Rachel Ward Author Page

The Story: I found The Chaos at the library, and it looked so fantastic! And I enjoyed it a ton! Though I do wish I'd read the first book first! But oh, well, read it, and enjoyed it, and yeah, can't wait to read the rest of the series!

Website

Series: Num8ers, The Drowning.

Num8ers: Num8ers and her site, my review, The Chaos and her site, my review, Infinity and her site, my review.

The Drowning: The Drowning and her site, my review, Water Born and her site, my review.

Will the Time Come #115, August 15th

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:

The mind-blowing conclusion to the chilling NUMBERS trilogy: Because everyone wants to live forever.

No matter what it takes, Sarah's desperate to escape from the numbers.

Always numbers. Sarah loves Adam, but can't bear the thought that every time he looks in her eyes, he can see her dying; can see her last day.

It's 2029. Two years since the Chaos. Sarah and Adam are struggling to survive. She knows he always envisioned them together "'til death do us part." But will a child come between them? The child she loves. The child he saved.

Little Mia was supposed to die that New Year's Day. The numbers don't lie. But somehow she changed her date. Mia's just a baby, oblivious to her special power. But ruthless people are hunting her down, determined to steal her secret.

Because everyone wants to live forever. 

Why the time hasn't come yet...
I don't have a copy, and it's been a little while since I read the first two books, so yeah, I don't know, but I want to read it! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #27, December 12th

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 #26 
Teaser Tuesday #35
WWW Wednesday #35
WOW #31
Will the Time Come #27
Third Sentence Thursday #18
Random Reads #2
First Lines Friday #23
A-Z Reading Challenge Update #23
Follow that Blurb Reading Challenge Update #24
The Reward Challenge Round 15
Follow Friday #5
In My Mailbox #27
I Have An Update #25

Week 49 Reviews:
Killer Heat
A Beautiful Dark
Lost in Time
Beautiful Creatures
Radiance
If I Die
Stay
The Scorpio Races
All You Desire
White Cat
Num8ers
Give Up the Ghost
Jane
Possessed
Fallen
Eve

So I got 31 posts in 7 days. Yeah, I read a lot of books, so thus, a lot of posts! I read 17 books, I read Echo Falls just after Lost in Time, and it had it's review up early last Monday. Yep.

So this week, I want to read Silence, Goliath, Red Glove, Tempest Rising, The Hidden, Sapphique, Beautiful Darkness, and Eon. Yep. Plus everything else, have some review books I want read, and ebooks, nano, PDFs, ext.

Currently Listening to: Wake Up by Hillary Duff
Currently Reading: Tempest Rising
Currently Watching: True Blood

The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for—and their love—forever.

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they weren’t technically enemies. 

The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is at it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s brilliant trilogy.

Curses and cons. Magic and the mob. In Cassel Sharpe's world, they go together. Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth—he’s the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can transform anything—or anyone—into something else. 

That was how Lila, the girl he loved, became a white cat. Cassel was tricked into thinking he killed her, when actually he tried to save her. Now that she's human again, he should be overjoyed. Trouble is, Lila's been cursed to love him, a little gift from his emotion worker mom. And if Lila's love is as phony as Cassel's made-up memories, then he can't believe anything she says or does. 

When Cassel's oldest brother is murdered, the Feds recruit Cassel to help make sense of the only clue—crime-scene images of a woman in red gloves. But the mob is after Cassel too—they know how valuable he could be to them. Cassel is going to have to stay one step ahead of both sides just to survive. But where can he turn when he can't trust anyone—least of all, himself? 

Love is a curse and the con is the only answer in a game too dangerous to lose.

Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.

A love that knows no bounds. 

Abbey knows that Caspian is her destiny. Theirs is a bond that transcends even death. But as Abbey finally learns the full truth about the dark fate that links her to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, she suddenly has some very hard choices to make. Caspian may be the love of her life, but is that love worth dying for? 

Beautifully spun, emotionally gripping, and irresistibly romantic, The Hidden will leave you breathless.

The only one who escaped . . . And the one who could destroy them all.

Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn’s escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules of Protocol, which require all people to live without technology. To Finn, Outside is just a prison of another kind, especially when Claudia, the daughter of the prison’s warden, declares Finn the lost heir to the throne. When another claimant emerges, both Finn’s and Claudia’s very lives hang on Finn convincing the Court of something that even he doesn’t fully believe.

Meanwhile, Finn’s oathbrother Keiro and his friend Attia are still trapped inside Incarceron. They are searching for a magical glove, which legend says Sapphique used to escape. To find it, they must battle the prison itself, because Incarceron wants the glove too.

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he'll be able to apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But he also has a dark secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been living a dangerous lie for the chance to become a Dragon-eye, the human link to an energy dragon's power. It is forbidden for females to practice the Dragon Magic and, if discovered, Eon faces a terrible death. After a dazzling sword ceremony, Eon's affinity with the twelve dragons catapults him into the treacherous world of the Imperial court, where he makes a powerful enemy, Lord Ido. As tension builds and Eon's desperate lie comes to light, readers won't be able to stop turning the pages...

Week 49 Review: Num8ers

From Goodreads:
Since her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else's, a number pops into her head - the date on which they will die. Knowing that nothing lasts forever, Jem avoids relationships, but when she meets a boy called Spider, and they plan a day out together, her life takes a new twist and turn. Waiting for the London Eye, she sees everyone in the queue has the same number - something terrible is going to happen.

My Review:
It was weird reading this book. I'd already read The Chaos, book 2, before I read this one, so I knew some of the events in this book, but not how they happened, or anything. So it was really nice to read that. It added to the series, and it added to the reading. I really enjoyed that!

I loved that this one was different for The Chaos, which had 2 narrators, this one only had Jem as a narrator, and that fit the book, because she was the main character, not one that got wrapped up, and was really important.

This one was sad like The Chaos, but less so, because the world is pretty much the same in this one, and yeah, that was really good.

I loved this book, so I hope you guys check it out. I know I say that every time, but it's true. There's just a whole lot of great books out there to read, and I them almost all of them!

Author: Rachel Ward
Series: Num8ers #1
Read: December 8th, 2011
Source: Library
Reason Why: Read book 2, wanted to see his mom's perspective.
Publisher: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Published: January 5th 2009

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4/5 Stars

Week 46 Review: The Chaos

From Goodreads:
The curse of the NUM8ERS continues in Rachel Ward's CHA0T1C, earth-shattering sequel!

Adam has more than inherited his mother's curse: When he looks in someone's eyes, he not only sees the date of their death...he feels the searing, shocking pain of it. Since Jem died, Adam has lived by the sea with his great-grandmother, Val. But when rising tides flood the coast, they return to London. The city is an alien, exciting, frightening place. Most disturbing of all, Adam can't help but clock how many people's numbers are in January 2027; how many are on New Year's Day. What chaos awaits the world? Can he and Sarah stop a catastrophe? Or are they, too, counted among the "twenty-sevens"?

My Review:
What a horrible world with some really wonderful characters, or horrible characters! Loved it! They lived in a terrible world, and they either let it destroy them, or they fought back, and then kept going. And that strength, even faced with almost insurmountable odds, that they just kept going, well, that was pretty amazing to me.

I loved the reactions to his "power" whether they found out by accident, which ended badly for all involved, including Adam, to him intentionally telling them, which saved lives. Even if it wasn't as many as he wanted, he still did save some. And that was really good! Loved that!

Loved how Adam and Sarah were together, because she had gone through some really horrible things, and she still made it out, and she had Mia without painkillers, she was very strong! And her dream, that complicated things between them, and when it actually happened, it was better then she thought, because he didn't take Mia, she gave him Mia, and that made a world of difference for her.

I just loved this book, really great, must read book 1,and book 3 when it comes out! Now go check it out!

Author: Rachel Ward
Series: Numbers #2
Read: November 13th-14th, 2011
Source: Library
Reason Reading: Love the cover, and the synopsis!
Publisher: The Chicken House
Published: June 7th 2010

4/5 Hearts

3/5 Books

3/5 Stars