• 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 now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
WWW Wednesday #386, September 5th
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 now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!
I'm currently reading Night and Silence, and yeah, such an amazing sequel, I'm enjoying it so much!
I read Leverage in Death, and it was another amazing book in the series! Such a great read!
I'm going to be reading Lady Midnight, and I can't wait, because I've waited so long to read it!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
• 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 now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Teaser Tuesday #386, September 4th
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
"In a hurry, Eve thought as they cleared the two levels, a room at a time. Rushed work, sloppy work with drawers upended, art pulled from walls on the main level."
Which is good for her, because it's more likely they'll have made a mistake, and she can catch them! What about you guys? Happy reading!
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
"In a hurry, Eve thought as they cleared the two levels, a room at a time. Rushed work, sloppy work with drawers upended, art pulled from walls on the main level."
Which is good for her, because it's more likely they'll have made a mistake, and she can catch them! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Monday, September 3, 2018
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #378, September 3rd
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 #377
Teaser Tuesday #385
WWW Wednesday #385
WOW #381
Will the Time Come #378
Third Sentence Thursday #368
Random Reads #353
First Lines Friday #381
The Reward Challenge Update #363
Book Blogger Hop #47
How Well I Stuck to It #215
Wrote that Review Update #212
Week 35 Reviews:
The Darkest Star
Nine
Hidden Pieces
Magic Triumphs
Missing You
OK, so I got 21 posts in 7 days, which was a really fantastic week, read a number of awesome books! And there's some really great books coming up! I have kinda fallen behind, but hopefully I'll catch up quickly! What about you guys? Happy reading!
So this week I want to read Buzz Kill, Carry On, Fangirl, Leverage in Death, Night and Silence, Suffer a Sea-Change, Part of Your World, This is How it Happened, and A Willing Murder.
Putting the dead in deadline
To Bee or not to Bee? When the widely disliked Honeywell Stingers football coach is found murdered, 17-year-old Millie is determined to investigate. She is chasing a lead for the school newspaper - and looking to clear her father, the assistant coach, and prime suspect.
Millie's partner is gorgeous, smart-and keeping secrets
Millie joins forces with her mysterious classmate Chase who seems to want to help her even while covering up secrets of his own.
She's starting to get a reputation…without any of the benefits.
Drama-and bodies-pile up around Millie and she chases clues, snuggles Baxter the so-ugly-he's-adorable bassett hound, and storms out of the world's most awkward school dance/memorial mash-up. At least she gets to eat a lot of pie.
Best-selling author Beth Fantaskey's funny, fast-paced blend of Clueless and Nancy Drew is a suspenseful page-turner that is the best time a reader can have with buried weapons, chicken clocks, and a boy who only watches gloomy movies…but somehow makes Millie smile. Bee-lieve it.
Pair with Fantaskey's best-selling Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side.
That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.
Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here—it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.
Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story—but far, far more monsters.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.
Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD's Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter—but what was the motive of the masked men?
Despite the chaos and bad publicity, blowing up one meeting isn't going to put the brakes on the merger. All it's accomplished is shattering a lot of innocent lives. Now, with the help of her billionaire husband Roarke, Eve must untangle the reason for an inexplicable act of terror, look at suspects inside and outside both corporations, and determine whether the root of this crime lies in simple sabotage, or something far more complex and twisted.
Things are not okay.
In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams. Jazz can't sleep, Sylvester doesn't want to see her, and worst of all, Tybalt has withdrawn from her entirely, retreating into the Court of Cats as he tries to recover from his abduction. Toby is floundering, unable to help the people she loves most heal. She needs a distraction. She needs a quest.
What she doesn't need is the abduction of her estranged human daughter, Gillian. What she doesn't need is to be accused of kidnapping her own child by her ex-boyfriend and his new wife, who seems to be harboring secrets of her own. There's no question of whether she'll take the case. The only question is whether she's emotionally prepared to survive it.
Signs of Faerie's involvement are everywhere, and it's going to take all Toby's nerve and all her allies to get her through this web of old secrets, older hatreds, and new deceits. If she can't find Gillian before time runs out, her own child will pay the price. One question remains:
Who in Faerie remembered Gillian existed? And what do they stand to gain? No matter how this ends, Toby's life will never be the same.
