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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Haunted Moon (Otherworld #13)
Author - Yasmine Galenorn
Genre - Paranormal/Romance
Pages - 336
Release Date - January 29 2013
Description from Goodreads
We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. My sister Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I’m Camille, a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. I’m a priestess of the Moon Mother, and I’m training under the Queen of Darkness. Unfortunately, playing in the dark means that sometimes you stumble over secrets better left buried…
There’s a new Fae sorcerer in town—Bran, the son of Raven Mother and the Black Unicorn—and I’m the unwilling liaison between him and our new Earthside OIA. With cemeteries being ransacked and spirits being harvested by a sinister, otherworldly force, Aeval sends us to rescue the missing wife of a prominent member of the Fae nobility. Our search leads us to the mysterious Aleksais Psychic Network and, ultimately, to face the Lord of Ghosts where Morio and I must undergo a ritual that will plunge us directly into the world of the dead.
We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. My sister Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I’m Camille, a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. I’m a priestess of the Moon Mother, and I’m training under the Queen of Darkness. Unfortunately, playing in the dark means that sometimes you stumble over secrets better left buried…
There’s a new Fae sorcerer in town—Bran, the son of Raven Mother and the Black Unicorn—and I’m the unwilling liaison between him and our new Earthside OIA. With cemeteries being ransacked and spirits being harvested by a sinister, otherworldly force, Aeval sends us to rescue the missing wife of a prominent member of the Fae nobility. Our search leads us to the mysterious Aleksais Psychic Network and, ultimately, to face the Lord of Ghosts where Morio and I must undergo a ritual that will plunge us directly into the world of the dead.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Okay so its finally happening after some false starts. I am DEFIANTLY moving tomorrow! I already have my books over to the new place, and of course I got some more. Too bad I don't have my own library room.
REVIEW
Trapped (Iron Druid #5) by Kevin Hearne (Netgalley)
False Covenant (Widdershins Adventures #2) by Ari Marmell (Prometheus)
London Eye (Toxic City #1) by Tim Lebbon (Prometheus)
BOUGHT
King of Thorns (The Broken Empire #2) by Mark Lawernce
Wolfsangel (Claw Trilogy #1) by M. D. Lachlan
Fenrir (Claw Trilogy #2) by M. D. Lachlan
Lord of Slaughter (Claw Trilogy #3) by M. D. Lachlan
SWAP/GIFT
Iced (Dani O'Malley #1) by Karen Marie Moning
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Author - Jennifer Bosworth
Series - Struck #1
Genre - YA Fantasy
Pages - 373
Description from Goodreads
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.
Is it over? Can I poke it with a stick? Is it dead? T
hose were my thoughts at the end of this book. I was just that bad.
The premise makes it seem like it will be an action-filled, lovey-dovey, cult-clashing novel of coolness. It. Is. Not.
Mia has been struck by lightning countless times and has lived, now the one called Prophet has predicted a super storm that will strike in 3 days, and it’s up to Mia to stop it or destroy everything.
Mia just plain got on my nerves, really everyone in this book did. The characterization is just bad, bad, bad! I think the ONLY one who I could stand was her brother Parker because he did what he thought was right and he stood up for himself while keeping compassion. Mia however, she liked to complain that is, when she was not swooning over Jeremy our ‘love interest’ Sure, let us fall in love with the guy who stalked/tried to kill us, good job Mia. Oh wait, It’s okay though! He’s hot! That makes his past transgressions totally forgivable and fine! PFFFFFF!!! Whatever.
The cult-clash between the seekers and Prophet was just ‘meh.’ Really about 70 percent in I thought I was reading a teen version of the bible, God was in every other sentence and I really sludged through the last 30% of the book, I felt like I was wrong for doing things that I do, and no book should make you feel that way.
Really, If you think you can put up with what i have stated then by all means try the book, you may like it. However, I am going to avoid anything else to do with this series.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Question: What is a deal breaker for you in a book? Do you abhor love triangles? Or can't deal with bad editing?
Good question! I can't stand love triangles, it seems they are everywhere these days! I also can't stand when all the sub characters are in love with the main character, it is so annoying and unrealistic to have EVERYONE pine for the main character. It's even worse when she/he is bratty or arrogant. Also i do not like long descriptions of rock or mountain faces, you do not need a page and a half to describe how perfectly the sun glints off the snow-capped hills.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Author - Julie Kagawa
Series - Iron Fey #4
Genre - YA Fantasy
Pages - 394
Description From Goodreads
"My name--my True Name--is Ashallayn' darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl..."To cold faery prince Ash, love was a weakness for mortals and fools. His own love had died a horrible death, killing any gentler feelings the Winter prince might have had. Or so he thought.
