Showing posts with label Bree Despain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bree Despain. Show all posts
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Random Reads #308, October 19th
Monday, November 7, 2016
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #283, November 7th
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 #282
Teaser Tuesday #290
WWW Wednesday #290
WOW #287
Will the Time Come #281
Third Sentence Thursday #271
Random Reads #258
First Lines Friday #277
The Reward Challenge Update #268
Follow Friday #260
How Well I Stuck to It #112
Wrote that Review Update #117
Week 45 Reviews:
Stay Gone
Cold, Cold Heart
Gemina
Garnet's Story
The Black Key
Full Moon Rising
Kissing Sin
Leopard's Fury
Under Wraps
Flames Like Vines
Frost Like Night
A Study in Scarlet Women
The Immortal Throne
Kitty's House of Horrors
Kitty Goes to War
Defining Shadows
OK, so I got 25 posts in 7 days, so it was a pretty great week, though today hasn't had the best of starts! Can't wait to see what the rest of the week brings! What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read whatever I want!
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Week 45 Review: The Immortal Throne
Daphne Raines knew it was risky to enter the underworld to save the love of her life, Haden, who had sacrificed his own honor as an Underlord for her sake. But she could never have predicted that she'd end up betrothed to Haden's conniving half-brother, Garrick, new King of the Underrealm-and bound to his dark world.
Even worse, Haden is banished to the mortal realm, and has just days to live as poison takes over his body and mind. Only Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
My Review:
I just loved reading this book! This series has been fantastic from the beginning, and I just loved reading it! Though it is the last book in the series, which sucks, but it was just a really fantastic read and I loved it!
After the ending of The Eternity Key, I desperately wanted to read this book! So yeah that things picked up rather quickly, with Garrick's betrayal, Daphne stuck in the Underworld and Haden dying in the mortal realm, I was really glad to dive right back in!
This book really brought back why this series is called Into the Dark-into death, into the Underworld. And since it's been so long since this series started (at least, it feels that way) that it was a really great reminder! And it's a really fantastic theme that was played with in this book!
Loved how things worked out, there were quite a few close calls, like, what the heck just happened? And while there were some losses, things worked out rather well, and I loved how Haden's father came to respect him, and how they won!
This book was just so freaking fantastic, and I can't wait to read what Bree Despain writes next!
Author: Bree Despain
Series: Into the Dark #3
Read: November 4th, 2016
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love this series and her writing! And it's a End of Series 2016 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2016 Book, RR Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: October 1st 2016
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Random Reads #251, September 15th
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Waiting on Wednesday #275, August 17th
Expected Publication: October 1st, 2016
From Goodreads:
Daphne Raines knew it was risky to enter the underworld to save the love of her life, Haden, who had sacrificed his own honor as an Underlord for her sake. But she could never have predicted that she'd end up betrothed to Haden's conniving half-brother, Garrick, new King of the Underrealmâ-and bound to his dark world.
Even worse, Haden is banished to the mortal realm, and has just days to live as poison takes over his body and mind. Only Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
In the third book of Lexie Dunne’s action-packed Superheroes Anonymous series, Hostage Girl returns once again to save the world.
Gail Godwin—once so famous for being kidnapped by supervillains, the media still calls her Hostage Girl—is done with superheroes and their shadowy schemes. She’s got a cute boyfriend, a great roommate, and she’s even returned to her old job. For the first time in years, life is exactly what she wants it to be.
But when a figure from her past resurfaces, he brings with him a plague that changes the game for every superhero and villain out there. Now Gail must team up with both friend and foe to help save the world she thought she had left behind.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy, which began with The Jewel, a book BCCB said "will have fans of Oliver's Delirium, Cass's The Selection, and DeStefano's Wither breathless."
For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived in service of the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power.
While Violet knows she is at the center of this rebellion, she has a more personal stake in it—for her sister, Hazel, has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake. Now, after fighting so hard to escape the Jewel, Violet must do everything in her power to return not only to save Hazel, but the future of the Lone City.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
Sidelined demon summoner Kara Gillian has her hands full when dimensional rifts allow demons to cause widespread panic and destruction on Earth. These aren't the human-tolerant summonables she's known before, but demons from the far reaches of the demon realm.