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that.
Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan—a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She accepts immediately, but with so little saved up, she'll have to approach her estranged yet incredibly famous aunt for a place to stay while she gets herself settled. But when she arrives at Sara's home, she finds she's not the only long-term houseguest. Jackson Wyatt already has his own room, and though it's impossible to deny his good looks and charm—he's clearly got her aunt wrapped around his finger—she's also never met anyone who irritates her quite like Jack does.
However, when two skeletons are accidentally uncovered in the quiet town, this unlikely trio is suddenly thrust together by a common goal: to solve a mystery everyone else seems eager to keep under wraps. United by a sense of justice and the desire to right old wrongs, Sara, Kate and Jack will have to dig into Lachlan's murky past to unravel the small town’s dark secrets and work to bring the awful truth to light.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Wrote that Review Update #212, September 2nd
My reviews to reward is writing all of the reviews of the week, and I motivated myself to write my review for The Darkest Star, Nine, Hidden Pieces, Magic Triumphs, Missing You, Unnatural Deeds, Stygian, Death Doesn't Bargain, Reflection, so I have 9 of 9 reviews written!
And as always, I want to review this week's reviews!
What about you guys? Happy reading!
How Well I Stuck to It #215, September 2nd
Week 36:
Tour Books: NA
Review Books: NA.
NetGalley: 1. Check.
Edelweiss: 1. Check.
Meme Books: NA.
Rereads: NA.
New Books: 7. Check.
Ok, this week is a little ambitious, but there's a lot of great books that I'm really excited to read! Can't wait to!
Week 35:
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The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Nine by Zach Hines. Hidden Pieces by Paula Stokes. Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews, Missing You by Meg Cabot, Unnatural Deeds by Cyn Balogh, Stygian by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Death Doesn't Bargain by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Reflection by Elizabeth Lim
Yeah, I only read 2 of what I wanted to read, but then I read a number of other books, so as always, it all balances out! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Buzz Kill by Beth Fantaskey, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, Leverage in Death by J.D. Robb, Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire, Suffer a Sea-Change by Seanan McGuire, Part of Your World by Liz Braswell, This is How it Happened by Paula Stokes, A Willing Murder by Jude Deveraux
Review Books: NA.
NetGalley: 1. Check.
Edelweiss: 1. Check.
Meme Books: NA.
Rereads: NA.
New Books: 7. Check.
Ok, this week is a little ambitious, but there's a lot of great books that I'm really excited to read! Can't wait to!
Week 35:
The Gypsy King by Maureen Fergus, Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews, One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus, Stygian by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz
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The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Nine by Zach Hines. Hidden Pieces by Paula Stokes. Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews, Missing You by Meg Cabot, Unnatural Deeds by Cyn Balogh, Stygian by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Death Doesn't Bargain by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Reflection by Elizabeth Lim
Yeah, I only read 2 of what I wanted to read, but then I read a number of other books, so as always, it all balances out! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Week 35 Review: Reflection
What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld?
When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. With the help of Shang's great lion guardian ShiShi, Mulan must traverse Diyu to find Shang's spirit, face harrowing obstacles, and leave by sunrise--or become King Yama's prisoner forever. Moreover, Mulan is still disguised as the soldier called Ping, wrestling with the decision to reveal her true identity to her closest friend. Will Mulan be able to save Shang before it's too late? Will he ever be able to trust her again? Or will she lose him--and be lost in the Underworld--forever?
My Review:
I really enjoyed reading this book! Mulan is a favourite of my Disney princesses movies, and this retelling was so fantastic, and such great depth, yeah, this book was totally different from the movie. I mean, Shang was the one that got hurt instead of Mulan, and he basically died! That's kinda huge!
Going into the Underworld, yeah, that's not even a thought in the movie, because Mulan, I guess, wasn't as severely injured. So it was so great to learn more about their families, and their after-life, I don't know how much was drawn from myths and legends and such, but yeah, it was so great to read!
There were some really great characters in this book, I loved ShiShi, Shang's guardian. He was so hilarious! And I loved the members of the Fa family that we met, they weren't good-goody two shoes, they had some some bad things in life that they had to make up. They were so great to read about!
