Feature And Follow Friday (20).

Q: What is the longest book you’ve read? What are your favorite 600+ page reads?

The longest book I've read would have to be Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer.

And my favourite reads over 600+ pages are:

The Host - Stephenie Meyer

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - J.K Rowling

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - J.K Rowling

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling

Book Review (67).

Silence (Hush, Hush #3)

by Becca Fitzpatrick

Publication: 4th October 2011

Publisher: Simon And Schuster

Pages: 438

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

**Warning May Contain Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series**

The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for—and their love—forever.

My Thoughts.

I loooved this book so much, it's definitely one of my favourites of the three in the series, I loved the mystery and of course Patch in this storyline.

Nora wakes up in a cemetery with no idea how or why she's there, she's confused and disorientated and after running away from a man who works there she faints and awakens in hospital where her Mum tells her she's been missing for the last three months, Nora can't remember anything what's even worse she finds she's missing her memories from the last five months from even before she went missing.

In her absence her Mum has started dating Hank her enemy Marci's Dad and she knows there's something about him that she can't quite put her finger on.

She also keeps getting fleeting glimpses in her mind of someone's eyes and the colour black, memories of Patch whom she also can't remember.

In flashes of her memory returning she meets a mysterious boy Jev who seems familiar to her after he saves her after nearly being  killed.

It's the story behind the loss of her memory and what happened to her that made her forget that makes this story so good, and while Patch does take a while to appear in the story, it's well worth it when he does.

There is a war brewing between the Fallen and the Nephilim and after the ending both Nora and Patch have to decide what side they will fight on.

I cannot wait to see how the final book in this series will turn out and I hope it will be a finale deserving of this fantastic series.

I give this 5/5.

The Hunger Games Movie Review.

Last night I attended the midnight screening of The Hunger Games and I was definitely blown away.
So while it's been quite a while since I've read the book I couldn't say how much was left out of the movie but what they put in was fantastic.

The action was great and the Capitol was done so well with the costuming of the citizens and the buildings were more than I could have imagined.

I loved Jennifer Lawrence in this movie and feel that they picked the perfect person to play the leading heroine Katniss.

As for Josh Hutcherson in the role of Peeta well he didn't do it for me at all, I had my doubts before the movie (everytime I see him I think of him as that kid from Zathura and R.V) whether that's why I don't know, but he is nothing like how I envisioned him while reading the book, don't get me wrong he's a good actor but I felt they could have picked somebody better.

Liam Hemsworth was another actor I didn't like in his role as Gale, and again not who I pictured as this character at all, (if I hadn't read the books already and had to pick who Katniss should end up with I don't think I'd want to choose either).

I loved Woody Harrelson as Haymitch I think they made a perfect choice, he plays comedy and Haymitch's drunkeness perfectly.

And I feel that they did a fantastic job with the rest of the casting.

So please you need to all go out and see this brilliant movie and let me know if you agree with my opinions on the actor's playing Peeta and Gale or whether it's just me.

I will definitely be seeing this a time or to before it's finished at the movie's.

Aside from the 2 casting choices I didn't agree with I still give this 10/10.

Book Review (66).

Tempest Rising (Tempest #1)

by Tracy Deebs

Publication: 1st September 2011

Publisher: Bloomsbury Australia

Pages: 341

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.

My Thoughts.

Tempest Rising was such a great book and definately different from the current mermaid books out there.

It's about a girl named Tempest who is fast approaching her seventeenth birthday when she will have to decide to stay human or become a mermaid like her Mum who left six years ago on Tempest's eleventh birthday, and never came back, and it's the resentment that she holds for her Mum leaving that makes her want to never become a mermaid.

Tempest with her Father helped raise her two younger brothers and with her boyfriend Mark she's happy out surfing the waves at the beach, while out one day at the beach she meets a mysterious boy named Kona who she feels instantly attracted to.

After gills appear and a tattoo on her back at her seventeenth birthday party and a mysterious glow that envelops her body she makes it to the beach across from her house and is attacked by the Sea Witch who first came after her when she was a little girl, which ties in to her Mum and a prophecy which she's told she is a part of.

