Waiting On Wednesday (8).

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine where you can spotlight an upcoming release that you're eagerly anticipating.

Touch of Death

by Kelly Hashway 

15th January 2013 Spencer Hill Press

Jodi Marshall isn’t sure how she went from normal teenager to walking disaster. One minute she’s in her junior year of high school, spending time with her amazing boyfriend and her best friend. The next she’s being stalked by some guy no one seems to know.

After the stranger, Alex, reveals himself, Jodi learns he’s not a normal teenager and neither is she. With a kiss that kills and a touch that brings the dead back to life, Jodi discovers she’s part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. A branch of necromancers that are descendents of Medusa. A branch of necromancers with poisoned blood writhing in their veins.

Jodi’s deadly to the living and even more deadly to the deceased. She has to leave her old, normal life behind before she hurts the people she loves. As if that isn’t difficult enough, Jodi discovers she’s the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she can’t figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct.

The Unnaturalists

by Tiffany Trent

14th August 2012 Simon And Schuster

In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.

Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large. Syrus Reed’s Tinker family has always served and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but when his family is captured to be refinery slaves, he finds that his fate may be bound up with Vespa’s—and with the Unnaturals.

As the danger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in a tightening web of deception and intrigue. At stake may be the fate of New London—and the world.

Slated (Slated #1)

by Teri Terry

3rd May 2012 Orchard Books

Kyla's memory has been erased, her personality wiped blank, her memories lost forever.
She's been Slated.
The government claims she was a terrorist, and that they are giving her a second chance - as long as she plays by their rules. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla's mind. Someone is lying to her, and nothing is as it seems. Who can she trust in her search for the truth?

In My Mailbox (15).

In My Mailbox Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By Kristi The Story Siren.

Review.

The Shiny Guys - Doug MacLeod (Penguin Australia)

Pre-Order.

Fallen In Love (Fallen #3.5) - Lauren Kate

Life Eternal (Dead Beautiful #2) - Yvonne Woon

Angel Fire (Angel #2) - L.A Weatherly

Darker After Midnight ( Midnight Breed #10) - Lara Adrian

Diabolical (Tantalize #4) - Cynthia Leitich Smith

Lenobia's Vow (House Of Night Novellas #2) - P.C Cast & Kristin Cast

Brought.

Entangled - Cat Clarke

Steel - Carrie Vaughn

Original Sin (Personal Demons #2) - Lisa Desrochers

Remembrance (Transcend Time Saga #1) - Michelle Madow

Vengeance (Transcend Time Saga #2) -  Michelle Madow

Book Review (51).

Fated (Fated #1)

by Sarah Alderson 

Publication: February 2012

Publisher: Simon And Schuster Australia

Pages: 320

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Price: $16.99

What happens when you discover you aren't who you thought you were? And that the person you love is the person who will betray you? If your fate is already determined, can you fight it?

When Evie Tremain discovers that she’s the last in a long line of Demon slayers and that she’s being hunted by an elite band of assassins –Shapeshifters, Vampires and Mixen demons amongst them – she knows she can’t run. They’ll find her wherever she goes. Instead she must learn to stand and fight.

But when the half-human, half-Shadow Warrior Lucas Gray - is sent to spy on Evie and then ordered to kill her before she can fulfil a dangerous prophecy, their fates become inextricably linked. The war that has raged for one thousand years between humans and demons is about to reach a devastating and inevitable conclusion. Either one or both of them will die before this war ends.

If your life becomes bound to another’s, what will it take to sever it?

My Thoughts.

I wanted to read this book long before it was released and had been on my wishlist for a really long time and boy was I excited when I got my hands on a copy and I wasn't disappointed and I will definately be checking out Sarah Alderson's previous book.

Evie is just your normal typical seventeen year old girl, so she thinks, after the death of her father she works two jobs to help support her mother and herself and it's while working at one of her jobs at the diner doing the nightly close up taking out the rubbish that she is ambushed by beings that are not quite human.

She is saved by a customer who had offered her another job and who she finds out is a Hunter just like her and just like her biological parents who died saving her life, she discovers that the Brotherhood (a group of different demons ) are out to kill her before she comes into her full powers and completes her part in a prophecy.

Lucas who is  half human, half  Shadow Warrior (he's able to turn invisible in shadows) works on the side of the Brotherhood offers to go undercover to get close to Evie and then kill her, but what he doesn't plan for is to fall in love with her and betray the Brotherhood.

One thing that Lucas does want is revenge against Victor (who is training Evie) because he was resposible for the death's of Lucas' parents.

I loved the different species of supernaturals we have our usual vampires (they are called Thirsters in this book), shapeshifters, mixens and scorpios, in this world they are called the unhumans.

I loved the characters and the slow developed romance between Evie and Lucas and I definately can't wait to read more about this world and it's characters.

I give this 4/5.

A Big Thanks To Caroline @ Simon And Schuster Australia.

In My Mailbox (14).

Review.

