The Story: Burn Out I got on NetGalley, and yeah, it sounded really just so good! I enjoyed it, and then I was lucky to get Strange Skies from NetGalley, and yeah, I can't wait for more! It's a great series!
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Series: Burn Out
Burn Out: Burn Out and her site, my review, Strange Skies and her site, my review.
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Monday, November 24, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #181, November 24th
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #180
Teaser Tuesday #188
WWW Wednesday #188
WOW #185
Will the Time Come #181
Third Sentence Thursday #171
Random Reads #156
First Lines Friday #176
The Reward Challenge Update #166
Follow Friday #159
LLFL Reading Challenge Update 52
How Well I Stuck to It #10
Wrote that Review Update #15
Week 47 Reviews:
Strange Skies
The Legacy of Eden
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
The Young Elites
Beware the Wild
The Killing Game
Precious Blood
Passionaries
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Tours:
A Darker Past: Review
One Wish Away: Review
Wild: Release Book Blitz
Possession: Review
Write on Review-a-Thon:
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Update 21 and Wrap Up
Random:
Elsie Chapman Author Page
Emma McLaughlin Author Page
Nicola Kraus Author Page
Emma Pass Author Page
Erin Bowman Author Page
Eve Marie Mont Author Page
Paula Stokes Author Page
Frannie Billingsley Author Page
Gabrielle Zevin Author Page
Gail Carriger Author Page
I Just Watched the Mockingjay Part 1 Movie!!!!
Rebound: Cover Reveal
Gemma Halliday Author Page
So this week I want to read Crimson Bound, This Night So Dark, This Shattered World, Take Back the Skies, Gabriel's Redemption, Take Me On, Nearly Gone, White Witch, Black Curse, The Spring Before I Met You, The Summer Before I Met You, Unspoken, The Night After I Lost You, Witchrise, Dark Metropolis, The Nightmare Dilemma, Sunrise, Dead Over Heels, Captive, Stone Cold Touch, The Treatment, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, The Retribution of Mara Dyer, Originally Human, Mortal Danger, Polaris, The Fault in Our Stars, Alienated, After Anthology, Afterworlds, The Gospel of Winter, The Fall, Anything to Have You, Exquisite Captive, Red Queen, 99 Days, On the Edge, Unbreakable, Eternal, Angels & Demons, The Rules for Breaking, Nantucket Blue, Nantucket Red, Darker Still, The Last Time We Say Goodbye, Angels in the Dark, Fallen in Love, Rapture, Sinner, A Questionable Client, Magic Bites, Lie for Me, Find Me, Remember Me, The Murder Wall, Settled Blood, Deadly Deceit, Dream Dark, Beautiful Darkness, Glow, The Fear Trials, The Murder Complex, Death Sworn, Death Marked, The Darkest Minds, Her Dark Curiosity, and Liars, Inc..
Three years later, Rachelle has given her life to serving the realm, fighting deadly creatures in an effort to atone. When the king orders her to guard his son Armand—the man she hates most—Rachelle forces Armand to help her find the legendary sword that might save their world. As the two become unexpected allies, they uncover far-reaching conspiracies, hidden magic, and a love that may be their undoing. In a palace built on unbelievable wealth and dangerous secrets, can Rachelle discover the truth and stop the fall of endless night?
Inspired by the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, Crimson Bound is an exhilarating tale of darkness, love, and redemption.
Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life—no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who’s pretty sure things can’t get worse. Her impossibly gorgeous best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to the mysterious powers of her soul-stealing kiss. The Warden clan that has always protected her is suddenly keeping dangerous secrets. And she can barely think about Roth, the wickedly hot demon prince who understood her in ways no one else could.
But sometimes rock bottom is only the beginning. Because suddenly Layla's powers begin to evolve, and she’s offered a tantalizing taste of what has always been forbidden. Then, when she least expects it, Roth returns, bringing news that could change her world forever. She’s finally getting what she always wanted, but with hell literally breaking loose and the body count adding up, the price may be higher than Layla is willing to pay…
How do you stop an epidemic?
Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. But they’re not out of danger. Huge pieces of their memories are still missing, and although Sloane and James have found their way back to each other, The Program isn’t ready to let them go.
Escaping with a group of troubled rebels, Sloane and James will have to figure out who they can trust, and how to take down The Program. But for as far as they’ve come, there’s still a lot Sloane and James can’t remember. The key to unlocking their past lies with the Treatment—a pill that can bring back forgotten memories, but at a high cost. And there’s only one dose.
Ultimately when the stakes are at their highest, can Sloane and James survive the many lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end?
There is.
She doesn't stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.
She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.
Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.
Retribution has arrived.
As sixteen-year-old Aidan Donovan’s fractured family disintegrates around him, he searches for solace in a few bumps of Adderall, his father’s wet bar, and the attentions of his local priest, Father Greg—the only adult who actually listens to him.
When Christmas hits, Aidan's world collapses in a crisis of trust when he recognizes the darkness of Father Greg's affections. He turns to a crew of new friends to help make sense of his life: Josie, the girl he just might love; Sophie, who’s a little wild; and Mark, the charismatic swim team captain whose own secret agonies converge with Aidan's.
The Gospel of Winter maps the ways love can be used as a weapon against the innocent—but can also, in the right hands, restore hope and even faith. Brendan Kiely's unflinching and courageous debut novel exposes the damage from the secrets we keep and proves that in truth, there is power. And real love.
From Allison van Diepen, author of Snitch and Street Pharm, comes a sexy, dangerous novel about a teen who witnesses a murder and gets caught up in the seedy world of Miami’s gangs.
Maddie Diaz never should have taken that shortcut through the park. If she hadn't, she wouldn't have seen two members of the Reyes gang attacking a homeless man. Now, as the only witness, she knows there’s a target on her back.
But when the Reyes jump her on the street, Maddie is protected by a second gang and their secretive leader, Lobo, who is determined to take down the Reyes himself. Lobo is mysterious and passionate, and Maddie begins to fall for him. But when they live this close to the edge, can their love survive?
On the Edge is a compelling story about fighting for what’s right and figuring out where you belong. The novel showcases a gritty, realistic voice and earth–shattering romance that will intrigue readers of Simone Elkeles and Paul Griffin and captivate fans of Allison van Diepen's other novels.
We just don't pay attention.
Until we do.
The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment.
Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be.
As Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone-a text Tyler sent, that could have changed everything.
Lex's brother is gone. But Lex is about to discover that a ghost doesn't have to be real to keep you from moving on.
From New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye is a gorgeous and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and letting go.
Sinner follows Cole St. Clair, a pivotal character from the #1 New York Times bestselling Shiver Trilogy. Everybody thinks they know Cole's story. Stardom. Addiction. Downfall. Disappearance. But only a few people know Cole's darkest secret -- his ability to shift into a wolf. One of these people is Isabel. At one point, they may have even loved each other. But that feels like a lifetime ago. Now Cole is back. Back in the spotlight. Back in the danger zone. Back in Isabel's life. Can this sinner be saved?
Max Cantrell has never been a big fan of the truth, so when the opportunity arises to sell lies to his classmates, it sounds like a good way to make a little money and liven up a boring senior year. With the help of his friends Preston and Parvati, Max starts a business providing forged permission slips and cover stories for the students of Vista Palisades High. Liars, Inc. they call it. Suddenly everybody needs something and the cash starts pouring in. Who knew lying could be so lucrative?
When Preston wants his own cover story to go visit a girl he met online, Max doesn’t think twice about hooking him up. Until Preston never comes home. Then the evidence starts to pile up—terrifying clues that lead the cops to Preston’s body. Terrifying clues that point to Max as the murderer.
Can Max find the real killer before he goes to prison for a crime he didn’t commit? Paula Stokes starts with one single white lie and weaves a twisted tale that will have readers guessing until the explosive final chapters.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Week 47 Review: Strange Skies
Action, adventure, and romance are heating up in this sequel to the futuristic science fiction thriller Burn Out. Perfect for fans of Across the Universe and The Memory of After.
