Week 42 Review: Extasia

From Goodreads:

From New York Times bestselling author Claire LeGrand comes a new, bone-chilling YA horror novel about a girl who joins a coven to root out a vicious evil that's stalking her village. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Grace Year.

Her name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?

This searing and lyrically written novel by the critically acclaimed author of Sawkill Girls beckons readers to follow its fierce heroine into a world filled with secrets and blood--where the truth is buried in lies and a devastating power waits, seething, for someone brave enough to use it. 

My Review:
This was such a fantastic book! I loved to hate this world, it was just so awful for these people to live in-and they didn't even know it. Well, it's a big lesson that they learn in this book, which was fantastic to read. But it hurt for them to having to go through this!

This world was so incredible horrible to women. They were blamed for the world falling, and have to continually pay for those sins. And 4 saints are chosen, girls before they've started mensurating, to take on the sins of the people, to cleanse them, and it was just horrible! These girls were just plain tortured! And it was all wrapped up in this highly religious cult, and it just infuriated me! 

I really enjoyed this magic, and as she went from her Saint name to the one she chooses, as she learns more about this world, I grew to hate it even more, because all the dark and terrible things that we know about, and just made darker by the truth!  

That ending was just fantastic! We got that huge reveal-and oh, what that meant! I hurt for them, who've gone though so much suffering, and all for what? It was a really fantastic ending, and I liked where it ended, and with that final chapter, it has me hoping for more! 

This was a fantastic book, and if it became a series, I would not be mad at all, I'd love to explore more!

Author: Claire Legrand
Read: October 17th, 2021
Source: Won from Author/Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2021 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books
Expected Publication: February 22nd 20222

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 14 Review: Breaking and Entering 101

From Goodreads:
Since Jamie and Henri agreed to be Kingsmen consultants, they'd not had much call to actually consult. Which is a fortuitous thing, as Henri is up to his neck in labwork and interviews for a new Magical Examiner due to Sanderson's departing. He is hardly in any position to add more tasks onto his shoulders.

Which, naturally, means two disasters strike at once.

In a brilliant coup, a group of thieves have struck the railroad and stolen a breathtaking three hundred thousand crowns in gold. No one has any idea how, who, or where the ingots have gotten to. The Kingsmen on the case are baffled, as this is hardly their normal purview. They naturally reach out to their Kingsmen consultants, which mean Jamie and Henri are now on the week-old case.

To spice things up further, someone is routinely sneaking through the palace wards and lurking about the grounds, and no one has any idea how the breach is occurring. Seaton's beside himself trying to figure it out and Henri has been drawn in to assist him.

As Jamie would say: When it rains, it pours. 

My Review:
Oh, yeah, it was so fantastic to read this book! I love this series and these characters so much, and I enjoy Honor Raconteur's writing and worlds equally! This was another fun romp with some interesting developments!

So we do have two cases in this book. Well, two things that they're mainly working on. One is the heist, which is pretty impossible to do. As is figuring out if they had insider help or not. Plus there was a throwback to their first case!

Secondly, there was the wards around the palace, and how they were being breached by a boy who is basically just waltzing right in, and driving Seaton and Henri out of their minds, trying to fix this security problem. And Jamie had some clever ideas there, and there was one that I was hoping she'd think of, and she did, and it immediately became helpful! Yeah!

I knew that girls night was a thing, because it was part of the release party, as was corrupted queen. But I didn't know how they'd fit into the story, and how intertwined they were! So that was a lot of fun to read, because I was looking for them!

This was another wonderful read, I enjoyed it so much, and I can't wait for more!

Author: Honor Raconteur
Series: The Case Files of Henri Davenforth #4
Read: March 29th, 2020
Source: Won
Reason Why: Love this series so much, and her writing, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book!
Publisher: Raconteur House
Published: March 20th 2020

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 48 Review: A World Without You

From Goodreads:
What if finding her means losing himself?

Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his worried parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers."

At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofía, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Soíia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofía, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age.

