Monday, February 3, 2014

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #139, February 3rd

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 #138
Teaser Tuesday #146
WWW Wednesday #146
WOW #143
Will the Time Come #139
Third Sentence Thursday #129
Random Reads #114
First Lines Friday #134
The Reward Challenge Round 92 Part 4
Follow Friday #117
LLFL Reading Challenge Update 38

Week 5 Reviews:
Killer Frost
Hungry
Come Home to Me
Royally Lost
Cruel Beauty
Murder Game
Fire

Random:
We Have the Cover of Shadowfell #3!!!!

OK, so I got 19 posts in 7 days, and yeah, just a nice good week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Donna of the Dead, Crush. Candy. Corpse., Prey, Shift, and Alpha.
Donna Pierce might hear voices, but that doesn’t mean she’s crazy. Probably.

The voices do serve their purpose, though—whenever Donna hears them, she knows she’s in danger. So when they start yelling at the top of their proverbial lungs, it’s no surprise she and her best friend, Deke, end up narrowly escaping a zombie horde. Alone without their families, they take refuge at their high school with the super-helpful nerds, the bossy class president, and—best of all?—Liam, hottie extraordinaire and Donna’s long-time crush. When Liam is around, it’s easy to forget about the moaning zombies, her dad’s plight to reach them, and how weird Deke is suddenly acting toward her.

But as the teens’ numbers dwindle and their escape plans fall apart, Donna has to listen to the secrets those voices in her head have been hiding. It seems not all the zombies are shuffling idiots, and the half-undead aren’t really down with kids like Donna…
Paradise Manor is depressing - the smells are bad and the residents are old. Sunny would much rather be doing her volunteer hours at Salon Teo, but her teacher won't let her. Who says volunteering at a hair salon doesn't benefit the community?

But working with the Alzheimer's patients has a surprising effect on Sunny. Along with Cole, the grandson of one of the residents, she begins to see that the residents don't have much more choice about their lives than she does: what they eat, how they are treated by staff, even what they watch on television. So Sunny does what she can to make the residents happy - even if she has to sometimes break the rules to do it.

But when tragedy strikes at Paradise, Sunny's left to make the decision about whether or not to honor a promise that Cole made to his grandmother about her life and her death.

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