Caelia is the new Earth. That's what the Consulate told everyone and, against all odds, Tora finally has made it there. She can't see the ocean from her cell in the Consulate's containment center, and she doesn't know what happened to the weapons her father died for and she's risked her life to save.
But as she plans her escape, she runs into the last person she ever expected to see-her dad. The Consulate has kept held him prisoner in a complicated plot designed to lure Tora out of hiding. Now Tora has a new purpose: break free, get the guns, and save her father.
But first she'll have to navigate a strange new planet, track down James (whose loyalties still remain questionable), and find Kale…before he finds her first.
My Review:
Loved reading this book, so soon after Burn Out, because while 3 months pass between the end of Burn Out and the start of this one, I didn't have that wait, and I didn't have to wait to read this one at all-I just had to make time! So good!
So things aren't so good for Tora at first. She's locked up by the Consulate, and they've been drugging her. And then someone turns out to have kept a bit of his story secret, though in the end, that ends up being helpful!
Turns out, that sometime during those 3 months, Tora and James escaped. Well, she tried. He actually made it. And then romance happens, and some explanations. Oh, and some hiding for Kale, because the bastard is hiding the guns. Even if he can't use them. I'm really enjoying hating him!
That ending! So heart-felt, because they were on a paradise, basically, and now they have to leave, to keep the others safe. And while they will come back, they are leaving. And it sucks! Especially seeing what they're leaving!
Favourite lines: "My long-term plan of finding Kale and the guns was toast if my short-term goal of walking didn't go so well." Yeah, it would be! "Because what could be more romantic than wearing the shirt of the guy who shot you?" I want his side of the story, first, though! "Good thing that Markus was part of the Resistance, otherwise I’d feel like the dumbest one around." Agreed! And especially with his talked about drunkenness!
Really enjoyed reading this book, and yeah, I really can't wait for the next book!
Author: Kristi Helvig
Series: Burn Out #2
Read: November 15th, 2014
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a 2014 Dystopia Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book!
Publisher: Egmont USA
Expected Publication: June 9th 2014
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Monday, November 10, 2014
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #179, November 10th
What happened in the past week:
Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #178
Teaser Tuesday #186
WWW Wednesday #186
WOW #183
Will the Time Come #179
Third Sentence Thursday #169
Random Reads #154
First Lines Friday #174
The Reward Challenge Update #164
Follow Friday #157
How Well I Stuck to It #8
Wrote that Review Update #13
Week 45 Reviews:
Luminosity
The Taking
Burn Out
Spell Check
The Face of Deception
After the End
Drums of Autumn
Tours:
Wild: Review
Hero by Night: Cover Review
Random:
We Have the Cover of Shadow Falls: After Dark #3!!!!
Dawn Metcalf Author Page
Debbie Viguie Author Page
Nancy Holder Author Page
Debra Driza Author Page
Demitria Lunetta Author Page
Diana Gabaldon Author Page
Diana Peterfreund Author Page
So this week I want to read Salvage, Red Queen, Beware the Wild, The Brokenhearted, The Invisible, In A Handful of Dust, Snow Like Ashes, The Scent of Shadows, The Fall, Take Back the Skies, The Emblazoned Red, Fuse, Death Sworn, Death Marked, The Fault in Our Stars, The Paris Mysteries, Glow, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, Holidays Are Hell Anthology, Forbidden, Originally Human, Mortal Danger, Polaris, Precious Blood, Passionaries, Air Bound, Stray, Wither, Anything to Have You, Exquisite Captive, Gabriel's Redemption, Viviane Divine Is Dead, My Last Kiss, Brutal Youth, Dead Time, After Anthology, Love is a Choice, Defy the Dark Anthology, Across the Universe, Angels & Demons, Blindsighted, Haunted, The Killing Game, The Rules for Breaking, Second Star, Divided, Nantucket Blue, Nantucket Red, Darker Still, Raven, The Prospective Princess, Afterworlds, The Things You Kiss Goodbye, 17 First Kisses, Maddie's Tattoo, Awaken,The Legacy of Eden, The Shack, Strange Skies, Ask Again Later, Rites of Passage, A Questionable Client, Magic Bites, Lord of Legends, The Fear Trials, The Murder Complex, Angel Fire, Angel Fever, Sunrise, White Space, Dead Over Heels, Blood Red Road, The Final Cut, and Wild.