But even the strength of their love isn't enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time—that he somehow left her in the past, and that now it's his job to save her. And as Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofía, he must decide whether to face his demons head-on or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.

My Review:
This was a really great and in-depth look into mental illness. We on the outside knew that Bo was mentally ill and how it was for him, but not what it was. And then we got his sister, Phoebe's POV, and that was a great counterpart!

The thing about this book, was that it was so convincing and detailed, the world that Bo created. Like, in seeing future, one possibility for the school was the Academy burning down which happened. And then there was Phoebe's earring backing being loose. It was really convincing!

This family has been through a lot. And Sofia's death was pretty tragic. The way that he saw things-and then was seeing things how they really were-if we didn't know better, we'd think that this was a paranormal book. But it isn't.

The last chapter that Bo narrated, it ended with him making a choice, between reality, and the world in his head. And in the final chapter, the way that he acted, there's reasons why he could've chosen both. And I want to know what he chose!

Loved this book, it was enjoyable and thoughtful and great!

Author: Beth Revis
Read: November 23rd, 2016
Source: Won
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2016 Book!
Publisher: Razorbill
Published: July 19th 2016

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 6 Review: Infinity

From Goodreads:
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.

Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.

But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he's next on the menu.

As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?

My first review of Infinity
My Review:
Let just say, of the 3 books in this series that are out right now, this one is my most favourite. It's the beginning of this awesomeness, and the first time I read it, I read it so fast, I just wanted more, and again, I just had to read it quickly, because it might've disappeared if I hadn't or something! And I needed to read it before that something bad happened!

I just love these characters so much! From Nick, who seems never to have anything go right in his life, to Kody, who is just mysterious and I want to know more about her, Caleb, ditto, and Bubba and Mark, who are just hilarious, that they have the weapons for a zombie attack!

The questions that he had for Bubba! Those were just so good, and I remembered them, though I did get a bit of the details mixed up. I mean, I thought Nick wanted a rocket launcher at school or something!

That this all happened because a guy made a zombie game? Yeah, that messes with the had a bit, but that Madaug's brother is Tabitha's boyfriend, yeah, the connections in this series are just growing, and it's just amazing!

Yeah, this was such a wonderful book, I loved it so much, and I can't wait for more!

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series: Chronicles of Nick #1
First Read: April 12th 2011
Read: February 4th, 2013
Source: Won
Reason Why: Love this author!!
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: May 25th 2010

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 10 Review: Hourglass

From Goodreads:
One hour to rewrite the past . . . 

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.

Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

My Review:
This was a really fantastic book! I'm really glad that I won it, though I know I would've read it, regardless, because it sounded so freaking amazing! And it was! I just loved this idea of these various powers being collected, and I haven't seen X-Men, but I think these powers were pretty different from that comic book/movie series!

Em and Michael were just awesome! Em's been dealing with seeing ghosts, basically, since her parents' death, and yeah, when Michael is brought in to help her, there's this instant connection. And I just wanted to explore it some more!

That ending was really great! All that careful precision, and hope, for a happy ending, because between the fire, and the bad guys, it was very possible to mess things up. And since this is the start of the series, well, yeah, it didn't go as good as planned. But they're all alive, so that's good!

This was such a fantastic book, I enjoyed it so much, and I can't wait to read more!

Author: Myra McEntire
Series: Hourglass #1
Read: March 9th, 2012
Source: Won
Reason Why: I wanted to, I mean, look at the cover!
Publisher: Egmont USA
Publisher: June 14th 2011

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Will The Time Come #28, December 15th

Every Thursday l 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:
In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples. 

Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade, but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidious plot. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers, and sorcery from the Other Side, his only allies are Josephine, the socialite daughter of his last victim, and Kit, a guardian spirit no one else can see. But in this fight for his life, Caim only trusts his knives and his instincts, but they won't be enough when his quest for justice leads him from Othir's hazardous back alleys to its shining corridors of power. To unmask a conspiracy at the heart of the empire, he must claim his birthright as the Shadow's Son . . .

