Fresh Release

Fresh Release!: Destiny and Deception 13 to Life #4) by Shannon Delany 

Released: Jan 31rst/2012

356 pages

What It's About!

The sensational fourth novel in the 13 to Life series sees Jessica and the Rusakuvas fighting to overcome one of their biggest challenges yet--the possibility of a cure for lycanthropy.  

 With the threat of the mafia seemingly gone and the company's headquarters in Junction destroyed, Pietr Rusakova is adjusting to being a normal teen and Jess is realizing normalcy may not be what she wanted after all. But both Jess and Cat know the truth--that normal can't be taken for granted. Their precious cure isn't permanent--and when a new danger stalks into their small town, Alexi decides he must overcome his issues with the mother who abandoned him to be raised by wolves and make a brand new deal to save his adopted family.

 

Fresh Release♥

Fresh Release!: Shadow Heir (Dark Swan #4) by Richelle Mead

Released: Feb 2nd

400 pages

What It's About!

#1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead returns to the Otherworld, a mystic land inextricably linked to our own--and balanced precariously on one woman's desperate courage...

Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld...

The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't--or won't--reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon--and risk the ultimate sacrifice...

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 I haven't read this series yet, but this series looks amazing!


 

Project Tell Taylor

 

 

Michelle Madow's debut novel Remembrance was inspired by Taylor Swift's "Love Story" music video. She talked all about it in a blog entry a few months ago, discussing how Remembrance was inspired by Taylor Swift's "Love Story" music video. She even wrote a letter to Taylor Swift and sent it to her, along with a signed book!

It's been a few months now, and she has yet to hear back from Taylor that she received the letter and book. She really wants to tell Taylor about how inspiring she and her music have been to her, but since Taylor Swift is an international superstar, she’s a little hard to reach. This is where YOUR help comes into play! Michelle is giving away the biggest prize pack she's offered yet, and the ways to enter to win are by telling Taylor Swift about Remembrance.

The Goal: Get Taylor Swift to Tweet about Remembrance!

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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.

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Hallowed Review

Rating: ♥♥♥♥

For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought.

Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.

SO heart-wrenchingly, tear-jerkingly, beautiful! A few things happen in this sequel to Unearthly. Clara has to make a choice between Tucker and Christian, I started out as Team Tucker (totally sweet, gentle farm boy), and by the end of the book, I became Team Christian. He's just a better fir for her, they're both angels, etc. A loved one dies, but Cynthia Hand makes it so beautiful and graceful (much as you can, when someone dies), secrets, questions and loose ends are tied up, and discovered. A few new characters are introduced to us, and one is not so new, but totally unexpected. We're also shown a bit of a different side of Samjeeza, the black wing, and Jeffery as well.

Clara grows up a lot, and finds out who she truly is. She has to choose between Tucker and Christian, but really, it's not much of a choice, it's more following of her destiny than anything else. I was not at all surprised by the choice she made.

I absolutely loved Hallowed, but it didn't quite have as much magic as Unearthly did. You will not be able to help but cry though, I teared up so many times, some of the moments are so powerful. I especially loved Angela's Grad speech at the end, very powerful and amazing. I love the way Hallowed ended, so touching and beautiful.

Cover Reveal

Winter's Light M.J. Hearle

Release date: May 1st/2012

Blake is gone.

He sacrificed himself to save Winter, leaving her alone, unprotected... hunted.

An ancient enemy is rising, but Winter is no longer the innocent girl who was fated to die at Pilgrim's Lament. She will not wait to be saved. She will do what she must to survive, even accept an unsavoury alliance with those who destroyed her love.
 

In the gathering darkness, the enemy of an enemy is not always a friend, and Winter must find the strength to stand alone and fight for the one she loves. For she is the key to unlocking the secrets beyond the veil of shadows. 

And she is Blake's only hope.

Cover Reveal, IMM

Hey guys! Sry I've been so MIA this last week or 2! I've been pretty busy, between work and everything else. *Insert sad face* So, to try and make up for it, I've got a new cover reveal and some other stuff all in one post! I am also going to be doing a post tomorrow about Project Tell Taylor, which is being hosted by Michelle Meadow and which I'm really excited about!

