The Story: I saw The Lifeboat Clique on Edelweiss, it sounded really great, and I got it, and loved it, and I enjoyed her second book, and I'd love to read more by Kathy Parks!
Stand Alone's: The Lifeboat Clique and my review, Notes From My Captivity and my review.
Showing posts with label Kathy Parks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kathy Parks. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2020
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Waiting on Wednesday #367, May 23rd
Expected Publication: July 10th, 2018
From Goodreads:
Haunted by the sacrifices he made in Constantinople, Radu is called back to the new capital. Mehmed is building an empire, becoming the sultan his people need. But Mehmed has a secret: as emperor, he is more powerful than ever . . . and desperately lonely. Does this mean Radu can finally have more with Mehmed . . . and would he even want it?
Lada's rule of absolute justice has created a Wallachia free of crime. But Lada won't rest until everyone knows that her country's borders are inviolable. Determined to send a message of defiance, she has the bodies of Mehmed's peace envoy delivered to him, leaving Radu and Mehmed with no choice. If Lada is allowed to continue, only death will prosper. They must go to war against the girl prince.
But Mehmed knows that he loves her. He understands her. She must lose to him so he can keep her safe. Radu alone fears that they are underestimating his sister's indomitable will. Only by destroying everything that came before--including her relationships--can Lada truly build the country she wants.
Claim the throne. Demand the crown. Rule the world.
Expected Publication: July 10th, 2018
From Goodreads:
Girl meets boy… and the family holding her hostage.
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her.
So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolishly optimistic stepfather Dan’s claim—no, belief—that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there’s no question that she’s going to fly across the world.
After all, it is the trip of a lifetime.
But the Russian terrain is even less forgiving than Adrienne. And when disaster strikes, nothing—not the flirtatious guide or her stepdad’s obsessively detailed preparations—can protect Adrienne from the sheer force of nature. Now, Adrienne’s being held captive by the family she was convinced didn’t exist, and her best hope for escape is to act like she cares about befriending them, even if it means wooing the youngest son.
Lost by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Expected Publication: July 10th, 2018
From Goodreads:
Things have settled down at the Tulsa House of Night since Zoey and the gang closed the tear between worlds and sent Other Kevin back to the Other World. Neferet hasn't stirred. Damien and Jack are falling in love all over again. Stevie Rae and Rephaim are back in Tulsa where they belong. The Depot Restaurant is being rebuilt with the enthusiastic involvement of local humans. A new school year has begun, and Zoey's exchange student program with public schools is really taking off. All is well.
But if all is well, why is Zoey increasingly withdrawn and moody?
Sadly, Stark is sure he knows the answer to that question. Zoey can't stop thinking about following her brother to the Other World, and Stark isn't deluding himself about why. Of course she wants to be sure her brother is okay. Of course she wants to help defeat Neferet in yet another world and be sure the balance between Light and Darkness is restored. But the real reason Z is so drawn to that other House of Night world is because Heath Luck, her childhood sweetheart, is alive in that world-alive and mourning her death.
In Lost, we follow Zoey, Stevie Rae, and Rephaim to an alternative version of the House of Night where dangers take the form of friends, and allies are found in the strangest places. Will Z return to our world and leave Heath to his? And if she does, will Stark forgive her for leaving? Find out in the second part of this exciting new House of Night Other World adventure!
Oh, some really great books! I've already read Notes From My Captivity, and it was so great, and I just want all of these books to come out! Wjat about you guys? Happy reading!
Monday, April 16, 2018
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #358, April 16th
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 #357
Teaser Tuesday #365
WWW Wednesday #365
WOW #362
Will the Time Come #356
Third Sentence Thursday #347
Random Reads #333
First Lines Friday #361
The Reward Challenge Update #342
Book Blogger Hop #27
How Well I Stuck to It #195
Wrote that Review Update #192
Week 15 Reviews:
Where I Live
The Martian
OK, so I got 20 posts in 7 days, a nice decent amount, and it was a pretty good week! This week started off not so great, what with food poisoning and all, but I've recovered, and now a bit of catch up! What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read The Bone Season, Bones to Ashes, Victory of Eagles, Tongues of Serpents, Crucible of Gold, and Shadowsong.
But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city-Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly-as soldiers in their army.
Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives.
Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl?
Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.
It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service–and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason.
For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon's resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon's prime objective: the occupation of London.
Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon's forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war and to aid the resistance against the invasion before Napoleon’s foothold on England’s shores can become a stranglehold.
If only they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain's scattered forces and take the fight to the enemy as never before–for king and country, and for their own liberty. But can the French aggressors be well and truly routed, or will a treacherous alliance deliver Britain into the hands of her would-be conquerors?
Their only chance to escape the fray is accepting a mission to blaze a route through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But the theft of a precious dragon egg turns their expedition into a desperate recovery operation—leading to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new complication in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.
With Britain's last desperate hope of defeating Napoleon in peril, the government that sidelined Laurence swiftly offers to reinstate him, convinced that he's the best man to enter the fray and negotiate peace. So the pair embark for Brazil, only to meet with a string of unmitigated disasters that forces them to make an unexpected landing in the hostile territory of the Incan empire.
With the success of the mission balanced on a razor's edge, an old enemy appears and threatens to tip the scales toward ruin. Yet even in the midst of disaster, opportunity may lurk--for one bold enough to grasp it.
Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother's and her own musical careers. Although she is determined to look forward and not behind, life in the world above is not as easy as Liesl had hoped. Her younger brother Josef is cold, distant, and withdrawn, while Liesl can't forget the austere young man she left beneath the earth, and the music he inspired in her.
When troubling signs arise that the barrier between worlds is crumbling, Liesl must return to the Underground to unravel the mystery of life, death, and the Goblin King—who he was, who he is, and who he will be. What will it take to break the old laws once and for all? What is the true meaning of sacrifice when the fate of the world—or the ones Liesl loves—is in her hands?
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Week 15 Review: Notes from My Captivity
Girl meets boy… and the family holding her hostage.
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her.
So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolishly optimistic stepfather Dan's claim—no, belief—that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world.
After all, it is the trip of a lifetime.
But the Russian terrain is even less forgiving than Adrienne. And when disaster strikes, nothing—not the flirtatious guide or her stepdad's obsessively detailed preparations—can protect Adrienne from the sheer force of nature. Now, Adrienne's being held captive by the family she was convinced didn't exist, and her best hope for escape is to act like she cares about befriending them, even if it means wooing the youngest son.
My Review:
Oh, wow, I really enjoyed reading this book! I really enjoyed her first book which was about survival, and so was this one, but in a different way. I mean, in this book, they're deliberately leaving civilization looking for this family, so yeah, I enjoyed that!
The idea that a family disappeared into the wild because they were different, yeah, it's pretty intriguing! That her step-dad's been bashed a lot because of his belief in this family, and that she idolizes the one who did so, yeah, that was an awkward dynamic, even though he didn't seem to know about her feelings.
Honestly, her journalist idol lady, she just got on my nerves. I mean, the quotes that Adrienne mentions, yeah, they're just obnoxious. Yeah, I just didn't like it. What she said, yeah, it just kinda rubbed me wrong!
The ending was pretty bittersweet. After all that happened, all that they'd struggled with, yeah, it was hard to say goodbye. It was a good ending, very satisfying, but it wasn't a totally happy-happy ending, which is OK, life isn't like that!
Yeah, this book was awesome and I really enjoyed reading it!
Author: Kathy Parks
Read: April 13th, 2018
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2018 Book, Sophomore Challenge Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Expected Publication: July 10th 2018
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Third Sentence Thursday #348, April 12th
Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!
1)
Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page.
Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one –
like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third
sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to
share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)
4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!
"Heartbreakingly, my stepfather from Colorado is momentarily confused by the term." -Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks, page 30.
And in case you want to know the term, it's weed. So I can understand why it's heartbreaking that he doesn't understand it!
What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!
"Heartbreakingly, my stepfather from Colorado is momentarily confused by the term." -Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks, page 30.
And in case you want to know the term, it's weed. So I can understand why it's heartbreaking that he doesn't understand it!
What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
WWW Wednesday #365, April 11th
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 now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!
I'm currently reading The Kept Woman, and wow, it's so great! Really enjoying this mystery!
I read Break No Bones, and it was a great sequel, really enjoyed it!
I'm going to be reading Notes from My Captivity and I can't wait because it sounds fantastic!
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 now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Week 38 Review: The Lifeboat Clique
Some people might say that Denver had a death wish. Why else would she have dared to sneak into a Malibu beach party where she'd be surrounded by enemies, namely including her ex-BFF Abigail?
Oh yeah. Croix. Denver never thought in a million years he'd ask her out, but who was she to question this miracle of fate? Well, that wasn't the only surprise fate had in store.
During the party a tsunami hit the coast of California, wiping out everything in its path. Denver and a handful of others escaped death by holding onto the roof of the house and were swept out to sea. Of course, one of her fellow castaways was none other than Abigail, who could barely stand the sight of her.
Now that she's floating in the ocean, stuck on a small boat with the most popular kids in school and waiting to be rescued, Denver wonders what might kill her first-dehydration, sunstroke, or the girl she used to think of as a sister?
A hilariously dark and twisted story that sparkles with a remarkably fresh voice, The Lifeboat Clique is Kathy Park's irreverent yet insightful novel about how to survive in the most unthinkable circumstances.
My Review:
This was such a fantastic book! So enjoyable, and a really great book about survival-if I ever end up stranded in the middle of the ocean, I have some tips that could help! It was just a really great story to read, and I enjoyed it a whole ton!
The way that it was told, going back and forth from Denver and Abigail's friendship's story from beginning to ruin, and being on the lifeboat, was really awesome! We got why it broke, and then we had them afterwards on the lifeboat, not really dealing with the elephant, but surviving.
I really enjoyed these characters! Denver, with her knack for survival, Abigail, while not born in Texas, and only lived there for 3 years, threw herself whole heartedly into all things Texas. And of course, the mean girl, and her sycophant. Not really likeable, but you still want them to survive!
It sucks, the lesson that they learn at the end, because hey, life isn't perfect, and it is L.A., why would a huge disaster like a tsunami and all the deaths it caused, have people change, be better people? Well, at least they were, so that was great!
Really enjoyed reading this book, it was so great!
Author: Kathy Parks
Read: September 17th, 2015
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC book, SAC 2015 Book, and it's going to be a WoW Book!
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Expected Publication: March 1st 2015
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