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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Iron Legends by Julie Kagawa

Hey everyone, how's your summer vacation going?

Well, mine is okay. Now, that we are done with the small talk let's get to the review


First things first, if you didn't already know that this isn't a story of itself. It's a collection of short stories from the 4 previous books
  • Iron King
  • Iron Daughter
  • Iron Queen
  • Iron Knight
And Julie Kagawa doesn't disappoint as she takes us through the world of the Fey. There are 3 shorts (short stories) in this novella.

In the first short, we are back with Megan and Ash as they travel to the Winter Court

"I swore I would bring you back"
- Ash to Meghan
 
In the second story, we travel with Ash and Puck as they answer a call from the Exile Queen, Leanansidhe, herself. And can someone please remind me what Leanansidhe did to get exiled.
 
"Sometimes it sucks being right all the time."
-Puck
 
Finally, we met all three of our favorite characters together. News is revealed and they are on yet another quest to save the Fey world. Puck is as funny as ever. Ash is as protective and adorable as always. And Meghan, she's just AWESOME!!! And this whole quest started because of the oracle
 
"I bring a warning"
-The oracle
 
Got to love trouble.
 
This book also includes a bunch of quotes and extras. And an expert from Iron Prince- which may be as good as the other Iron Fey books.
 
It's a read when you need 2 pass time; it's also a quick read but be warned the last short stories is extremely emotional
 
 
ENJOY !!!!!!!!!!


Tuesday, June 4, 2013

SORRY

 

I will be moving in a week so I have to turn in all library books which means that the two posts labeled

Reviews to Come and Reviews to come #2 can no longer be relevant. There are still more reviews to come just not all those books.

Stay tuned

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Reviews to come #2


I got new books. Here is a list of more books and reviews to come. Tell me what you think of the list. Does any of these books interest you?


Stray Souls by Kate Griffin
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'Don’t look back. It wants you to look back.’
London’s soul has gone missing. Lost? Kidnapped? Murdered? Nobody knows – but when Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she’s a shaman, she is immediately called upon to use her newfound powers of oneness with the City to rescue it from a slow but inevitable demise.
The problem is, while everyone expects Sharon to have all the answers – from the Midnight Mayor to Sharon’s magically-challenged self-help group – she doesn’t have a clue where to start.
But with London’s soul missing and the Gate open, there are creatures loose that won’t wait for her to catch up before they go hunting.
Stray Souls is the first novel in the Magicals Anonymous series, set in the same fantastical London as the Matthew Swift novels


Minion by L.A. Banks
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There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. Here is an account of her legend...
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All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a spoken word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons - predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires has been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music.
When strange attacks erupt within the club drug-trafficking network and draw the attention of the police, Damali realizes these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Instead of neat puncture marks in the neck showing where the blood has been drained from the body, these corpses are mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Soon she discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire Damali has ever met - a seductive beast who is coming for her next...

Dealing with Dragons
dealingCimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for










Searching for Dragons
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Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper, meets her match in the not-quite-kingly Mendanbar. With the aid of a broken-down magic carpet and a leaky magical sword, the two tackle a series of dragon-nappings.












Illuminate
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Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend Dante and their quiet and brilliant classmate Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city— Chicago—and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing Lucian Grove; and their stunning but aloof staff of glamazons called The Outfit.
As Haven begins falling for Lucian, she discovers that these beautiful people are not quite what they seem. With the help of a mysterious book, she uncovers a network of secret passageways from the hotel’s jazz-age past that leads her to the heart of the evil agenda of Aurelia and company: they’re in the business of buying souls. Will they succeed in wooing Haven to join them in their recruitment efforts, or will she be able to thwart this devilish set’s plans to take the souls of her classmates on prom night at the hotel?
Illuminate is an exciting saga of a teen’s first taste of independence, her experience in the lap of luxury, and her discovery she may possess strength greater than she ever knew


Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

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If you are thinking this is a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland then you are 50% right. There are a few differences between Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Zombieland.

