Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Book Review (132): The Assassin And The Desert - Sarah J. Maas


The Assassin and the Desert (Throne of Glass 0.2)

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Mailbox Tuesday.

Tuesday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week.  

Brought...


Foretold Anthology
I Mainly Brought This For The Rose & Dimitri Short Story - Richelle Mead

Every Day - David Levithan

The Lost Girl - Sangu Mandanna

The Blood Keeper (The Blood Journals #2) - Tessa Gratton

Starling (Starling #1) - Lesley Livingston

The Dark Light - Sara Walsh





Book Review (131): The Assassin And The Pirate Lord - Sarah J. Maas


The Assassin and the Pirate Lord (Throne of Glass 0.1)

My Thoughts...
I initially ummed and aahed over whether or not to read the prequel novella's before reading Throne Of Glass, or read the novella's after the book, but I ended up on deciding that I'd like to know Celaena's back-story so I'd be better acquainted  when I do finally get around to the book, and I'm glad that I did.
Celaena is a sixteen-year old, tough kick-ass heroine whom I 
loved, she's an assassin, the best there is, she's sent to an island to collect a debt from an infamous pirate lord, she is accompanied by Sam, another assassin her age, they have an antagonistic relationship and mostly do nothing but fight.
But when Celaena finds out that the reason for being there is to transport slaves back home she knows that there is no way that she can let that happen, and so hatches a plan to free them.
This story was full of action and adventure, and being a novella it's only sixty pages give or take but there is so much story packed into those pages and there's never a dull momemt.
I can't wait to get to the other three and the book, I highly recommend these.
I give it 5/5.

Monday, 3 September 2012

Mailbox Monday.

Monday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week. 

Review...

(ARC) Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles #1) - Kresley Cole
(Simon And Schuster Australia)
Extremely excited for this one!

The Spindlers - Lauren Oliver
(Hachette Australia)




Sunday, 2 September 2012

(ARC) Book Review (130): Amarok - Angela J. Townsend

Amarok

Publication: 20th November 2012
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Pages: 181
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Life has been hell for seventeen-year-old Emma since she moved from sunny California to a remote Alaskan town. Rejected by her father and living with the guilt of causing her mother's death, she makes a desperate dash for freedom from her abusive stepfather. But when her car skids off the icy road, her escape only leads to further captivity in a world beyond her imagining. Dragged across the tundra by a crazed mountain man and his enormous black wolf, she finds that her gentle touch and kind heart earn her the wolf's friendship, and she names him Amarok, not knowing he was once a young man. When a vicious madman--trapped in bear form by an ancient Shaman--attacks the travelers and injures Amarok, Emma must find the strength to confront her fears and free the wolf she's come to love. But there's a catch--she must face down the evil shaman, a powerful Siberian mammoth hunter from the ice age, and he has no intention of giving up his power to her.
My Thoughts...
I really wanted to like this book more than I actually did, that's not to say it's bad but quite often I'd be reading it and my mind would go a-wandering onto something totally unrelated to the story, I found the constant walking throughout the book to be tedious, a little less of that and a bit more action and I definitely would have liked it a lot better.
Emma flees the home that she shares with her abusive stepfather into a snowy, dark night, trying to avoid hitting an animal on the road she swerves and ends up crashing her car, she is found by a man and a wolf,  the man Weasel Tail is crazy and evil, she's not the first female he's dragged to his cabin to torture and abuse, the wolf whom Emma comes to call Amarok is a seventeen year old boy turned into a wolf centuries ago by an evil shaman, and unwillingly tethered to Weasel Tail and his previous descendants, he is also a victim of abuse from Weasel Tail and his previous owners.
Amarok can be changed back, Weasel Tail keeps a totem around his neck to keep Amarok in line but there is an identical totem which when put together will turn Amarok back into the boy he used to be, the only problem is that the shaman who first cursed Amarok has the second totem but getting it from him will be the problem.
The ending of this book left an opening for another book, I'd be interested to see what would occur in another book.
I give this 3/5.
A Big Thanks To Spencer Hill Press.

Friday, 31 August 2012

Mailbox Friday.

Friday's Mailbox...
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week. 

Brought...
Widow's Web (Elemental Assassin #7) - Jennifer Estep

Embers & Echoes (Wildefire #2) - Karsten Knight

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Back To The Books Giveaway Hop.


I'm taking part in my very first Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and Buried In Books.
The giveaway on my blog is international, as long as The Book Depository ships to your country.

For my giveaway I'm letting the winner choose a book of their choice from the selection below, these are all books that I  have read and loved this year.



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