Then Meghan Chase--a half human, half fey slip of a girl--smashed through his barricades, binding him to her irrevocably with his oath to be her knight. And when all of Faery nearly fell to the Iron fey, she severed their bond to save his life. Meghan is now the Iron Queen, ruler of a realm where no Winter or Summer fey can survive.
With the unwelcome company of his archrival, Summer Court prankster Puck, and the infuriating cait sith Grimalkin, Ash begins a journey he is bound to see through to its end--a quest to find a way to honor his vow to stand by Meghan's side.
To survive in the Iron Realm, Ash must have a soul and a mortal body. But the tests he must face to earn these things are impossible. And along the way Ash learns something that changes everything. A truth that challenges his darkest beliefs and shows him that, sometimes, it takes more than courage to make the ultimate sacrifice
"My name--my True Name--is Ashallayn' darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl..."To cold faery prince Ash, love was a weakness for mortals and fools. His own love had died a horrible death, killing any gentler feelings the Winter prince might have had. Or so he thought.
Then Meghan Chase--a half human, half fey slip of a girl--smashed through his barricades, binding him to her irrevocably with his oath to be her knight. And when all of Faery nearly fell to the Iron fey, she severed their bond to save his life. Meghan is now the Iron Queen, ruler of a realm where no Winter or Summer fey can survive.
With the unwelcome company of his archrival, Summer Court prankster Puck, and the infuriating cait sith Grimalkin, Ash begins a journey he is bound to see through to its end--a quest to find a way to honor his vow to stand by Meghan's side.
To survive in the Iron Realm, Ash must have a soul and a mortal body. But the tests he must face to earn these things are impossible. And along the way Ash learns something that changes everything. A truth that challenges his darkest beliefs and shows him that, sometimes, it takes more than courage to make the ultimate sacrifice
This installment of the Iron Fey series takes on the voice of Ash, the former winter prince. He is on a quest to figure out how to be with Meghan, the newly appointed Iron Queen and boy, is he in for an adventure!
Puck and Grimalkin accompany him on his quest, as does the big bad wolf and another surprising person. The action is not very prevelant in this addition, and I did find myself skipping some pages, specifically near the end (about 70% through) there was a whole chapter that I just did not feel belonged in the story, sure it made sense but, was boring.
Ash was a good character to tell the story, though I think if it were in Pucks voice it would have been a bit funnier, or perhaps less angsty. Puck really shines though and I gotta say, the big bad wolf was my favorite character in this book. Grimalkin also improved, I really think Ash was my least favorite, I just do not like the brooding winter fey as much as I used to and I’m glad he got his good ending but really, I found I did not care if he did or not throughout the book.
Don’t get me wrong, the book needs to be read but compared to the last book, which had me bawling at the end, this was just.. okay.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Author - Jill Hathaway
Series - Slide #1
Genre - YA
Pages - 250
Description from Goodreads
Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth--her sister's friend Sophie didn't kill herself. She was murdered.
Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn't actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else's mind and experiences the world through that person's eyes. She's slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed "friend" when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie's slashed body.
Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can't bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting distant lately, especially now that she's been spending more time with Zane.
Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth--her sister's friend Sophie didn't kill herself. She was murdered.
Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn't actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else's mind and experiences the world through that person's eyes. She's slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed "friend" when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie's slashed body.
Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can't bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting distant lately, especially now that she's been spending more time with Zane.
What?! Really? This book sucked! It started out pretty well but then took a very, very bad turn. The thought of a narcoleptic teenage girl who can slide into other people when she falls asleep holding something of thiers sounded so good, add a murder mystery and I thought I was going to love this book. Wrong, so wrong.
The book did not pan out, it felt thrown together, there was no great detail explaining her condition or her ability and I am the type who wants to know more about things, why they are the way they are and what makes them tick, the author fell terribly short on this.
Sylvia (Vee) is our main character, she is okay I guess, nothing really special about her and at times I really wanted to hit her for whineing so much and repeating things way too often. Okay, so she went through something traumatic, I get it but it does not need to be brought up five times during the book. The other characters where generic clichés, the bratty sister, the faithful friend who has a crush on main girl and the hot new guy who ends up dateing the main girl add in some mean girls.. cliché to the max! None of the characters really stood out for me. Also, does EVERYONE have to break down crying? I mean really! Teen angst is overflowing in this book and it got very annoying.
The murder mystery part was a bit better, I was guessing throughout the book, at one point I did figure it out and it was a bit suprising but kind of thrown together at the end, you get info without substance. The killer is just thrown in and then thrown out of the book.
Do yourself a favor, unless you can borrow this book or can read a sample on your ereader, avoid it!
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