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Saturday, 19 November 2011
Friday, 18 November 2011
Book Review (18).
The Solstice Conspiracy
by Lee Rawn
Publication: 31st October 2010
Publisher: Lightspeed Publishing LLC
Genre: Fantasy
Age Appropriate: Middle-Grade
Two school-age children, Beth and Chris, deal with the challenge of moving to a new home, entering a new school, and then discovering that a garden near their yard has a number of mysterious inhabitants. As they begin to have strange encounters with the small residents dwelling close to their home, Beth becomes the target of some unfriendly creatures who begin to intrude on her daily life and cause her to seek help from unexpected sources.
My Thoughts.
Beth 11 years old, her brother Chris 13 years old and their parents have just moved into a house that's been empty for a few years, the house needs some attention including the backyard which has become more of a junkyard than a garden.
Unbeknownst to them the garden is a magical one a home for fairies and over the years as the garden has filled with junk the fairies have become lazy, and cause of this creatures called Wiggins have been trying to open a portal to come into the human world.
Through it all Beth who hasn't made any friends after first being frightened by Wiggins who threaten her and having her parents think she's hallucinating and going crazy, then see's Fairies but keeps this to herself after her parents reaction over her seeing the Wiggins.
She starts to clean up the garden helped by her neighbour Mrs Peasbody's grandchildren and the fairies.
Hijinks ensue with the Fairies, Wiggins and some Imps which keep you entertained.
While I enjoyed this story it didn't have me constantly wanting to read it, but I'm sure kids will be enthralled by it.
I give this 3.5/5
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Feature And Follow Friday (5).
Q: Letter to Santa: Tell Santa what books you want for Christmas!
So this is a very hard question for me, there's just too many I want but I'll narrow it down to five.
1. The Night Circus - Erin Morgernstern
2. Anna Dressed In Blood - Kendare Blake
3. The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer - Michele Hodkin
4. Hereafter - Tara Hudson
5. Hallowed - Cynthia Hand
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Book Review (17).
Darkride
by Laura Rede
Publication: 20th December 2012.
Publisher: Independantly Released
Pages: 288
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Cicely Watson doesn’t believe in werewolves or vampires. She’s not even sure she believes in love. After all, she’s been in love with her best friend Ander for four years now and they’ve never so much as kissed. Every time they get too close, Ander runs away. But when Ander stands her up on her sixteenth birthday - the same night Cicely’s mom is attacked by a mysterious creature in the woods - Cicely is determined to hunt down the truth, even if it means braving vampire blood-bars like the seedy but glamorous Nightlife, “where the waitresses are the drinks.” There, human thralls live to be bitten and the ultimate promise is also the ultimate threat: bonding, forming the magical link that joins vampire to thrall in life...and in death.
Ander McNair used to be the favorite son of a great monster hunting family - that is, until he was bitten by a werewolf and the hunter became the hunted. Now anything that makes his pulse race - even a kiss from the girl he loves - is enough to turn him into a beast.It’s a secret he intends to take to the grave but when the arrogant new guy at school turns out to be a vampire prince intent on killing Cicely, Ander’s family cuts him a deal: kill the vampire and he can earn his way back into the family and possibly even to a cure.It’s Ander’s best chance at being human again, but when Cicely and the vampire start to bond Ander is forced to make a choice between his past and Cicely’s future. Can a guy who isn’t even human learn what it means to be a man?
My Thoughts.
Cicely has been in love with her friend Ander for years but everytime she brings it up he changes the subject, and whenever Cicely and he have plans a lot of the time he never shows up that's because Ander is a werewolve and every full moon he shifts and also whenever his emotions get heightened.
Ander is also in love with Cicely but doesn't want to hurt her so he says nothing, he trys to keep his shifts under control with a potion made by his vampire guardian but it doesn't always work.
Then one night Ander smells a vampire and chases after him and in the process plows into Cicely's mum's car injuring her, meanwhile the vampire he was chasing Luke, is in town to sacrifice Cecily so he and all vampire's can get their immortality back, Cicely is an ancestor of a woman that put a curse on Luke and all vampire's that make them easy to be killed.
