Wednesday'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...
Andromeda has spent all seventeen years of her life aboard a deep space transport vessel destined for a paradise planet. Her safe cocoon is about to break open as Paradise 21 looms only one month away, and she must take the aptitude tests to determine her role on the new world and her computer assigned lifemate. As a great-granddaughter of the Commander of the ship, she wants to live up to her family name. But, her forbidden love for her childhood friend, Sirius, distracts her and she fails the tests. The results place her in a menial role in the new colony and pair her with Corvus, “the oaf”.
But when Andromeda steps foot on Paradise 21, her predestined future is the least of her worries. Alien ghosts from a failed colonization warn her of a deadly threat to her colony. And when Sirius’s ship crashes on the far ridge in an attempt to investigate, she journeys to rescue him with Corvus.
Andromeda now must convince the authorities of the imminent danger to keep her protect her new home. What she didn’t expect was a battle of her own feelings for Sirius and Corvus.
Can she save the colony and discover her true love?
Guest Post...
What
makes Corvus so irresistible by the end of the book?
Corvus is the underdog in Colonization: Paradise Reclaimed. He’s
competing with Andromeda’s childhood crush. At first she’s blind to everything
he does, but as she gets to know him, she discovers there’s much more there
than she thought, putting him in the running for her heart.What makes Corvus so charming is not the
way he looks on the outside- although he’s not ugly, by far- it’s how he treats
Andromeda, and the lengths he’ll go to win her love. Everything Corvus does, he
does for her. In writing Colonization, I wanted all
the girls out there to know there are other fish in the sea. I was sick of
reading YA books where the jerky, arrogant,
better-looking-than-he-should-be-for-his-own-good guy always gets the girl.
There are sweet, kind hearted guys that will treat you right out there that
don’t fall into the bad-boy category, yet they are just as charming.
Find out in Colonization: Paradise Reclaimed if Andromeda makes the right
choice.
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. Brought...
When Chelsea Givens discovered that her ex-boyfriend Drew dumped her to be with her former best friend Lizzie, she'd never felt so betrayed in her life. Then her new friend Shannon tells her she can help set things right. Chelsea's willing to listen, but what Shannon wants her to believe -- that she shared a past life with Drew -- is impossible. And what she wants her to do to get him back … well, it's downright crazy.
Could Shannon be telling the truth? And if she is, what lengths will Chelsea go if it means making Lizzie pay?
Find out in Vengeance, the second part of the Transcend Time Saga.
*Vengeance is the short story that bridges the events in Remembrance and the final novel in the Saga.
My Thoughts...
And yet another gorgeous cover to go along with the first book in the series.
Vengeance is a short novella that is a bridge between books one and three, written from Chelsea's pov, the main heroine Lizzie's best-friend.
After the events in Remembrance, we find Chelsea bitter and angry, when she discovers that she shared the same past life with Lizzie and Drew, she is more determined than ever to make Drew hers again, no matter what it costs and to do whatever she has to do to make that happen.
I really liked Chelsea's character in the first book and I felt so bad for her after the events that unfolded, I expected her to be angry but the steps she took in this book to get Drew back were pretty out there especially when she didn't know the results her actions would have.
I'm really liking this series and I can't wait to see how the third book Timeless will finish off the series.
Publication: 27th July 2011 Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing Pages: 314 Genre: Romance/Fantasy Age Appropriate: Young Adult Buy It: AmazonThe Book Depository
Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England ... but she doesn't know it yet.
Then Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school at the beginning of the year, and she feels a connection to him, almost like she knows him. She can't stop thinking about him, but whenever she tries talking with him about the mysteries behind her feelings, he makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching him is even more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has started to become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind?
Even though Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, fighting fate isn't going to be easy.
My Thoughts...
I've had this book sitting on my tbr mountain for quite a while now, so when I got the chance to review the third book Timeless it gave me a good excuse to finally pick this up.
From the absolutely gorgeous cover to the story inside, it did not disappoint.
Lizzie feels an instant attraction to Drew the first time he walks into the classroom, she has a feeling that she somehow knows him, but he makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her, and starts dating her best-friend Chelsea, and even though Lizzie has a boyfriend Jeremy she just can't seem to get Drew out of her head.
And then Lizzie starts having visions from the past featuring her and Drew and discovers that there's a reason for his demeanor towards her, and it's nothing she could have ever imagined.
I loved the idea of the storyline for this book, the idea of past lives and reincarnation is fascinating when written and incorporated into a story so well.
The imagery you get from Madow's writing is simply amazing, the setting, and the characters are all so very intriguing, this is one series I'm excited to continue on with.
The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird...
Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper—and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath. Within days, she's shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite boarding school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath.
Life at Nekyia has its plusses. Molly has her own personal ghoul, for one. Rick follows her there out of the blue, for another...except, there's something a little off about him. When students at the academy start to die and Rath disappears, Molly starts to wonder if anything is as it seems. Only one thing is certain—-Molly's got an undeadly knack for finding trouble....
My Thoughts...
I had this book on my wishlist long before it had a cover, and once the cover was released it had me wanting to read it even more, it is absolutely gorgeous and thankfully the story is as good as I hoped it would be.
Molly works part-time for her Dad at a business that creates and maintains Zombie's called Big Al's Zomporium, her Mum deserted the family when she was younger leaving her Dad and Grandma to raise Molly and her sister.
On her sixteenth birthday Molly is visited by the God Anubis in her dreams and accepts the role of a reaper, it's at her birthday party that she unintentionally inteferes in another reapers job, and the next morning is sent to Nekyia Academy, a boarding school for reapers, where she finds that one of her tutors is Rath, the reaper who's job she unwittingly stuffed up.
And then kids start dying, and people start suspecting Molly, but the question is who can she really trust?
There is a promise of romance between Molly and Rath which I hope will come to fruition in the next book, they would make such a good couple.
One aspect that I really loved about this book was the Egyption Mythology and the way it was incorporated into the story made for a very interesting storyline.
Michele Vail writes young adult paranormal fiction about zombies and reapers.
She likes reading, dogs, cats, board games, ghost-hunting shows, and Halloween. She believes in magic, in the impossible, and in the restorative powers of chocolate.
Michele lives happily-ever-after with her Viking and their family.
