May 16, 2013

Review: Die For Her by Amy Plum

Die For Her (Revenants #2.5)
Author: Amy Plum
Publisher: Harper Teen Impulse
Publication Date: April 2, 2013
Pages: 60
Source: Kindle Book/Own

Set in the romantic and death-defying world of the international bestselling Die for Me trilogy, this digital original novella follows Jules, a brooding, immortal French artist who has fallen in love with his best friend’s girlfriend.

Jules Marchenoir is a revenant-an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save human lives. He’s spent the better part of the last century flirting his way through Paris, but when he met Kate Mercier, the heroine from Amy Plum’s Die for Me trilogy, he knew his afterlife had changed forever and he had found the love of his life. Until Kate fell for his best friend, Vincent. Now Jules is faced with an impossible decision: choosing between his loyal friend and a love truly worth dying for.

Review: OMG!!! Jules!!!!! My Jules! Ahhhhh. I love Jules! Is it bad that this made me wanna cry a little??? I just found it so heartbreaking that he's in love with Kate and she is totally head over heels for Vincent. We all know I'm a huge fan of Vincent but we also know that I love Jules as well! I just felt so bad for him! He's so in love with a girl he cant be with. Jules is breaking my heart!!! I can relate to him though. Its hard loving someone and not being with them. It is incredibly painful but you just have to find a way to deal with the pain. Even with the pain of not being able to be with Kate he still took his job very seriously. He protected her when he was needed to and he was a great friend to her when she needed it even though it was breaking him apart inside not being able to tell her how he feels. And I'm sorry. Its kinda painfully obvious at times how he feels and Kate is just oblivious. Just putting that out there. He makes it a big deal of showing Kate just how much he cares and she just doesn't notice. I just don't get how she hasn't figured it out yet. Lol. And now with Vincent taken by the Numa... Both of them are hurting. He's hurting because his best friend has been taken and she's hurting because her love has been taken. But I have a feeling Jules will step up and be there for her when she needs him while they try to find Vincent and not let his feelings for her get in the way. 

5 Stars!

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May 11, 2013

Review: The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa

The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2)
Author: Julie Kagawa
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Publication Date: April 30, 2013
Pages: 446
Source: E-ARC/NetGalley

Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.

Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.

Review: This is an awesome sequel to The Immortal Rules!!! This book had my heart pounding so many times its not even funny! So we start out with Allie in a smallish town while trying to find out where Sarren took Kanin. I liked one of the things she deals with right off the bat while shes there. She has to feed, but we all know in the previous book she doesn't exactly like having to kill humans. She's finally getting used to having to do it now to stay alive and sane but still has an internal struggle with it. Her exact quote is "I could choose what kind of people I preyed on, but in the end, I had to prey on someone. The lesser of two evils was still evil." She tries to only feed on bad people, or people that really don't contribute a thing to society but she still doesn't like having to feed on people in general. I still cant imagine how hard it still is for her to have to do that even when she hates it. But I did really like that she tried to only prey on the useless or bad people. At least she wasn't killing people that someone would actually miss a lot. 

So back on Kanin's trail... Allie is following the pull she keeps feeling (blood calls to blood) hoping it will lead her to Kanin... Until all of a sudden she suddenly starts feeling 2 different pulls which forces her to choose one way or the other. She decides to follow the pull she was following from the beginning but it leads her to her blood brother Jackal (Prince of the Raider city) instead. Now after what happened in the last book Allie wanted nothing to do with him, but when he offers up an opportunity she can't refuse (help to find Kanin (who is both of their sire's)), she decides to join forces with him. I was pretty skeptical at first. I thought he was just gonna try to kill her but I started calming down when he didn't try it after awhile. So I warmed up to Jackal A LITTLE. Not much. Just enough to believe he wasn't gonna kill her. Lol. Ok. Despite that I will never be a big fan of Jackal, I seriously could not help but laugh at his jokes all throughout the book. Some of those were seriously good and timed so well! And his sarcasm was top notch! I seriously could not get enough of the jokes and sarcasm. Lol. Despite the fact that Allie and Jackal didn't get along the best, they did work well together as a team. 

