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Friday, February 11, 2011
Big news! March brings my super book giveaway! Keep a look out for the post offering up lots of books and even an Amazon gift card!
The Question of the Week is: What is your favorite romance hero-type? Stereotype wise. Do you like the strong silent type or the brute macho man?
I like the strong, silent type because I myself can identify with them.
An old Native American proverb ends in "And abouve all, may silence make you strong"
I fully belive that, why be vocal an give people a chance to contridict you when you can sit in silence, listen and learn?
The Question of the Week is: Tell us about one of your posts from this week and give us a link so we can read it (review or otherwise)!
Nothing spectacular, Finally put up an ARC review of "Born at Midnight" after putting it off for a month or so haha. Here is the review link.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme HOSTED BY SNIFFLY KITTY'S MOSTLY BOOKS for charging into the promote a third sentence fray!
So, in light of the fact that people seem to participate more when the third sentence is from your current read. I've decided that just posting the third sentence of your current read and reviewing it is the best way to go!
1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence at Sniffly Kitty's.
My book is: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
I wanted to apologize, I wanted to tell her that I was sorry for not being brave enough to listen to her, for letting her be the one to stand alone in front of the class when it should have been me.
Bravery and courage are hard to find in yourself and in others, and when you need it most it seems it does not come and we regret it later on. However, life is funny in that it always gives us a chance for redemption.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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Title - Born at Midnight
Author - C.C Hunter
Genre - YA/Paranormal
Pages - 416
Release Date - March 29th (expected)
Description (from Goodreads)
One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls—a camp for troubled teens, and within hours of arriving, it becomes painfully clear that her fellow campers aren’t just “troubled.” Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapshifters, witches and fairies train side by side—learning to harness their powers, control their magic and live in the normal world.
Kylie’s never felt normal, but surely she doesn’t belong here with a bunch of paranormal freaks either. Or does she? They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought here for a reason. As if life wasn’t complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Derek’s a half-fae who’s determined to be her boyfriend, and Lucas is a smokin’ hot werewolf with whom Kylie shares a secret past. Both Derek and Lucas couldn’t be more different, but they both have a powerful hold on her heart.
Even though Kylie feels deeply uncertain about everything, one thing is becoming painfully clear—Shadow Falls is exactly where she belongs…
Thoughts
I did not think I would like this as much as I did. Kylie was a bit of a whiney brat in the begining, but she slowly grew out of it. The premise is interesting enough and we do get a bit of the paranormal in the book, though not as much as one would think.
There are your usuall paranormal suspects: Vampires (Della), Werewolves (Lucas), Fae (Derek) even a Witch (Miranda) and Shapeshifter (Perry). They all have thier own personalities and they all add charm to the book. Kylie however I felt was just a bit too dramatic. She says the word 'freak' about 20+ times in the first half of the book, it tapers off during the second but it got kind of annoying having to be reminded about how much she thought the inhabitants of Shadow Falls Camp were freaks and how much she did not belong there.
The romance in the book is good, its the typical love-triangle type of thing, but the twist is one of the guys initially wants nothing to do with Kylie. However, this changes and it becomes the usual 'girl loves both guys, guys are jelous of the other' type of deal. It does not get too bad though.
Action in this book kicks up at the ending chapters, not alot of action but a little snippet that peaks your attention and keeps you reading, there will definatly be a sequel and I for one, can not wait for it to come out, the ending just left off at a point where your eagerly wanting to continue.
A bit of a warning though: the sexual content and swearing is a bit high, so use caution, if you do not like such things then this may not be the book for you, if you can overlook it then im sure you will be pleased.
A bit of a warning though: the sexual content and swearing is a bit high, so use caution, if you do not like such things then this may not be the book for you, if you can overlook it then im sure you will be pleased.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Rules
1. Pick up your current read.
2. Flip to a random page
3. Choose (2) or more (not too many) sentances to share.
NO SPOILERS!!
Title - Lord of the Clans
Author - Christie Golden
Lines
Squeeze, instinct cried. Squeeze tight. Kill Blackmoore for what he did to you.
No! he thought, This was not Blackmoore. This was one of his people, whom he had risked everything to find. He rose and extended a hand to the defeated orc to help him up.
Thoughts
Finally getting around to reading the World of Warcraft novels! I quite like this one so far, its very sad and I feel so bad for Thrall, its interesting to know the Lore behind the game.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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Title - The Haunted E-book
Author - J.L Bryan
Genre - horror/fiction
Pages - 246
Format Read - Ebook
Description (from goodreads)
Dee escapes her dreary librarian job and unfaithful boyfriend by reading romance and fantasy on her Kindle.
She tries The Haunted E-book, the story of a 19th century tramp printer whose ghost awakens whenever someone reads a book he created. The ghost stalks his readers and threatens them with death if they stop reading the book. Though she doesn’t usually like ghost stories, Dee can’t stop herself from reading it.
Then Dee learns the stories in the books are true, the malevolent ghost is real, and Dee might be the next character to die
Thoughts.
The Haunted Ebook will grab you and not let go! I do not read horror books for the sole reason that they scare me. Yes, i am a big baby and i get spooked easily. The Haunted Ebook had me looking over my shoulder and i had to keep reading, lest Jonah come and kill me.
The book takes place in modern times, With our main character being a librarian named Dee. One day Dee gets bored or her horrible romance story and decides to pick up a horror book instead. She then samples The Haunted Ebook, and her life changes forever.
The book is kind of odd, your basicly reading about Dees life, who is reading about Madisions life, who is also reading about Elaines life. A story, within a story within a story of sorts. This makes it interesting because you get to see the three womans lives and how they tie into each other. Dee as i said is a librarian, hers is the main story and I found her very likeable. Her life is not going so well, her boyfriend is cheating on her and she has been passed up for a good position at her work. Thus that is why she starts reading the Haunted Ebbok.
Madision is a college student with a horrible roomate, she also does not have a great life, she is scarred from a fire when she was a kid and she has no friends. Madison was another likeable charactor because she feels like me, a bookworm who likes to stay inside and read. The other woman Elaine was not so interesting for me, in fact i really forgot most of her story as i was zoning out during hers, I know she was brave and stood up to Jonah and i liked her for that, but then she slowly goes downhill.
Our bad guy, Jonah was truely a great villian, he was a poetic killer (literally.) I found it interesting that Jonah actually means 'peace' because the Jonah in the book is so full of chaos and death.It was interesting learning about how he became how he is and what led up to his bloody character.
The Haunted ebook is rife with swearing, there is even a quite detailed sex scene, so little eyes beware. There is also alot of blood and gore but this part adds to the horror and dark ambience. The ending was an extra bit of icing on the cake, and left you with chills. I recomend this book to horror fans and those looking for something to take ahold of them and get lost in the pages of.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Rules
1. Pick up your current read
2. choose a page at random
3. select (2) sentances to share
No Spoilers!!
Title - Spells
Author - Aprilynne Pike
Lines
It was strange to miss someone who was standing right in front of her, but that was how Laurel felt. She missed her mom.
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