Showing posts with label Martin Leicht. Show all posts
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Monday, March 18, 2019

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #406, March 18th

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 #405
Teaser Tuesday #413
WWW Wednesday #413
WOW #409
Will the Time Come #406
Third Sentence Thursday #396
Random Reads #382
First Lines Friday #409
The Reward Challenge Update #391
Book Blogger Hop #75
How Well I Stuck to It #243
Wrote that Review Update #240

Week 11 Reviews:
Rolling in the Deep
Into the Drowning Deep
Mothership
A Stranger Thing
OK, so I got 18 posts in 7 days, I read a decent amount and had a pretty good week. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Broken Souls, Hungry Ghosts, Burn, Good Omens, and In Another Life.

Sister murdered, best friend dead, married to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte. Necromancer Eric Carter's return to Los Angeles hasn't gone well, and it's about to get even worse.

His link to the Aztec death goddess is changing his powers, changing him, and he's not sure how far it will go. He's starting to question his own sanity, wonder if he's losing his mind. No mean feat for a guy who talks to the dead on a regular basis.

While searching for a way to break Santa Muerte's hold over him, Carter finds himself the target of a psychopath who can steal anyone's form, powers, and memories. Identity theft is one thing, but this guy does it by killing his victims and wearing their skins like a suit. He can be anyone. He can be anywhere.

Now Carter has to change the game -- go from hunted to hunter. All he has for help is a Skid Row bruja and a ghost who's either his dead friend Alex or the manifestation of Carter's own guilt-fueled psychotic break.

Everything is trying to kill him. Nothing is as it seems. If all his plans go perfectly, he might survive the week.

He's hoping that's a good thing.
Necromancer Eric Carter's problems keep getting bigger.

Bad enough he's the unwilling husband to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte, but now her ex, the Aztec King of the dead, Mictlantecuhtli has come back and it turns out that Carter and he are swapping places. As Mictlantecuhtli breaks loose of his prison of jade Carter is slowly turning to stone.

To make matters worse both gods are trying to get Carter to assassinate the other, but only one of them can be telling him the truth. And whichever god is left standing Carter's likely to suffer the consequences.

Carter's solution? Kill them both.

If he wants to get out of this situation with his soul intact he'll have to go to Mictlan, the Aztec land of the dead, and take down a couple of death gods while facing down the worst the place has to offer him: his own sins.
It's the End of the World as We Know It…

Nava has come a long way from being a hot mess flying solo. She's now one of the major players on the chessboard, leading the charge against a witch with dark magic, a power-mad rabbi, and the impending apocalypse.

Friends will die and secrets will be exposed. Add imprisonment, torture, and the biggest, baddest demon of them all who has plans for her, and it's a lot for a girl to take in.

Time to rally the troops and make her last stand, because she's damned if she'll let the end of the world get in the way of her romantic, sexytimes galore, happily-ever-after.

It's trial by fire.

Burn, baby, burn.

The heart-pounding final installment to the series.
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
What would you do if your whole life was a lie and learning the truth could cost you your life?

From New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow Falls series comes C. C. Hunter's new YA thriller about a girl who learns that she may have been kidnapped as a child, and must race to uncover the truth about her past before she winds up a victim.

Chloe was three years old when she became Chloe Holden, but her adoption didn't scar her, and she's had a great life. Now, fourteen years later, her loving parents' marriage has fallen apart and her mom has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Starting twelfth grade as the new kid at school, everything Chloe loved about her life is gone. And feelings of déjà vu from her early childhood start haunting her.

When Chloe meets Cash Colton she feels drawn to him, as though they're kindred spirits. Until Cash tells her the real reason he sought her out: Chloe looks exactly like the daughter his foster parents lost years ago, and he’s determined to figure out the truth.

As Chloe and Cash delve deeper into her adoption, the more things don't add up, and the more strange things start happening. Why is Chloe's adoption a secret that people would kill for?

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Week 11 Reviews: Mothership, A Stranger Thing, The World Forgot



From Goodreads:
Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole—and now she's pregnant.

Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the ship—and one of them turns out to be Cole. She hasn't seen him since she told him she's pregnant, and now he's bursting into her new home to tell her that her teachers are aliens and want to use her unborn baby to repopulate their species? Nice try, buddy. You could have just called.

So fine, finding a way off this ship is priority number one, but first Elvie has to figure out how Cole ended up as a commando, work together with her arch-nemesis, and figure out if she even wants to be a mother—assuming they get back to Earth in one piece.

From Goodreads:
In this witty, adventurous sequel to Mothership, which Publishers Weekly called "a whole lot of fun" Elvie Nara is back on earth—but her life (including her new baby) is still pretty out there!

Pregnancy was pretty rough for sixteen-year-old Elvie Nara, what with the morning sickness, constant food cravings, and the alien race war she found herself in the middle of. But if she thought giving birth to an extraterrestrial's baby would be the hard part, she was sorely mistaken.

After Elvie somehow has a baby girl, the always-male Almiri completely wig out. Suddenly Elvie's supposed allies have shipped her—along with her father, her best friend, Ducky, and her maybe-boyfriend, boneheaded Almiri commando Cole Archer—off to a remote "retention facility" (aka alien jail) in Antarctica. Talk about cold. But things really get complicated when a new group of hybrid aliens arrive with information that sends Elvie's world spinning. Before long, Elvie is trekking across the bottom of the Earth with a band of friends and frenemies to uncover the secrets of her own origin. Will Elvie ever be able to convince the Almiri that a conspiracy to conquer the planet is a greater threat than a sixteen-year-old girl and a newborn who won't stop crying?

From Goodreads:
In this hilarious, action-packed conclusion to The Ever-Expanding Universe trilogy, teen mom Elvie Nara is on a quest across the universe to save her daughter (and maybe stop an alien race war in the process).

After dealing with killer whales, evil scientists, the return of her long-lost mother and, certainly not least of all, the challenges of breastfeeding, Elvie Nara has just about had it. And then the Jin'Kai (along with the aforementioned estranged mom) kidnap her baby.

And before she knows it, another Jin'Kai attack puts her on the run again, but not before discovering that Olivia was implanted with a genetic tracking device. So along with Cole, Ducky, and her dad, Elvie goes back out into space to follow the signal. There she finds evil Dr. Marsden up to some evil tricks and realizes that Mars may hold the secret to defeating her enemies once and for all. So, off to Mars she goes. Because alien race war aside, Elvie really wants to be back with her daughter. For a kid she wasn't even sure she wanted, Olivia has come to mean the world to Elvie—and she'll search the universe to be with her again.

My first reveiw of Mothership
My Review:
Wow, these books were just hilarious to read! I loved them so much, they were such easy reads, in that I read all 3 in one day, even when I was having a migraine and so was sleeping a lot of the day, too.  Such great books!

I remembered the big beats about Mothership, but it was really great to read it again, because it's just that good! A Stranger Thing, we got to meet new characters, like Zee, and then in The World Forgot, we met Chloe. Both are very important in different, but similar, ways! Loved all the developments that happened as I read through this series!

I really enjoyed the way that things ended. It was a fairly intellectual battle in the end, and I enjoyed the moves that Elvie made! Then half of the group, going off into the galaxy to track the bad guys, yeah, pretty hopeful ending, that has spin off potential, even now, almost 4 years after the 3rd book was published. I'm hopeful for more!

There are still a few questions that I have, some more important than others. Like what was Captain Max real name? And then there's the time where Elvie saw Britta in A Stranger Thing, and then she was a prisoner of Dr. Marsden. So what happened there? Also, I wish we could've see the rest of the teen moms in the other books, because there were some characters, like Natty and Heather!

Really enjoyed this series, it was a great read, and yeah, I wouldn't mind more!

Authors: Martin Leicht and Isla Neal
Series: Ever-Expanding Universe #1, 2, 3
First Read: December 8th, 2015
Read: March 10th, 10th, 10th, 2019
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2019 Books! And The World Forgot is a End of Series 2019 Book!
Publisher: Saga Press
Published: July 10th 2012, November 12th 2013, April 14th 2015

Mothership:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








A Stranger Thing:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








The World Forgot:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Week 50 Review: Mothership

From Goodreads:
Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole—and now she's pregnant.

Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the ship—and one of them turns out to be Cole. She hasn't seen him since she told him she's pregnant, and now he's bursting into her new home to tell her that her teachers are aliens and want to use her unborn baby to repopulate their species? Nice try, buddy. You could have just called.

So fine, finding a way off this ship is priority number one, but first Elvie has to figure out how Cole ended up as a commando, work together with her arch-nemesis, and figure out if she even wants to be a mother—assuming they get back to Earth in one piece.

My Review:
Such a great book! I enjoyed it so much, it was hilarious, though in reviews of the next two books, that this is the best of the series, that it gets worse, but I'm going to be optimistic! Though it is going to be hard to top the awesomeness that was this book!

The format of this book was to have a portion of the book in the current time, with Elvie pregnant on the ship, and then when things got going, leave it on a cliffhanger, and then going back to important bits that lead her to being on the ship. Which was informative and annoying that we got taken away from the action, which made me read faster!

Elvie was just a really awesome character! She was smart, she knew what she wanted, and she was strong, she got through being 16 and pregnant, pretty much on her own besides her best friend Ducky and her dad, who was so funny with his preparations for crises!

The whole world of aliens and baby switching and infertile moms after alien babies, it was interesting, if not great for the moms, who were chosen, and that totally sucks, because they're so young. But then there was the life and death stuff, as well as the shocker that Elvie had a daughter!

Really great book, hilarious, and I can't wait to read more!

Authors: Martin Leicht and Isla Neal
Series: Ever-Expanding Universe #1
Read: December 8th, 2015
Source: Bought
Reason Why: Sounded really fantastic, and it's a 2015 Dystopian Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2015 Book!
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: July 10th 2012
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars