OK, so I've written my next review, This Is Where the World Ends, and I'm going to review The Mystery of Hollow Places next!
Reviewed: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done, This Is Where the World Ends.
Week 34: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done.
Goal: 65
Reviews: 3
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Showing posts with label Amy Zhang. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Emergency Review-a-Thon Update 2
OK, so I've written my next review, These Things I've Done, and I'm going to review This Is Where the World Ends next!
Reviewed: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done.
Week 34: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done.
Goal: 65
Reviews: 2
Reviewed: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done.
Week 34: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done.
Goal: 65
Reviews: 2
Monday, June 5, 2017
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #313, June 5th
It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date 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 #312
Teaser Tuesday #320
WWW Wednesday #320
WOW #317
Will the Time Come #311
Third Sentence Thursday #302
Random Reads #288
First Lines Friday #316
The Reward Challenge Update #298
Follow Friday #290
How Well I Stuck to It #150
Wrote that Review Update #147
Week 22 Reviews:
Before the Dawn
The Caretaker
The Cage
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie
Dare You
This Is Where the World Ends
The Here and Now
Just Kill Me
Spectacle
Songs About a Girl
Monstrous
Mind Games
The Beast is a Monster
Seeker
The Afterlife of Holly Chase
Last Breath
Clean Sweep ARC Challenge:
Update 14
Update 15
Update 16
Update 17
Update 18
Update 19
Update 20
Update 21
Update 22
Update 23
Update 24
Update 25 and Wrap Up
Random:
We Have the Cover of Lock & Mori #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of Torpedo Ink #1!!!!
Cynthia Eden Author Page
OK, so I got posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read The Hunt, My Summer Job, Reset, and Royal Replica.
After a chance encounter with the very stylish Natasha Romanoff, Siobhan is offered a job as her assistant. What she doesn’t realize, until she actually starts work, is that the very stylish Natasha runs an escort service.
Her job is pretty uncomplicated: type letters, book appointments, walk Natasha’s massive pair of Great Danes… the usual. But then Natasha and Lucius—her former husband and current business associate – ask Siobhan to befriend a couple of the escorts whom they suspect of indulging in a little hanky-panky on the side. Strictly against agency rules, BTW. Always game for an adventure Siobhan puts on her Sherlock Holmes hat and befriends the girls, but what Siobhan—along with her bestie and fellow sleuth, Marcy—discover is that there’s an awful lot more than just hanky-panky going on.
Victoria's life is about to change with the chance meeting of the gorgeous and charismatic Kale. Besides the fact that she's kept under lock and key in the Ramsey estate, he is also dating the Ramsey's eldest daughter. But that doesn't stop him from perusing Victoria and trying to save her from her meager existence. Will she remain subordinate to her master or take a chance on love and the possibility of a fulfilling life outside the Ramsey estate?
Reset is the companion short story to the novel Royal Replicas and exclusively available to newsletter subscribers. Witness the events leading up to Victoria's heartbreaking "reset."
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Sandalwood has served the Duke and Duchess all her life. Over the years, she’s learned to make due with what she has and endure her surrogate father’s awful punishments. She dreams of escape, but never expected it to come in the form of a message from the Queen of Westeria.
Victoria learns that she’s the Queen’s daughter, the younger sister to Princess Amelia, and it’s time to come home and claim her birthright. When she arrives, she discovers she’s not the only one who received the royal message.
Victoria must compete with six other girls to earn the affection of both the Queen and a princely suitor… and to replace the secretly deceased Princess Amelia. If she fails to win the crown, Victoria may just have to fight for her life…
Royal Replicas is the first book in a YA dystopian series. If you enjoy courtly intrigue, heart-pounding adventure, and sweet romance, then you’ll love this captivating story. Perfect for fans of Kiera Cass, Bella Forrest, and Veronica Roth.
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Week 22 Review: This Is Where the World Ends
The heart-wrenching new novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world, from the author of Falling into Place.
Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That's how it’s been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivian moved next door. Janie says Micah is everything she is not. Where Micah is shy, Janie is outgoing. Where Micah loves music, Janie loves art. It's the perfect friendship, as long as no one finds out about it.
But when Janie is date-raped by the most popular guy in school—a guy she's had a crush on for years—she finds herself ostracized by all the people she thought were her friends. Now only Micah seems to believe she's telling the truth. But when even Micah expresses doubt about whether or not she was "asking for it," it leads to disastrous consequences, and Janie Vivian goes missing.
Using a nonlinear writing style and dual narrators, Amy Zhang's astonishing second novel masterfully reveals the circumstances surrounding Janie's disappearance.