So we end with a love triangle with Luke falling in love with Cicely as well, and we have Ander's brother's turning up his family are hunter's and make a deal with Ander that if he kills Luke before sacrificing Cicely on All Hallow's Eve they'll give him a cure from being a werewolf.
With a love triangle between a human, werewolf and a vampire, a lot of action and a great ending then this is the book for you.
I hope there are more books after this.
I give this book 4/5.
A big thanks to the author Laura Rede for allowing me to read and review this book.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Waiting On Wednesday (5).
Waiting On Wednesday Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By Breaking The Spine.
The Extended Edition.
Shadow Heir (Dark Swan #4)
27th December 2011 Zebra
#1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead returns to the Otherworld, a mystic land inextricably linked to our own--and balanced precariously on one woman's desperate courage...Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld...
The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't--or won't--reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon--and risk the ultimate sacrifice.
The Darkest Seduction (Lords of the Underworld #9)
21st February 2012 Harlequin Books
Possessed by the demon of Promiscuity, immortal warrior Paris is irresistibly seductive-but his potent allure comes at a terrible price. Every night he must bed someone new, or weaken and die. And the woman he craves above all others is the one woman he’d thought was forever beyond his reach…until now.Newly possessed by the demon of Wrath, Sienna Blackstone is racked by a ruthless need to punish those around her. Yet in Paris’s arms, the vulnerable beauty finds soul-searing passion and incredible peace. Until a blood feud between ancient enemies heats up.
Will the battle against gods, angels and creatures of the night bind them eternally-or tear them apart?
Every Other Day
27th December 2011 EgmontUSA
Every other day, Kali D'Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She attends pep rallies. She's human.And then every day in between . . . She's something else entirely.
Though she still looks like herself, every twenty-four hours predatory instincts take over and Kali becomes a feared demon-hunter with the undeniable urge to hunt, trap, and kill zombies, hellhounds, and other supernatural creatures. Kali has no idea why
she is the way she is, but she gives in to instinct anyway. Even though the government considers it environmental terrorism.
When Kali notices a mark on the lower back of a popular girl at school, she knows instantly that the girl is marked for death by
one of these creatures. Kali has twenty-four hours to save her and, unfortunately, she'll have to do it as a human. With the help
of a few new friends
Under a Vampire Moon (Argeneau #16)
by Lynsay Sands
24th April 2012 HarperCollins Publishers
Christian Notte's story, the sixteenth book in the Argeneau series is set on an island paradise called St. Lucia. After a bad relationship and an even worse divorce, Carolyn decides to go on a long overdue and much needed vacation with the 'girls'. Only the rest of the vacationers didn't get the memo. Around every corner there seems to be another couple celebrating their honeymoon or anniversary and the few single men she does see are far too young to even consider, including an irresistibly attractive rock violinist she meets. It's really too bad he's so young but in the end it doesn't matter because according to his cousin, Giacinta, women in general aren't Christian's type. But there's a catch, Christian needs Carolyn's help. He needs her to be his beard (to play the part of his fake girlfriend) for the week to appease his 'machismo' family. Carolyn just can't seem to say No and decides to help Gia's cousin. The only problem is that being around Christian and acting like they are a loving couple is wreaking havoc on her emotions. Carolyn's thoughts keep drifting back to places they shouldn't, like kissing his full lips or feeling his broad shoulders under her fingertips... good lord, she's in trouble
Spell Bound (Hex Hall #3)
13th March 2012 Hyperion Books CH
Hailed as “impossible to put down,” the Hex Hall series has both critics and teens cheering. With a winning combination of romance, action, magic and humor, this third volume will leave readers enchanted.Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies—the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending. But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident.
Sophie’s bound for one hell of a ride—can she get her powers back before it’s too late?
Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed #10)
by Lara Adrian
19th January 2012 Robinson Publishing
In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach. But when his eyes meet those of Tavia Fairchild, a beautiful witness who identifies him at the scene of a mission gone terribly wrong, Chase finds himself drawn to the woman—and convinced she is something much more than she seems.