When Shang found out about Mulan being a girl, yeah, they were in a very different situation, but he reacted pretty similarly, by walking away. But he came back, and yeah, that was a really great moment! And when she had to face that test, she found out who she was, and yeah, that made for a really great ending!
This book was so fantastic, and I enjoyed it so much!
Author: Elizabeth Lim
Series: Twisted Tales #4
Read: August 31st, 2018
Source: Library
Reason Why: Loving this series, and it's a 2018 Retelling Reading Challenge Book, Historical Fiction 2018 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book!
Publisher: Disney Press
Published: March 27th 2018
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Week 35 Review: Death Doesn't Bargain
Death Doesn't Bargain is the second historical fantasy title in New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's Deadman's Cross series. Where Deadmen tell their tales, and every soul is damned or redeemed by the final choices they make.
The Deadmen are back...
But so are the demons who have broken free of their eternal prison and are bent on mankind's destruction. The worst of the lot is Vine, determined to claim their lives for taking hers. She will see the world burn...and has the perfect lure to destroy them all. One of their own.
Kalder Dupree has never known a day of mercy. Born to the cruelest of mer-races, he sacrificed himself for his crew and is in Vine's hands. He expects no mercy or rescue.
Yet Cameron Jack is determined to set Kalder free. As a Hellchaser, it's her calling, and she cannot allow even a not-so-innocent to be tortured for an act of kindness that spared her damnation.
To defeat evil, it sometimes takes an even worse evil, and Cameron is willing to do whatever she must to make this right. If Vine thought she had her hands full before, she hasn't seen anything nearly as powerful as Cameron's resolve.
My Review:
I loved reading this book! I really enjoy Sherrilyn Kenyon books, even if I do have complaints, and yeah, this book was just so great to read! Kalder was left in a very bad spot at the end of hte last book, and yeah, it was so great to read his and Cameron's story!
After reading Stygian, I had to read this book! It's a part of the overall world, and yeah, I wish I'd read it before, even if they had not clear, direct impact on one another. It's just a way that I'm weird, and that's on me!
The beginning was a bit confusing, I mean, why would they give up both of the brothers, just to get Cameron? Yeah, it didn't quite make sense, but it was really fantastic to read! And yeah, there were a lot of twists and turns which were really great to read!
That ending was just so evil! I mean, the ending of Deadmen Walking was pretty horrible, that the bad guys had a secret advantage, but this book, it's a cliffhanger ending, that they have 2 of the good guys imprisoned!
Such a great book, and I can't wait for the 3rd and final book in the series!
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series: Deadman's Cross #2
Read: August 30th, 2018
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and it's a Historical Fiction 2018 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: May 8th 2018
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Week 35 Review: Stygian
Born before man recorded time, I lived for thousands of years, believing myself to be something I'm not.
Someone I’m not.
Lied to and betrayed by gods, Daimons, and Dark-Hunters, I've struggled to find my way in a world where I've been cursed since the moment a vengeful goddess prematurely ripped me from my mother and planted me into the womb of an innocent woman who thought me her son.
Trained as a slayer and predator, I've learned to fit in and stay low. To become a tool for evil. Until I was sent to kill the one woman I couldn't. My hesitation cost her, her life.
Or so I thought. In an act of betrayal that makes all the others pale in comparison, I've learned that things are not what they seem in this world and that my Phoebe still lives.
Now I will have to travel into the very pits of Hades to try and save her, even as everyone around me attempts to steal what little soul I have left. There's only one person at my back and I'm not sure I can trust her either, for she was born of an enemy race. Yet sometimes the road to redemption is one that singes us to our very core. And if I fail to find the answers I need to save Phoebe, more than just my wife will die.
We will lose the world. Both human and Daimon.
~Urian of the House of Aricles
My Review:
Oh, wow, this book was a doozy! It was so fantastic to see Urian as a child, and meeting all of his siblings, and yeah, learning that he'd been married before, that was kidna huge! I mean, I knew he had a life before Phoebe, but she was the one that he talked about, because she was the most recent loss.