My Review:
I enjoyed reading this book a lot! It was totally confusing, but it was just so great! There was a back and forth between the past and the present, where Micah doesn't know what's happened. Which was really great, and totally confusing! There were also the journal entries that Janie did, that progress her journey, from believing in fairytales, to well, not.
I really enjoyed these characters. Micah and Janie, they were best friends, and they were meant to be together, and she knew that. She just wanted to have her fun first, so that their relationship was hidden
Like I mentioned earlier, this book caused a lot of confusion for me. Micah didn't know what was going on, and he is a teenaged boy, and there was alcohol, so sometimes, I wasn't sure what the heck was going on. Like, was he imagining things, or what? It didn't matter too much since it was after the fact, but it was a part of the story!
One of the biggest issues in this book was consent. Like, theme-wise, not the amount of time it got in this book, because it was a problem, and that problem caused the big decisions to be made. Anyways. When someone says no, stop, even if they're your significant other, because that doesn't give you the right to their body. Only they can give it, and if they say no, they're not giving it, and if you take it, well, that's wrong! It's that simple, and I really wish that it wasn't an issue. Hopefully we as a society will get rid of it!
Amy Zhang's first book ended on a pretty positive note. This one, it was a bit more bittersweet. After everything that had happened, it kinda felt like, it couldn't have a positive ending. There was some good, because he accepted what happened, but yeah, it was bittersweet!
This was a really fantastic book, it was just really enjoyable!
Author: Amy Zhang
Read: May 30th, 2017
Source: Bought/Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounds really good, and it's a SAC 2017 Book, Sophomore Challenge Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Greenwillow
Published: March 22nd 2016
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 18
Ok, so I read This Is Where the World Ends, and yeah, now to read The Here and Now!
My Reading Journey:
Look Behind You by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
Started On: May 3rd
Finished On: May 3rd, 9:14 AM
Pages Read: 352
Death and Night by Roshani Chokshi
Started On: May 3rd
Finished On: May 3rd, 11:57 PM
Pages Read: 115
Can't Hardly Breath by Gena Showalter
Started On: May 8th
Finished On: May 8th, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 400
Bliss by Lynsay Sands
Started On: May 9th
Finished On: May 9th, 12:29 PM
Pages Read: 384
Dying Breath by Heather Graham
Started On: May 11th
Finished On: May 11th, 11:53 PM
Pages Read: 370The Gathering Dusk by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 6:41 AM
Pages Read: 62
After the Dark by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 6:36 PM
Pages Read: 384
Grit by Gillian French
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 9:59 PM
Pages Read: 304
The Scandal of It All by Sophie Jordan
Started On: May 14th
Finished On: May 14th, 9:29 PM
Pages Read: 384
Discovering You by Brenda Novak
Started On: May 15th
Finished On: May 15th, 11:49 PM
Pages Read: 395
Shadow Reaper by Christine Feehan
Started On: May 16th
Finished On: May 16th, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 480
Sister, Sister by Sue Fortin
Started On: May 17th
Finished On: May 17th, 11:15 PM
Pages Read: 364
Silver Silence by Nalini Singh
Started On: May 24th
Finished On: May 24th, 4:15 PM
Pages Read: 496
Before the Dawn by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 4:34 PM
Pages Read: 384
The Cage by Megan Shepherd
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 10:21 PM
Pages Read: 416
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr
Started On: May 29th
Started On: May 29th, 9:56 PM
Pages Read: 464
Dare You by Jennifer Brown
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 5:14 PM
Pages Read: 480
This Is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 7:25 PM
Pages Read: 287
The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
Started On: May 30th
Pages Read: 0 of 256
Books Read: 18
Goal: 25 Books
Pages Read: 5384
Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 17
Ok, so I read Dare You, and yeah, now to read This Is Where the World Ends!
