This book started out strong, a nice good fairy tale that kept me engaged and wanting to find out how it ended, but then I was kind of disappointed at the ending. Anyone else read this and have an opinion? That cover sure is pretty though and I would still recommend reading it.
I was able to receive digital ARC's of several awesome looking books, but the one I am most excited about is Afterlife by Claudia Gray. I am a huge fan of the series Evernight and after Twilight it is probably the best series I have found yet. The book doesn't come out until March 2011 so I am of course strutting my cool stuff all over the place but anyways, I will read it asap and the others. In the meantime check out the hot covers of these books I got (digitally of course but still)
EDIT: I have found out I am supposed to wait to post reviews until closer to the release of these books, but I have almost finished Afterlife and it does not disappoint!
Afterlife - Claudia Gray
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So we all have the New Moon soundtrack and love Anya Marina's Satellite Heart. RIGHT?!!!
Check out her latest geniusness.
(It's a cover of T.I's version for those of you who live under a rock....)
OK I finished this book last night and I just have a few things to say. First of all, this book was amazing. I'm now just sad it took me so long to read. I guess because its cover is so similar to Swoon, and Bleeding violet and even kind of The Dark Divine. I dunno. Anyways so this book was sooo great it had all of the elements,
1. Love triangle
2. Me crying
3. Me caring when the sequel comes out
and as an added bonus it takes place in Baltimore and surrounding areas and I am from MD also so hearing the names of all those places I know about was cool -- however, I wonder how it would be for a non-local. Like... she talked about places so much (or maybe I just noticed them alot since I know where they are) that I wonder if non locals are like wtheck is she talking about or more importantly WHY is she talking about that, as in: why do I care what the street name is? Does that make sense? Who knows, and like I said maybe I only noticed because I know the area and all books are like that.
Anyways so this is freaky.... I finished it last night ... Oct 19th, the same day Logan was born AND died. (He died on his birthday) so that is weird right? I had chills when I finished, and also today (the 20th) is my husbands birthday. oooOOOOoooo.
No I'm not old I just got married young!!! : P
This book won't be released until early next year but doesn't it's description sound a lot like Scott Westerfield's Uglies series? Granted, in Uglies, being ugly was what the government cured and here it is love, but you get the idea....
Love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called "the Cure," in Lauren Oliver's stunning second novel, DELIRIUM. Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life.She will be evaluated by the government, which will choose her husband for her. But then she meets Alex, a boy from the Wilds who is living under the government's radar, and she falls in love, threatening both their lives.
In this world, affection is prohibited. Touching and hugging are suspicious behaviors, even among family members. But despite government obtrusiveness, people find ways to connect and to be together. Hana finds like-minded people through embedded links on websites. And after meeting Alex, Lena understands that an emotional connection to another person is something she's always been missing--and now it's something she won't live without.
Has anyone gotten this yet? I have it at home and I cannot wait to read it! This cover is gorgeous! I hope it is as hard to put down as it is to stop looking at.
This book sat on my shelf awhile because of the cheesy cover but it was actually a good read. By good, I mean I was able to finish it which is more than I can say for some of the books I have read recently, but don't expect any teen angst here, this is a little more saucy and grownup love. Good news is it's part of an established series so you don't have to wait for the next one to come out!
OK OK, I know I have been a total traitor to my blog and my fellow YA fang-fiction readers, but you probably already know the reason I haven't been blogging is because I am reading ALL of the Gossip Girl, Private and Privledge novels, and while I love them, I just don't think they deserve their own blog.
Anyways, I am having a shortage of good series to read, there are always new supernatural books, but I love a good established series so I don't have to wait, and want to know if anyone has read any of the Luxe novels or Pretty little ... novels? Are they worth a read? As for the Luxe novels, look at that gorg cover.
I have been reading so much garb'age' (it sounds better if you say it french-like) lately I have been completely uninspired to write....
That was until I read Raised By Wolves.
I won't lie, I am only halfway through and if I have any icomplete sentences or other silly errors in this post it is because I stayed up half the night reading half the book before forcing myself to go to sleep. I honestly haven't been this into a book since Twilight. I am not comparing it to that series, but my eagerness to finish this book is comparable. Such as.. Can I get away with reading this at red lights? What about My desk? Haha.
It didn't start out strong and I was really worried I wasn't going to like it, in the first chapter the author spends a lot of time discussing from the main characters point of view, her relationship with the alpha. It's like ok, we get it, your thisclose and he's 'cool' get on with it. BUT -- she quickly recovers and the story is amazing so far and I'm jealous I don't have the talent to write anything this mesmerizing.
I can't help but think it's eerily similar to the Mercy Thompson series though. Eerily. Did Patricia Briggs take on a YA pen name?
Well I got a couple of bad books that has discouraged me, and I have been trying to lightening speed my way through the private and gossip girl novels. I don't want to review those but I am hooked on reading them!
The novels in question are
Betrayal - Gillian Shields, Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
These are two follow up novels. I'm just going to be honest and say that I made it / forced myself halfway through Linger before I gave up trying to remember what the first one was about (Googling it didn't help jog my memory). Either way, I checked it up to a lost cause and quit since I had no emotional attachment to the characters). Betrayal, I had a lot of other books on my plate and the beginning of this novel didn't do anything for me and I didn't really like how the first novel in this series Immortal ended so I gave up on this one too.
I know, I am the WORST.
Let's not even go into how I can't finish Wuthering Bites. I got it because I can't finish Wuthering Heights and thought it would be easier to swallow/suffer through. Wrong! Has anyone successfully finished the original or the Bites version? Sigh. I will keep trucking through it, but not until I finish these GG novels and the Private Series.
