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Friday, October 26, 2018

Book Blogger Hop #55, October 26th

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer's permission, I relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here!

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is: Recommend one horror novel for non-horror readers.
(submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

This is hard, because I'm more of a non-horror reader. I know I have some favourites, but I can't think of any of the top of my head. I just read Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda, which was so fantastic! Undead and Unfed by Kirsty McKay, which were great zombie books. Savage and Monstrous by Thomas E. Sniegoski, which was just so thrilling! Dreamfall by Amy Plum, yeah, the horror is strong in this one, I mean, nightmares! Relic by Gretchen McNeil, it was that inevitable horror, you know? (I had to search horror of my blog to find these books!) What about you guys? Happy reading!

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Emergency Review-a-Thon Update 10

OK, so I've written my next review, Monstrous, and I'm going to review Mind Games next!

Reviewed: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done, This Is Where the World Ends, The Mystery of Hollow Places, Masked, The Here and Now, Just Kill Me, Spectacle, Songs About a Girl, Monstrous.

Week 34: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done, The Mystery of Hollow Places.

Goal: 65
Reviews: 9

Emergency Review-a-Thon Update 9

OK, so I've written my next review, Songs About a Girl, and I'm going to review Monstrous next!

Reviewed: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done, This Is Where the World Ends, The Mystery of Hollow Places, Masked, The Here and Now, Just Kill Me, Spectacle, Songs About a Girl.

Week 34: A Deeper Darkness, Edge of Black, When Shadows Fall, What Lies Behind, These Things I've Done, The Mystery of Hollow Places.

Goal: 65
Reviews: 9

Monday, June 5, 2017

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #313, June 5th

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 #312
Teaser Tuesday #320
WWW Wednesday #320
WOW #317
Will the Time Come #311
Third Sentence Thursday #302
Random Reads #288
First Lines Friday #316
The Reward Challenge Update #298
Follow Friday #290
How Well I Stuck to It #150
Wrote that Review Update #147

Week 22 Reviews:
Before the Dawn
The Caretaker
The Cage
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie
Dare You
This Is Where the World Ends
The Here and Now
Just Kill Me
Spectacle
Songs About a Girl
Monstrous
Mind Games
The Beast is a Monster
Seeker
The Afterlife of Holly Chase
Last Breath

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge:
Update 14
Update 15
Update 16
Update 17
Update 18
Update 19
Update 20
Update 21
Update 22
Update 23
Update 24
Update 25 and Wrap Up

Random:
We Have the Cover of Lock & Mori #3!!!!
We Have the Cover of Torpedo Ink #1!!!!
Cynthia Eden Author Page

OK, so I got posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read The Hunt, My Summer Job, Reset, and Royal Replica.

Siobhan Murphy is an average teenager: smart, hardworking, ambitious… and a bit of smart aleck. She has a terrific family and great friends. She also has out of control curly red hair, freckles on top of her freckles and a less than model like body. Siobhan has decided that this is her year to land the perfect summer job—a job that pays a ton of money, is a lot of fun, and will give her valuable experience to add to her resume.

After a chance encounter with the very stylish Natasha Romanoff, Siobhan is offered a job as her assistant. What she doesn’t realize, until she actually starts work, is that the very stylish Natasha runs an escort service.

Her job is pretty uncomplicated: type letters, book appointments, walk Natasha’s massive pair of Great Danes… the usual. But then Natasha and Lucius—her former husband and current business associate – ask Siobhan to befriend a couple of the escorts whom they suspect of indulging in a little hanky-panky on the side. Strictly against agency rules, BTW. Always game for an adventure Siobhan puts on her Sherlock Holmes hat and befriends the girls, but what Siobhan—along with her bestie and fellow sleuth, Marcy—discover is that there’s an awful lot more than just hanky-panky going on.

As the surrogate daughter of the Duke and Duchess of the 24th Ward, seventeen-year-old Victoria Sandalwood should look forward to days filled with the luxury of high society. Instead, she must settle for a cellar closet and is subjected to the abuse of the Duke—Master Ramsay.