Zeke. I was totally not expecting to find him where he was. I was actually shocked at where Allie finds him. I just thought that he'd left Eden and during her travels Allie would run into him again and they'd team up. So I definitely didn't see this one coming. Anyways, I'm glad Allie, Zeke and Jackal all teamed up when they were in New Covington (where Allie swore she'd never return to). I liked that group. I don't wanna go into much detail about this, but they encountered some interesting situations when they got in to try and see the Prince. First being detained, then Sarren being there and pulling some psycho vamp stuff and then kinda allying themselves with the Prince against Sarren. That was very interesting!!! But what was even more interesting, was that when they got Kanin back (from the Prince), they also found out how Red Lung was also affecting vampires now and not just the humans (which let me tell you, it was really gross what the humans did when they got Red Lung, but how the vampires just decayed and stuff... that was pretty gross too!) What made me sad though, was that the dang Prince infected Kanin with Red Lung to ensure they would work really fast to try and find Sarren and a cure. Not cool!!!! 

So, do you guys remember Stick? Allie's human friend from the Fringe when she was human. He shows up in the book and I swear on my life!!!! I wanted to repeatedly punch him!!!!! He was doing every little thing he could to piss you off or annoy you to death! So after everything that happened in the previous book he ended up becoming an aide to the Prince. And he acted all entitled because of it. And then he kept saying Allie only came back because of him. Not true one bit! Sorry Stick, the world doesn't revolve around you! Stop acting like it! All he was trying to do the entire book was trying to show Allie how he was better than her, and that he was capable of doing things. I seriously wanted to repeatedly punch him because of his snobbish arrogance. But.... UGH!!!! What he did at the end of the book.... He pushed me too far with that one. Allie too actually. I would have broke his face for what he did and Allie... She had so much anger at him for what he did it wasn't even funny. He deserved the pain he was in at the end of the book for the constant BS he kept doing. 

The ending.... Oh man... Zeke... So much revolving around Zeke... ARGH!!!! My heart hurt so much during the last chapter for Zeke and for Allie... And after reading the epilogue.... I saw what was revealed in the epilogue coming but I still was shocked... I don't even now what to think after reading the last sentence of the epilogue... I NEEEEEEEED the next book!!!!

5 Stars!

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April 17, 2013

Waiting On Wednesday [#84]

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

The Program (The Program #1)
Author: Suzanne Young
Expected Publication: April 30, 2013

In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program.

Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone who’s been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone—but so are their memories.

Under constant surveillance at home and at school, Sloane puts on a brave face and keeps her feelings buried as deep as she can. The only person Sloane can be herself with is James. He’s promised to keep them both safe and out of treatment, and Sloane knows their love is strong enough to withstand anything. But despite the promises they made to each other, it’s getting harder to hide the truth. They are both growing weaker. Depression is setting in. And The Program is coming for them.

I am really looking forward to this!!! I've loved all of the books I've read by Suzanne so far so I'm sure this will be a hit as well!

What are you waiting on this week?

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April 04, 2013

Review: Apollyon by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Apollyon (Covenant #4)
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Publication Date: April 9, 2013
Pages: 360
Source: ARC for Review from Publisher

Fate isn’t something to mess with… and now, neither is Alex.

Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than Fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods—and Alex herself—to bring her back.

The gods have killed thousands and could destroy entire cities in their quest to stop Seth from taking Alex’s power and becoming the all-powerful God Killer. But breaking Alex’s connection to Seth isn’t the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole “an Apollyon can’t be killed” theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries.

Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer… or she might become the God Killer herself.

Review: Ok, so I really enjoyed Apollyon!! It sets us up for a fantastic finale in Sentinel! Ya. I'm totally gonna spoil something right in the beginning of this review but I will be unable to review this properly unless I tell. So Alex struggled with the connection with Seth for sometime but she did eventually break it. But if you kinda read into the blurb up there you kinda figure it out anyways because Alex wouldn't be doing certain things mentioned in the last part of it if she still was. So YAY!!! But Seth still found a way to get in her head which annoyed me to death. Why couldn't he just let her have a little peace???

So Alex and Aiden dealt with some serious stuff in this book. They go down to the Underworld searching for the one person who can give them answers on stopping Seth. They end up in some interesting circumstances. I was totally scared for them to go into the Underworld, but it wasn't actually half as scary as I thought it would be for them. I was actually more scared for them at the gate to the underworld than actually in the underworld just because they dealt with the hardest things at the gate. And of course, after they talk to the person who can tell them how to stop Seth they found out the answer is exactly what they don't want Alex to have to do! Cant say that was shocking, I was half expecting that anyways. 

I think what I enjoyed most though about the book was how the gods kept popping up all the time. We expected Apollo being that Alex is of his bloodline, but we saw a few others pop up that didnt appear in previous books. It really showed how divided the god were. Some were on Alex's side, helping out the good guys and some sided with Lucian and Seth and whatever god he's descended from helping the bad side. I thought it was kinda funny that the gods didnt want Seth becoming the god killer but yet some were supporting his side. I mean we find out why at the very end, due to the god which I'm thinking is the one Seth is descended from (but I'm still not 100% sure), but still. I do understand though because the god (I'm not telling which one) is a pretty scary god. 

The ending! WOW! The group finds their way to Covenant up in South Dakota I think it is (sorry, I dont have my ARC with me so I cant look it up) to find the road literally littered with the burnt cars of those who tried to escape to there from the New York Covenant. That made me so sad! And then finding out what caused that! Man, that just sucked! And even worse was finding out Alex's lest favorite teacher made it there too, but was perfectly fine! UGH! And then the god (still not spilling, LOL) and Alex fighting and what happens to her!!! Can I please have Sentinel???? I really wanna know what happens!!!

4 Stars!

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March 20, 2013

Waiting On Wednesday [#80]

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

Crossing The Line (Pushing The Limits #1.5)
Author: Katie McGarry
Expected Publication: April 1, 2013

Katie McGarry captivated readers with her “riveting, emotional”* Young Adult debut, Pushing the Limits. In this gripping novella, she tells the story of Lila and Lincoln, who discover that sometimes it’s worth crossing the line for love…

Lila McCormick, Echo's best friend from Pushing the Limits, first met Lincoln Turner when tragedy struck both their lives. But she never expected their surprise encounter would lead to two years of exchanging letters—or that she’d fall for the boy she’s only seen once. Their relationship is a secret, but Lila feels closer to Lincoln than anyone else. Until she finds out that he lied to her about the one thing she depended on him for the most.

Hurting Lila is the last thing Lincoln wanted. For two years, her letters have been the only thing getting him through the day. Admitting his feelings would cross a line he’s never dared breach before. But Lincoln will do whatever it takes to fix his mistakes, earn Lila’s forgiveness—and finally win a chance to be with the girl he loves.

I'm so excited for this!!! First of all, its Katie McGarry. Second it just sounds awesome!!! I cant wait to read it!!! :)

What are you waiting on this week?

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January 15, 2013

Waiting On Wednesday [#71]

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

Die For Her (Revenants #2.5)
Author: Amy Plum
Expected Publication: April 2, 2013

Set in the romantic and death-defying world of the international bestselling Die for Me trilogy, this digital original novella follows Jules, a brooding, immortal French artist who has fallen in love with his best friend’s girlfriend.

Jules Marchenoir is a revenant-an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save human lives. He’s spent the better part of the last century flirting his way through Paris, but when he met Kate Mercier, the heroine from Amy Plum’s Die for Me trilogy, he knew his afterlife had changed forever and he had found the love of his life. Until Kate fell for his best friend, Vincent. Now Jules is faced with an impossible decision: choosing between his loyal friend and a love truly worth dying for.

EEEEPPPPPPP!!! Jules!!!! I can't even begin to describe how excited I am for this! I love Jules!!! So excited to read his novella!!! Anybody else love Jules as much as me??? 

What are you waiting on this week?

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December 04, 2012

Waiting On Wednesday [#67]

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

Apollyon (Covenant #4) 
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Expected Publication: April 9, 2013

Fate isn’t something to mess with… and now, neither is Alex.

Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than Fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods—and Alex herself—to bring her back.

The gods have killed thousands and could destroy entire cities in their quest to stop Seth from taking Alex’s power and becoming the all-powerful God Killer. But breaking Alex’s connection to Seth isn’t the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole “an Apollyon can’t be killed” theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries.

Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer… or she might become the God Killer herself.

I dont think I even have to explain why I'm waiting on this one! GAHHHHHHH!!!! After Deity and Elixir.... I NEED THIS NOW!!!!! 

What are you waiting on this week?

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October 23, 2012

Waiting On Wednesday [#61]

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

This Is What Happy Looks Like
Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Expected Publication: April 2, 2013

If fate sent you an email, would you answer?

In This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet—albeit virtually—when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an email about his pet pig, Wilbur. In the tradition of romantic movies like "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle," the two 17-year-olds strike up an email relationship, even though they live on opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names.

Through a series of funny and poignant messages, Graham and Ellie make a true connection, sharing intimate details about their lives, hopes and fears. But they don't tell each other everything; Graham doesn't know the major secret hidden in Ellie's family tree, and Ellie is innocently unaware that Graham is actually a world-famous teen actor living in Los Angeles.

When the location for the shoot of Graham's new film falls through, he sees an opportunity to take their relationship from online to in-person, managing to get the production relocated to picturesque Henley, Maine, where Ellie lives. But can a star as famous as Graham have a real relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie's mom want her to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?

Just as they did in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, the hands of fate intervene in wondrous ways in this YA novel that delivers on high concept romance in lush and thoughtful prose.

I am so excited for this! I loved The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight so much! It was so cute and well written! I'm really looking forward to reading more of Ms. Smith's writing! And this book just sounds fantastic! And I love the cover! 

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September 04, 2012

Cover Reveal: Chosen At Nightfall by C.C. Hunter

Blurb:
Kylie Galen's life hasn't been the same since her world was turned upside-down in Born at Midnight, Shadow Falls #1, and now an epic conclusion to her journey—not to mention a tough choice between two guys!—is brewing in Chosen at Nightfall:

When Kylie Galen left Shadow Falls, she thought it was the hardest decision of her life. Heartbroken and separated from everyone she loves, she has to embrace her abilities and what it means to be a chameleon. But as Kylie's journey comes to a close, she must return to the camp that started it all...and she must finally chose between the two boys who love her. The werewolf who broke her heart when he chose his pack over her, and the half-fae who ran from their intense attraction before they ever really had a chance. For Kylie, everything will finally be revealed and nothing will ever be the same.

I love this cover! I've been meaning to read this series for a while now but I haven't had the time to read it! I'm hoping though that I can before this comes out! Out of all the covers in this series I definitely think this one is my fave! It is just so beautiful! I love the colors on this one! Chosen At Nightfall's expected publication is April 2013!

Let me know your thoughts on the cover in the comments!

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August 30, 2012

Cover Reveal: The Goddess Inheritance by Aimee Carter

I'm not the biggest fan of this series but its not like I dislike it. I like this cover! Out of all the covers in this series I think I like this one the best. It's really pretty. The Goddess Inheritance's expected publication is April 1, 2013!

Let me know your thoughts on the cover in the comments!

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