Add three demonic lords with conflicting ambitions to the mix, and Kara has the perfect recipe for global disaster.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
The princess didn't expect to fall in love--with her nemesis.
Princess Sepora of Serubel is the last Forger in all the five kingdoms. The spectorium she creates provides energy for all, but now her father has found a way to weaponize it, and his intentions to incite war force her to flee from his grasp. She escapes across enemy lines into the kingdom of Theoria, but her plans to hide are thwarted when she is captured and placed in the young king's servitude.
Tarik has just taken over rulership of Theoria, and must now face a new plague sweeping through his kingdom and killing his citizens. The last thing he needs is a troublesome servant vying for his attention. But mistress Sepora will not be ignored. When the two finally meet face-to-face, they form an unlikely bond that complicates life in ways neither of them could have imagined.
Sepora's gift could save Tarik's kingdom from the Quiet Plague. But should she trust her growing feelings for her nemesis, or should she hide her gifts at all costs?
A thrilling futuristic fantasy in which the fate of the world's energy source is in the hands of a prince and princess who are rivals, by the New York Times-bestselling author of the Syrena Legacy.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
Nell Crane has never held a boy’s hand.
In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts—an arm, a leg, an eye—Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she’s the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is expected to contribute to the society’s good . . . but how can Nell live up to her father’s revolutionary ideas when she has none of her own?
Then she finds a lost mannequin’s hand while salvaging on the beach, and inspiration strikes. Can Nell build her own companion in a world that fears advanced technology? The deeper she sinks into this plan, the more she learns about her city—and her father, who is hiding secret experiments of his own.
Sarah Maria Griffin’s haunting literary debut will entrance fans of Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking series, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker, and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
Gemma has been in and out of hospitals since she was born. 'A sickly child', her lonely life to date has revolved around her home, school and one best friend, Alice. But when she discovers her father's connection to the top secret Haven research facility, currently hitting the headlines and under siege by religious fanatics, Gemma decides to leave the sanctuary she's always known to find the institute and determine what is going on there and why her father's name seems inextricably linked to it.
Amidst the frenzy outside the institute's walls, Lyra - or number 24 as she is known as at Haven - and a fellow experimental subject known only as 72, manage to escape. Encountering a world they never knew existed outside the walls of their secluded upbringing , they meet Gemma and, as they try to understand Haven's purpose together, they uncover some earth-shattering secrets that will change the lives of both girls forever...
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
Where is home when you were born in the stars?
Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend Jason is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She’s living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you’ve spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world.
As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground.
When Jason’s paranoia over Aza’s safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza finds herself a fugitive in Magonia, tasked with opposing her radical, bloodthirsty, recently-escaped mother, Zal Quel, and her singing partner Dai. She must travel to the edge of the world in search of a legendary weapon, The Flock, in a journey through fire and identity that will transform her forever.
In this stunning sequel to the critically acclaimed Magonia, one girl must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes—and two versions of herself.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
The tenth work in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling series that started with Beautiful Bastard.
A new couple finds love, and the casts of the previous books join in to celebrate this series finale in the most Beautiful way possible.
Expected Publication: October 4th, 2016
From Goodreads:
It feels like there's no ground beneath me, like everything I've ever done has been a lie. Like I'm breaking apart, shattering. Who am I? Where do I belong?
Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected of her. Pretty and popular, she's studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship.
And then everything shatters. A national scholar award invitation compels her parents to reveal the truth: their visas expired years ago. Her entire family is illegal. That means no scholarships, maybe no college at all and the very real threat of deportation.
For the first time, Jasmine rebels, trying all those teen things she never had time for in the past. Even as she's trying to make sense of her new world, it's turned upside down by Royce Blakely, the charming son of a high-ranking congressman. Jasmine no longer has any idea where—or if—she fits into the American Dream. All she knows is that she's not giving up. Because when the rules you lived by no longer apply, the only thing to do is make up your own.
Expected Publication: October 6th, 2016
From Goodreads:
You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade.
Adam Drake and Emilia Kimberly Strong have chosen a date to solidify their love in the bonds of matrimony.
