Blog Tour And Giveaway: Colonization (Paradise Reclaimed #1) - Aubrie Dionne, Book Review (167).

Colonization (Paradise Reclaimed #1)

by Aubrie Dionne

Publication: 7th November 2012

Publisher: Inkspell Publishing

Pages: 228

Genre: Dystopian/Science Fiction

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Buy It: Amazon  Barnes And Noble  Inkspell Publishing

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?

My Thoughts...

I wouldn't say that I'm really a fan of science-fiction books, however Colonization was so entertaining and interesting that I mostly forgot the genre I was reading, and that's all thanks to the fantastic writing that kept me intrigued and anxious to see what was going to happen on the next page.

Andromeda 'Annie' has been onboard a ship in deep space for all of her life headed to a planet named 'New Earth' after the Earth we know is no longer habitable, before they land she and all the kids her age have to take an aptitude test to determine what their jobs will be in the new world, they will also be assigned their lifemates, Annie who has developed feelings for her best friend Sirius hopes that they will be paired up, but Annie doesn't score very well where Sirius does and she gets a lesser job than Sirius and subsequently gets paired with Corvus, whom Annie thinks of a muscled 'oaf'.

But looks as they say can be deceiving and after spending time with Corvus she develops feelings for him, he ends up being an extremely sweet and caring guy and Annie has to decide whether she can forget about her idea of being with Sirius and give Corvus the chance he deserves.

But through all this people have been found suffering from some strange fatal disease after they land on the planet they have named Paradise 21, and what they discover will make them come to the realisation that their new paradise may be uninhabitable, but what do you do when you no longer have a way off the planet?

I really loved this book, I'm intrigued to see where the rest of the books in the series will take us, I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the following books in the series.

I give this 4/5.

Giveaway...

It is open to US, UK and Canada participants.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

About The Author...

Aubrie Dionne writes science fiction fantasy with romantic

elements. Her writings have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade,

Emerald Tales, Hazard Cat, Moon Drenched Fables, A Fly in Amber, and Aurora

Wolf. Her books are published by Inkspell Publishing, Entangled Publishing,

Lyrical Press, and Gypsy Shadow Publishing. She’s also a professional flutist in

New England.

Please visit her website:http://www.authoraubrie.com

Goodreads:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2964057.Aubrie_Dionne

Blog: httphttp://authoraubrie.blogspot.com

Twitter: @authoraubrie

Waiting On Wednesday.

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

This week I'm waiting on....

Another Little Piece

by Kate Karyus Quinn 

A reckless wish taken from the darkest desires of the heart…

A bloody razor engraved with the names of the girls who turned to dust…

An endless cycle that feeds of loneliness and craves destruction…

Together, these pieces form a twisted puzzle that Annaliese Rose Gordon has to solve. Trapped in a body that isn’t hers—with no memory of how she got there—she must unlock the secrets of her past in order to escape the horrors of her future.

Expected publication: June 11th 2013 by HarperTeen

The Rules for Disappearing

by Ashley Elston 

She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last.

Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her. But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time she got some answers for herself.

But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really matters — survival.

Expected publication: May 14th 2013 by Disney*Hyperion

Bruised

by Sarah Skilton 

When Imogen, a sixteen-year-old black belt in Tae Kwon Do, freezes during a holdup at a local diner, the gunman is shot and killed by the police, and she blames herself for his death. Before the shooting, she believed that her black belt made her stronger than everyone else -- more responsible, more capable. But now her sense of self has been challenged and she must rebuild her life, a process that includes redefining her relationship with her family and navigating first love with the boy who was at the diner with her during the shootout. With action, romance, and a complex heroine, Bruised introduces a vibrant new voice to the young adult world -- full of dark humor and hard truths.

Expected publication: March 5th 2013 by Amulet/Abrams

Weather Witch

by Shannon Delany

In a vastly different and darker Philadelphia of 1844, steam power has been repressed, war threatens from deep, dark waters, and one young lady of high social standing is expecting a surprise at her seventeenth birthday party–but certainly not the one she gets!

