What's Next (#7)

What's next is a weekly meme hosted by Icey Books so that you guys can help me decide what to read next!!!

Title: Everneath
Author: Brodi Ashton
Overview: Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she's returned--to her old life, her family, her boyfriend--before she's banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance--and the one person she loves more than anything. But there's just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.

As Nikki's time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's queen.

Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton

Title: Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Overview: No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.

Title: Incarnate
Author: Jodi Meadows
Overview: New soul

Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.

No soul

Even Ana's own mother thinks she's a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she'll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?

Heart

Sam believes Ana's new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana's enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else's life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all?

Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life

WOW #9

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Title: Crash
Author: Lisa McMann
Publication Date: January 8th, 2013
Overview: Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.

What she can’t handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode...and nine body bags in the snow.

The vision is everywhere—on billboards, television screens, windows—and she’s the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more shesees. The vision is giving her clues, and soon Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it’s someone she knows. Someone she has been in love with for as long as she can remember.

In this riveting start to a gripping series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann, Jules has to act—and act fast—to keep her vision from becoming reality

IMM #9 and Stacking the Shelves #1

For Christmas:

Fated by Alyson Noel

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Beta by Rachel Cohn

The Matched Trilogy Boxed Set by Ally Condle

Confessions of a Teenage Murder Suspect by James Patterson

Bought:

The Morganville Vampires Volume 2 by Rachel Caine

Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

Paper Valentine by Breanna Yovanoff

From ARCycling

Belles by  Jen Calonita

WOW #8

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Title: Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2)
Author: Marissa Meyer
Expected Publication: February 5th 2013
Overview: Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own.

As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner

IMM 8

In My Mailbox is weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren. The point is to list the books that you either purchased or received for review during last week.

Bought:

The Morganville Vampires Volume 1 by Rachel Caine

Wither by Lauren Destafano

Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen

Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Review (8): Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Title: Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2)
Author: Richelle Mead
Rating: 4.5/5
Overview: Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... 

It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasn’t bad enough, Rose’s tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason’s got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks... This year, St. Vlad’s annual holiday ski trip is mandatory. 

But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price.

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FROM THE FIRST BOOK IN THE SERIES!!!

I am going to have some serious bruises by the end of this series.  I've been kicking myself for not starting this series since the start of the first book.  I cannot believe that I doubted that I would like this series.  I loved the first book, and this second one is even better!

I really have to say that I wish I was able to meet Rose and be in the world she is.  She is such a kick ass person and I relate to her so well.  I would give anything to actually see this place.  It sounds incredible.  And the guys, oh boy, the guys.  Mason was such a sweetheart.  He is so funny and awesome.  Dimitri is that guy that every girl wants to have in their life, to help them on the way through life.  And Adrian.  I don't really even know how to describe him because he was just introduced to us in the book and I'm not really sure how I feel about him yet.

There is a lot of side stories in this because there is still a lot to learn about Rose's new world, but I love learning all this information about this amazing place.  The action in this book is non stop and there is almost one action scene in every chapter!

I cried at the end.  Just with everything that happens between Rose and her mom and between Rose and Dimitri.  I'm a big baby when it comes to books lately and I'm not sure why!!

This series is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone.

Review (7): What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Title: What's Left of Me
Author: Kat Zhang
Rating: 4/5
Overview: I should not exist. But I do.

Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else—two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. Why aren’t they settling? Why isn’t one of them fading? The doctors ran tests, the neighbors shied away, and their parents begged for more time. Finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone. Except, she wasn’t . . .

For the past three years, Eva has clung to the remnants of her life. Only Addie knows she’s still there, trapped inside their body. Then one day, they discover there may be a way for Eva to move again. The risks are unimaginable-hybrids are considered a threat to society, so if they are caught, Addie and Eva will be locked away with the others. And yet . . . for a chance to smile, to twirl, to speak, Eva will do anything

This book had such an interesting premise and really makes you think.  You are born with two souls, but eventually, one will just fade away and disappear.  But if that doesn't happen, you are considered a hybrid, dangerous.  And Addie and Eva are one of those hybrids.

Eva is the main character even though she is considered the recessive soul while Addie is the dominant.  Addie makes them walk and talk while Eva is just sort of floating inside of her.  They both can talk to each other in their head.  It was weird have it through Eva's view because I would sometimes confuse her with Addie and have to go back and reread.  It's especially confusing at the end when Eva takes some sort of dominance.

It was also hard to get used to the "we" and "us" that the book kept using.  I would always have to think who was "we" or "us", but you get used to it after awhile.

Addie irritated me at some points, she comes off as selfish and childish.  I also hated when Eva and Addie would fight (they do it often throughout the whole book). I definitely felt bad for Eva though.  Being trapped in a body you can't control?  That has to be hard.

All in all, I loved the book.  Kat does a great job at providing us with info of this foreign world without overwhelming us with information.  She does a great job letting us know bit by bit what this place we know nothing about, is about.  The ending had my heart thumping and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.  There really isn't a "love interest" in this book but there is a minor one, but love isn't the focus of this book, and I like that, a lot.