Join them on their exotic destination wedding. Visit with their friends and loved ones. But hold the champagne toast. Fate has a few last tests for our couple on their way to the altar.
Natural 20 or natural disaster?
Oh, yeah, some really fantastic books coming out between the 1st and the 6th! I have copies of a few of them, and I can't wait to read these books! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Thursday, March 10, 2016
We Have the Title of Into the Dark #3!!!!
Yeah, we have the final title for the Into the Dark series by Bree Despain!
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Waiting on Wednesday #203, March 25th
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
atherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again. Now, just as she is building a relationship with Luke, it seems that someone from Catherine’s past is playing a deadly game with her, and using those she cares about as pawns. Three are dead already: the former prostitute who helped Catherine when she was out on the street, a CIA agent with whom she worked closely, and the informant who helped her free Luke. Someone is picking off the people Catherine cares about one by one, with the circle narrowing closer and closer to those she loves the most. Catherine has made many enemies throughout her life, and she has no choice but to weed through her past to find out who is targeting her now, and then go after the vicious killer herself.
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
Romantic and action-packed, The Replaced is the gripping second installment in the Taking trilogy.
Kyra hasn't been the same since she returned from her mysterious five-year disappearance. Now, on the run from the NSA, Kyra is forced to hide out with others who, like her, have been Returned. Yet she is determined to find Tyler, the boy she loves who was also abducted—all because of her. When her group intercepts a message that Tyler might still be alive but is in the hands of a shadowy government organization that experiments on the Returned, Kyra knows it's a risk to go after him. What if it's a trap? And worse, what if the returned Tyler isn't the same boy she lost?
Perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and the Body Finder series, The Replaced is both chilling and explosive, with creepy, otherworldly elements and twisty, psychological thrills that will have you questioning what exactly it means to be human.
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
Fan-favorite author Bree Despain continues her modern-day romance trilogy inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades with this second book in her Into the Dark series.
Haden Lord, the disgraced Prince of the Underrealm, has chosen love over honor and will do everything in his power to protect Daphne Raines, the human girl he was supposed to bring to the Underrealm. Haden’s choice is put to the test as the Skylords and a figure from his past arrive in Olympus Hills with a plan that could destroy all of the realms.
Embracing her destiny as the Cypher, Daphne begins to understand the immense power of her musical ability to control the elements, but she must come to terms with her feelings for Haden and what she must sacrifice in order to protect him and her friends.
Believing the Key of Hades is the only thing that can stop the Underrealm Court from releasing the monstrous Keres on the mortal world, Haden, Daphne, and their friends set out to find the Key before Persephone’s Gate opens again on the spring equinox.
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
There Be Monsters Here. . .
It's not as great as you'd think, living in a tourist town that's known as "the most magical place in America." Same boring high school, just twice as many monsters under the bridges and rival Families killing each other for power.
I try to keep out of it. I've got my mom's bloodiron sword and my slightly illegal home in the basement of the municipal library. And a couple of Talents I try to keep quiet, including very light fingers and a way with a lock pick.
But then some nasty characters bring their Family feud into my friend's pawn shop, and I have to make a call--get involved, or watch a cute guy die because I didn't. I guess I made the wrong choice, because now I'm stuck putting everything on the line for Devon Sinclair. My mom was murdered because of the Families, and it looks like I'm going to end up just like her. . .
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. But Ember can't forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed her—Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he'd signed his own death warrant.
Determined to save Garret from execution, Ember must convince Cobalt to help her break into the Order's headquarters. With assassins after them and Ember's own brother helping Talon with the hunt, the rogues find an unexpected ally in Garret and a new perspective on the underground battle between Talon and St. George.
A reckoning is brewing and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly. Soon Ember must decide: Should she retreat to fight another day…or start an all-out war?
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
I WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING I TELL EVERY SLAVE.
THE RESISTANCE HAS TRIED TO PENETRATE THIS SCHOOL COUNTLESS TIMES. I HAVE DISCOVERED IT EVERY TIME.
IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH THE RESISTANCE, IF YOU CONTACT THEM, IF YOU THINK OF CONTACTING THEM, I WILL KNOW
AND I WILL DESTROY YOU.
LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
ELIAS is the academy’s finest soldier— and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.
When Laia and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself.
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
Kody Keplinger returns to the world of The DUFF in this brand-new companion novel!
Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend's house every night because she has nowhere else to go.
Amy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with -- secrets, clothes, even a nemesis named Ryder Cross.
Ryder's the new kid at Hamilton High and everything Sonny and Amy can't stand -- a prep-school snob. But Ryder has a weakness: Amy. So when Ryder emails Amy asking her out, the friends see it as a prank opportunity not to be missed.
But without meaning to, Sonny ends up talking to Ryder all night online. And to her horror, she realizes that she might actually like him. Only there's one small catch: he thinks he's been talking to Amy. So Sonny comes up with an elaborate scheme to help Ryder realize that she's the girl he's really wanted all along. Can Sonny lie her way to the truth, or will all her lies end up costing her both Ryder and Amy?
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in this fantasy about a girl caught between two worlds…two races…and two destinies.
Aza Ray is drowning in thin air.
Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.
So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn’t think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who’s always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.
Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
For readers of Cassandra Clare's City of Bones and Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, The Girl at Midnight is the story of a modern girl caught in an ancient war.
Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known.
Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it's time to act.
Legend has it that there is a way to end the conflict once and for all: find the Firebird, a mythical entity believed to possess power the likes of which the world has never seen. It will be no easy task, but if life as a thief has taught Echo anything, it's how to hunt down what she wants . . . and how to take it.
But some jobs aren't as straightforward as they seem. And this one might just set the world on fire.
Expected Publication: April 28th 2015
From Goodreads:
Perfect for fans of Stephanie Perkins, Lauren Barnholdt, and Susane Colasanti, Trouble from the Start is a sweet and romantic read about a good girl who falls for a bad boy.
Avery knows better than to fall for Fletcher, the local bad boy who can't seem to outrun his reputation. Fletcher knows he shouldn't bother with college-bound, daughter-of-a-cop Avery. But when their paths cross, neither can deny the spark. Are they willing to go against everything and let their hearts lead the way? Or are they just flirting with disaster?
A companion novel to Rachel Hawthorne's paperback original The Boyfriend Project, this title is perfect for fans of summer beach reads and sweet treats.
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
High school senior Jonathan Aubrey creates worlds at will. In Kylie-Simms-is-my-girlfriend, he’s given himself everything he doesn’t have in real life-–the track team, passing grades, and his dream girl–-until one day he confuses his worlds and almost kisses the real Kylie Simms. Now his girlfriend Kylie and the real Kylie are changing, and Jonathan must solve the mystery of his own life to save his love from a gruesome fate.
Expected Publication: April 28th, 2015
From Goodreads:
A girl takes over her twin sister's identity in this emotionally charged page-turner about the complicated bond between sisters.
Ella and Maddy Lawton are identical twins. Ella has spent her high school years living in popular Maddy's shadows, but she has never been envious of Maddy. In fact, she's chosen the quiet, safe confines of her sketchbook over the constant battle for attention that has defined Maddy's world.
When—after a heated argument—Maddy and Ella get into a tragic accident that leaves her sister dead, Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by loved ones who believe she is Maddy. Feeling responsible for Maddy's death and everyone's grief, Ella makes a split-second decision to pretend to be Maddy. Soon, Ella realizes that Maddy's life was full of secrets. Caught in a web of lies, Ella is faced with two options—confess her deception or live her sister's life.
Such a great, wonderful collection of books! Though I've already read a few, since they were just so good, and I had them! I can't wait to read more! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Bree Despain Author Page
The Story: I got The Dark Divine and The Lost Saint, from the the library, and yeah, they were such great books! And yeah, the whole series was, and the Into the Dark series has been just so good!
Website
Series: The Dark Divine, Into the Dark.
The Dark Divine: The Dark Divine and her site, my review, my reread, The Lost Saint and her site, my review, my reread, The Lost Letters of Brother Gabriel and her site, my review, The Savage Grace and her site, my review, my reread.