Why the time hasn't come yet...
I've been busy, and I see it on my shelves, and I just want to read it!! I won it on a giveaway on Maria V. Snyder's blog, so I really want to read it soon! But it might be a TBR Reading Challenge novel...I can always change that!

Week 36 Review: Twisted

From Goodreads:
His vampire girlfriend might have brought him back to life, but he's never felt more out of control. There's a darkness within him, something taking over…changing him. Worse, because he was meant to die, death now stalks him at every turn. Any day could be his last.

Once upon a time, the three souls trapped inside his head could have helped him. He could have protected himself. But as the darkness grows stronger, the souls grow weaker—just like his girlfriend. The more vampire Aden becomes, the more human Victoria becomes, until everything they know and love is threatened.

Life couldn't get any worse. Could it?

My Review:
Wow, oh, wow! I loved this book! I really didn't want to end, and now I have a good reason-the next and final book, isn't supposed to come out for about 1 1/2 years! Summer 2013! I don't know if I'll be able to wait for the next Intertwined book! Well, there is The Darkest Surrender coming out soon, but still!

Well, I loved how Aden was slowly becoming a vampire, while Victoria was slowly becoming a human! Just amazing! I really loved that, it was really making things twisted as the title suggested. So freaking good!

I didn't like Aden when he was being cold, but that was because of the vampire thing, and Junior, even before Aden knew about Junior. (Not going to tell you who Junior is.) But that situation dealt a pretty good hand in the end!

I loved Riley and Mary Anne, they went through a lot of suffering, and the way the book ended, they were going to go through a whole lot more! Oh, Riley, you're not making very good choices! And poor Mary Anne, after all she's been through, now is when you put you foot down?

I can't wait for a next book, and you guys are definitely going to have to read this book if you haven't! It was just so good!

Author: Gena Showalter
Series: Intertwined #3
Read: September 9th 2011
Source: Won from Giveaway of Book Depository
Reason Why: It's a Gena Showalter book! I had to read it!
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Published: August 30th 2011

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 27 Review: Intoxication

From Goodreads:
How do you force a confession out of a coworker trying to poison you? Do you kill those who dismiss your fears and believe you are paranoid? What do you do if you start questioning your own suspicions--and sanity--as you take the law into your hands?

In this disturbing tale of derangement, a young psychopathic woman is slipping into madness as she fights an enemy that may exist only in her imagination. She has to resort to desperate measures when she realizes that a gun, security cameras in her apartment, and constant vigilance will not be enough to survive.

Bonus: "Hitchhiker" by Tim Kizer, the first entry in the As the Darkness Falls series.


When a serial killer hitches a ride one sunny day in a beautiful California valley, he does not suspect that he may have met his match, who is dead set to take another life. The battle of wits begins and only the most devious mind will survive...

My Review:
I received this book for review from the author, and I'm glad for that! Thanks, Tim!

I really enjoyed this novelette. It was funny in how it was ironic, it was suspicion, it was paranoia, and it was just fun to read it!

The characters were great, they just had to do what they did because that was their nature, and I loved how it was their own actions that led them into the troubles that they got into.

I just know that if half the things that happened in this book, happened in real life, then we would be in very big trouble. Well, America would be. I don't think Canada would get into the same problems, so I think I'm safe. Poor USians, you'd be the ones to suffer.

I loved how things came together in the end, that little hints and clues came together, things that we weren't told, it was just really good, and I'm glad I got this book!

So thanks again, Tim, and you guys should really check this book out!

Author: Tim Kihzer
Read: July 6th, 2011
Source: Author for Review
Reason Why: Sounded really good!
Published: March 30th 2011

4/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4/5 Stars

Waiting on Wednesday #9, July 6th

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

Twisted by Gena Showalter
Expected Publication: August 30th, 2011
From Goodreads:
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD ADEN STONE HAS HAD A HELL OF A WEEK. HE’S BEEN:

Tortured by angry witches.


Hypnotized by a vengeful faery.


Spied on by the most powerful vampire in existence.

And, oh, yeah. Killed – twice.


His vampire girlfriend might have brought him back to life, but he’s never felt more out of control. There’s a darkness within him, something taking over . . . changing him. Worse, because he was meant to die, death now stalks him at every turn. Any day could be his last.


Once upon a time, the three souls trapped inside his head could have helped him. He could have protected himself. But as the darkness grows stronger, the souls grow weaker – just like his girlfriend. The more vampire Aden becomes, the more human Victoria becomes, until everything they know and love is threatened.


Life couldn't get any worse. Could it?

Man, I love Gena Showalter's writing! I don't know why I haven't done this book yet, but it's going to be awesome! And since I won a Book Depository thing, I picked this book! So I'll be getting this book any day around the end of August. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #3, June 27th

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 #2
Teaser Tuesday #11
WWW Wednesday #11
WOW #7
Will the Time Come #4
A-Z Reading Challenge Start
I Have An Update #2

Monthly Meme:
In My Mailbox #3-June

Week 25 Reviews:
Game of Thrones
Supernova
The Pearl Savage
Next
Die for Me
The Katyn Order

None of the Above:
Giveaway of Michael Scott Books
My Dogs and Don't Eat...(Fill in the Blank)

Ok, this was a pretty good book, lots of posts, and some random ones. Hope to increase the random ones-I don't want to be boring :) __ posts in 7 days is very good. I hope I can bet it next week, but next week there won't be any exams whatsoever, so I'll have a lot more time. I'll also be watching a few shows, I've already watched Game of Thrones (finished it the day after I finished the book) and they include True Blood, Doctor Who 2005, and possible Charmed. Plus all the ones that I'm watching episode by episode as they come out.

I now have a meme or a challenge for every day of the week, so now I have an excuse reason to post every day! Yeah!

For Week 26, I am hoping to read Anybody Out There, Singular, Pulling Princes, Stealing Princes, The Lovely Bones, Lucky, Bait, Vanished, and Pursuit. Plus more PDF's, and nano books :) I really need to read these nano books!

Currently Listening To: Doctor Who Episode
Currently Reading: Pulling Princes
Currently Watching: Doctor Who

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband — the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with her face in stitches, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands — and no memory of how she got there. While her mammy plays nursemaid, Anna tries to get better and keeps wondering why Aidan won't return her phone calls or emails.

Recuperating from her injuries, a mystified Anna returns to Manhattan. Slowly beginning to remember what happened, she sets off on a search to find Aidan — a hilarious quest involving lilies (she can't stop smelling them), psychics, mediums, and anyone there who can promise her a reunion with her beloved...

When Calypso returns from Los Angeles to her English boarding school for the summer term, she is determined to fit in with the popular crowd. Her plan is to pretend her mother's gay assistant back home is her boyfriend. And to her surprise, the trick works...at least at first. She makes a whole batch of new friends, and even finds herself winning the unwritten contest to woo the prince at the boys' school next door. But one girl, Honey, undermines all her efforts. When Calypso and Prince Freddy end up in the tabloids and everything seems set to go down the drain, it's Calypso's parents and sense of humor that save her from utter humiliation.

A fast-paced, laugh-out-loud-funny look at fitting in while still standing out...

How many fit boys can Calypso handle?

Calypso has decided that Prince Freddie is the one for her, but does her new roommate, the privileged Lady Portia, also have designs on him? To make matters worse, Calypso's best friends Star and Georgina are no longer her roommates; they are living instead with Indie-a new student and a real princess! Poor Calypso is feeling left out. How could her plans have gone so horribly wrong? Readers who have been anticipating the next installment in the Calypso Chronicles won't be disappointed as Calypso takes on more boys, bunnies, and Brits in her hilarious and inimitable style!

