feels.
Then his parents start cutting all their worldly ties in to prepare for the Rush, the divine moment when the faithful will be whisked off to Heaven…and they want David to do the same. David’s torn. There’s a big difference between living in the moment and giving up his best friend, varsity baseball, and Bailey—especially Bailey—in hope of salvation.
But when he comes home late from prom, and late for the Rush, to find that his parents have vanished, David is in more trouble than he ever could have imagined...
Another day to love, April 1st, because Illusion and Dreams of Gods and Mosters come out on this day! Whoot! I really want these books, and I dying to read them!!! What about you guys? Happy reading!
WWW Wednesday #145, January 22nd
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?
Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing for starting and hosting this meme!
Another week where I'm not reading anything, but I have read stuff and I'm going to read more!
I read Avalon, it was just a fantastic book, and now I want the sequel!
I'm going to be reading Bloodlines, and yeah, I can't wait, I love this series!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?
Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing for starting and hosting this meme!
Another week where I'm not reading anything, but I have read stuff and I'm going to read more!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Teaser Tuesday #145, January 21st
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Today's teaser comes from nowhere, I'm not reading anything today! What about you guys? Happy reading!
•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Today's teaser comes from nowhere, I'm not reading anything today! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Monday, January 20, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #137, January 20th
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #136
Teaser Tuesday #144
WWW Wednesday #144
WOW #141
Will the Time Come #137
Third Sentence Thursday #127
Random Reads #112
First Lines Friday #132
The Reward Challenge Round 92 Part 2
Follow Friday #115
Week 3 Reviews:
Proxy
Avalon
OK, so I got 13 posts in 7 days, true, a slow week, but I've been catching up with this blog, and watching tv, plus there's been a bit of problem with my computer, as it fell on concrete, and had to get it's hard drive replaced for what, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, time? Yep. What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read Matt Archer Bloodlines.
Not even close.
After only two days on the ground, his best friend is possessed, a long-lost family member has returned and hidden truths have come to the surface. Add in a coven of witches bent on bringing about the end of the world and, well, this trip has started to suck. Badly.
As his power and strength continue to grow, so does Matt’s concern that he’s becoming more and more like the creatures he’s been charged to hunt: a monster.
Faced with some of his biggest challenges to date, Matt has to decide what he needs to protect most—his family, his team…or himself.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Week 3 Reviews: Proxy, Avalon
Proxy is an action-packed introduction to a world like nothing readers have seen before, and it sets a spark to the powder keg that will explode in Mindee Arnett's sci-fi thriller Avalon.
If you need something stolen from any star system in the Confederation, you need look no further than the Shades. Jeth Seagrave and his band of teenage mercenaries have been making a name for themselves for being able to steal anything—and for disappearing before anyone is the wiser. Their latest job, a jewel heist on Grakkus, should be no different. But when Jeth's boss replaces a key member of his crew just before takeoff, and Jeth discovers a betrayal within his own ranks, he begins to suspect that not everyone is going to be coming back from his job alive.
From Goodreads:
A ragtag group of teenage mercenaries who crew the spaceship Avalon stumble upon a conspiracy that could threaten the entire galaxy in this fascinating and fast-paced sci-fi adventure from author Mindee Arnett.
Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth-and out here, no one is free. The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light.
Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law; all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, he is going to have to ask himself how far he'll go to get the freedom he's wanted for so long.
Avalon is the perfect fit for teens new to sci-fi as well as seasoned sci-fi readers looking for more books in the YA space-and a great match for fans of Joss Whedon's cult hit show Firefly.
My Review:
Oh, wow, what a great book and novella! And with such great characters!!! I just loved this YA sci fi, that gave hints and then a full on nudge-push into some of the more paranormal aspects of sci fi, with aliens, in the form of his mom, and little sister!
Proxy, is the story of Lizzie's first mission with the group, Lizzie being Jeth's younger sister, and yeah, all the complications that were that mission, from a betrayer, and double crossing, and a weird gem that may or may not have powers, but is definitely not like other gems, and yeah, great novella, and a great introduction to this world!!!
I mean, I loved this book, I really felt for Jeth, and having the threat of Hammer, and his devices that he has, the one that can make a person a mindless slave, or the one that can improve your brain, but means that you're high up and have to really follow Hammers orders. So poor Jeth, having to deal with that, trying to get his ship back, and then there was Renford, an agent of the ITA-the space organization that his parents were working for before said bosses had them killed. And both pop up from time to time, causes mischeif and mayhem, but worse, because one or both are the bad guys!
This ship that Jeth wants back from Hammer? Avalon, the ship his parents took to this very special part of space, and then a ship's been lost there, and so Hammer let's Jeth and his team take the Avalon to go and find it? And everything just kinda spirals out of control from there!!!
There were such great characters, from Jeth, Lizzie, Sierra the love interest who has a connection to Renford, Cora, a little girl on the ship with Sierra that Jeth and co were sent to find, Shady, Flynn, they were all pretty unique characters, and the twists and turns at the end? So good, and I can't wait for the 2nd book!
These were just 2 great stories, and yeah, I just really enjoyed it!
Author: Mindee Arnett
Series: Avalon #0.5, 1
Read: January 16th, 16th, 2014
Source: Tuebl, Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded good, and they're 2014 Dystopia Books, and Proxy is a Prequel Sequel Challenge 2014 Book!
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: December 3rd 2013
Expected Publication: January 23rd 2014
Proxy:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Avalon:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
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