Monday, 14 January 2013

Cover Reveal: Breathless (Elemental #2.5) - Brigid Kemmerer


Breathless (Elemental #2.5)



Monday's Mailbox.

So today I didn't receive anything in my mailbox, but I did however get approved for two titles from NetGalley that I'm extremely excited about.
And they are:


The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3)



Dare You To (Pushing the Limits #2)


Now if they'd just hurry up and approve me already on Edelweiss for 'Walking Disaster - Jamie McGuire' which I requested way before Christmas last year I would be one very, very happy camper.

Saturday, 12 January 2013

Book Review (202): Two And Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings Of Mother Goose Ryhmes - Various Authors


Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes

Publisher: Month9Boooks
Pages: 342
Genre: Fantasy
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
In this anthology, 20 authors explore the dark and hidden meanings behind some of the most beloved Mother Goose nursery rhymes through short story retellings. The dark twists on classic tales range from exploring whether Jack truly fell or if Jill pushed him instead to why Humpty Dumpty, fragile and alone, sat atop so high of a wall. 

But the stories I liked were: 
Boys And Girls Come Out To Play - Angie Frazier
This was an interesting short story about a girl who's twin sister is in a sort of vegetative state after an accident that killed their Father, after being summoned by witches she has to take her sick sister's place, and it doesn't end well for everyone.
I Come Baring Souls - Jessie Harrell
About the Egyptian Gods Anubis, Bast and Hathor, they run a funeral home and we get to read about them taking souls into the Underworld for judgement.
Life In A Shoe - Heidi R. Kling
The tale of the woman who lived in a shoe now converted into an apartment in a dystopian society or this retelling, who's prime objective is to have all the woman have as many children as possible so the society has more people to train as soldiers to fight in their wars.
Candlelight - Suzanne Lazear
Two sisters who run away from home after they believe that their Mother is being too strict with them, do a spell that lands them in Babylon where they can do whatever they want whenever they want, but what happens when they want to return home?
Tick Tock - Gretchen McNeil
A Story of a girl who gets a babysitting job with a new family after her best-friend never showed up, but when she arrives she finds nothing but four creepy children, no parents and a really old and out of place clock.
The Well - K.M Walton
The story of Jack And Jill who live in a town where everyone has died of a virus and they were both immune, but spending all the time they have together has turned them against one another.
The Wish - Suzanne Young
A girl who has just broken up with her boyfriend makes a wish on a star, and meets a boy and falls head over heels in love with him, but not everything is what it seems.
A Ribbon Of Blue - Michelle Zink
A girl with Cerebal Palsy is told by a fortune-teller to look out for a boy with a whistle, a ticket and a ribbon of blue, and this year at the carnival she finally see's him.

I give this 2.5/5. 

Friday, 11 January 2013

A Look At My Bookshelves.

So I thought I'd give everybody a look at my 2 bookshelves that hold my books that I've read, while I have 6 bookshelves in total, mostly the other 4 contain books I need to read.
So I'll put up pictures of a shelf a day of my owned and read books.
I love looking at other people's bookshelves, so this gave me the idea to show mine.
I hope you enjoy!



Shelf 8.
I'm slowly replacing my paperbacks with hardcovers,or if they were never released in hardcover then trade paperback.

Blog Tour & Giveaway: Veiled Mist - Eleanor T. Beaty, Book Review (201).


Veiled Mist


Publication: 28th September 2012
Publisher: B Q Publishing Company
Pages: 260
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Buy It: Amazon  Barnes And Noble
On the Caribbean island of Maurray, spoiled-rotten, fifteen-year-old Hanna wakes up to a nightmare. She is not the daughter of an aristocrat but the orphan of a Gypsy. She is the descendant to a mystical Gypsy tribe. Their magic is strong and has lasted six hundred years. Ornella, the tribe's guardian, arrives at the island with her mutt, Count Dracula, to guide Hanna. Hanna is told she must embrace her heritage or die at the ripe age of seventeen. But Hanna does the unthinkable, she chooses death. She hates Gypsies and would rather die. What she doesn't know is that her death will destroy the entire tribe. What she also doesn't know is how persuasive Ornella can be. The nightmare begins.
My Thoughts...
Fifteen -year old Hanna is spoiled, known as the bitchy girl at school with her friends, the one boy she likes Alistair doesn't like her and won't give her the time of day.
One morning she wakes to find that her doll's (that used to belong to her deceased Mother) arms have fallen off, she takes it to a new store that has just opened up to get it repaired, it's there that she meets the owner Ornella, the leader of a Gypsy tribe, unknown to Hanna she is to be the next inductee, that's if Hanna can change her attitude and allude the evil that's determined to kill her before her sixteenth birthday which is when she will be inducted into the tribe, as well as delivering three different dolls to three different people before that time as well.
Meanwhile Hanna's appearance keeps changing to that of gypsy stereotypes, albeit much to the disgust of Hanna who was taught by her Grandmother that Gypsies are dirty, horrible people.
Will Hanna overcome her prejudices to join the tribe like she was destined to at birth? And will she make it to her sixteenth birthday? You'll have to read it to find out.
I wasn't really a big fan of any of the characters in this book, with the exception of Hanna's Grandfather and her brother John, I just didn't like  anyone enough to care what happened to them, and then the insta-love, normally I can live with it but in this book Alistair hated Hanna so much and then it was like in the next paragraph he's telling her how much he loves her, I just didn't get it.
So unfortunately the characters wrecked the book for me, the storyline was fresh and original but when the characters are unlikeable it doesn't make reading it enjoyable.
But in saying that this book has gotten good ratings on Goodreads so it may just be me, please give it a read yourselves and form your own opinions.
I give this 3/5.a Rafflecopter giveaway

BIO:
I am Brazilian born and raised, of American parents. I live in Sao Paulo with my third husband and children. I studied at the American school in Brazil, in boarding schools in Switzerland and the US. I have a BA in English Literature from FIU. I published a YA trilogy in Brazil and another YA novel in Turkey in 2001, now in its fifth edition. My passion is history and spiritualism. Besides Veiled Mist, I have another YA novel, Fallen Ruler, being released soon.

ONLINE LINKS:
·         Website  http://www.eleanortbeaty.com
·         Twitter @ eleanortbeaty

Thursday, 10 January 2013

A Look At My Bookshelves.

So I thought I'd give everybody a look at my 2 bookshelves that hold my books that I've read, while I have 6 bookshelves in total, mostly the other 4 contain books I need to read.
So I'll put up pictures of a shelf a day of my owned and read books.
I love looking at other people's bookshelves, so this gave me the idea to show mine.
I hope you enjoy!


Shelf 7.
I'm slowly replacing my paperbacks with hardcovers,or if they were never released in hardcover then trade paperback.

Friday's Mailbox.

Today I received a couple of review books, and for a change I didn't receive any books that I've brought online (that doesn't happen very often), so here they are.


The Prey (The Hunt #2)

A Memory Of Light (Wheel of Time #14)