Victoria's life is about to change with the chance meeting of the gorgeous and charismatic Kale. Besides the fact that she's kept under lock and key in the Ramsey estate, he is also dating the Ramsey's eldest daughter. But that doesn't stop him from perusing Victoria and trying to save her from her meager existence. Will she remain subordinate to her master or take a chance on love and the possibility of a fulfilling life outside the Ramsey estate?

Reset is the companion short story to the novel Royal Replicas and exclusively available to newsletter subscribers. Witness the events leading up to Victoria's heartbreaking "reset."

"Princess Amelia is dead... and one of you will replace her."

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Sandalwood has served the Duke and Duchess all her life. Over the years, she’s learned to make due with what she has and endure her surrogate father’s awful punishments. She dreams of escape, but never expected it to come in the form of a message from the Queen of Westeria.

Victoria learns that she’s the Queen’s daughter, the younger sister to Princess Amelia, and it’s time to come home and claim her birthright. When she arrives, she discovers she’s not the only one who received the royal message.

Victoria must compete with six other girls to earn the affection of both the Queen and a princely suitor… and to replace the secretly deceased Princess Amelia. If she fails to win the crown, Victoria may just have to fight for her life…

Royal Replicas is the first book in a YA dystopian series. If you enjoy courtly intrigue, heart-pounding adventure, and sweet romance, then you’ll love this captivating story. Perfect for fans of Kiera Cass, Bella Forrest, and Veronica Roth.

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Week 22 Review: Monstrous

From Goodreads:
Sidney and her friends might have survived the storm that came to the small island of Benediction, but now the storm has reached Boston, and the city isn't prepared for what's coming in this sequel to the "unpredictable" (VOYA) and "fast-paced" (School Library Journal) Savage from New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski.

The horrors that began in Savage continue in Boston as Sydney and her friends work to protect the city from the newly crazed rampage of animals and try to figure out the origin of the storm and its power.

My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! The first book was just fantastic, and I'm so glad that it's a series, because yeah, I wanted to know more, and I'm so glad that we got it! Because yeah, this story was so good, and it was so great to have more! I just enjoyed it so much!

After the first book, we know a bit about this world. There are things that are still a mystery, and the threat was larger, because hey, a mainland city is bigger than an island town. A lot more people, and while the people aren't contained, yeah. Still, big threat!

Being with these characters again was really great! But of course, they go put themselves in danger. Of course. Plus, we got to get to know some characters that we didn't really before, those two scientists from the beginning of the first book. Plus there were some new characters to get to know, who were really important to the story, who I enjoyed getting to know!

That ending was just killer! With that killer twist-revelation about the attacks, yeah, that just made this book! I don't know if there'll be a 3rd book, but I would totally love that! More time with these characters, and more threats...yeah, that'd be awesome!

Yeah, this book was so fantastic, and I absolutely loved reading it!

Author: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Series: Savage #2
Read: May 31st, 2017
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Loved the first book! And it's a 2017 Dystopia Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2017 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: May 30th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 23

Ok, so I read Monstrous, and yeah, now to read Mind Games!

My Reading Journey:

Look Behind You by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

Started On: May 3rd

Finished On: May 3rd, 9:14 AM

Pages Read: 352

Death and Night by Roshani Chokshi

Started On: May 3rd

Finished On: May 3rd, 11:57 PM

Pages Read: 115

Can't Hardly Breath by Gena Showalter

Started On: May 8th

Finished On: May 8th, 9:20 PM

Pages Read: 400

Bliss by Lynsay Sands

Started On: May 9th

Finished On: May 9th, 12:29 PM

Pages Read: 384

Dying Breath by Heather Graham

Started On: May 11th

Finished On: May 11th, 11:53 PM

Pages Read: 370

The Gathering Dusk by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 6:41 AM
Pages Read: 62

After the Dark by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 6:36 PM
Pages Read: 384

Grit by Gillian French
Started On: May 12th
Finished On: May 12th, 9:59 PM
Pages Read: 304