My Reading Journey:
Look Behind You by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
Started On: May 3rd
Finished On: May 3rd, 9:14 AM
Pages Read: 352
Death and Night by Roshani Chokshi
Started On: May 3rd
Finished On: May 3rd, 11:57 PM
Pages Read: 115
Can't Hardly Breath by Gena Showalter
Started On: May 8th
Finished On: May 8th, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 400
Bliss by Lynsay Sands
Started On: May 9th
Finished On: May 9th, 12:29 PM
Pages Read: 384
Dying Breath by Heather Graham
Started On: May 11th
Finished On: May 11th, 11:53 PM
Pages Read: 370The Gathering Dusk by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 6:41 AM
Pages Read: 62
After the Dark by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 6:36 PM
Pages Read: 384
Grit by Gillian French
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 9:59 PM
Pages Read: 304
The Scandal of It All by Sophie Jordan
Started On: May 14th
Finished On: May 14th, 9:29 PM
Pages Read: 384
Discovering You by Brenda Novak
Started On: May 15th
Finished On: May 15th, 11:49 PM
Pages Read: 395
Shadow Reaper by Christine Feehan
Started On: May 16th
Finished On: May 16th, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 480
Sister, Sister by Sue Fortin
Started On: May 17th
Finished On: May 17th, 11:15 PM
Pages Read: 364
Silver Silence by Nalini Singh
Started On: May 24th
Finished On: May 24th, 4:15 PM
Pages Read: 496
Before the Dawn by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 4:34 PM
Pages Read: 384
The Cage by Megan Shepherd
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 10:21 PM
Pages Read: 416
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr
Started On: May 29th
Started On: May 29th, 9:56 PM
Pages Read: 464
Dare You by Jennifer Brown
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 5:14 PM
Pages Read: 480
This Is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang
Started On: May 30th
Pages Read: 0 of 304
Books Read: 17
Goal: 25 Books
Pages Read: 5097
Monday, December 19, 2016
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #289, December 19th
It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date 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 #288
Teaser Tuesday #296
WWW Wednesday #296
WOW #293
Will the Time Come #287
Third Sentence Thursday #277
Random Reads #264
First Lines Friday #283
The Reward Challenge Update #274
Follow Friday #266
How Well I Stuck to It #118
Wrote that Review Update #123
Week 51 Reviews:
How to Win at High School
Little Peach
Revenge and the Wild
Falling into Place
The Secrets of Lily Graves
Fragile Line
Every Last Word
Life by Committee
Lifeblood
Phantom Kiss
Things I Should Have Known
Under Attack
Under Suspicion
Under the Gun
Darkness Dawns
Night Reigns
Phantom Shadows
Predatory
Born in Blood
Blood Assassin
Random:
We Have the Cover of Loving You/Hating You!!!!
Alexandra Ivy Author Page
Rebecca Zanetti Author Page
Dianne Duvall Author Page
Owen Matthews Author Page
Paige Tyler Author Page
So this week I want to read Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitched, Mirrored, Beheld, Mercury Striking, Shadow Falling, Justice Ascending, and Textrovert.
Diary,
I am locked away . . . with no one to confide in but you . . . and him. His fur, those claws—they caught me off guard at first, but now I'm noticing something else about him—something deeper. It's the look in his eye. It tells me he's got a secret to keep. That's okay—I've got one, too. I think I'm falling in love with him. . . .
Lindy
Being a powerful witch, Kendra has survived it all. Since she first beheld James over three hundred years ago, Kendra has tangled with witch hunters and wolves, helped a miller's daughter spin straw into gold, cowered in London as German bombs fell, and lived through who knows how many shipwrecks. But her powers have limits, and immortality can be lonely. Kendra isn't ready to stop searching for the warlock she had met centuries ago.
With the help of her magic mirror, Kendra will travel the world to reconnect with her lost love—and, of course, she can't help but play a hand in a few more stories along the way.
Featuring retellings of favorite fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and The Ugly Duckling, Alex Flinn's latest young adult novel, Beheld, is fresh fairy-tale fun from beginning to end.
Danger has never looked quite so delicious…
Her mysterious rescuer wants her to put them to the test. But no matter how tempting he is, with his angel's eyes and devil's tongue, Vinnie knows she shouldn’t trust him.
If the FBI were still around they would rate Raze Shadow as one of the bad guys. His military training can't wipe out his association with the Mercenaries, the most feared gang in a thousand miles. His loyalties are compromised. He won't even tell Vinnie his real name. But there's no FBI in the new America of fear and firepower, only instinct and risk. And the way his arms wrap around Vinnie tells its own story. Whatever else Raze is concealing, he can't hide his desire . . .
Sami Steel has been fighting to survive right alongside Tace, convincing the Vanguard soldiers she's one of them. In truth, Sami is a former hacker turned government agent who worked at The Bunker, where scientists stored both contaminants and cures. Only she knows the location, and she's not telling. Yet when sexual fire explodes between her and Tace, she'll face even that hell again to save him.
Sparks fly when the two finally meet to exchange their phones. But while Keeley has been playing a part online, Talon has been keeping a secret. He has a different connection to Keeley — one that has nothing to do with phones, and one that will make their new relationship all but impossible. Knowing what she now knows, can Keeley trust him? And can love in the present erase mistakes of the past?
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Week 51 Review: Falling into Place
On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton's laws of motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road.
Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces together the short and devastating life of Meridian High's most popular junior girl. Mass, acceleration, momentum, force—Liz didn't understand it in physics, and even as her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn't understand it now. How do we impact one another? How do our actions reverberate? What does it mean to be a friend? To love someone? To be a daughter? Or a mother? Is life truly more than cause and effect? Amy Zhang's haunting and universal story will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver, Gayle Forman, and Jay Asher.