I'm almost finished reading Hallowed by Cynthia Hand, so I will have the review up either later today or tomorrow.

As for the In My Mailbox, I don't have a picture yet, but I did pick up Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes (Cannot wait to start this one, been waiting ever since Falling Under came out last year!) and Switched by Amanda Hocking.

Might I add it's also PERFECT reading weather (When I'm not watching my Private Practice dvds...) :) We've been getting a huge dump of snow since last night, and we're still getting it! It's snowing like mad outside, so I've got my book, a cup of tea and my fav blankie :)

Fresh Releases

The Alchemy of Forever (Incarnation #1) 

Everneath (Everneath, #1)

Tempest (Tempest #1)

  Fracture

Dragonswood

Fallen in Love (Fallen, #3.5)

♥Cover Candie of the Week♥

This week's Cover Candie ♥: Revived by Cat Patrick

Release Date: May 8th/2012

304 pages

What It's About!

As a little girl, Daisy Appleby was killed in a school bus crash. Moments after the accident, she was brought back to life.

A secret government agency has developed a drug called Revive that can bring people back from the dead, and Daisy Appleby, a test subject, has been Revived five times in fifteen years. Daisy takes extraordinary risks, knowing that she can beat death, but each new death also means a new name, a new city, and a new life. When she meets Matt McKean, Daisy begins to question the moral implications of Revive, and as she discovers the agency’s true goals, she realizes she’s at the center of something much larger — and more sinister — than she ever imagined.

100 Follower Giveaway!

 

 To show my appreciation for my readers, I'm going to be having a giveaway! When the blog reaches 100 followers, I will randomly be picking 2 winners for a book of their choice up to $11-Wherever the Book Depository ships!

-Must be a follower

-As long as the book depository ships to your country, you can enter

~Winners will be contacted via email and I will do a post to announce the winners~

Bloodrose Review

Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥

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Calla has always welcomed war. But now that the final battle is upon her, there’s more at stake than fighting. There’s saving Ren, even if it incurs Shay’s wrath. There’s keeping Ansel safe, even if he’s been branded a traitor. There’s proving herself as the pack’s alpha, facing unnamable horrors, and ridding the world of the Keepers’ magic once and for all. And then there’s deciding what to do when the war ends. If Calla makes it out alive, that is. 

Amazing ending to an amazing trilogy! So many people said the ending was shocking, and I thought I was prepared, but what happens in the last few chapters, I really didn't expect. I even cried a little!! Bloodrose is really an amazing read, it has action, love, twists and turns and lots of choices have to be made. The whole book was very well written and everything flowed really well, from chapter to chapter, there was never a disappointing or dull moment.

So many things happened, that it's a bit hard not to give anything away! Some things were shocking, while some were kind of predictable, but still made the book good. I love who Calla ends up with in the end, even with how the choice was made. The ending of Bloodrose really makes me wonder what Andrea Cremer has in-store for the prequel to this series, Rift. From the epilogue of Bloodrose, I wonder if it will be that character's adventure? Or somehow gets tied into it?  (Anyone that has read Bloodrose knows who I'm talking about! :) ) I highly recommend this book, and even this trilogy!  

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Rift

Release Date: Aug 7th/2012

Before Calla Tor, there was Ember Morrow

Sixteen-year-old Lady Ember Morrow fulfills a family obligation by joining her friend Alistair in the Conatus Guard and begins training to help with the order’s true mission, to seek out and stop evildoers and their unnatural creations.

Cover Reveal!

Cover Reveal: Death and the Girl Next Door by Darynda Jones

Release Date: Dec 4th/2012

What It's About!

Things get turned upside down for sophomore Lorelei MacAlister when the Angel of Death starts high school in her small town. What she doesn’t know is that she has been slated to die. It’s simply her time. And Death has been sent to do the deed. But when she touches him, when she peers into his eyes and reaches into his heart, he realizes she is more than what he was led to believe, and he disobeys his orders. He brings her back from the brink of death when he was supposed to push her into it. Because of this, he gets trapped on this plane. And that’s when all hell breaks loose. Literally.

Quote from Bloodrose

Credit for this photo goes to the artist who made it

"The moon was gone now, covered by thick bands of clouds. As tiny silver flakes drifted down to settle on our bodies-both the living and the dead-I thought perhaps the moon had hidden her face from us, as full of sorrow as we were. But she couldn't stop her tears from spilling in the form of silent snow."~Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer ♥

Released in Canada and US Today!!! 

Described by Richelle Mead as “utterly captivating,” Unearthly received outstanding reviews, garnered accolades from New York Times bestselling authors, and was named an Indie Next Pick. In this heart-wrenching sequel, Cynthia Hand expertly captures the all-consuming joy of first love—and the agony of loss. This beautifully woven tale will appeal to fans of Lauren Kate, Becca Fitzpatrick, and Aprilynne Pike.
 

♥Cover Candie of the Week♥

Destined (Book #2) by Sophia Sharp

Released: Aug 3rd/2011

What It's About!

Laura has survived the dark caves, and emerged with Logan by her side. But her escape is quickly tainted as she realizes the biggest danger still lies ahead...

She has been transformed, and powers she has never known begin to manifest themselves within her body. As she struggles to gain control, how long will she be able to restrain herself - and her new bloodlust - from taking over?

As she journeys onward, doubts begin to creep into her mind. Doubts about leaving home, about the decisions she's made. But with the Vassiz still behind her, there is no turning back, now.

And she has questions that need to be answered. Just who are the elders, and why have they taken such a keen interest in her? As she starts the unravel the cloak that shrouds their existence, she begins to understand that she may have stumbled into something much larger than herself... and sees her destiny for the first time.

Amazing New Trilogy!

Beloved Immortal Beloved by Cate Tierman (Book #1)

Released: Sept 7th/2010

407 pages

What It's About!

Nastasya has spent the last century living as a spoiled, drugged-out party girl. She feels nothing and cares for no one. But when she witnesses her best friend, a Dark Immortal, torture a human, she realizes something's got to change. She seeks refuge at a rehab for wayward immortals, where she meets the gorgeous, undeniably sexy Reyn, who seems inexplicably linked to her past.

Nastasya finally begins to deal with life, and even feels safe--until the night she learns that someone wants her dead.

Cate Tiernan, author of the popular Sweep series, returns with an engaging story of a timeless struggle and inescapable romance, the first book in a stunning new fantasy trilogy.

 ~♥♥♥~

                                                                                                                                                                                     

 Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernam

Released: Jan 2nd/2012

400 pages

What It's About!

Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason, life never seems to get any better. She left her spoiled, rich girl life to find peace at River's Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals. There, she learned to embrace River's Edge, despite some drama involving the sexy Reyn, who she wants but won't allow herself to have. But just as she's getting comfortable, her family's ties to dark magick force her to leave.

She falls back into her old, hard partying ways, but will her decision lead her into the hands of a dark immortal? Or will it be her first step to embracing the darkness within her?

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Immortal Beloved and Darkness Falls, are by the same author that wrote the amazingly good Sweep series. I haven't read this new trilogy yet but they look freaking amazing. If they're anything like Cate Tiernan's Sweep books, I already know I will love them!

Angel Burn Review

Rating: ♥♥♥

They're out for your soul.
And they don't have heaven in mind...

Willow knows she's different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into the future and know people's dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. she has no idea where this power comes from. But the assassin, Alex, does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more about Willow than Willow herself does. He knows that her powers link to dark and dangerous forces and that he's one of the few humans left who can fight them. When Alex finds himself falling in love with his sworn enemy, he discovers that nothing is as it seems, least of all good and evil.

Angel Burn has a lot of action and things going on. I couldn't quite get into it the way I hoped to though. Instead of just sticking to one or two POVs, there were 4, and it switched every few chapters, and it was kind of hard to go back to one character after reading about the other 2 or 3. I wish it had just stuck to Willow.

Willow is the main character in the book, she's have angel, half human and has the ability to destroy the angels that are taking over the "human's world". She's a kick ass character with some actual smarts and doesn't drive you up the wall.

There are a few twists and turns, just enough to keep you guessing, and the pace is pretty good, although, there were some slow parts that had a hard time holding my attention. Overall, the book is good but could be a little better. I look forward to reading the sequel, Angel Fire.