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, THE LOVELY BONES succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes"); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

It's a business trip that takes advertising agency owner Maddie Fitzgerald to New Orleans, but it is hardly business as usual when a man breaks into her hotel room and tries to kill her. Barely escaping with her life, she soon finds herself face-to-face with FBI agent Sam McCabe. Unnerved by his questions - and his good looks - Maddie is told she's been targeted by an elusive killer whom McCabe has been tracking for weeks. It appears her attack was a case of mistaken identity and a shaken Maddie is given the all-clear to go home. McCabe is ruffled, not just by Maddie's sexiness, but by an inescapable feeling that's she's got something to hide. So when she is attacked for the second time, McCabe insists that the only way to catch the killer is to use her as bait.

New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards delivers an action-packed, adrenaline-laced thriller in this story of Sarah Mason, forced to relive her worst nightmare -- the kidnapping of her young daughter, Lexie, seven years ago. It starts when Sarah, who works in the county prosecutor's office, gets a call for help from a young child who sounds just like her daughter Lexie when she was five. Is Sarah finally cracking up? The only one to believe her story about the call is her best friend, Jake Hogan, a P.I. Their investigation into the call and what really happened to Lexie unearths some dangerous secrets in the town and kicks off a passionate romance between Jake and Sarah. As usual, Robards knows just how to keep the heart pounding and the pages turning.

Week 25 Review: The Katyn Order

From Goodreads:
The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Uprising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians. If they can find the Katyn Order before the Russians do, they just might change the fate of Poland.

My review:
I loved this book! I loved the history, the budding romance, and the war effort, even if it was mostly in vain, they took out some nasty Nazis. The history was of something that I'd never thought in connecting with WWII, but it's something that happened. I've just never really thought of Poland before-I don't even know where it is, except that it's in Europe, and I'm guessing now that it's near, or borders, Russia, and it's in between Germany and Russia.

But this book showed me a world that I had rarely thought about, and just opened it wide open. I enjoyed all the places, all the characters, and how everything was aimed for the Katyn Order. It just wrapped up so beautifully, even if tinged with sadness, the main objective of the characters for the better half of the story, wasn't fulfilled, and it was left without answers why it wasn't, just that it wasn't, and there was one element to blame, but we didn't learn why. That why would be great to know. It's just kinda killing me, there's so many options!

But this was a great book, so I'm glad I won it on Goodreads! You'd better check it out!

Author: Douglas W. Jacobson
Read: June 24th, 2011
Source: Won
Reason Why: Sounded really good!
Publisher: McBooks Press
Published: May 1st 2011

3/5 Hearts

3/5 Books

3/5 Stars

Week 25 Review: Die for Me

From Goodreads:
In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.

When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.

Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again.

In this incandescent debut, newcomer Amy Plum has created a powerful paranormal mythology with immortal revenants. The Paris setting comes enchantingly alive as a relentless struggle between good and evil takes place in its streets. Rich with romance, atmosphere, and thrills, Die for Me will leave readers breathlessly awaiting its sequel.
 
My Review:
I truly enjoyed this book! It was pure awesomeness! I read it in about 2 hours, from 10 to 12 am, so I was tired, but what is sleep when you're reading (like on Monday) and besides, it's summer, and the summer holidays, so I deserve some time off! (And I'll stick to that, don't tell my parents!)

Paris was a unique setting for a book, despite it being quite popular, I'd only read 1 other book set in Paris before this, a Christine Feehan novel, so it was fun to read a book set in Paris from a teen's perspective. It was a new and exciting, and I quite enjoyed myself. I loved how Kate was into art and museums, it was nice to see all the history.

And then there was Vincent. Vincent isn't like other boy's and girls, he's a lot like a zombie, but not rotting, not mindless, and not wanting to eat people. He's just a corpse that's not so corpse-y. I loved Kate and Vincent's relationship, it was just something that was supposed to happen, and I read it very quickly.

Some things that I want/expect/still have questions about are that how Papy reacted to the name "Numa" and how strong Kate was when Vincent was volant, and was fighting the bad guy. I think they're linked, and I think Papy knows more then Kat would expect him too...I can't wait to read the next book in the series!

This was a great book, so if you can, check it out!

Author: Amy Plum
Series: Die For Me #1
Read: June 22nd, 2011
Source: Won
Reason Why: Sounded really, really great!
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: May 10th 2011

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars