From YA Book Exchange:
Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber
Bought:
Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday
Crash by Lisa McMann
Vesper by Jeff Sampson
Defiance by C.J. Redwine
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Review (#12): Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Title: Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1)
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Published: November 15th, 2011
Rating: 5/5
Overview: Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war– and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Published: November 15th, 2011
Rating: 5/5
Overview: Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war– and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
I've wanted to read Shatter Me for quite a long time and I have no idea what took me so long to read it! This was a fantabulous read and took me a matter of a couple days to get through it. It is so fast paced and descriptive. So much that it draws you in and when you start reading, you cannot put it down!
Juliette was such a likable character! She's so different from many of other main characters that seem to resemble someone else. You can definitely tell at the beginning of the book how the isolation from other people has effected her, she has some almost "crazy" qualities to her. The way she repeats words and numbers shows the the isolation had definitely effected her.
Juliette is kept in an asylum and is kept in a room that resembles a jail cell, barely ever getting out to use the bathroom or shower. She also usually only gets on meal a day. I can't even imagine how that would feel and it has to be a lot harder on Juliette seeing what she is already going through. Not being able to touch anybody? That's so hard on her. How would she start a family? How would she love anybody?
Then there comes Adam, the only one that has really seen past her power and seen her for her. He is just a great guy and I love how they don't meet and just instantly fall in love. They've both loved each other for a long time but just haven't confessed. The scenes between Adam and Juliette are so STEAMMMY! GAHHH! They made my heart thud just reading them!!
I loved the setting of Omega Point. It just seemed like a great place and we were barely there to see it yet. I can't wait to learn more about Omega Point and the people that are there!
There really wasn't a cliffhanger but Mafi did set it up so that we definitely start to see what is happening in the next book. And I'm perfectly fine with that. I love cliffhangers in series, but an ending wasn't so bad.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
WOW #12
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Title: Frozen
Authors: Melissa De La Cruz & Michael
Johnston
Expected Publication: September 17th, 2013
Overview: Set in 111 C.D., one hundred and eleven years after a Catastrophic Disaster has wiped out 99% of humanity and left the earth covered in ice, this new series introduces readers to a ragtag group of friends and the dawning of a new time. The world of reason, of mathematics and science, is ending, and a new civilization is being born from the ice: a world of magic and mayhem, sorcerers and spellcraft.
FROZEN is the first in a trilogy and is set to release in Spring of 2013
Authors: Melissa De La Cruz & Michael
Johnston
Expected Publication: September 17th, 2013
Overview: Set in 111 C.D., one hundred and eleven years after a Catastrophic Disaster has wiped out 99% of humanity and left the earth covered in ice, this new series introduces readers to a ragtag group of friends and the dawning of a new time. The world of reason, of mathematics and science, is ending, and a new civilization is being born from the ice: a world of magic and mayhem, sorcerers and spellcraft.
FROZEN is the first in a trilogy and is set to release in Spring of 2013
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
IMM #11 and Stacking the Shelves #4
Bought:
Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
The Forsaken by Lisa Stasse
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Review (11): Breathe by Sarah Crossan
Title: Breathe
Author: Sarah Crossan
Rating: 4/5
Overview: Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe . . . The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich air.
Alina has been stealing for a long time. She's a little jittery, but not terrified. All she knows is that she's never been caught before. If she's careful, it'll be easy. If she's careful.
Quinn should be worried about Alina and a bit afraid for himself, too, but even though this is dangerous, it's also the most interesting thing to happen to him in ages. It isn't every day that the girl of your dreams asks you to rescue her.
Bea wants to tell him that none of this is fair; they'd planned a trip together, the two of them, and she'd hoped he'd discover her out here, not another girl.
And as they walk into the Outlands with two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, everything they believe will be shattered. Will they be able to make it back? Will they want to?
Author: Sarah Crossan
Rating: 4/5
Overview: Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe . . . The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich air.
Alina has been stealing for a long time. She's a little jittery, but not terrified. All she knows is that she's never been caught before. If she's careful, it'll be easy. If she's careful.
Quinn should be worried about Alina and a bit afraid for himself, too, but even though this is dangerous, it's also the most interesting thing to happen to him in ages. It isn't every day that the girl of your dreams asks you to rescue her.
Bea wants to tell him that none of this is fair; they'd planned a trip together, the two of them, and she'd hoped he'd discover her out here, not another girl.
And as they walk into the Outlands with two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, everything they believe will be shattered. Will they be able to make it back? Will they want to?
I knew since I saw the cover of this book and read the synopsis that this was going to be on my must read list. This alternate world where there are no tree and everyone has to pay for there air sounded so interesting to me.
Breathe has two main settings: the Pod and the Outlands. The Pod is the "safe" place because it's where all the air is, but it's run by a deceiving Ministry. After the Switch, there are no trees left on Earth, or are there? Outside the Pod, there seems to be no chance for survival, no air, no nothing. So, everyone has no choice but to live inside the Pod, they know no difference.
Bea, Quinn, and Alina are the main characters. Bea is known as an auxillary, someone who is basically poor and don't have enough money to pay for their air. Quinn is a Premium, the rich. Premiums can do basically anything they want and have enough air. They can exercise, make love, etc. Alina is known as a RAT, someone who is in the Resistance and against the pod. Alina knows a lot more than Bea and Quinn do.
Alina is such a high strung and fearless person that I fell in love with her immediately. I just felt a connection with her. Bea is so loving and caring that she seems like the perfect human-being. And Quinn, I didn't really like him at first. Like, he couldn't see this perfect Bea in front of his eyes and was so caught up in Alina that he almost ruined what he had with Bea.
Crossan does great creating this alternate universe and goes through so much detail laying out this whole world. She gives great descriptions and places the reader right in the middle of the action. I could almost see every aspect of this new world.
Breathe is a definite must read for people that are looking for an interesting dystopian novel and are ready to be sucked into a world that isn't real.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
WOW #11
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Title: The Nightmare Affair
Author: Mindee Arnett
Expected Publication: March 5th, 2013
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.
Literally.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.
Then Eli’s dream comes true.
Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.
Author: Mindee Arnett
Expected Publication: March 5th, 2013
Overview: Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.
Literally.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.
Then Eli’s dream comes true.
Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.
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