Pulled into a vortex of intrigue and danger she can neither resist nor understand, Tavia is uncertain whom to trust. And while everything sane and logical warns her against getting close to Chase, she cannot deny that the handsome, deeply haunted male stirs something primal and ravenous within her. But even as she surrenders to her cravings, nothing can prepare her for the shattering truth of who—and what—she truly is.
As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Dragos and his Minions unleashing a hell on Earth like nothing ever seen before, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out and the streets running red with the blood of innocent lives, both Breed and human, together Chase and Tavia must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1)
7th March 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. Ismae's most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?
by Kresley Cole
10th January 2012 Gallery
ALL FEAR THE ENEMY OF OLDDriven by his insatiable need for revenge, Lothaire, the Lore’s most ruthless vampire, plots to seize the Horde’s crown. But bloodlust and torture have left him on the brink of madness—until he finds Elizabeth Peirce, the key to his victory. He captures the unique young mortal, intending to offer up her very soul in exchange for power, yet Elizabeth soothes his tormented mind and awakens within him emotions Lothaire believed he could no longer experience.
A DEADLY FORCE DWELLS WITHIN HER
Growing up in desperate poverty, Ellie Peirce yearned for a better life, never imagining she’d be convicted of murder—or that an evil immortal would abduct her from death row. But Lothaire is no savior, as he himself plans to sacrifice Ellie in one month’s time. And yet the vampire seems to ache for her touch, showering her with wealth and sexual pleasure. In a bid to save her soul, Ellie surrenders her body to the wicked vampire, while vowing to protect her heart.
CENTURIES OF COLD INDIFFERENCE SHATTERED
Elizabeth tempts Lothaire beyond reason, as only his fated mate could. As the month draws to a close, he must choose between a millennia-old blood vendetta and his irresistible prisoner. Will Lothaire succumb to the miseries of his past . . . or risk everything for a future with her?
Dark Storm
March 2012 Simon And Schuster
Ellie is staying with her maternal grandparents for the summer, while her recently bereaved dad takes off on holiday with his new girlfriend. Upset by his apparent callousness, missing her mother, and jealous for her dad's attention, she begins to spiral into depression. Her grandparents suggest she joins a local theatre group, to meet people her own age and get away from the dark thoughts that threaten to engulf her. But then she gets roped into a seance at the theatre, and is the only one who actually sees a real ghost. Now a spirit is contacting her from beyond the grave - and as the dead boy's story unfolds, Ellie finds herself falling in love with him. But if she solves his mystery and helps release his soul, will he be lost to her forever?Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
5th April 2012 David Fickling Books
I'm just completing the first draft of a novel called The Brides of Rollrock Island, which is about selkies - that is, seals that come up out of the sea and transform into humans, and live among people. It's a very sad, strange story; a lot of people in it make themselves wretched with magic. But of course it's beautiful and atmospheric too - the selkies themselves are beautiful, but so is the landscape, the seascape, the weather, and some of the humans. This novel is also less violent than Tender Morsels, so a lot more readers will find it easier to stomach, I hope. I believe it'll come out as YA here in Australia and in the US, but as a crossover, in adult and YA editions, in the UK, as Tender Morsels did. 
Unraveling
24th April 2012 Balzer + Bray
Two days before the start of her junior year, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed—as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she’s opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn’t possible, Janelle knows—with every fiber of her being—that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.But her reincarnation, and Ben’s possible role in it, is only the first of the puzzles that Janelle must solve. While snooping in her FBI-agent father’s files for clues about her accident, she uncovers a clock that seems to be counting down to something—but to what? And when someone close to Janelle is killed, she can no longer deny what’s right in front of her: Everything that’s happened—the accident, the murder, the countdown clock, Ben’s sudden appearance in her life—points to the end of life as she knows it. And as the clock ticks down, she realizes that if she wants to put a stop to the end of the world, she’s going to need to uncover Ben’s secrets—and keep from falling in love with him in the process.
From debut author Elizabeth Norris comes this shattering novel of one girl’s fight to save herself, her world, and the one boy she never saw coming
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