The Story: I got one of them on NetGalley, but it expired before I could read it, and yeah, I got both from the library, and I just read it, and I just utterly loved it, and yeah, I really enjoyed it!
I couldn't find an website.
Series: Witch.
Witch: Once a Witch and my review, Always a Witch and my review.
Showing posts with label Carolyn MacCullough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carolyn MacCullough. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2014
Monday, October 31, 2011
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #21, October 31th
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 #20
Teaser Tuesday #29
WWW Wednesday #29
WOW #25
Will the Time Come #22
Third Sentence Thursday #12
First Lines Friday #16
A-Z Reading Challenge Update #17
Follow that Blurb Reading Challenge Update #18
The Reward Challenge Round 8
Book Bloggger Hop #12
In My Mailbox #21
I Have An Update #19
Week 43 Reviews:
The Gathering
The Way We Fall
White Heat
Body Heat
Once a Witch
Always a Witch
The Juliet Spell
The Butterfly Clues
How to Be Popular
Ink Exchange
Fragile Eternity
Radiant Shadows
Darkest Mercy
Dragon Aster
Deviant
Tours:
Whatnots & Doodads; Review and Giveaway
Write-a-Thon; Guest Post
Jack Ranis and the Book of Labi; Review and Giveaway
Bout of Books:
Update 1
Update 2
Update 3
Update 4
Update 5
Update 6
Update 7
Update 8
Update 9
Update 10
Update 11
Update 12
Update 13
Update 14
OK, lot's of posts! 40 posts in 7 days, so yeah, happy with that. I definitely blame the Bout of Books read-a-thon for those 14 posts this week. That's almost like posting once a day for 2 weeks. So very happy with that!
So this week, I want to read The Undertaker, Tempest, Bridger, Jack Ranis and the Book of Labi, Image, The Accidental Activist, Lord of Rage, Lord of the Woflyn, and Brightwing. Plus nanos, review books, netgalley books, PDFs. At least I'm cover almost all in here, because nanos I won't review on here, because that'd be in violation of their trust letting me read and review their books. Yep.
Happy Halloween! Hope you that trick or treat have some really scary and/or creeky costumes!
Currently Listening To: More Love by Dixie Chicks
Currently Reading: Image
Currently Watching: True Blood
That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.
Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.
But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.
Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.
After many years of war, the land of Brighton is finally at peace, but it is a peace that was never meant to last. Following in the footsteps of his father, Jack, with the aid of his friends, will risk everything to destroy the Book of the Labi and save the lives of all those he holds dear.
*there's going to be a new cover for Image, so I'll add it then*here is an ominous darkness, one that that is so dense and mind numbing that you can feel the chills race across your skin as the energy of the hatred behind it hovers near you. They thought that it was over…that he was dead….they never imagined that he was more powerful dead than he ever was alive.
A war is on the brink of erupting in the dark dimension of Esterious, the victory Willow had a few days ago was nothing less than vague memory. With each thought she has she fights the images of Drake’s dark eyes, his words… his promises. Doubt seeps into her soul as she stares forward and what could only be the hardest battle she has faced thus far.
Venus is meant to be the planet of love and peace….but when it falls into retrograde its influence changes. Matters of past relationships will surface; choices will be made with the mind and not the heart. Gateways to an evil that cannot be fathomed will open. Willow and Landen’s only defense is to hide their family away, and lock themselves in the palace that was once ruled by Donalt. The energy is heavy and dark within these walls…there is a presence that lingers and strikes at will. Cruel illusions are placed before Willow, but that is not even hardest part…what is hard is standing in room with Drake and Landen and listening to others tell you of lives that you cannot recall…for them to tell when and how you are going to die.
Every prediction and theory is about to be proven wrong…and the choice before Willow’s heart holds the lives of millions at stake. The question is will be she be able to see through the illusions before her and make a choice…she can live with?