Jordan Astraea, who has lived out all of her life in Philadelphia’s most exclusive neighborhood, is preparing to celebrate her birthday with friends, family and all the extravagance they might muster. The young man who is most often her dashing companion, Rowen Burchette, has told her a surprise awaits her and her best friend, Catrina Hollindale, wouldn’t miss this night for all the world!

But storm clouds are gathering and threatening to do far more than dampen her party plans because someone in the Astraea household has committed the greatest of social sins by Harboring a Weather Witch.

Expected publication: June 25th 2013 by St. Martin's Griffin

Burning

by Elana K. Arnold

Ben: Having just graduated from high school, Ben is set to leave Gypsum, Nevada. It's good timing since the gypsum mine that is the lifeblood of the area is closing, shutting the whole town down with it. Ben is lucky: he's headed to San Diego, where he's got a track scholarship at the University of California. But his best friends, Pete and Hog Boy, don't have college to look forward to, so to make them happy, Ben goes with them to check out the hot chick parked on the side of Highway 447.  

Lala: She and her Gypsy family earn money by telling fortunes. Some customers choose Tarot cards; others have their palms read. The thousands of people attending the nearby Burning Man festival spend lots of cash--especially as Lala gives uncanny readings. But lately Lala's been questioning whether there might be more to life than her upcoming arranged marriage. And the day she reads Ben's cards is the day that everything changes for her. . . and for him.

Expected publication: June 11th 2013 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

The Originals

by Cat Patrick

A riveting new story from Cat Patrick, author of Forgotten and Revived.

17-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey Best grew up as identical triplets... until they discovered a shocking family secret. They're actually closer than sisters, they're clones. Hiding from a government agency that would expose them, the Best family appears to consist of a single mother with one daughter named Elizabeth. Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey take turns going to school, attending social engagements, and a group mindset has always been a de facto part of life...

Then Lizzie meets Sean Kelly, a guy who seems to see into her very soul. As their relationship develops, Lizzie realizes that she's not a carbon copy of her sisters; she's an individual with unique dreams and desires, and digging deeper into her background, Lizzie begins to dismantle the delicate balance of an unusual family that only science could have created. 

Expected publication: May 7th 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Mailbox Wednesday.

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...

Unfed (Undead #2)

by Kirsty McKay

(Scholastic Australia)

Blog Tour And Giveaway: Colonization (Paradise Reclaimed #1) - Aubrie Dionne

Colonization (Paradise Reclaimed #1)

by Aubrie Dionne

Publication: 7th November 2012

Publisher: Inkspell Publishing

Pages: 228

Genre: Dystopian/Science Fiction

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Buy It: Amazon  Barnes And Noble  Inkspell Publishing

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. 

Giveaway...

It is open to US, UK and Canada participants.a Rafflecopter giveaway

About The Author...

Aubrie Dionne writes science fiction fantasy with romantic

elements. Her writings have appeared in Mindflights, Niteblade, Silver Blade,

Emerald Tales, Hazard Cat, Moon Drenched Fables, A Fly in Amber, and Aurora

Wolf. Her books are published by Inkspell Publishing, Entangled Publishing,

Lyrical Press, and Gypsy Shadow Publishing. She’s also a professional flutist in

New England.

Please visit her website: http://www.authoraubrie.com

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2964057.Aubrie_Dionne

Blog: httphttp://authoraubrie.blogspot.com

Twitter: @authoraubrie

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.

Brought...

Deity (Covenant #3) - Jennifer L. Armentrout

(One of my quotes from my book review of Deity ended up in the finished copy, to say I was excited was an understatement)

Reached (Matched #3) - Ally Condie

Book Review (166): Vengeance (Transcend Time Saga #2) - Michelle Madow

Vengeance (Transcend Time Saga #2)

by Michelle Madow

Publication: 8th December 2011

Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing

Pages: 66

Genre: Romance/Fantasy

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Buy It: Amazon   The Book Depository

How far would you go to get revenge?

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.

I give this 4/5.

Book Review (165): Remembrance (Transcend Time Saga #1) - Michelle Madow

Remembrance (Transcend Time Saga #1)

by Michelle Madow 

Publication: 27th July 2011
Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing
Pages: 314
Genre: Romance/Fantasy
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Buy It: Amazon  The 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.

I give this 4/5.