Blood-Kissed Sky (Darkness Before Dawn #2)
by J. A. London
Expected publication: December 24th 2012 by HarperTeen
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Cover Reveal: The Nightmare Affair - Mindee Arnett
The Nightmare Affair
16-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Dusty is a magical being who feeds on human dreams.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. The setting is Arkwell.
And then it comes true.
Now the Dusty has to follow the clues--both within Eli’s dreams and out of them--to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. The setting is Arkwell.
And then it comes true.
Now the Dusty has to follow the clues--both within Eli’s dreams and out of them--to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.
Expected publication: March 5th 2013 by Tor Teen
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Cover Reveal: Echo - Alyson Noel
Echo (The Soul Seekers #2)
by Alyson Noel
The second book in the Soul Seekers series about a girl who can navigate between the worlds of the living and the dead by #1 New York Timesbestselling author Alyson Noël!
Daire Santos just saved her grandmother's life—and her soul. But at a cost. The Richters, a dark family of sorcerers, have been let loose in the Lowerworld, and Daire and her boyfriend, Dace, must once again work together to find them before they upset the balance between good and evil, and destroy not only their small town in New Mexico, but the entire world.
As Daire and Dace's relationship deepens, Dace’s evil brother Cade grows stronger than ever, building his power and forcing Daire to confront the horrifying prophecy that has brought them all together. One that will leave Daire no choice but to claim her true destiny as Seeker, but only by making an unthinkable sacrifice for the greater good of all.
Daire Santos just saved her grandmother's life—and her soul. But at a cost. The Richters, a dark family of sorcerers, have been let loose in the Lowerworld, and Daire and her boyfriend, Dace, must once again work together to find them before they upset the balance between good and evil, and destroy not only their small town in New Mexico, but the entire world.
As Daire and Dace's relationship deepens, Dace’s evil brother Cade grows stronger than ever, building his power and forcing Daire to confront the horrifying prophecy that has brought them all together. One that will leave Daire no choice but to claim her true destiny as Seeker, but only by making an unthinkable sacrifice for the greater good of all.
Expected publication: November 13th 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin
Upcoming Books That Don't Yet Have Covers.
Prophesy Of Oz (Prophecy of Oz Trilogy #1)
by Megan Shan
Helena's Aunt Dorothy has told her stories of Oz from a young age. When she finds a trunk with some Ruby Red slippers she finds herself in an adventure that will give her life long friends and will break every thing that she has ever believed.
Expected publication: August 5th 2013
Masked (Masked #1)
by Aimee Carter
Set in a future America in which a 16-year-old orphan is surgically changed to replace the Prime Minister's dead niece, and must deal with the dead girl's secret life, her fiancé, a growing rebellion and a kidnapped heir, along with the knowledge that the Prime Minister will kill to preserve his own secrets.
Expected publication: July 2013 by Harlequin Teen
My Sister's Reaper
A seventeen-year-old somehow brings her sister back to life, and by doing so, inadvertently angers her sister's reaper, now intent on claiming both girls.
Expected publication: May 29th 2013
Trinkets
A beauty queen, a professional wallflower, and a burnout—a more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen. And yet, when they all meet in Shoplifters Anonymous, Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe discover they share one thing in common—a penchant for shoplifting. When Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, they set off down a road of strange friendship linked by the thrill of stealing and the reasons that spawn it.
Expected publication: March 2013
Sorrow's Knot
by Erin Bow
In the world of Sorrow’s Knot, the dead do not rest easy. Every patch of shadow might be home to something hungry and nearly invisible, something deadly. The dead can only be repelled or destroyed with magically knotted cords and yarns. The women who tie these knots are called binders.
Otter is the daughter of Willow, a binder of great power. She’s a proud and privileged girl who takes it for granted that she will be a binder some day herself. But when Willow’s power begins to turn inward and tear her apart, Otter finds herself trapped with a responsibility she’s not ready for, and a power she no longer wants.
Otter is the daughter of Willow, a binder of great power. She’s a proud and privileged girl who takes it for granted that she will be a binder some day herself. But when Willow’s power begins to turn inward and tear her apart, Otter finds herself trapped with a responsibility she’s not ready for, and a power she no longer wants.
Published 2012 by Arthur A. Levine Books
The Other Side of Lucia Frank
by Erin Downing
Lucia Frank always happily existed in the outer orbit of high school cliques, but is suddenly thrust to the center of the social universe after a mysterious occurrence during a Lunar Eclipse changes everything and flips life-as-she-knew-it onto a bizarre new axis.
Published 2012
Consequences
by Jordan Deen
Logan has lived his whole life trying to stick to the shadows. Adamantly he tries to avoid contact with anyone, fearing skin-on-skin contact will bring on premonitions of the people's futures and pasts, all at once, leaving him dazed and conflicted on what to do with the information. But when he has an accidental brush with Kali, a girl who seems to be stuck in the shadows herself, he can't deny what he's seen... and not seen.
Published 2012
Rebel Belle
About a high school Miss Popularity whose world changes when a funny thing happens on the way to the (Homecoming) coronation: she's recruited into the Paladins, a supernatural sect of bodyguards sworn to protect those who will play an important role in the future, and charged with saving her archnemesis even if it means sacrificing her place as queen bee.
Expected publication: 2013 by Putnam
Alienated (The Alienated Series #1)
Broke-as-a-joke valedictorian Cara Sweeny just scored Uncle Sam’s newest scholarship, but there’s a major catch that’s got her pulse racing. To get the money, she has to spend her senior year hosting a foreign exchange student—seriously foreign—extraterrestrial, to be precise.