Into the Dark: The Shadow Prince and her site, my review, The Eternity Key and her site, my review, The Immortal Throne and her site, my review.
Website
Series: The Dark Divine, Into the Dark.
The Dark Divine: The Dark Divine and her site, my review, my reread, The Lost Saint and her site, my review, my reread, The Lost Letters of Brother Gabriel and her site, my review, The Savage Grace and her site, my review, my reread.
Into the Dark: The Shadow Prince and her site, my review, The Eternity Key and her site, my review, The Immortal Throne and her site, my review.
Monday, October 13, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #175, October 13th
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #174
Teaser Tuesday #182
WWW Wednesday #182
WOW #179
Will the Time Come #175
Third Sentence Thursday #165
Random Reads #150
First Lines Friday #170
The Reward Challenge Round 105 Part 2
Follow Friday #153
How Well I Stuck To It #4
Week 41 Reviews:
The Eternity Key
A Fistful of Charms
Tail of the Devil
Angel Burn
Shadowfell
Raven Flight
The Caller
Tours:
Resolutions: Review
The Devil's Liege: Review
Fall With Me: Cover Reveal
At Any Moment: Cover Reveal
Emergency Review-a-Thon:
#3
Update 1
Update 2
Update 3
Update 4
Update 5
Update 6
Update 7
Update 8
Update 9
Update 10 and Partial Wrap Up
Part 2 Update 1
Part 2 Update 2
Random:
Claudia Gray Author Page
Colleen Gleason Author Page
Danielle L. Jensen Author Page
Eileen Wilks Author Page
Elizabeth Fama Author Page
Emmy Laybourne Author Page
Esther Friesner Author Page
Eve Silver Author Page
Jennifer Bosworth Author Page
Jodi Meadows Author Page
Josin L. McQuein Author Page
Justina Ireland Author Page
Kady Cross Author Page
Katherine Ewell Page
Kesley Sutton Author Page
Kendra C. Highley Author Page
Kiera Cass Author Page
Kieran Scott Author Page
Juliet Marillier Author Page
Kiersten White Author Page
Kimberly Derting Author Page
Kristin Cashore Author Page
Leigh Bardugo Author Page
Malinda Lo Author Page
Marie Lu Author Page
Marissa Meyer Author Page
Melissa Marr Author Page
Michael Grant Author Page
Michelle Hodkin Author Page
Rae Carson Author Page
Robin Bridges Author Page
Robin LaFevers Author Page
Rosamund Hodge Author Page
S.R. Johannes Author Page
Sarah Beth Durst Author Page
Sarah Rees Brennan Author Page
Sherrie Thomas Author Page
Sophie Jordan Author Page
Susan Dennard Author Page
We Have the Cover of The League #8!!!!
T.G. Ayer Author Page
T.M. Goeglein Author Page
Tahereh Mafi Author Page
Telluhah Darling Author Page
Trish Milburn Author Page
Veronica Rossi Author Page
OK, so I got 79 posts in 7 days, got a lot of author pages done, so I only have a few bolded ones left to do, and yeah, now to do more!What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read Dragonfly in Amber, Elusion, Etherworld, Get Even, Polaris, The Fault in Our Stars, The Pearl Savage, The Savage Blood, Hotter Than Hell Anthology, Fuse, Kiss of the Highlander, After the End, Finding Her Way Back, Snow Like Ashes, The Brokenhearted, The Invisible, Alice in Zombieland, Cole...Meet Ali, Through the Zombie Glass, The Queen of Zombie Hearts, Stray, Originally Human, Mortal Danger, Beware the Wild, Ice Hunt, Exquisite Captive, The Taking, In A Handful of Dust, A Questionable Client, Magic Bites, Bridge of Snow, The Winner's Curse, Platform 21, Claiming the Highlander, Born in Sin, Warrior, King, Cooper, Scent of Shadows, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, Holidays Are Hell Anthology, The Legacy of Eden, I Want It That Way, As Long As You Love Me, The Shape of My Heart and Salvage.