The golden-haired beauty had eaten his food and slept in his bed when Osborn found her. Though he wanted to awaken his virgin princess to carnal pleasures, Breena wanted more—including his warrior skills. Skills the once-legendary mercenary had long buried. Now Osborn had a choice—risk his life or deny his princess her fairy-tale ending.
Once upon a time…the Blood Sorcerer vanquished the kingdom of Elden. To save their children, the queen scattered them to safety and the king filled them with vengeance.
Only a magical timepiece connects the four royal heirs…and time is running out.…
For practical Reda Weston, nothing could explain how reading a sexy version of "Little Red Riding Hood" catapulted her into another realm—face-to-fang with the legendary wolf-creature who seduced women. A wolf who transformed into a dark, virile man….
Dayn cursed the Sorcerer that turned him wolfyn and damned him to a lonely fate. As a beast, he mated with women to gain strength.
Strength he needed to rescue his royal parents. But as a man, he craved Reda's heated, sizzling touch. With little time left, Dayn had to either embrace his wolf to save his kingdom…or fight it to save his woman.
Edgar and Mallory Battle are on the run after a spectacularly violent escape. Now, with a trail of bodies behind them, they need a hostage against the inevitable standoff with the police. Their first doesn't last long, thanks to sociopathic Mallory. Edgar has been hiding his brother's crimes since they were kids. Now he's torn between family loyalty and self-preservation.
They carjack Lucy Brightwing, a criminal fresh from her own heist, with a fortune of uncut gems hidden in her vehicle. She could escape - but she won't abandon her millions. She could kill the Battle brothers, but she has to be careful. For one thing, if the law investigates, they'll find her ill-gotten loot. For another, her own life is sacred. She's the last member of a Florida paleoindian tribe thought to be extinct - the Tequesta. With her share of the money she plans to buy, bribe and blackmail her way into her own ancestral tribal lands in the heart of the Everglades: a Tequesta nation.
Lucy leads the brothers into her beloved swamp, determined to kill them. But when she falls for Edgar she must decide whether to risk her heritage and the future of her tribe to save the doomed brothers.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Week 43 Reviews: Once a Witch, Always a Witch
Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and she was supposed to be one of the most Talented among them. But Tamsin's magic never showed up. Now seventeen, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan, far from her family. But when a handsome young professor mistakes her for her very Talented sister, Tamsin agrees to find a lost family heirloom for him. The search—and the stranger—will prove to be more sinister than they first appeared, ultimately sending Tamsin on a treasure hunt through time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the sins of her family, and unleash a power so vengeful that it could destroy them all. This is a spellbinding display of storytelling that will exhilarate, enthrall, and thoroughly enchant.
From Goodreads:
The adventures of Tam and Gabriel continue with more time travel, Talents, spy work, and of course, the evil Knights.
Since the gripping conclusion of Once A Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision—one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era New York in order to destroy her family, Tamsin is forced to follow him into the past. Stranded all alone in the nineteenth century, Tamsin soon finds herself disguised as a lady's maid in the terrifying mansion of the evil Knight family, avoiding the watchful eye of the vicious matron, La Spider, and fending off the advances of Liam Knight. As time runs out, both families square off in a thrilling display of magic. And to her horror, Tamsin finally understands the nature of her fateful choice.
My Review:
Loved, loved, loved! Read both books in about 3 hours (it helped that I got to go home that day sick, and just read) So glad that I got to these books after the second one came out, because I don't think I could've waited! So good!
Loved how Tamsin had her adventures, and sometimes got into deep, but that she somehow got out of it, one way or another. And the going into the past, and all the things that happened to her? She was very strong, and independent, and protective. Really liked her being with Gabriel.
Loved the second book when they were mostly in the past, because it was very interesting, and the bad guys got what they deserved, and yet, very sad, because her "fateful choice" is something that she'd kinda already dealt with, and had overcome, but then it came to bite her in the butt. But she was stronger then that.
These were 2 really great books, and I wouldn't mind seeing Tamsin and Gabriel again, but not as MC's, so that they might have some peace! Just to see them. Yep. Check them out!
Author: Carolyn MacCullough
Series: Witch #1, 2
Read: October 25th, 25th, 2011
Source: Library, Library/NetGalley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: September 14th 2009, August 1st 2011
Once a Witch:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Always a Witch:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
WWW Wednesday #29, October 26th
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 currently reading The Butterfly Clues, and Ink Exchange. Both are really good books!
I just finished reading Always a Witch, and The Juliet Spell. Both were really good! The Bout-of-Books read-a-thon is really getting me reading! Whoo!
I want to read Deviant next, looks really good! Can't wait for that!
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, October 25, 2011
Bout of Books Read-a-Thon Update 5
Ok, have another update. What? I said I'd finish Always a Witch, and I did. So I'm happy. Now reading Ink Exchange, I just read Wicked Lovely a few weeks ago, and now I have the other 4 books out from the library (no wonder I have over 50 books out from the library!) Yep. So I'm happy.
My Progress Thus Far:
Body Heat by Brenda Novak:
Started on: page 40
Pages Read: (441-40) 401
Finished: October 25th 12:10 am
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Started on: page 32
Pages Read: (314-32)=282
Finished: October 24th 8:40 pm
The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees
Pages Read: 267
Finished: October 25th 2:10 pm
Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
Pages Read: 292
Finished: October 25th 12:30 pm
Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
Pages Read: 276
Finished: October 25th 5:40 pm
The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison
Currently On: page 3 of 330
Ink Exchange by Melissa Mar
Currently On: page 10 of 325
Total Pages Read: 1531
Total Books Read: 5
What I'm Reading Next: Ink Exchange
Bout of Books Read-a-Thon Update 4
My Progress Thus Far:
Body Heat by Brenda Novak:
Started on: page 40
Pages Read: (441-40) 401
Finished: October 25th 12:10 am
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Started on: page 32
Pages Read: (314-32)=282
Finished: October 24th 8:40 pm
The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees
Pages Read: 267
Finished: October 25th 2:10 pm
Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
Pages Read: 292
Finished: October 25th 12:30 pm
Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
Total Pages Read: 1242
Total Books Read: 4
What I'm Reading Next: The Butterfly Clues
Bout of Books Read-a-Thon Update 3
Yeah! Finished another book, Once a Witch, and I hope to have The Juliet Spell finished shortly, and hopefully have read Always a Witch by the end of today. Yep.
My Progress Thus Far:
Body Heat by Brenda Novak:
Started on: page 40
Currently On: page 441
Pages Read: (441-40) 401
Finished: October 25th 12:10 am
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Started on: page 32
Pages Read: (314-32)=282
Finished: October 24th 8:40 pm
The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees
Currently On: page 158
Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCulllough
Pages Read: 292
Finished: October 25rh 12:30 pm
Total Pages Read: 683
Total Books Read: 3
What I'm Reading Next: Always a Witch
Teaser Tuesday #29, October 25th
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 Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough, page 1.
"'I think it must have been so awesome to have grown up in a commune,' she ventured once. I didn't bother explaining how it's not really a commune."
Yeah, there might be some miscommunication there!
And from my own book, Genetic Mess Up page 2,
"Thankfully so, they were, a new one each time, or at least, rotating, because I know some of them had been repeated. But they still hurt like a mother when we got to the bone ones again."
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 Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough, page 1.
"'I think it must have been so awesome to have grown up in a commune,' she ventured once. I didn't bother explaining how it's not really a commune."
Yeah, there might be some miscommunication there!
And from my own book, Genetic Mess Up page 2,
"Thankfully so, they were, a new one each time, or at least, rotating, because I know some of them had been repeated. But they still hurt like a mother when we got to the bone ones again."
What about you guys? Happy reading!
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