The Scandal of It All by Sophie Jordan
Started On: May 14th
Finished On: May 14th, 9:29 PM
Pages Read: 384

Discovering You by Brenda Novak
Started On: May 15th
Finished On: May 15th, 11:49 PM
Pages Read: 395

Shadow Reaper by Christine Feehan
Started On: May 16th
Finished On: May 16th, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 480

Sister, Sister by Sue Fortin
Started On: May 17th
Finished On: May 17th, 11:15 PM
Pages Read: 364

Silver Silence by Nalini Singh
Started On: May 24th
Finished On: May 24th, 4:15 PM
Pages Read: 496

Before the Dawn by Cynthia Eden
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 4:34 PM
Pages Read: 384

The Cage by Megan Shepherd
Started On: May 28th
Finished On: May 28th, 10:21 PM
Pages Read: 416

The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr
Started On: May 29th
Started On: May 29th, 9:56 PM
Pages Read: 464

Dare You by Jennifer Brown
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 5:14 PM
Pages Read: 480

This Is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 7:25 PM
Pages Read: 287

The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 10:19 PM
Pages Read: 256

Just Kill Me by Adam Selzer
Started On: May 30th
Finished On: May 30th, 11:57 PM
Pages Read: 336

Spectacle by Rachel Vincent
Started On: May 31st
Finished On: May 31st, 7:24 AM
Pages Read: 0 of 432

Songs About a Girl by Chris Russell
Started On: May 31st
Finished On: May 31st, 11:39 AM
Pages Read: 352

Monstrous by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Started On: May 31st
Finished On: May 31st, 4:01 PM
Pages Read: 448

Mind Games by Heather W. Petty
Started On: May 31st
Pages Read: 0 of 304

Books Read: 23

Goal: 25 Books

Pages Read: 6818

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 22

Ok, so I read Songs About a Girl, and yeah, now to read Monstrous!

My Reading Journey:

Look Behind You by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

Started On: May 3rd

Finished On: May 3rd, 9:14 AM

Pages Read: 352

Death and Night by Roshani Chokshi

Started On: May 3rd

Finished On: May 3rd, 11:57 PM

Pages Read: 115

Can't Hardly Breath by Gena Showalter

Started On: May 8th

Finished On: May 8th, 9:20 PM

Pages Read: 400

Bliss by Lynsay Sands

Started On: May 9th

Finished On: May 9th, 12:29 PM

Pages Read: 384

Dying Breath by Heather Graham

Started On: May 11th

Finished On: May 11th, 11:53 PM

Books Read: 22

Goal: 25 Books

Pages Read: 6370

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Waiting on Wednesday #308, April 5th

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!

Shadow Reaper by Christine Feehan
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns to her scorching-hot series starring a Chicago crime family that has built its empire in the shadows...

Billionaire playboy Ricco Ferraro knows no other life. Being a shadow rider is in his blood--but so is a haunting desperation stemming from the secrets of his dark past. His recklessness puts not only his life at risk, but also the future of his entire family. To save them all, he must find a woman who can meet his every desire with a heat all her own...
Just when Ricco has given up hope, he meets her--a mysterious woman whose shadow connects with his. She's someone looking for a safe haven from the danger that has stalked her over the last several months. In Ricco's embrace, she finds one. But the darkness in which they so often find sanctuary can also consume them...

White Hot by Ilona Andrews
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
The Hidden Legacy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews continues as Nevada and Rogan navigate a world where magic is the norm…and their relationship burns hot

Nevada Baylor has a unique and secret skill—she knows when people are lying—and she's used that magic (along with plain, hard work) to keep her colorful and close-knit family's detective agency afloat. But her new case pits her against the shadowy forces that almost destroyed the city of Houston once before, bringing Nevada back into contact with Connor "Mad" Rogan.