I mean, I kinda knew that Phoebe wouldn't be his happily ever after lady. After all, this book is in the Dragons Rising trilogy, instead of Dragonbane. Which meant that Urian's lady was going to be a Dragon. As in, the Falcyn's sister that we found out was still alive in Dragonsworn.
I'm a bit conflicted about this book. I mean, I absolutely loved it, don't get me wrong. But the whole threat of Helios, well, it doesn't get dealt with, and the whole thing that Urian's first wife was working for him, that just fizzled out. And there wasn't any real big battle at the end. It was just a little disappointing, that they would be through all this, and not having a big fight.
Plus, the synopsis is a bit misleading. Given that he knew her before he knew Phoebe, well, he was in love with her for centuries. And the synopsis makes it sound like they only just met. Bah. Maybe the synopsis was from a different version of the book, that it got changed in some way? Hopefully that's it!
That ending with the truce between the Daimons and the Dark-Hunters, yeah, that's a pretty big deal! And also a big deal, is that Apollo has Urian's blood, who has Egyptian, Atlantean, and Greek powers, and yeah, that's not good, given that he wanted it!
This book was just so freaking fantastic, and set up so much for future books! I can't wait!
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series: Dark-Hunter #29, Lords of Avalon #7, Dark-Hunter: Dragons Rising Trilogy #3, Were-Hunters #12
Read: August 30, 2018
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series so much! And it's a Historical Fiction 2018 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: August 28th 2018
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Week 35 Review: Unnatural Deeds
A novel of infatuation and obsession, Unnatural Deeds has an electrifying ending that readers won't see coming.
Victoria Zell doesn't fit in, not that she cares what anyone thinks. She and her homeschooled boyfriend, Andrew, are inseparable. All they need is each other. That is, until Zachary Zimmerman joins her homeroom. Within an hour of meeting, he convinces good-girl Vic to cut class. And she can't get enough of that rush.
Despite Vic's loyalty to Andrew, she finds her life slowly entwining with Z's. Soon she's lying to everyone she knows in an effort to unravel Z's secrets. Except Z's not the only one with a past. Victoria's hiding her own secrets, secrets that will come back to haunt her...and destroy everything in her path.
My Review:
This book was so creepy and different and great! The beginning set things up to make me/us think that things were one way, and so when the big twist comes, it's a total surprise! That was just so wonderful to read!
I really enjoyed the way this book was set up, with interviews and such from the present, and then having the story move closer and closer to the present, starting around the start of school. We knew that something bad was going to happen, and we kept getting hints and details of what it was, but when it came and we got the full story, wow! Just so great!
Vic was a really interesting character. She had her boyfriend, but she was falling in love with this guy at school, and cheating on her boyfriend. She knew she was doing wrong, but she kept on doing what she was doing.
I just absolutely loved when we learned what had happened, what Victoria's secrets were. That her boyfriend was dead, and killed himself years ago, but she has a version of him inside her head that's still alive, yeah, that was such a surprising twist! And it ended so well! Loved it!
Loved reading this book, it was so fantastic!
Author: Cyn Balog
Read: August 29th, 2018
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her books, and it's a SAC 2018 Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: November 1st 2016
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Week 35 Review: Missing You
Ever since a walk home on a particularly stormy day, Jessica Mastriani has had an ability like no other. She became known worldwide as Lightning Girl a psychic who could find the location of anyone, dead or alive. Jess finally had no choice but to embrace her newfound talent, and ended up lending her skills to the U.S. government.
But her work for them has taken a terrible toll, and Jess resurfaces months later a shadow of her former self, her powers gone, Lightning Girl no more. Her only hope is starting over in a new place, a big city where nobody knows her. It's only when Rob Wilkins unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep that she's forced to face her past. Rob, all the way from back home, needs her help. But how can Jess, her powers gone, find anyone, let alone the sister of a man she once loved . . . when she can't even find herself?
My first review of Missing You
My Review:
Yeah! I loved reading this book again, I wasn't planning on it, but then I had an urge to, so yeah, I read it. I wasn't feeling well, so I wanted comfort, and I turned to this book, a nice quick read that was so enjoyable, and that I could finish quickly and then go to sleep. It worked perfectly!
I had remembered the main plot points (well, besides the school and the two options it could become) but not the little details, which were the ones that fully flesh out a book. That make it interesting to read, and were just so great to read again!
Jess and Rob have been on a heck of a roller coaster ride. They had a long time to become a couple, and then she went to help with the war, and came back and there was the big misunderstanding. I'm glad that they finally worked everything out!
Now that I'm older, all the words in capital letters seems a little extreme. Like, couldn't the words be emphasized using italics or something instead of capital letters? It feels weird criticizing a book that I really enjoyed, but every reading experience is different, because you're different!
This book was just so freaking great to read again! Loved that I did so!
Author: Meg Cabot
Series: 1-800-Where-R-You? #5
First Read: August 5th, 2013
Read: August 29th, 2018
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading! And it's a End of Series 2018 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book!
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: December 26th 2006
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Week 35 Review: Magic Triumphs
Mercenary Kate Daniels must risk all to protect everything she holds dear in this epic, can't-miss entry in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series.
Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be.
Kate and her father, Roland, currently have an uneasy truce, but when he starts testing her defenses again, she knows that sooner or later, a confrontation is inevitable. The Witch Oracle has begun seeing visions of blood, fire, and human bones. And when a mysterious box is delivered to Kate's doorstep, a threat of war from the ancient enemy who nearly destroyed her family, she knows their time is up.
Kate Daniels sees no other choice but to combine forces with the unlikeliest of allies. She knows betrayal is inevitable. She knows she may not survive the coming battle. But she has to try.
For her child.
For Atlanta.
For the world.
My Review:
Oh, wow, I just absolutely loved reading this book! I was waiting so impatiently for it, I just wanted to know how everything would end! And yeah, it was an absolutely amazing book, worth the wait, and an incredible end to the series! Well, of this story arc. Apparently we could have (will have more with the Iron Covenant series, but I mean set time wise after Magic Triumphs) more in this world. But for now, Kate and Curran are getting a rest, and it's well-earned!
So this book brought in the bad guy from Iron and Magic, the god guy, only it turns out that's not quite what he was, though he was in one of those pocket dimension thingies. And yeah, what his people did at the beginning, was beyond horrifying!
Seeing Kate and Curran as parents was so much fun! She was a first time mom, worrying about every little thing being much bigger than it turned out to be, and then she had a real worry, that he had a perfect half-shift form at his young age. That was just so hilarious and fun to read!
Kate was really clever in this book, from their plan with Roland, and then the backups that she had planned. I really enjoyed how it all worked out, and it was pretty positive, given that both she and Roland lived!
The ending, yeah, there were a few losses. I knew about one before hand, so it didn't hit as hard, but there were ones that did hit hard! And things ended up unexpectedly, with Curran and Erra's plan! That was just the cherry on top! Loved it!
This book was so freaking amazing, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for this world!
Author: Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels #10
Read: August 28th, 2018
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love their writing and this series, and it's a End of Series 2018 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Ace
Published: August 28th 2018
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Week 35 Review: Hidden Pieces
Embry Woods has secrets. Small ones about her past. Bigger ones about her relationship with town hero Luke and her feelings for someone new. But the biggest secret she carries with her is about what happened that night at the Sea Cliff Inn. The fire. The homeless guy. Everyone thinks Embry is a hero, too, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Embry thinks she'll have to take the secret to her grave, until she receives an anonymous note—someone else knows the truth. Next comes a series of threatening messages, asking Embry to make impossible choices, forcing her to put her loved ones at risk. Someone is playing a high stakes game where no one in Embry's life is safe. And their last move...is murder.
My Review:
I really enjoyed this book! Embry wasn't the best person, she lied and made mistakes, but she wasn't evil, either. She made mistakes, but yeah, this wasn't the way to make things right, It just made things worse.
This was a really fantastic mystery! It was so captivating, to have the choice, come clean or something bad will happen, do something bad or something bad will happen, yeah, she had pretty impossible choices. I just wanted to find out what was going to happen next!
It felt like things were just crumbing to, well, pieces, around her (though that's not what the title refers to, the title is about the pieces of Embry that she keeps hidden) and it just kept getting worse and worse! Which was just so great to read! Loved it!
