September 2012
27 posts
Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill
New vampire Merit has been assigned the job of protecting Gabriel Keene, the alpha shapeshifter who has come to Chicago for a meeting with other shapeshifters. Unfortunately for Merit, someone is trying to kill Keene and she needs to figure out who it is before both of them are brought down by the assassin.
Inside Out by Lauren Dale
Ella Tipton is putting her life back together after an attack that nearly left her dead. Sexy security professional Andrew Copeland is determined to get close to Ella and offers her hands-on training in self-defense-and before long, all that skin on skin contact with have them both turning inside out
A northern light by Jennifer Donnelly
When Mattie is given letters by a guest at the hotel in which she works, she promises to burn them. When the guest is found drowned the next day, Mattie has to think hard about her promise. Slowly, the stories of the murdered woman and Mattie’s quest for freedom merge.
Some Girls Bite By Chloe Neill
“Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker, and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead. Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she’s traded...
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
It’s after dark in New York City, and Clary Fray is seeing things. The best-looking guy in the nightclub has just stabbed a boy to death – but the victim has vanished into thin air. Her mother has disappeared, and a hideous monster is lurking in her apartment.
With her life spiralling into darkness, Clary realizes that she has stumbled into an invisible war between ancient demonic forces and...
Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo
“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”
The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka.
Alina, a lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite – the Grisha. ...
Evernight by Claudia Gray
She’s a new student at Evernight Academy, a creepily gothic boarding school where her classmates are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn’t fit in.
Then she meets Lucas another loner, who seems fiercely determined not to be the “Evernight type.” There’s a connection between Bianca and Lucas that can’t be denied. She will risk anything to be with him,...
Balthazar by Claudia Gray
Haunted by memories from his first days as a vampire, Balthazar has spent hundreds of years alone—without allies, without love. When he emerges from his isolation to help Skye Tierney, a human girl who once attended Evernight Academy, Balthazar has no idea how dangerous it will be. Skye’s psychic powers have caught the attention of Redgrave, the cruel master vampire responsible for murdering...
100 books in a year.
Challenge Details
• Timeline: 01 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2012
• Rules: Read 100+ books in 2012 (any genre)
• You don’t have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.
• You can join at anytime....
Decided I’m going to try the 100 book challenge by Book Chick City…. lets see if I can make it in the time left… interesting :)
http://www.bookchickcity.com/2011/12/sign-up-100-books-in-year-reading.htm
Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird’s world, vampyres have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire—that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. ...
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty’s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.
Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An...
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Evie’s always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shapeshifter and she’s the only person who can see though paranormals’ glamours, but still. Normal.
Only now paranormals are dying and Evie’s dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She begins to suspect there is a link between her abilities...
Finding Sky by Joss Stirling
You have half our gifts, I have the other… When English girl Sky, catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can’t get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Dark shadows stalk her past but a new evil threatens her future. Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart
For a lack of time, as exams are coming up soon and I will have less and less time, and my reading is at such a pace… So from now on I will just be putting the blurb on here. If you have any more questions about the book, I will be happy to help :)
“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written...”
““Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes...”
Matched by Ally Condie
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn’t be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky’s face show up on her match disk as well? This...
““The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn,...”
Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London Review
2 part love, 2 parts action, 6 parts vampires
Hate vampires? Stay away from this book, or maybe this book will change your mind. The vampires in this town are evil, and they have taken over, humans stay in a town surrounded by a wall… some never see the outside world. Dawn Montgomery, the youngest vampire delegate ever, she deals with the vampires so everyone cans stay safe, following in her...
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert...”
Dark Eden by Patrick Carman Review
3 parts action, 4 parts suspense, 2 parts mystery, 1 part romance
Imagine having an irrational, incurable fear that haunts you, stalks you daily…. if there was a way out would you chose it? Would you sacrifice for it? Seven strangers that no one can help, come together at Fort Eden, a place of miracles… or so they think. Six think there cure will work, only one, Will, knows the truth…. Fort Eden...
Divergent by Veronica Roth Review
1 part romance, 6 parts action.
Divergent is a very interesting novel, similar to The Hunger Games in a sense. But don’t go expecting the same thing. Beatrice, or Tris as she becomes lives in a dystopian society where there are 5 ‘factions’ (sort of like houses in Harry Potter) which each represent a different quality and do a different job in the society. At a point in your teenage years you...
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green Review
1 part comedy, 6 parts tragedy, 3 parts romance.
‘The fault in our stars’ has to be one of the most heartbreaking books that I have ever read. But its also incredibly moving, then again just about any book involving teen cancer patients. For this novel you laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more. This whole book is ‘an electric portrait of young people who learn to live with...
A little About me.
I would call myself a bookaholic, its the best way to describe my reading. I wouldn’t say it was an unhealthy habit but it is something that I do as naturally as breathing. To date I have read approximately 676 books since May last year, so you could say I know a bit about books. This blog is going to have reviews of all the books I read… the good ones at least :)
