In My Mailbox – February 28, 2010
In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by The Story Siren My goodies this week: Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready First in a young adult urban fantasy series about a world of ghosts only the young can see. When Aura’s boyfriend meets a most untimely end, she is forced to reconsider her relationship with the living and the dead. (I’m so super excited to have gotten this! I’ve had it on my YA Debut Author Challenge list since day one…squeeee) The Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Ultimate Guide by Mary-Jane Knight It’s the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy, “manual-size” POB with a crisp, magnetic … Read entire article »
Filed under: IMM, Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade
Review: Legend of the White Wolf by Terry Spear
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1402219059ISBN-13: 978-1402219054 From the Publisher: In this fourth in Spear’s series, Private Eye Cameron MacPherson and Faith O’Mallery are both on quests that lead them into the world of magical wolves… Cameron arrives in the Canadian Arctic to search for his partners in his P.I. business who are late returning from a hunting trip. Faith is there to discover what her father had seen in the same area years earlier that had made him lose touch with reality—man-wolves, he called them. The two tumble into an icy world of enemies bent on destroying the lupus garou kind. As they turn into lupus garou themselves, and bond with the pack that only they can rescue from destruction, Cameron and Faith find their soul mates in each … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2010, Legend of the White Wolf, Reviews, Terry Spear
Review: Numbers by Rachel Ward
Publisher: Chicken House Ltd Released: January 5, 2009 Paperback, 304 pages Teaser quote: “Instead of backing away or hitting back, he got his arms and legs around me, and kind of wrapped me up, and squeezed. My arms were held down by my side, my legs had no where to go. I was held in close, my face pressed into the smelly place under his arms, and he sort of sapped the fury out of me. I could feel it going, feel my body relaxing. His chin was resting on top of my head, and we stood there for a bit, just breathing. ‘You all right now?’ he said after a while.” (pg 98) My rating: 3.5 / 5 My thoughts: Jem has a unique ability – when she seems someone’s face, she see’s numbers. Their death date, to be exact. She’s … Read entire article »
Filed under: Numbers, Rachel Ward, review
Review: Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
An ancient prophecy divides two sisters- One good… One evil… Who will prevail? Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents’ deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets. Lia and Alice don’t know whom they can trust. They just know they can’t trust each other. I know, I know, you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but from the moment I saw The Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink, it nagged at me to buy it. It just seemed mysterious, maybe a little creepy, definitely dark. I hadn’t picked it … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2010, Michelle Zink, Prophecy of the Sisters, Reviews, YA
Book Lovers Inc and Interview with Mara!
Have you guys been over to the amazing Book Lovers Inc blog yet? You’ll find at least one post a day (well, maybe not on weekends) and lots of fun stuff like interviews, guest posts & giveaways from author from EVERY genre. (We may still have an issue with our reader feed so you may not see us in your reader feed) I feel honored to be in charge of entertaining readers with the Wednesday YA posts. For those that have vistited, thanks & I hope you’re enjoying it! For those of you who have yet to check us out, what are you waiting for? LOL Today’s post is an interview with author, Mara Purnhagen. Her debut book, Tagged, is released this coming Monday, March 1st. Come by, say HI and leave a comment supporting Mara … Read entire article »
Filed under: BLI, Mara Purnhagen, Tagged
"Waiting on" Wednesday – February 24, 2010
This weekly event is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. I can’t wait to read It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han Release Date:April 27, 2010 Publisher:Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing I couldn’t find anything online except for this: In Jenny Han’s follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. —————————————What are you waiting on? … Read entire article »
Filed under: It's Not Summer Without You, Jenny Han, WOW
Review: Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Phew, I’m not sure where to start with this one. Ok, let me begin with the writing style. I don’t recall reading a book that has forced me to look up so many words, ever, and what is weird with this is that it is a translated book! From page one, I was researching “matutinal”, then on to terms like “bactrachian” and “lucubrations”…but wait a minute, there was also “joe schmoe”. Seriously, is there a Portugese equivalent to joe schmoe? I haven’t even learned these words in English yet (except for joe schmoe, I’ve heard that one before) nevermind what their equivalents would be elsewhere in the world. I was fascinated! Then there were the “paragraphs”, and I use quotations here because some of them ran on for four or … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2010, Death with interruptions, Jose Saramago, Reviews
Waiting on Wednesday – Feb. 24, 2010
This weekly event is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we get to share which upcoming reads/new releases that we just can’t wait to get our hands on. I read Lamb by Christopher Moore (click on the title to read the review which posted on my old blog) last year and since then have been collecting his books. Sadly, I haven’t been able to read any of the ones I’ve picked up, with all of my other commitments recently, but the works of Mr. Moore are never far out of reach for me. I have every intention of gathering all of his books for my personal library; he is a wickedly funny writer! To this end , my WoW for this week is Bite Me (published by Harper Collins) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bite Me, Christopher Moore, meme, Waiting On Wednesday
Review: The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
Hardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Point (Jan 1 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0545140315ISBN-13: 978-0545140317 Description: Penny is sick of boys and sick of dating, so she vows: No more. She’s had one too many bad dates, and has been hurt by one too many bad boys. It’s a personal choice… and, of course, soon everyone wants to know about it. It’s about much more than romance gone awry–it’s also about the way girls bend over backward to get guys, and how they end up prioritizing boyfriends over real friends. Penny thinks she might be crazy for saying these things–but soon a few other girls are inspired, and a movement is born. Girls are soon thronging to The Lonely Hearts Club (named after the Sgt. Pepper’s band) and Penny finds herself near legendary for her nondating ways–which … Read entire article »
Filed under: 2010, Elizabeth Eulberg, review policy, The Lonely Hearts Club, YA
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