And after Kona  is struck by lightening she finds the the only way to save him is to drag him into the ocean which begins her transformation eventually into a mermaid.

While down below she finds her mother, I wasn't happy how this part of the storyline played out it was very abrupt and I felt that it should have been resolved a lot better than it was.

I liked both worlds and how Tempest struggled to figure out where she really belonged.

A great story with beautiful imagery and a fresh take on the mermaid mythology.

I'm definately looking forward to the next book in this series.

I give this 4/5.

A Big Thanks To Sonia @ Bloomsbury Australia.

In My Mailbox (19).

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

Review.

Torn (Trylle Trilogy #2) - Amanda Hocking  (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Brought.

Angel's Flight (Guild Hunter) - Nalini Singh

Timeless (Parasol Protectorate #5) - Gail Carriger

Everlasting ( Kissed By An Angel #5) - Elizabeth Chandler

Infamous (Chronicles Of Nick #3) - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Balthazar - Claudia Gray

Fair Game (Alpha And Omega #3) - Patricia Briggs

Huntress - Malinda Lo

Poison Study (Study #1) - Maria V. Snyder

Magic Study (Study #2) - Maria V. Snyder

Fire Study (Study #3) - Maria V. Snyder

Wonder - R.J Palacio

Dragon Bound (Elder Races #1) - Thea Harrison

Storm's Heart (Elder Races #2) - Thea Harrison

Serpent's Kiss (Elder Races #3) - Thea Harrison

Wings Of The Wicked (Angelfire #2) - Courtney Allison Moulton

Kissed By An Angel (Kissed By An Angel #1-3) - Elizabeth Chandler

The Vespertine (The Vespertine #1) - Saundra Mitchell

Born At Midnight (Shadow Falls #1) C.C Hunter

Awake At Dawn (Shadow Falls #2) - C.C Hunter

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You (Gallagher Girls #1) - Ally Carter

Ruby Red (Edelstein Trilogie #1) - Kerstin Gier

Soul Screamers Vol. 1 - Rachel Vincent

Imaginary Girls - Nova Ren Suma

Hourglass (Hourglass #1) - Myra McEntire

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Book Review (65).

Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed #10)

by Lara Adrian

Publication: 24th January 2012

Publisher: Random House

Pages: 369

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Age Appropriate: Adult

*Warning May Contain Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series**

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—until he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who may be something much more than she seems . . . 

My Thoughts.

I'm glad to see that this is not going to be the final book in this series as reported, on Lara Adrian's site there are two more books at least to come out in the series.

I was anxious to see how Chases' book would turn out given he was on his way to Bloodlust and there didn't seem to be any way out of it, after being arrested at the end of the last book taking the blame for a bombing that Dragos committed, so  the cops chase the terroists to the Order's compound and to take the attention away from the Order he surrenders to the police.

While in police custody he is taken into a room where the eyewitness Tavia picks him out of the line up  Chase breaks out and finds that the Senator whom Tavia works for is a Minion turned by Dragos , who hopes to lure in the Vice-President of the United States and turn him as well.

After catching up with Tavia he discovers that she is a female Breed but she believes that her glyphs are actually burns she got as a child after her 'Aunt' had her take medication which toned down her Breed characteristics and left her unaware of her actual physical make-up.

Dragos has managed to screw with dna and Tavia is the daughter of a Gen One and a Breedmate, so she's Breed with a Breedmate birthmark.

They have immediate chemistry and make a great couple and Tavia helps Chase get through his Bloodlust.

I loved that everybody appeared in this book and that we see the christening ceremony of Dante and Tess' son Xander Raphael and  the pregnancy of Elise the mate of Tegan.

The Breedmates in the Order discover that they are descended from Atlanteans and that the queen may still be alive and the Order are outed after Dragos sets loose all of the Rogues that were being held in the Enforcement Agency's around the world.

The epilogue at the end reassembles the Order and their mates at a congress meeting where they are recognised as their own species.

This made for a great way for the supposed ending of the series but now that there are another couple of books being released I'm interested to see what happens next.

Another great book in this fantastic series.

I give this 5/5.