October 31, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Halloween Reads

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. It was created due to their love of lists.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Top Ten Halloween Reads - Books that definitely get me in the Halloween mood! - All are books I've read. I'll link the pictures to my reviews of them (if you wanna read more about them and my thoughts) and the titles to Goodreads. :)

1. Anna Dressed In Blood (Anna #1) by Kendare Blake - Who doesn't love some ghost hunting and a ghost with blood dripping off her dress that won't die?

2. Nevermore (Nevermore #1) by Kelly Creagh - This one is a long time favorite of mine! If you haven't read it, go! I love helping make new fans of this one! It incorporates Edgar Allan Poe! And shadows and nightmares! LOVE LOVE LOVE this book!

3. The Name of The Star (Shades of London #1) by Maureen Johnson - Jack the Ripper type story anyone?? I promise. Totally worth the read!!! 

4. Masque Of The Red Death (Masque Of The Red Death #1) by Bethany Griffin - Another book based on an Edgar Allan Poe story! I can't get enough of these types of books! 

5. Dearly, Departed (Gone With The Respiration #1) by Lia Habel - It's Halloween! We have to have a book with Zombies in here right!!! 

6. Falling Under (Falling Under #1) by Gwen Hayes - A place called Under? Making deals with the devil. Definitely falls under Halloween for me!

7. My Soul To Take (Soul Screamers #1) by Rachel Vincent - Banshee's! Sensing when someone is about to die. Screaming bloody murder because of it. If you have not read the Soul Screamers series, I highly recommend you do so! It is absolutely fantastic!

8. Everneath (Everneath #1) by Brodi Ashton - The underworld! Feeding on the emotions of humans in despair. Definitely a Halloween read for sure! 

9. Angelfire (Angelfire #1) by Courtney Allison Moulton - Creatures stalking in the darkness, killing reapers. This definitely earns a spot on my Halloween reads list!

10. Pure (Pure #1) by Julianna Baggott - This one made my list, not because I think it's got a Halloween theme or type of character, but because of the creepy, dark factor it has. When I first read this book I was definitely creeped out by a number of the creatures introduced and was shocked at many of the dark elements in this book. That is why it has a spot on my Halloween list!

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August 20, 2012

Teaser Tuesday [#53]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! just do the following:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

1. "I think I killed a girl who looked like this once. Yeah. Her name was Emily Danagger."

2. "She'd been murdered in her early teens, by a contractor working on her parents' house. Her body was stuffed into the attic wall and plastered over."

pg. 9 of "Girl of Nightmares (Anna #2)" by Kendare Blake

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November 22, 2011

Waiting On Wednesday [#14]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.

Girl Of Nightmares
Author: Kendare Blake
Expected Publication: August 7, 2012

In this follow-up to Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas begins seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he’s asleep, and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong. These aren’t just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.

Cas doesn’t know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn’t deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it’s time for him to return the favor.

I really enjoyed Anna Dressed In Blood and I'm really interested in seeing where the story goes next. 

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November 07, 2011

Review: Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake

Anna Dressed In Blood (Anna #1)
Author: Kendare Blake
Publisher: Tor Teen
Publication Date: August 30, 2011
Pages: 316
Source: Hardcover/Library

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life. 

Review: Finally I got to read this! I've been seeing reviews of it everywhere! So I definitely enjoyed the book. I found the whole idea of ghost hunting, killing ghosts, whatever we're calling it in this book (sorry I don't have any better, more intelligent words, I just cant think of any at the moment) really interesting. It was really cool that it got passed down through the generations. I did feel really bad for Cas however because he had to keep moving to hunt the ghosts. It must have SUCKED moving that much! I really liked Thunder Bay however and the friends he made. I really liked Caramel. I don't know why but I do. Lol. It made me really happy that Caramel and Thomas didn't think Cas was out of his mind or anything for hunting ghosts, they actually helped him which I thought was awesome!

Anna! I had no idea what to think about Anna at first. I mean I was ranging from this girl is insane at points to I feel so sorry for her. It wasn't until I read how she was murdered that I finally understood her and why she did certain things. Though I never figured out really why she didn't kill Cas. That bugged me! I wanted to know what was so different about him that she felt like sparing him!!!

I loved how Cas seemed to free her with his actions after finding out how she was murdered. I couldn't believe that change at first! But after seeing how they cared about each other as time went on I was able to believe it. Because of that though I was really sad with the ending even though Anna did a great thing for Cas.

I did wish there was more horror in it however. I was expecting to be scared at points when I read the book but I wasn't. But none the less it was still a really good book!

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November 01, 2011

Teaser Tuesday [#12]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! just do the following:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

1. "He tugs me away from the neon-streaked street, to the far end of the alley."

2. ""No one here but us," he says, pushing me back against a rough stucco wall."

pg. 39 of "Triangles" by Ellen Hopkins

1. "Anna is descending upon me, coming down the stairs without taking any strides."

2. "Her feet drag horribly along like she can't use them at all."

pg. 76 of "Anna Dressed In Blood" by Kendare Blake

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