Cara’s knocked completely out of orbit when she meets eighteen-year-old Aelyx from planet L’eihr. He captivates her with stories from home and uses “Silent Speech” to fill her mind with emotions and sensations she never knew existed. Cara’s never felt such an easy connection, and despite her suspicions about Aelyx’s true purpose on Earth, their unlikely friendship deepens by the day.
But not everyone rolls out the welcome mat for Aelyx. Hundreds of Cara’s classmates join The Patriots of Earth—zealots hell-bent on severing human-alien relations—in staging protests for the newcomer’s expulsion. As the months pass, Patriots stoke public paranoia, landing Cara on the wrong end of a frenzied manhunt. Worse yet, Aelyx confesses the ominous truth behind the exchange program—and its deadly consequences for the human race—and Cara’s faced with two impossible tasks: protect the outworlder she’s grown to love but no longer trusts, and save her people from extinction.
Cara’s knocked completely out of orbit when she meets eighteen-year-old Aelyx from planet L’eihr. He captivates her with stories from home and uses “Silent Speech” to fill her mind with emotions and sensations she never knew existed. Cara’s never felt such an easy connection, and despite her suspicions about Aelyx’s true purpose on Earth, their unlikely friendship deepens by the day.
But not everyone rolls out the welcome mat for Aelyx. Hundreds of Cara’s classmates join The Patriots of Earth—zealots hell-bent on severing human-alien relations—in staging protests for the newcomer’s expulsion. As the months pass, Patriots stoke public paranoia, landing Cara on the wrong end of a frenzied manhunt. Worse yet, Aelyx confesses the ominous truth behind the exchange program—and its deadly consequences for the human race—and Cara’s faced with two impossible tasks: protect the outworlder she’s grown to love but no longer trusts, and save her people from extinction.
Expected publication: 2013 by Disney Hyperion
Another Little Piece
A girl wakes up wandering the roads of Oklahoma knowing that she is occupying another girl's body -- and that she has killed the girl whose body she is in -- who then returns to the girl's parents in upstate New York to uncover who she really is, and who else she has killed.
Expected publication: 2013 by HarperTeen
Australian Vs. U.S.A. Book Covers.
I know I haven't done this in such a long time, but better late than never!
Falling to Ash (Moth #1)
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| Australian. (Excuse the stockphoto writing across the cover!) |
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| American. I would go with the Australian cover on this one. |
Book Review (100). Starcrossed - Josephine Angelini
Starcrossed (Starcrossed #1)
Publication: 31st May 2011
Publisher: Harper Teen
Pages: 487
Genre: Fantasy
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Set on the island of Nantucket, STARCROSSED tells the tale of Helen Hamilton, a young woman whose destiny is forever altered when she meets Lucas Delos and tries to kill him in front of her entire high school. Which is terribly inconvenient, not only because Lucas is the most beautiful boy on the island, but also because Helen is so achingly shy she suffers physical pain whenever she is given too much attention.
Making matters worse, Helen is beginning to suspect she’s going crazy. Whenever she’s near Lucas or any member of his family she sees the ghostly apparitions of three women weeping bloody tears, and suffers the burden of an intense and irrational hate. She soon learns that she and Lucas are destined to play the leading roles in a Greek tragedy that the Three Fates insist on repeating over and over again throughout history. Like her namesake, Helen of Troy, she’s destined to start a war by falling in love. But even though Lucas and Helen can see their own star-crossed destiny, they’re still powerfully attracted to each other. Will they give up their personal happiness for the greater good, or risk it all to be together?
My Thoughts.
From reading different reviews for this book you either love it or hate it, and I'm glad to say that I absolutely loved it.
I've been meaning to read this for the longest time, I remember when it first appeared on Goodreads, I loved the synopsis and then when they revealed the cover it just made me want to read it even more. But for reasons even I don't know I kept putting off reading it until I received a review copy for Dreamless (the next book in the series) and it gave me a reason to finally pick this up.
I wasn't really familiar with the Greek mythology about Helen Of Troy and the Furies so I did a little research beforehand to catch myself up and I found the story interesting and was intrigued to see how this was incorporated into the storyline.
I loved that the myth was taken and used in a modern day setting but also adding a twist so that the myth is repeated in every generation.
Having never read another book with the subject of Helen Of Troy I found this to be a fresh and exciting read, I couldn't get through this book fast enough to see what was going to happen next.Helen is an extremely shy individual, she does everything she can to try and blend in to become invisible, she also suffers severe stomach cramps whenever attention is on her.
She is really beautiful and tall which doesn't help in her quest to stay unnoticed.
And then a new family moves to town the Delos' and the first time she see's Lucas she tries to kill him, not knowing or understanding why she hates him so much and feels the need to kill not only him but his sister and cousins who also are new in town.
But she discovers that the Delos' feel the same way about her too and she can't understand why.
And then Helen finds out something about herself, her mother (who deserted Helen and her father when Helen was just a baby, and whom she hasn't heard from since) and the Delos' that connect them all.
I loved most of the characters in this book especially Lucas, and Hector grew on me quite a bit.
And that ending, well I'm just glad I have the second book sitting right next to me to read as soon as I post this review.
I give this 5/5.
Teaser Trailer: Breaking Dawn Part 2.
Omg! This looks so good, I only hope it's better than the book which was the worst book in the series I think, enjoy!
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