Elusion was hailed as an exciting leap in technology—until users began to disappear amid rumors of addiction. Regan’s search for the truth led her and her new love interest, Josh, to Etherworld. Etherworld is a dimension hidden deep beyond Elusion's firewall, where players can hide, and ultimately fight back. Regan's father and others are here working to destroy Etherworld, but the longer they stay the less likely they'll be able to return to the real world alive.
Escape means attacking Elusion from within the program. It's dangerous and it’s a puzzle. And even if they manage it, how will they be able to stop Orexis from distributing Elusion to the masses when the people who run it are corrupt?
But alas, life has other crap plans for her--one that includes a strict regiment of "do this and do that" from her she-devil sister, all while trying to avoid the unavoidable. The unavoidable being Ky: the ex-best friend-turned-sex god who lives across the street.
Meet Ky; a nineteen-year-old wanna be country music singer and a boy-turned-man who still wears a proverbial skateboard around his neck from wasted high school days. When Callie returns home, he realizes that she's exactly the muse he's been missing all this time.
Now, if only she can stop running long enough to find out where their love could lead. Finding Her Way Back is a new adult novel about finding love while learning how to love yourself. For all the chubby-sexy girls who tend to feel invisible, this one's for you!
We'll either destroy them for good, or they'll destroy us.
Either way, only one of us is walking away.
In the stunning conclusion to the wildly popular White Rabbit Chronicles, Alice "Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more dangerous than monsters…and the worst has only begun.
As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies…and she isn't the girl she thought she was. She's connected to the woman responsible for killing—and turning—Cole's mother. How can their relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima—even sacrificing her own life for those she loves.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Week 41 Review: The Eternity Key
After escaping the Skylords, Haden, Daphne, and their friends decide to try to find the Key of Hades on their own before Persephone's Gate opens again on the spring equinox. They think they can use the Key as leverage to stop the Court from coming after Daphne, and stop them from releasing the Keres on the mortal world. Once in Olympus Hills, Haden and Daphne find themselves with some hiccups in their plan. Haden's twin brother, Rowan, reveals himself to have been following Haden's entire mission, and the Skylords have sent a group of their own to enroll at Olympus Hills High to spy on Haden and Daphne.
As the spring equinox looms, the gang finds an unlikely ally in one of the Skylords who helps them devise a plan for getting the Key and using it to destroy the Keres before they can break free from the Pit and devour the world. In order to fulfill the plan, Daphne must enter the Underrealm with the Key. Unfortunately, because of the oath Haden made to never bring Daphne back there, he is unable to accompany Daphne. Reluctantly, he agrees to let Garrick and Tobin take her through Persephone's Gate, while he and the Skylord wait for them on the other side.
Separated in two different worlds, but still linked by destiny, Haden and Daphne must race against time to keep the Keres from revolting and keep themselves-and their love-alive.
Reading this only a few months after reading The Shadow Prince, well, not as many books between them, so yeah, we did get a few good details that set the world up again, but that weren't like, overbearing, taking over the story, but natural details that we needed again!
So this book dealt with some of the plot lines from the first one. Finding out who Motorcycle man is, where he is, and how to get the Compass back from him, Daphne dealing with her dad's betrayal, that he traded her soul for his fame, even if he did it before he knew that Daphne was being expected.
We also got some new things, like Tobin's POV, and meeting some Skylords, the one mentioned above, which was pretty cool, learning a bit more about this world, and that the call the Key of Hades, The Eternity Key.
And oh, I just connected this, a big twist at the end, with one little detail in the book, that just adds more to the whole twist, and yeah, because they thought it was one person, but it was another, and still this twist hurts, but now the knife has gone in just a bit further!
I felt pretty bad for Haden, both for things that he knows, and we know, to thinks that we know that he doesn't, from the twist above, which will probably hurt him a lot, and how things ended for him in this book, not in a very good place, and with a countdown, too! Oh, and he has to deal with his feelings for Daphne!