(Arc) The Catastrophic History Of You And Me  - Jess Rothenberg (Penguin Australia)

Jessica Rules The Dark Side (Jessica #2) - Beth Fantaskey (Penguin Australia)

Everneath (Everneath #1) - Brodi Ashton (Simon And Schuster Australia)

Hallowed (Unearthly #2) - Cynthia Hand (Harper Collins Australia)

Pre-Ordered.

Bloodrose (Nightshade #3) - Andrea Cremer

The Asylum (The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries  #5) - L.J Smith

Hidden (Otherworld Stories #10.4 Novella) - Kelley Armstrong

Brought.

Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) - Marissa Meyer 

Melody Burning - Whitley Strieber

Blood Bound (Unbound #1) - Rachel Vincent

Book Review (50).

Jessica Rules the Dark Side (Jessica #2)

by Beth Fantaskey

Publication: 25th January 2012

Publisher: Penguin Australia

Pages: 309

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult 

**Warning May Contain Spoilers From The Previous Book**

It’s one thing to find out you’re a vampire princess. It’s a whole other thing to actually rule. Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard enough time feeling regal with her husband, Lucius, at her side. But when evidence in the murder of a powerful elder points to Lucius, sending him into solitary confinement, Jessica is suddenly on her own. Determined to clear her husband’s name, Jessica launches into a full-scale investigation, but hallucinations and nightmares of betrayal keep getting in her way. Jessica knows that with no blood to drink, Lucius’s time is running out. Can she figure out who the real killer is—and whom she can trust—before it’s too late?

My Thoughts.

Having loved the first book in the series I was pretty excited to read this and I definately loved it.

Jessica and Lucius are now married but Jessica is struggling with royal life, she can't speak or understand Romanian, she can't stand up for herself and feels intimidated by the Elders.

As well as having her Uncle Dorin around Jess has befriended a cousin Ylenia who helps her with her new life as a princess, she contacts her friend Mindy from America and asks her to come and visit and so Mindy who is flunking all her college classes agrees as long as Lucius' cousin Raniero who she got together with at Jess and Lucius' wedding isn't there.

Lucius has an altercation with his Uncle Claudiu an Elder during a meeting  and later that night Claudiu is found murdered, the next day Jessica suggests that everybody shows their stakes to see if any of the Elders have Claudiu's blood on it and it is found on Lucius' stake, he's taken into custody and it's up to Jess to find the real killer.

I loved the alternating chapters of Jess, Mindy, Lucius And Raniero the latter two who's chapters are correspondance by email and Raniero comes home to help out and we also find out a lot about his background and his short romance with Mindy.

And Jess finally comes into her own as a princess having to take over royal duties when Lucius is put into solitary confinement and it's up to her with help from Mindy and Raniero to find the traitor in their midst.

I only hope that there will be another book in this series.

I give this 4/5.

A Big Thanks To Penguin Australia. 

Book Review (49).

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side(Jessica #1)

by Beth Fantaskey

Publication: 1st February 2009

Publisher: Harcourt

Pages: 351

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

The undead can really screw up your senior year ...

Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he’s her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire’s Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious cheerleader sets her sights on Lucius, Jess finds herself fighting to win back her wayward prince, stop a global vampire war—and save Lucius’s soul from eternal destruction.

My Thoughts.

I've been wanting to read this book for quite a while now and since I was sent the second book in the series to review I was quite excited to start it, and I was not disappointed.

Jessica is your normal everyday teenager or so she believes, one morning while waiting for the bus to school she notices a guy standing across the road staring at her, feeling a bit weirded out she's very grateful when the bus arrives, but in English class later that day there's a new foreign exchange student in class Lucius, none other than the strange boy from that morning.

It's while her mum is driving her home after school that she sees Lucius by the side of the road and Jessica points him out to her mum after telling her the story, then unbelievably her mum gets out of the car and invites him to dinner.

It's while eating dinner that Jessica is told that her real name is Antanasia and she's a vampire princess, not only that but she's told that Lucien (who is a vampire prince) and her were promised to each other at birth and they are to be married when Jessica is eighteen.

Of course Jessica thinks that they are all crazy and there's no such thing as vampire's let alone her being one, it takes quite a while for her to accept it as truth and by then Lucien appears to have moved on to the popular girl at school while Jessica has been dating a boy from school.

It's after Lucien starts dating someone else that she realises she loves Lucien and needs to talk him back into the pact (getting married to stop a war between their feuding families) before it's too late.

I loved how at the start Lucien was so formal but then started to relax and dress and act like all the rest of the American kids he was so fond of making fun of.

We also hear about the way Lucien was brought up by his Uncles (they used to beat him) after both his and Jessica's parents were killed by the same mob many years before.

I also lovd the originality of the vampire story, males are born vampires but the females aren't fully vampires until they are bitten.

Great storyline and characters, now I'm off to start the second book.

I give 4/5.

 

Feature And Follow Friday (14).

Follow Friday Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By Parajunkee And Alison Can Read.

Q: Which book genre do you avoid at all costs and why?

Ok well I definately avoid poetry, I just don't understand it and I'd rather read something that has more of a storyline to it.

Sorry to all the people that like it but each to their own.