Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Teaser Tuesday (6)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  • 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!
This week mt teaser is from...
Except for an occasional low chuckle, he didn't interrupt as I spilled the details about my eight rule breaking episodes.  "You've been bad for a very long time," he said when I finished.  If that's what he wanted to believe, why should I correct him?


Monday, May 2, 2011

Review: Starcrossed - Josephine Angelini




Reading level: Ages 13 and up
Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (May 31, 2011)

How do you defy destiny?
Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.
As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.


I have a book crush!  I am still trying to sort out my thoughts.  I really enjoyed this one, I struggled threw the first few chapters, but once we met Lucas and crew everything picked up, and the story wouldn't let me go until I was done.  I really liked Helen, flying under the radar trying not to stand out.  Watching Helen grow into "herself" was cool, and Claire made me laugh as she put pieces of the puzzle together.  I also really enjoyed Lucas and his family.  They all played a part and were well written.  Now I am a huge geek mythology junkie so this was really up my alley.  I loved every minute of it! I also really enjoyed the romance in this book.  I liked that Lucas and Helen weren't an insta love connection.  Watching everyone work through one issue after another to try to do the "right" thing made the romance that popped up so much sweeter for me.  I will say that I am dying for more of this series.  I have to know what happens like NOW!  I highly suggest this book to everyone! I have to give this one 4.5 stars.


Cover Reveal!

The cover of Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick.
The third book in the Hush, Hush series.


I think this cover is amazing!! I really liked the cover for Hush, Hush, but wasn't a big fan of Crescendo's cover,  but this one makes up for it in spades!!

Cover Crazy (8)

Cover Crazy is a weekly mem hosted by Tawni over at The Book Worms

My picks this week are...

Kylie Galen thought her life was a mess before she went to Shadow Falls Camp. However, now that she's discovered she's not human, the problems presenting themselves are anything but normal.

She's determined to uncover the answer to her supernatural heritage, but with a ghost insisting someone Kylie loves is about to die, her newly developed sixth sense telling her someone is watching her and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage, Kylie's quest for answers is on hold. As if her life isn't difficult enough, just when she's about to give her heart to Derek, he starts pulling away. When Lucas comes back, Kylie feels more conflicted than ever. Kylie's weekend with her mom should have been just the break Kylie needs, but it turns out to be her breaking point. Discovering her heritage may not ever matter if she doesn't survive.

I absolutely love this cover! I look at it and all I can think is I want to dive in. I really love how the world looks so big compared to this little girl.

Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her mom, by the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, it turns out the voices are demons – and Bridget has the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from.

Terrified to tell people about her new power, Bridget confides in a local priest who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her new power, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. Now Bridget must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone close to her winds up dead – or worse, the human vessel of a demon king.

This cover is so creepy that I love it. I love the dark tendrils, tree branches, or veins(what ever they are lol) that show on the girls face. This cover just seems so haunting that I can't help but love it.


Saturday, April 30, 2011

Review: Die For Me - Amy Plum



Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (May 10, 2011)


My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.
Suddenly, my sister, Georgia, and I were orphans. We put our lives into storage and moved to Paris to live with my grandparents. And I knew my shattered heart, my shattered life, would never feel normal again. Then I met Vincent.
Mysterious, sexy, and unnervingly charming, Vincent Delacroix appeared out of nowhere and swept me off my feet. Just like that, I was in danger of losing my heart all over again. But I was ready to let it happen.
Of course, nothing is ever that easy. Because Vincent is no normal human. He has a terrifying destiny, one that puts his life at risk every day. He also has enemies . . . immortal, murderous enemies who are determined to destroy him and all of his kind.
While I'm fighting to piece together the remnants of my life, can I risk putting my heart—as well as my life and my family's—in jeopardy for a chance at love?



While not quite what I expected Die For Me was still a very good read.  I was expecting more action/adventure with a side of romance, but this was more romance with a side of action/adventure.  Normally this type of book wouldn't be my style but the characters all seemed to jump off the page and sink there claws into me.  Watching Kate grow from where we meet her to where we leave her was actually pretty amazing.  And Vincent and crew just amazed me.  Amy Plum's writing was spot on in my opinion.  The story never bored me and the characters seemed so full of life that I had trouble putting this one down.  I look forward to more books in this series, and any other books written by Amy Plum.  This one gets 4 stars from me!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Friday Blog Hop (7) Follow Friday (7)

Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Jenn at Crazy-For-Books.   It is a weekend long Book Party giving bloggers a chance to get to know each other and access to new blogs that we all might enjoy! If you haven't stopped by to give the hop a look I highly suggest that you do! Also every week there is a new question posted for us at answer this weeks question is...

"Summer is coming quickly - what 2011 summer release are you are most looking forward to?"





Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee, every week we all get together to answer a question and find new blogs that we enjoy. This weeks question is

Q. Keeping with the dystopian and apocalypse theme that seems to be running rampant on parajunkee.com, I have one very hard question for you: If you were stocking your bomb shelter, what books would you HAVE to include if you only had space for ten?

The Hunger Games (3) - Suzanne Collins
Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
Jane Jameson series - Molly Harper (3)
Hex Hall series - Rachel Hawkins (2)
A Kiss of Shadows - Laurell K Hamilton

although I would like to think I could grab my Nook and just be good to go.  =o)





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