Favourite lines: "Admitting to myself that I am in love with Daphne had been hard enough—and
it had taken the imminent threat of my death to get me to do it." So telling Daphne would be nigh on impossible! "'Who cares about Mr. Morgan?' I ask. 'Um, me,' Lexie says. 'Me, too,' Tobin says. 'Especially me,' Daphne says." I think you're outnumbered, Haden! Also the responses to his question are hilarious! "Because your Mr. McHottypants is a freaking Skylord. And his Skylord nephew is behind us." Which is a very bad thing, seeing as the Skylords are the ones that are 1/2 of the bad guys! "Okay, so maybe that's too much cinnamon." I would think so! Haden's little cooking adventure is so cute! "Apparently, we're taking in strays with parental issues tonight." Yeah, 2 in one night! It's like a sleep over, but like, serious! "Dax volunteers as the assistant for the props and costume master—a job he seems to be taking quite seriously, considering he's only using it as an excuse to be here." I find this quite funny! "'I couldn't let you pay for the pizza I ordered.' 'It's not a big deal. It's Simon's account anyway.' 'In that case...'" Yes, spend Simon's money! "Seriously, his password was kale chips?" Yeah, that's a weak password, considering how old he could be! "Why do people always want to have secret rendezvous at midnight? Why not 11:27 or 4:30 in the afternoon?" Yeah, especially since other times would be less suspicious!
This was a really fantastic, wonderful, amazing book, and yeah, the wait for the 3rd, and I think final, book, is going to be torture, especially since this doesn't come out for another 7 months! I hope that the 3rd is up on NetGalley!
Author: Bree Despain
Series: Into the Dark #2
Read: October 6th, 2014
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book and it's going to be a WoW Book!
Publisher: Egmont USA
Expected Publication: May 12th 2015
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Emergency Review-a-Thon Update 1
OK, so I've written my first review, The Eternity Key, and I'm going to write a review for Unveiled and Fireblood next!
Reviewed: The Eternity Key.
Week 41: The Eternity Key.
Goal: 10
Reviews: 1
Reviewed: The Eternity Key.
Week 41: The Eternity Key.
Goal: 10
Reviews: 1
Monday, May 12, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #153, May 12th
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #152
Teaser Tuesday #160
WWW Wednesday #160
WOW #157
Will the Time Come #153
Third Sentence Thursday #143
Random Reads #128
First Lines Friday #148
The Reward Challenge Round 96 Part 3
Follow Friday #131
Week 19 Reviews:
The Hunt
Champion
The Shadow Prince
Of Monsters and Madness
Street Game
Where Silence Gathers
Homecoming
Witch Eyes
Demon Eyes
Phantom Eyes
Tours:
Trusting an Angel: Review
Community Service: Review
The Echoes of Love: Guest Post, Review and Giveaway
Emergency Read-a-Thon Part 2:
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Clean Sweep ARC Challenge:
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Random:
Books to Reread and to Actually Get Around to Reading
We Have the Cover of Thorn of Glass #3!!!!
Bout of Books 10.0 Goals
Bout of Books Mini Challenge 1
OK, so I got 79 posts in 7 days, um, little tired! What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read The Immortal Rules, Killing Ruby Rose, Days of Blood & Starlight, Night of Cake & Puppets, Dreams of Gods & Monsters, The Secret Diamond Sisters, The Testing, Angel Fever, Unchosen, The Body in the Woods, Far From You, Ruthless Game, This Side of Salvation, Precious Blood, The Demoness of Waking Dream, Sunrise, At Any Turn, The Liberator, Silent Truth, Fuse, The Dare, V is for Villain, Sweet Evil, Article 5, A Dawn Most Wicked, Something Strange and Deadly, and In Seconds.
To cope, Ruby has been trying to stay focused on school (the top spot in her class is on the line) and spending time with friends (her Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks are nothing if not loyal). But after six months of therapy and pathetic parenting by her mom, the District Attorney, Ruby decides to pick up where her dad left off and starts going after the bad guys herself.
When Ruby ends up killing a murderer to save his intended victim, she discovers that she's gone from being the huntress to the hunted. There's a sick mastermind at play, and he has Ruby in his sights. Ruby must discover who's using her to implement twisted justice before she ends up swapping Valentino red for prison orange.
With a gun named Smith, a talent for martial arts, and a boyfriend with eyes to die for, Ruby is ready to face the worst. And if a girl's forced to kill, won't the guilt sit more easily in a pair of Prada peep-toe pumps?
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?
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