Rogan is a billionaire Prime—the highest rank of magic user—and as unreadable as ever, despite Nevada’s “talent.” But there’s no hiding the sparks between them. Now that the stakes are even higher, both professionally and personally, and their foes are unimaginably powerful, Rogan and Nevada will find that nothing burns like ice …

Spectacle by Rachel Vincent
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
In this riveting sequel to New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent's acclaimed novel Menagerie, Delilah Marlow will discover that there is no crueler cage than the confines of the human mind…

When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom brutally stripped away as they are sold into The Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife." Specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts and living party favors, the Spectacle's owner, Willem Vandekamp, caters to the forbidden fetishes of the wealthy and powerful. At the Spectacle, any wish can be granted—for the right price.

But Vandekamp's closely guarded client list isn't the only secret being kept at the Spectacle. Beneath the beauty and brutality of life in the collection lie much darker truths, and no one is more determined than Delilah to strip the masks from the human monsters and drag all dark things into the light.

Dying Breath by Heather Graham
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
Buried alive...
As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized--someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending a clue about their location. Vickie is pulled into the investigation when her name is mentioned in one of the notes. And as a historian, she has the knowledge to help uncover the graves the killer known as the Undertaker is choosing. But she also has another, unique lead: the spirit of one of the victims is appearing to her in dreams.

Special Agent Griffin Price is on the case for the Krewe of Hunters, the FBI's special unit for paranormal investigators. He feels particularly protective of Vickie, since their shared past is connected to the threat that currently surrounds them. With the killer accelerating his plans, time is running out for more victims hidden around the city. Vickie is becoming closer with Griffin, but she's getting too close to the danger, and every breath could be her last.

Monstrous by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
Sidney and her friends might have survived the storm that came to the small island of Benediction, but now the storm has reached Boston, and the city isn’t prepared for what’s coming in this sequel to the “unpredictable” (VOYA) and “fast-paced” (School Library Journal) Savage from New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski.

The horrors that began in Savage continue in Boston as Sydney and her friends work to protect the city from the newly crazed rampage of animals and try to figure out the origin of the storm and its power.

No One But You by Brenda Novak
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes you to Silver Springs, a picturesque small town in Southern California where even the hardest hearts can learn to love again

Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harris is at the end of her tether. Her waitressing gig isn't enough to pay the bills let alone secure primary custody of her son, Jayden, a battle she refuses to lose. Desperate, she accepts a position assisting Dawson Reed the same Dawson Reed who recently stood trial for the murder of his adoptive parents. Joining him at his isolated farm seems risky, but Sadie is out of options.

Dawson has given small town Silver Springs plenty of reasons to be wary, but he's innocent of the charges against him. He wants to leave his painful past behind and fix up the family farm so he can finally bring his dependent sister home where she belongs.

As Sadie and Dawson's professional relationship grows into something undeniably personal, Sadie realizes there's more to Dawson than the bad boy everyone else see she has a good heart, one that might even be worth fighting for.

Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. The light looks brighter, the air is sharper, and the energy she can draw when fighting feels almost limitless.

But while her mother, the queen, remains busy at the war front, in the Dark Kingdom of Dorjhalon, the corrupt king is plotting. King Bain wants control of both kingdoms, and his plan will fling Evelayn onto the throne much sooner than she expected.

In order to defeat Bain and his sons, Evelayn will quickly have to come into her ability to shapeshift, and rely on the alluring Lord Tanvir. But not everyone is what they seem, and the balance between the Light and Dark comes at a steep price.

Romancing the Throne by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
For the first time ever, the Weston sisters are at the same boarding school. After an administration scandal at Libby’s all-girls school threatens her chances at a top university, she decides to join Charlotte at posh and picturesque Sussex Park. Social-climbing Charlotte considers it her sisterly duty to bring Libby into her circle: Britain’s young elites, glamorous teens who vacation in Hong Kong and the South of France and are just as comfortable at a polo match as they are at a party.

It’s a social circle that just so happens to include handsome 17-year-old Prince Edward, heir to Britain’s throne.

Charlotte’s had her eye on Edward, and soon they’re snogging all over the campus lawn and common rooms—while Libby busies herself with settling into her studies and navigating the complicated social code of Sussex Park. Eager to put her sister at ease, Charlotte encourages Libby to hang out with her new boyfriend. And much to everyone’s surprise, Libby and Edward hit it off.

Actually, they really hit it off.

In this juicy, contemporary girl-meets-prince story, two sisters find themselves at odds over the same boy amid high-society expectations and paparazzi scandals. In the end, there may be a price to pay for romancing the throne . . . and more than one path to happily ever after.

House of Furies by Madeline Roux
Expected Publication: May 30th, 2017
From Goodreads:
An all-new gothic horror series from the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum.

After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house’s mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside and his unusual staff are meant to execute their own justice on those who are past being saved.

Louisa begins to fear for a young man named Lee who is not like the other guests. He is charismatic and kind, and Louisa knows that it may be up to her to save him from an untimely judgment. But in this house of distortions and lies, how can Louisa be sure whom to trust?

Featuring stunning interior illustrations from artist Iris Compiet, plus photo-collages that bring Coldthistle House to chilling life, House of Furies invites readers to a world where the line between monsters and men is ghostly thin.

Oh, yeah, the books coming out on the 30th are great, and I can't wait to read them! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Friday, March 3, 2017

Thomas E. Sniegoski Author Page

The Story: I saw Savage on Edelweiss, and it looked really great, so I got it. And I loved it, and now I can't wait to read Monstrous! And yeah, now I know he also did The Fallen series, but yeah, I don't care to read them, so I'm only doing books that I want to read!

Website

Series: Savage.

Savage: Savage and his site, my review, Monstrous and his site, my review.

Monday, August 1, 2016

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #269, August 1st

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #268
Teaser Tuesday #276
WWW Wednesday #276
WOW #273
Will the Time Come #268
Third Sentence Thursday #258
Random Reads #244
First Lines Friday #263
The Reward Challenge Update #254
Follow Friday #246
How Well I Stuck to It #98
Wrote that Review Update #103
Show the Books Showcase #21

Week 31 Reviews:
The Female of the Species
Spare and Found Parts
Anything to Have You
The Sinner
Savage
Night of a Thousand Stars
Wondrous Strange
Darklight
Tempestuous
The Predicteds
Finding Perfect
Wild Things
Blood of the Demon
Summoning the Night

OK, so I got 24 posts in 7 days, which is pretty great, and seeing as I have a free week this week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read The Beauty of Darkness, Dragonmark, Infinite Risk, and The Smaller Evil, United.

Lia and Rafe have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous - what will happen now? This third and final book in The Remnant Chronicles is not to be missed.

Bestselling author Mary E. Pearson's combination of intrigue, suspense, romance and action make this a riveting page turner for teens.

Centuries ago, Illarion was betrayed– a dragon made human against his will, then forced to serve humanity as a dragonmount in their army, and to fight for them in barbaric wars, even while he hated everything about them. Enslaved and separated from everyone he knew and from his own dragon brothers, he was forced into exile in a fey realm where he lost the only thing he ever really loved.

Now he has a chance to regain what’s been lost— to have the one thing he covets most. But only if he gives up his brothers and forsakes the oaths he holds most dear. Yet what terrifies him most isn’t the cost his happiness might incur, it’s the fact that there is just enough human in his dragon’s heart that he might actually be willing to pay it and betray everything and everyone– to see the entire world burn...

In a world of infinite risk, the stakes have never been so high.

Beyond the pull of life and death lies the Immortal game. Edie Kramer has leaped back to put things right and save the boy she loves. Alone in the wrong timestream, she must reinvent herself and square off against dangerous Immortals determined to win this mortal match once and for all.

But righting past wrongs carries fresh dangers. As she navigates a new school and tries to put Kian on a different path, she also battles those will stop at nothing to keep her from derailing their deadly schemes. With few allies and her first love treating her like a stranger, Edie faces the most dangerous enemy of all—time itself. Yet she's come a long way from that dark night on the bridge, and when her back's to the wall, she'll go down fighting...

The conclusion of New York Times-bestselling author Ann Aguirre's Immortal Game trilogy is thrilling and unforgettable.

Sometimes the greater good requires the smaller evil.

17-year-old Arman Dukoff is struggling with severe anxiety and a history of self-loathing when he arrives at an expensive self-help retreat in the remote hills of Big Sur. He’s taken a huge risk—and two-thousand dollars from his meth-head stepfather—for a chance to "evolve," as Beau, the retreat leader, says.

Beau is complicated. A father figure? A cult leader? A con man? Arman's not sure, but more than anyone he's ever met, Beau makes Arman feel something other than what he usually feels—worthless.

The retreat compound is secluded in coastal California mountains among towering redwoods, and when the iron gates close behind him, Arman believes for a moment that he can get better. But the program is a blur of jargon, bizarre rituals, and incomprehensible encounters with a beautiful girl. Arman is certain he's failing everything. But Beau disagrees; he thinks Arman has a bright future—though he never says at what.

And then, in an instant Arman can't believe or totally recall, Beau is gone. Suicide? Or murder? Arman was the only witness and now the compound is getting tense. And maybe dangerous.

As the mysteries and paradoxes multiply and the hints become accusations, Arman must rely on the person he's always trusted the least: himself.

After thwarting a deadly coup and saving the alliance between their worlds, Cara and Aelyx have finally earned a break. Their tiny island colony is everything they dreamed it would be―days spent gathering shells on the beach and nights in each other’s arms.

But the vacation is short-lived.

The treaty between Earth and L’eihr has awakened an ancient force that threatens to destroy them all. The Aribol, mysterious guardians charged with maintaining interstellar peace, deem the alliance a threat to the galaxy. They order a separation of the races, decreeing humans and L’eihrs must return to their own planets within the month or face extinction. In fact, they already have agents in place on Earth, ready to begin.

With the clock ticking, Aelyx and Cara assemble a team of colonists and race back to Earth, where they unite with old friends to solve the mystery of who the Aribol are, what they want, and the real reason the alliance has provoked them. As tensions build to a full-scale war, Aelyx and Cara must fight harder than ever―not just for their future, but for the survival of both their worlds.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Week 31 Review: Savage

From Goodreads:
Sidney and her friends must race to find the origin of a storm that has hit their small island home—turning every animal into savage weapons—in this suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author, Thomas E. Sniegoski.

The future is looking bright for Sidney Moore as she as she gets ready to leave the small island of Benediction behind for one of Boston's top veterinary schools. Only a few small bumps in the road to navigate before she can go—her father's recovery from a debilitating stroke, and her own guilt for ending her relationship with her high school sweetheart. But she's always been strong willed, and she's not about to let anything stop her from achieving her goals.

Now a storm is bearing down on Benediction, a hurricane that will bring devastating winds and rain, rising tides...and something else. Something deadly; something that will transform all the things that creep, crawl, and flutter into instruments of terror and death.

The future is looking bright for Sidney Moore…if only she can survive the storm...

My Review:
Reading this book was really fantastic! It was creepy, and a definite horror book, and it was just so enjoyable! There was a lot of gore, but not a lot about the pain, which was a good thing, because I kinda have a fainting sympathetic response to pain!

I enjoyed the way this story was told-we had Sidney as a main narrator, but we also got a bunch of other perspectives, and so we get to see more of what was going on. Of course, we lost some of them as they died, but then we got some new ones!

In a way, this reminded me of Zoo, the TV show based off the book (I haven't read the book, so I can only compare to the show) and with the animals working together-and the insects. Which is pretty creepy, and adding in that it follows the storm? Yeah, kinda good, kinda bad-know where it is, but that it's moving to more populated areas. And how they figure out what was going on, yeah, that was some good use of the information and skills available to them!

We knew there was something weird going on, with how they were behaving-and the one body that was animated after either death, or near death. And the silvered right eyes. But to find out what it was? That was just scary! But also interesting, and I'd like to explore it more!

Loved that ending, it leaves it open for another book, like, it's basically a cliffhanger ending, because they survived, but it's not over, not by a long shot! And yeah, I'd really love another book!

Author: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Read: July 25th, 2016
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really great! And it's a SAC 2016 Book!
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: May 31st 2016

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars