Showing posts with label Joy N. Hensley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joy N. Hensley. Show all posts

Monday, June 8, 2015

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #209, June 8th

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 #208
Teaser Tuesday #216
WWW Wednesday #216
WOW #213
Will the Time Come #209
Third Sentence Thursday #199
Random Reads #184
First Lines Friday #203
The Reward Challenge Update #194
Follow Friday #186
LLFL Reading Challenge Update 57
How Well I Stuck to It #38
Wrote that Review Update #43

Week 23 Reviews:
The Night We Said Yes
Icicles Like Kindling
Snow Like Ashes
Ice Like Fire
Rites of Passage
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
Born of Defiance
Eighth Grave After Dark
Dangerous Dream
Dangerous Creatures
Powerless
Empire of Night
Ghost House
Witchrise
Cat's Lair
Dead Over Heels
How to Meet Boys

Tours:
Modern Monsters: Review

OK, so I got 28 posts in 7 days, which is a pretty decent week, read a lot, which was really great! I enjoyed that a lot! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Dead Radiance, Dead Embers, Dead Chaos, Dead Wrath, Sworn to Raise, Sworn to Transfer, Sworn to Conflict, AliveThe Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak, A Sense of the Infinite, Extraordinary Means, Tiny Pretty Things, My Heart & Other Black Holes, Simon vs. the The Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Revenge Playbook, Don't Touch, A Wicked Thing, Prisoner of Night and Fog, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke, Rebel Belle, Emancipated, Proof of Forever, Eat, Brains, Love, Undead With Benefits, Alienated, Her Dark Curiosity, Maddie's Tattoo, and Awaken.
Eighteen-year-old companion trainee Ciardis Weathervane has won the friendship of the royal heir and saved his claim to the throne. Yet her interference in the inheritance rights leaves more harm done than good. The Ameles Forest lies unprotected and its inhabitants are dying.

As humans begin to die in gruesome deaths, the Emperor dispatches the royal heir to the forests with the solution to the kith concerns.

With enemies closing ranks in Sandrin, Ciardis can little afford to leave the city’s nest of vipers to take on a new task. But she’s given no choice when her loyalty to the crown and courts are called into question.

To keep the Companions’ Guild happy and the favor of the Imperial Court, Ciardis will be tested in frightening new ways, especially when she’s faced with an obstacle that could risk the lives of her friends and the family she never thought she had.

This second novel continues the story of Ciardis Weathervane from Sworn To Raise.
The latest release in the high fantasy series which has drawn comparisons to Kushiel's Dart, Graceling, and the epic world of Tamora Pierce.

Ciardis Weathervane fought for the living dead and won. But worse than taking on a mass murderer, was her discovery that she had been deceived by her friends. Now she needs to not only fight a war in the North and survive, but also decide where she stands in the midst of competing sides.

A threat to all she holds dear lies in the North and her heart is not the only thing she might lose. A massive army awaits in the mountain pass, surging closer to the gates of the southern lands. Nothing the Algardis army has done so far has dissuaded their march forward and Ciardis finds out that her powers to enhance are needed now more than ever.

As she faces her greatest fears on the battlefields and her heart is torn between her love of Sebastian and loyalty to her family, Ciardis must choose her fate carefully. For in her path, lies the destiny of the empire.

This third novel continues the story of Ciardis Weathervane from Sworn To Transfer.
Stella Cross's heart is poisoned.

After years on the transplant waiting list, she's running out of hope that she'll ever see her eighteenth birthday. Then, miraculously, Stella receives the transplant she needs to survive.

Determined to embrace everything she came so close to losing, Stella throws herself into her new life. But her recovery is marred by strange side effects: Nightmares. Hallucinations. A recurring pain that flares every day at the exact same moment. Then Stella meets Levi Zin, the new boy on everyone's radar at her Seattle prep school. Stella has never felt more drawn to anyone in her life, and soon she and Levi are inseparable. 

Stella is convinced that Levi is her soul mate. Why else would she literally ache for him when they are apart?

After all, the heart never lies...does it?
Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts.

Just when life can't get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she's charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper's least favorite person. But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him—and discovers that David's own fate could very well be to destroy Earth.

With snappy banter, cotillion dresses, non-stop action and a touch of magic, this new young adult series from bestseller Rachel Hawkins is going to make y'all beg for more.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Week 23 Review: Rites of Passage

From Goodreads:
Sam McKenna's never turned down a dare. And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.

So Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. She's expecting push-ups and long runs, rope climbing and mud-crawling. As a military brat, she can handle an obstacle course just as well as the boys. She's even expecting the hostility she gets from some of the cadets who don't think girls belong there. What she's not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. But dating is strictly forbidden and Sam won't risk her future, or the dare, on something so petty...no matter how much she wants him.

As Sam struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys don't just want her gone—they will stop at nothing to drive her out. When their petty threats turn to brutal hazing, bleeding into every corner of her life, she realizes they are not acting alone. A decades-old secret society is alive and active… and determined to force her out.
At any cost.

Now time's running short. Sam must decide who she can trust...and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences.

My Review:
This book was really fantastic to read! I definitely would not fit in there, what with the rules, and the exercise, and respect and loyalty and chains and stuff-it works as it does for them, but I'm not them-but Sam, she fits into this world, she was born for it!

The unfairness in this book really boiled my blood! I read this book in one sitting, just turning the pages, and telling the world, though only my family could hear me, that it was really unfair, what she went through, and that I wanted to change it!

There were a lot of complications. Like Sam, and the other girls, are the first girls in a previous all-boy military private school. And no dating rules. And all the other stuff, like the secret society who does not want girls to disrupt the status quo!

I enjoyed the ending.  Things were good, like her dad, and things were bad, like the dad of the one guy who were both in the society being a part of the meeting that she had with the higher brass. Good that her group of Alphas got their thing that they were supposed to get in December, bad that she couldn't date Drill for another year. You know, real life!

Really, this was a fantastic book, so enjoyable, and I just loved it to bits!

Author: Joy N. Hensley
Read: May 31st, 2015
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded good, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2015 Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: September 9th 2014
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
4/5 Stars

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 17

May Clean Sweep ARC Challenge
Ok, so I read Rites of Passage, and yeah, now to read Modern Monsters and Suicide Notes from Pretty Girls!!!

My Reading Journey:
Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil
Started On: May 6th
Finished On: May 6th, 7:54 PM
Pages Read: 268

Feral by Holly Schindler
Started On: May 7th
Finished On: May 7th, 11:19 PM
Pages Read: 280

The Immortal Heights by Sherry Thomas
Started On: May 10th
Finished On: May  10th, 5:50 PM
Pages Read: 282

Kissing in America by Margo
Started On: May 19th
Finished On: May 19th, 12:02 PM
Pages Read: 276

Killer Within by S.E. Green
Started On: May 19th
Finished On: May 19th, 11:49 PM
Pages Read: 306

The Memory Key by Liana Liu
Started On: May 20th
Finished On: May 20th, 11:26 PM
Pages Read: 239

Making Pretty by Corey Ann Haydu
Started On: May 21st
Pages Read: 274

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Started On: May 23rd
Finished On: May 23rd, 10:29 PM
Pages Read: 128

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Started On: May 25th
Finished On: May 25th, 11:14 PM
Pages Read: 222

Ruthless by Carolyn Lee Adams
Started On: May 25th
Finished On: May 25th, 11:23
Pages Read: 248

Ask Again Later by Liz Czukas
Started On: May 26th
Finished On: May 26th, 8:38 PM
Pages Read: 187

Paperweight by Meg Haston
Started On: May 26th
Finished On: May 26th, 10:47 PM
Pages Read: 224

This Heart of Mine by Brenda Novak
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 4:50
Pages Read: 392

Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby 
Started On: May 29th
Finished On: May 29th, 6:53 PM
Pages Read: 196

The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 10:00 PM
Pages Read: 193

Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
Started On: May 31st
Finished On: May 31st, 2:39 PM
Pages Read: 277

Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch
Started On: May 31st
Finished On: May 31st, 8:02 PM
Pages Read: 320

Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley
Started On: May 31st
Finished On: May 31st, 9:24 PM
Pages Read: 285

Modern Monsters by Kelley York
Started On: May 31st
Currently On: Page 1 of 209

Suicide Notes from Pretty Girls by Lynn Weingarten
Started On: May 31st
Currently On: Page 139 of 328

Books Read: 17
Goal: 25 Books
Pages Read: 3607

Reading Next: An ARC from the schedule!