  1. Alice in Zombieland likes to be called Ali, especially after what happened to her, you will make sure to remember because too many people in this book forget.
  2. Ali doesn’t travel down a hole while following a white rabbit. The zombies, in this story, are in our world; hidden in the spirit realm. The white rabbit, in this story, is a cloud and there is no hole.
  3. Ali has a protective, violet-eyed, toned, sexy, male co-star. I’ve not yet read the story where Alice from Alice in Wonderland has any kind of human male co-star besides the Mad-hater, who doesn’t count.
  4. Ali has special “talents”

 

One thing is for sure, like Alice, Ali is here to kick some butt and take some names.

When your world comes tumbling down what’s left to do except… FIGHT.

Ali and Kat

Ali – “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.”

Kat- “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it, and put a star by it. It’s golden.”

Kat

“Here’s a life lesson for you. Boys always cover for other boys.”

“Life lesson number two. Spying is the best- and only- way to learn the truth.”

“Time to enact Operation Boys Will Cry. Stage one – make them notice us.”

“We can’t really spy on them if they’re not spying on us, now can we?”

 

Operation Boys Will Cry

Stage 1

part A: Beer

part B: A bump and grind on the dance floor

Stage 2

Fanning the flames of jealousy

 

Ali

“I never should have doubted Kat.”

 

Ali’s dad’s Fight Rules

  • If you fall, go down swinging
  • Never lose sight of your enemy. You’ll regret it.

 

Ali is funny. Not the “ha ha” funny but the “OMG you didn’t” kind of funny. “Questions, questions, questions” is her unsaid motto but you will learn to love it along with her co-stars

 

Cole- This is the violet-eyed male co-star. Worth all dream-drooling because he’s even a gentleman. You’ll fall for him probably faster then Ali and she fell fast.

Kat- Newly made BFF. Who knows nothing and everything. She’s funny also. She’s the rude type of funny, the type that shouldn’t be funny but is.

Frosty- On again, off again boyfriend to Kat. Only they know where their relationship is, well them and EVERYONE around them.

I’d tell you more but there are so many characters you’d want to learn for yourself. Some things are better learned the hard way… the READING WAY

If you don’t read this book… the world just might end. This is Zombie Survival 101. Plus romance, action, friendship, and the meaning of family love.

 

 

Return to Paradise by Simone Elkeles

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I love these 2!!! Seriously, they’re fun, exciting. They know they love each other but neither will admit it.

8 months after Caleb left, Caleb and Ellie meet again. And instantly sparks start FLYING. They meet on this trip for students to share their story on drunk driving. 4 weeks, it took them 4 weeks in-closed together for them to stop pretending. Caleb broke first. Then Maggie. Yet after the 4 weeks they still break apart. But love will always find you. Follow Caleb and Maggie in another love story.

Caleb and Maggie moments

“If it wasn’t for her, you probably wouldn’t be here lying in wood chips with an ex-con running from the law. You’d be in a warm bed back in the dorm.”

“I like it here with you better.”

He shakes his head. “You’re crazy, you know that?”

“Being with you was never a mistake.” He gives a short laugh. “Hell, being with you kept me sane while I was home. You and Mrs. Reynolds made being in Paradise bearable.”

Julio

“I hear you loud and clear. No regrets anymore, okay? Live every day like it’s your last. ? Comprende?”

Caleb

Maggie needs to get wet. And, to use a Damonism: right now.

Caleb to Maggie

“I’m saying that I love you, Maggie. “ He looks at me through crystal clear eyes. “I was holding back and didn’t want to say it, because I didn’t want you to think I said it as some ploy to make you not date other guys while you’re in Spain.”

“Trust me,” he whispers against my lips. “Maggie, you’re my paradise.”

Now, I’m just a lot Winking smile confused by then ending so if someone could explain it to me that’d be great.

Anyway this is a MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story really needs no explanation because it is just that good. So I’d advise you to go to your nearest bookstore or library and find this book because it will be worth it.

WARNING: If you haven’t read Leaving Paradise some scenes in here will not make any sense.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Reviews To Come

 

I just went to the library and got a huge stack of booksSnapshot_20130521_8Snapshot_20130521

This stack includes 8 books

5/8 are first in a series

2/8 are second in a series

1/8 is 7th in a series

 

The Following are the book I found at my library (which isn’t a very good one. It’s organized badly and doesn’t have many of the recent published books but I’ll get over it…. NOT

Books in  the list are from right to left                                                                                                                                                      KEY

1st in series

2nd in series

7th in series

  1. Across The Universe by Beth Revis
  2. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L’engle/ Adapted and Illustrated by Hope Larson
  3. Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
  4. Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
  5. Magic of the Moonlight by Ellen Schreiber
  6. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  8. The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross

Keep a look out for my reviews

Friday, May 17, 2013

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Hey folks...... I'm back with a new review.

I've read a book that I didn't know I would like... this book changed my outlook on somethings and what I think "being strong". This book will go down in my records as LIFE CHANGING!

This book is weird.To me, the title doesn't match the book. This book is about a guy, with a sister, who fell for a girl, with a brother. This guy is named Mikey and this girl is named Ellie. Mikey has a sister named Karyn who was raped by Ellie's brother, Tom. At least that's how the story is told. On second thought, the title does make sense. This story has you hooked from the first Mikey/Ellie encounter until the last. This story seems to have 2 stories entwined and only one gets truly solved by the end.

Character Corner

MIKEY

Mikey is a family man. On the outside he doesn't seem like it but inside he cares about his family and friends more than life.

ELLIE

Ellie cares for her family and doesn't want her brother to go to jail. But spending time with Mikey makes her realize she is missing something from that night. (And yes she was there)

As Mikey and Ellie's life clash together the saying "The heart wants what it wants." starts to make a whole lot of more sense. Mikey and Ellie's relationship is fun sometimes but most of the time they each have to battle their family demons and sacarfice what they want above all - which is each other.

QUOTES:

MIKEY'S MOM AND MIKEY

She shook her head at him, "You know what's wrong with you, Mikey?"
"No, Mum, but I bet you're about to tell me."
She took up her fag, knocked off the ash and took a last deep drag, blowing the smoke right at him. "You're not as tough as you think you are."

ELLIE

She felt alive. Not a mermaid. Not someone who combed their hair all day and sat on a frigging rock. She mentally torched that image, watched all the scales catch fire and shimmer silver before sinking beneath the water.
She'd emerged as Phoenix from the X-men movie - the one with the red eyes, so angry that she's off the scale, able to destroy the universe with the power of her mind.
And if she was Phoenix, then anything could happen next.

MIKEY & ELLIE

"I'll tell you my little sister's favorite joke," he said
"Go on then."
"Ok, what do you call a sheep with no legs?"
[...]
"I give up."
"A cloud"

MIKEY'S MOM AND MIKEY

She smiled wearily at him "I think someone finally stole your heart, didn't they, Mikey?"
He rolled his eyes "Go to bed, Mum."
"I always said you weren't as tough as you made out."
"Serious, go to bed."

MIKEY TO ELLIE

"Listen," he said, "Karyn's out of the flat loads, she has tons of support, and yes, I know your brother's pleading not guilty and yes, the court case will be a nightmare, and yes, your dad's a tosser and yes, my mom still drinks sherry for breakfast and hides it in the airing cupboard and hopes non of us notice. Miracles don't happen overnight, Ellie, and we don't have to fling it in Karyn's face, but maybe we can grab something good out of this while we can?"

MIKEY

He felt perfectly happy as he walked side by side with Ellie, their fingers occasionally brushing, electricity building between them. It was the first time for days; maybe the first time in all his life, that he didn't want to change anything



I love these two
And you will 2
READ and DON'T REGRET
You Against Me by Jenny Downham