When we found out what was going on, yeah, that was a pretty tense scene, where there wasn't any good choices, again. And it was sad, that this happened, it was just kinda heartbreaking. that this is what it came to. I was satisfied with how it resolved, and it came to a great ending!
Such a great book, and I enjoyed reading it so much!
Author: Paula Stokes
Read: August 27th, 2018
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2018 Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: August 28th 2018
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Week 35 Review: Nine
In this twisted Lauren Oliver-meets-A.S. King debut, Julian has just eight more lives to burn in order to uncover a brutal secret.
In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can't wait to use them up.
The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade.
Julian's friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted a debilitating rebirth sickness on herself.
Julian realizes that he's going to have to burn at some point—especially when he becomes a target for Nicholas, the manipulative leader of the Burners, the school's suicide club. And when Julian eventually succumbs, he uncovers suspicious gaps in the rebirth system that may explain exactly why his mother went so far down the rabbit hole years ago.
Along with a group of student dissenters, Julian sets out to find answers and is soon on the verge of exposing the greatest conspiracy ever unleashed on the world.
My Review:
This book was so amazing to read! It was so unique, and I was really excited to read it! The whole world of having 9 lives was really interesting, and while it was different than I thought (they were supposed to burn a certain number of lives by the time they were in their teens, which is horrible) but was so great to read about!
One thing that I really wanted to know, was if or when Julian would burn a life. After all, he went so long without dying, and I wanted to see whether he would or not. And yeah, how it all came about, yeah, it was just so great to read!
This is the kind of situation that just boils with indignation. His mom wanted to investigate why this was happening. All they wanted to do was cover it up and keep their power. And yeah, that they burned her lives, was just horrible!
I really enjoyed how they took down the bad guys, there were a lot tense moments, and it didn't go like I thought i would, it was very surprising, and was a really fantastic ending! And yeah, it left it open for a sequel, which I wouldn't at all!
This book was so fantastic, and I enjoyed it a lot!
Author: Zach Hines
Read: August 27th, 2018
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a DAC Book, SAC 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: August 7th 2018
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Week 35 Review: The Darkest Star
In the world of the Lux, secrets thrive, lies shatter, and love is undeniable.
#1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout brings her trademark drama and intrigue to this new series with a girl caught up in a world she doesn't understand, secrets long buried, a betrayal that could tear her life apart...and Armentrout's most swoonworthy book boyfriend yet.
Seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher knows firsthand the devastating consequences of humanity's war with the aliens. When she's caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and deeper into a world she'd only heard about, a world where everything she thought she knew will be turned on its head...
My Review:
Oh, wow, I loved reading this book! I mean, I loved the original series, and when I found that that Luc was getting his own series, yeah, I was really excited to read it! I loved Evie and Luc's interactions, he was so audacious!
It'd been a while since I had last read the Lux series, so I kinda wish that I'd read them again in preparation for this book. I honestly think you either have to either reread the series, or have never read it, going into this book. Then going back to the Lux series. This in-between that I was in, yeah, it didn't make my reading experience bad, but it wasn't as good as it could've been, and that was my fault.
One thing that I loved about this series was that we got to see the aftermath of the war at the end of Opposition. That's something we never really get in most books, because the series ends. But now we got this spin off series, so yeah, I'm really happy with that!
There were a lot of secrets, that slowly Evie learned, a lot that concerned her. I really enjoyed that! And because of those secrets, and them coming out, well, some threads were emerging. Well, some where separate. And they weren't all dealt with, or even fully explained, so I can't wait to read about them in the future books!
This book was so freaking fantastic, and I can't wait for the next book!
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series: Origins #1
Read: August 26th, 2018
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing, and the original series! And it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2018 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Tor Teen
Expected Publication: October 30th 2018
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Book Blogger Hop #47, August 31st
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: Do you have a YouTube channel? If so, do you post book review vlogs? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
Technically, yeah. I've only posted one video and that was years ago, though! So not really! What about you guys? Happy reading!
Technically, yeah. I've only posted one video and that was years ago, though! So not really! What about you guys? Happy reading!
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