A MERCILESS KILLER ON THE HUNT ... AN INNOCENT CHILD IN HIS SIGHTS ... A WOMAN DRIVEN TO THE EDGE TO STOP HIM ...
The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she'll insist on identifying the nine skeletons unearthed on a bluff near Georgia's Talladega Falls. He knows she won't be able to resist the temptation of believing that one of those skeletons might be her daughter's. But that is only the beginning of the killer's sadistic game. He wants Eve one on one, and he'll use his ace in the hole to make sure she complies. And he won't stop playing until he claims the prize he wants most: Eve's life.
This is the complete Steampunk Fantasy novel - all four parts of the serial in one volume! Also includes bonus features not found in the episodes ~
Human life has value.
The poor living in the gutter are as valuable as the rich living in a manor.
The scoundrel is no less valuable than the saint.
Because of this, every life a reaper takes must be redeemed.
Raven has lived by this first tenet since she was trained by her father to become a reaper. But since his death, she’s been spending years redeeming the lives she’s taken. By her count, she’s even and it’s time for that life to end. If she settles down and becomes a wife, she might just feel human again. But on the way to the life she thinks she wants, the baron of New Haven asks her to complete a task which she cannot ignore… Just when Raven decides to give up on her life as an assassin, she’s pulled right back in.
Giving up the beautiful Lady Brislyn is only the first step toward Commander Marchant saving her from Darkness—and then winning her heart.
A MAN AMONG PRINCES
Five years ago Lady Brislyn of Komissa fell in love. Five years ago her heart was broken, never to be mended. But when one careless act finds her abducted by marauders and forcibly betrothed to a seductive enemy prince, there’s only one man she can count on to free her: Her father’s brilliant—and devastatingly handsome—military commander. The very man who rejected her.
Five years ago, Commander Marchant rebuffed the fifteen-year-old daughter of his duke. Now she is a woman grown, a Gifted musician whose song captured his heart. Yet Brislyn is not so easily reclaimed. To save her from one royal suitor, he must make a show of engaging her to another. Then March will rescue the kidnapped lady or die in the perilous journey to reach her. If he can survive the storms, the pirates, and the princes, he will win back Brislyn’s heart.
Action, adventure, and romance are heating up in this sequel to the futuristic science fiction thriller Burn Out. Perfect for fans of Across the Universe and The Memory of After.
Caelia is the new Earth. That's what the Consulate told everyone and, against all odds, Tora finally has made it there. She can't see the ocean from her cell in the Consulate's containment center, and she doesn't know what happened to the weapons her father died for and she's risked her life to save.
But as she plans her escape, she runs into the last person she ever expected to see-her dad. The Consulate has kept held him prisoner in a complicated plot designed to lure Tora out of hiding. Now Tora has a new purpose: break free, get the guns, and save her father.
But first she'll have to navigate a strange new planet, track down James (whose loyalties still remain questionable), and find Kale…before he finds her first.
The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she'll insist on identifying the nine skeletons unearthed on a bluff near Georgia's Talladega Falls. He knows she won't be able to resist the temptation of believing that one of those skeletons might be her daughter's. But that is only the beginning of the killer's sadistic game. He wants Eve one on one, and he'll use his ace in the hole to make sure she complies. And he won't stop playing until he claims the prize he wants most: Eve's life.
Human life has value.
The poor living in the gutter are as valuable as the rich living in a manor.
The scoundrel is no less valuable than the saint.
Because of this, every life a reaper takes must be redeemed.
Raven has lived by this first tenet since she was trained by her father to become a reaper. But since his death, she’s been spending years redeeming the lives she’s taken. By her count, she’s even and it’s time for that life to end. If she settles down and becomes a wife, she might just feel human again. But on the way to the life she thinks she wants, the baron of New Haven asks her to complete a task which she cannot ignore… Just when Raven decides to give up on her life as an assassin, she’s pulled right back in.
A MAN AMONG PRINCES
Five years ago Lady Brislyn of Komissa fell in love. Five years ago her heart was broken, never to be mended. But when one careless act finds her abducted by marauders and forcibly betrothed to a seductive enemy prince, there’s only one man she can count on to free her: Her father’s brilliant—and devastatingly handsome—military commander. The very man who rejected her.
Five years ago, Commander Marchant rebuffed the fifteen-year-old daughter of his duke. Now she is a woman grown, a Gifted musician whose song captured his heart. Yet Brislyn is not so easily reclaimed. To save her from one royal suitor, he must make a show of engaging her to another. Then March will rescue the kidnapped lady or die in the perilous journey to reach her. If he can survive the storms, the pirates, and the princes, he will win back Brislyn’s heart.
Caelia is the new Earth. That's what the Consulate told everyone and, against all odds, Tora finally has made it there. She can't see the ocean from her cell in the Consulate's containment center, and she doesn't know what happened to the weapons her father died for and she's risked her life to save.
But as she plans her escape, she runs into the last person she ever expected to see-her dad. The Consulate has kept held him prisoner in a complicated plot designed to lure Tora out of hiding. Now Tora has a new purpose: break free, get the guns, and save her father.
But first she'll have to navigate a strange new planet, track down James (whose loyalties still remain questionable), and find Kale…before he finds her first.
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Week 45 Review: Burn Out
Most people want to save the world; seventeen-year-old Tora Reynolds just wants to get the hell off of it. One of the last survivors in Earth's final years, Tora yearns to escape the wasteland her planet has become after the sun turns "red giant," but discovers her fellow survivors are even deadlier than the hostile environment.
Holed up in an underground shelter, Tora is alone--her brilliant scientist father murdered, her mother and sister burned to death. She dreams of living on a planet with oceans, plants, and animals. Unfortunately, the oceans dried out ages ago, the only plants are giant cacti with deadly spines, and her pet, Trigger, is a gun--one of the bio-energetic weapons her father created for the government before his conscience kicked in.
When family friend, Markus, arrives with mercenaries to take the weapons by force, Tora's fury turns to fear when government ships descend in an attempt to kill them all. She forges an unlikely alliance with Markus and his rag-tag group of raiders, including a smart but quiet soldier named James. Tora must quickly figure out who she can trust, as she must choose between saving herself by giving up the guns or honoring her father's request to save humanity from the most lethal weapons in existence.
My Review:
I really enjoyed this book! I wasn't expecting to read it, but when I finished another book on my nook, it cleared up space on the reading bar, and this one popped up, and yeah, I'd been meaning to read it sometimes, so yeah, I started to read it!
Tora has not had it easy! First her mom and sister die just outside their home-and it's sad, when we find out why-and then the government kills her dad. And then she was left alone, thinking she was the only one alive on Earth.
And then Markus, and a gang of a few others, go looking for the guns, which her dad made for the government, supposedly for peace-keeping, but there was a sinister purpose to it it, which is why her dad moved them out to an isolated bunker-and why they killed him-because he didn't want them to get their hands on the guns! So he made sure that it was only Tora's frequency that could operate the guns. And then it turns out that James has the same frequency as Tora. Which kinda sucks for everyone!
A funny thing about this, is that when I was reading it, I thought it was longer than it was-because there were over 500 pages in the file. And as I was reading it, it finished, and I looked through-there were 2 copies of the book in the ARC. So cute!
Really enjoyed this book, can't wait for the sequel, which has some twists right in it's synopsis! I can't wait!
Author: Kristi Helvig
Series: Burn Out #1
Read: November 2nd, 2014
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded good, and it's a 2014 Dystopia Book, DAC book and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2014 Book!
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: April 8th 2014
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