Showing posts with label Theresa Kay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theresa Kay. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2015

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #190, January 26th

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 #189
Teaser Tuesday #197
WWW Wednesday #197
WOW #194
Will the Time Come #190
Third Sentence Thursday #180
Random Reads #165
First Lines Friday #184
The Reward Challenge Update #175
Follow Friday #168
How Well I Stuck to It #19
Wrote that Review Update #24

Week 4 Reviews:
Blindsighted
The Final Cut
Glow
Unfinished
Unstrung
Excavation
Tease

Tours:
Broken Skies: Review
Bridges Burned: Review

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Random:
Jon S. Lewis Author Page
Jordan Dane Author Page
Jordanda Frankel Author Page
Joy N. Hensley Author Page
Julia Karr Author Page
Julianna Baggot Author Page
Julie Cross Author Page
Juliet Dark Author Page
Jus Accardo Author Page
Karen Akins Author Page
Karen Ann Hopkins Author Page
Karen Erickson Author Page
Theresa Kay Author Page
KissCon Info
We Have the Titles of Fever #8 and 9!!!!
Sarah Dessen Author Page
Victoria Foyt Author Page
Karen Finneyfrock Author Page
Karen Healey Author Page
Karen Kincy Author Page
Karen Mahoney Author Page
Karin Slaughter Author Page
Karsten Knight Author Page
Kasey Michaels Author Page
Kasie West Author Page
Kassy Taylor Author Page
Kat Beyer Author Page
We Have the Cover of The Malediction Trilogy #2!!!!
We Have the Title of Thrown of Glass #4!!!!
Kat Zhang Author Page
Kate Karyus Quinn Author Page
Katharine Ashe Author Page
Kathleen Peacock Author Page
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Author Page
Kathyrn Miller Haines Author Page
Katie Kacvinsky Author Page
Katie McGarry Author Page
Kelly Creagh Author Page
Kelly Hunter Author Page
Kelly Keaton Author Page
Kendare Blake Author Page
It Does Not Say Do Not Take My Name In Any Way At All
Jessica Warman Author Page
Lola James Author Page
Deb Caletti Author Page
Cheryl Rainfield Author Page
Kenneth Oppel Author Page
Kiki Hamilton Author Page
Kim Harrington Author Page
Kirsten Miller Author Page

OK, so I got 132 posts in 7 days, which is a lot, and I'm tired, but I got a lot of reviews and author pages done, so yeah! Need to read more, though! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read The Murder Wall, Settled Blood, Deadly Deceit, Night of a Thousand Stars, I Want It That Way, As Long As You Love Me, The Shape of My Heart, The Lost Symbol, Burn, Haunted, Beautiful Redemption, On the Edge, Moonset, Spark, Second Star, Divided, Salvage, Amazonia, Gone Girl, Forbidden, Anatomy of a Misfit, In Time, Never Fade, Feral, Wicked Games, and The Prey.
New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn returns with a Jazz Age tale of grand adventure

On the verge of a stilted life as an aristocrat's wife, Poppy Hammond does the only sensible thing—she flees the chapel in her wedding gown. Assisted by the handsome curate who calls himself Sebastian Cantrip, she spirits away to her estranged father's quiet country village, pursued by the family she left in uproar. But when the dust of her broken engagement settles and Sebastian disappears under mysterious circumstances, Poppy discovers there is more to her hero than it seems.

With only her feisty lady's maid for company, Poppy secures employment and travels incognita—east across the seas, chasing a hunch and the whisper of clues. Danger abounds beneath the canopies of the silken city, and Poppy finds herself in the perilous sights of those who will stop at nothing to recover a fabled ancient treasure. Torn between allegiance to her kindly employer and a dashing, shadowy figure, Poppy will risk it all as she attempts to unravel a much larger plan—one that stretches to the very heart of the British government, and one that could endanger everything, and everyone, that she holds dear.

"Raybourn skillfully balances humor and earnest, deadly drama, creating well-drawn characters and a rich setting." —Publishers Weekly on Dark Road to Darjeeling
Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His planned lecture is interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. When his mentor Peter Solomon—a longstanding Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth . . . all under the watchful eye of Dan Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced story with surprises at every turn--Brown's most exciting novel yet.
The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world’s most inhospitable rainforest—a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing . . . and came out with both intact. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed-of perils to follow the trail of his vanished father . . . toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost. But the nightmare that is awaiting Nate and his team of scientists and seasoned U.S. Rangers dwarfs any danger they anticipated . . . an ancient, unspoken terror—a power beyond human imagining—that can forever alter the world beyond the dark, lethal confines of Amazonia.
A hot debut trilogy and a riveting story of survival, courage, and romance in a future where creating a master civilization is the only thing prized, no matter the method. After the Omega (the end of the end), 16 year old guys known as LTs discover their overseers are raising them not to be soldiers (lieutenants) as promised, but to be sold as bait because of their Less Than status and hunted for sport. They escape and join forces with a girls’ camp, the Sisters, who have been imprisoned and experimented on for the "good of the Republic," by a government eager to use twins in their dark research. In their plight for freedom, these heroes must find the best in themselves to fight against the worst in their enemies.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Broken Skies: Review

From Goodreads:
Thirty years ago, civilization collapsed. Few survived.
Ten years ago, the aliens arrived…and stayed.
One year ago, I killed two men and went a little crazy.
Today, the aliens took my brother and I will do anything to get him back.

In seventeen-year-old Jax Mitchell's world, humans are nearly extinct and alien settlers have arrived.

Until recently, the E’rikon have remained segregated in their city and ignored the few humans who have tried to engage them… but now they have taken Jax’s brother. To rescue him, she forms an uneasy alliance with a teenage E’rikon left stranded in the woods. She agrees to guide him to the city if he sneaks her past the human-proof barrier. Too bad it’s not that simple.

Jax, who cannot stand to be touched, finds that she’s drawn to the alien boy with bright green hair and jewel-like scales down his back. And he’s equally affected by her, the courageous redhead with haunted eyes. But she doesn’t know the alien’s true motives and he has no idea that she is much more than she seems.

In this world where alien and human are at odds, the connection forming between the two has consequences. What started off as a rescue mission sets a chain of events in motion which threatens not only the remaining humans and the growing alien society, but Earth itself. 

My Review:
I enjoyed this book so much! It could've gone darker then what I like, but it stayed within my limits, so yeah, I enjoyed it a lot! This was a really great start to the series, a great kick off, and I'm excited to see where it's going to go next!

This is a series. And it's about humans and aliens, and teens from opposite species who fall in love. So I'm really hoping that it doesn't go in the way that Starcrossed was planned to, if it hand't cancelled, and eventually had the two of them end up with other people. Because that would be disappointing, we put a lot into the relationship between Jax and Lir!

I enjoyed watching Jax and Lir interact, because Lir's species came to earth, and yeah, it is the humans home, and humans and E'rikon haven't really interacted before now. So that was really interesting to read about!

Talk about a cliffhanger ending! So much happens, so much is revealed-but at least Jax rescues her brother. That's a positive. But some of the revelations, well, seeing as it's a series, are going to have consequences, and I want to know what they are!

This was a really fantastic book, I enjoyed it so much, and I can't wait for Fractured Suns!

Author: Theresa Kay
Series: Broken Skies #1
Read: January 20th, 2015
Source: Barclay Publication Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded good! And it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2015 Book!
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: January 13th 2015
5/5 Hearts
4/5 Books
4/5 Stars
Bio:
The only person she knows who had a subscription to Writer's Digest at eleven and was always excited to write research papers, Theresa has been putting words to paper since a young age. Living in the mountains of central Virginia with her husband and two kids, she works as a paralegal by day, binges on Netflix at night and finds bits of time in between reading almost everything she can get her hands on and laundry to craft stories that tend to feature broken characters in sci-fi or paranormal worlds, with a touch of romance thrown in for good measure.

She's constantly lost in one fictional universe or another and is a self-proclaimed "fangirl" who loves being sucked in to new books or TV shows. Theresa originally wanted to write horror novels as an ode to her childhood passion for Stephen King novels, but between her internal Muse's ramblings and the constant praise for her sci-fi pieces from her writer's group - The Rebel Writers - she knew she should stick with what was working.

Contact and Buy AKA Links:

WWW Wednesday #197, January 21st

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 for starting this meme!

I'm currently reading Excavating, and loving rereading it!
I'm reading Tease as well, and it's really making me think about bullying!
 I read Broken Skies, and it was just so good! I enjoyed it a lot!
I'm going to be reading Wild, and I can't wait, it looks really good!

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Theresa Kay Author Page

The Story: I was part of the tour for Broken Skies, and yeah, it was just such a fascinating and interesting book, and I was just so entertaining by it, and I can't wait for more books!

Website

Series: Broken Skies.

Broken Skies: Broken Skies and her site, my review, Fractured Suns and her site, Shattered Stars and her site.