My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! I've been meaning to read it for a while. I think scheduled to read this and her second book last December. Which says something about my reading list psychology when I push down a book, and then it's hard to bring it back up because somehow, my brain thinks because I pushed it down that the book isn't as good. Yeah. It's weird. Here's a post explaining it better!
This story was told from a few perspectives. Of the various people after the "accident." Of the events leading up to Liz deciding to do this which became the minutes leading up to the crash. And some snapshots of when she was a young child. All of which have the strange narrator commenting or looking on. It was pretty strange, but it was a good choice! And they told back and forth, mostly, and there were moments of "ah-ha, that's what happened!" So that was really awesome!
Liz thought that she created so much damage to those around her, that the world didn't deserve her. That kind of thinking is messed up. No matter how bad you are for the people around you, you still deserve to live. (Even in prison. Because life matters.)
I loved how physics was used in this book! Like, the 3 laws of momentum. And how the choices and events that happened in the past led to her present and affect her future. So that was really great! And yeah, with her understanding of the 3 laws, made for a really fantastic ending!
This book was just really great, and was a really fantastic read!
Author: Amy Zhang
Read: December 11th, 2016
Source: Bought/Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really fantastic, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2016 Book!
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: September 4th 2014
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday #250, February 24th
Expected Publication: March 29th, 2016
From Goodreads:
War rages everywhere and Morgan is caught in the middle in the haunting conclusion of The Internment Chronicles, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy.
The city is falling out of the sky…
Morgan always thought it was just a saying. A metaphor. The words of the dying. But as they look up at the floating island that was their home, Pen and Morgan make a horrible discovery—Internment is sinking.
And it’s all Morgan’s fault.
Corrupted from the inside by one terrible king and assailed from the outside for precious resources by another, Internment could be destroyed because Morgan couldn’t keep a secret. As two wars become one, Morgan must find a way to bring her two worlds together to stop the kings that wage them…
Or face the furthest fall yet.
Expected Publication: March 29th, 2016
From Goodreads:
Jen Noonan’s father thinks a move to Harmony House is the key to salvation, but to everyone who has lived there before, it is a portal to pure horror.
After Jen’s alcoholic mother’s death, her father cracked. He dragged Jen to this dilapidated old manor on the shore of New Jersey to “start their new lives”—but Harmony House is more than just a creepy old estate. It’s got a chilling past—and the more Jen discovers its secrets, the more the house awakens. Strange visions follow Jen wherever she goes, and her father’s already-fragile sanity disintegrates before her eyes. As the forces in the house join together to terrorize Jen, she must find a way to escape the past she didn’t know was haunting her—and the mysterious and terrible power she didn’t realize she had.
A classic horror story finds a terrifying home in Harmony House, drawing on favorite tropes and edgy, modern characters to create a chilling tale of blame, guilt, and ghostly revenge.
Expected Publication: March 29th, 2016
From Goodreads:
In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train and The Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel—and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters you should trust.
The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage—they were happy, weren’t they?—screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?
In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops…no one knows.
Expected Publication: March 29th, 2016
From Goodreads:
The heart-wrenching new novel about best friends on a collision course with the real world, from the author of Falling into Place.
Janie and Micah, Micah and Janie. That’s how it’s been ever since elementary school, when Janie Vivian moved next door. Janie says Micah is everything she is not. Where Micah is shy, Janie is outgoing. Where Micah loves music, Janie loves art. It’s the perfect friendship, as long as no one finds out about it.
But when Janie is date-raped by the most popular guy in school—a guy she’s had a crush on for years—she finds herself ostracized by all the people she thought were her friends. Now only Micah seems to believe she’s telling the truth. But when even Micah expresses doubt about whether or not she was “asking for it,” it leads to disastrous consequences, and Janie Vivian goes missing.
Using a nonlinear writing style and dual narrators, Amy Zhang’s astonishing second novel masterfully reveals the circumstances surrounding Janie’s disappearance.
Yeah, I've gotten all but No Ones Knows from Edelweiss, since I got that from NetGalley, but yeah, other people need to read them, too! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Amy Zhang Author Page
The Story: I got Falling Into Place, and then This Is Where the World Ends from Edelweiss! So happy that I did, because they sound really great, and I really want to read them!
Website
Stand Alone's: Falling Into Place and her site, my review, This Is Where the World Ends and her site, my review, Memento Mori.
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Stand Alone's: Falling Into Place and her site, my review, This Is Where the World Ends and her site, my review, Memento Mori.
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