Waiting on Wednesday #4

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


My pick this week is:

Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Release date January 24th 2012


Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being 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 months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.

As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's 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...

Why: I've seen this in many blogs, and it's been praised! Also, the cover is amazing.

WWW Wednesday #5

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Should be Reading, found it through My Cute Bookshelf.
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?


My answers:



What are you currently reading?
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Only on the first page of this book!











What did you recently finish reading?
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Just finished it about two hours ago.











What do you think you'll read next?
Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori
Yeah, decided to read Shiver first, so this have to wait.

Teaser Tuesdays #3

And yet another meme by Should Be Reading!




Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*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!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


I'm breaking the rules a little, since this teaser will be containing three sentences. But it has to be this, since I laughed out loud when I read this one!

My teaser:

"Dude, my mom's a Baptist. You think she's gonna let me stay in the house when she finds out I'm a Demon? She doesn't even like Methodists."
p. 490, Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl



PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Musing Mondays #3

A meme hosted by Should Be Reading!




This week’s musing asks…

Other than for school, do you read books to learn how to do something? What was/were the topic(s)?

Well, that's a lot! I mean, huge amount of books! Because first I always want to know everything, before starting to practice. Here's the most important ones:

* Knitting. I learned to knit when I was around 7, but it was in school, so it sucked, since the yarns and needles were so bad. Then I started to read about it, I'm still learning new things, by reading of course!

* Programming. HTML, CSS, Java, C, C#, Visual Basic, SQL, C++... I've read tons of these books. Some because of school, but mostly For Dummies- books for my own pleasure!

* Drawing. Don't have inspiration for this one anymore, so..

* Photographing. Still don't have a good camera, but I learned something about using camera!

* Playing piano. Love it, but currently don't have piano. :(

* Crocheting. Do it sometimes, I'm not as good in this as in knitting, but at least I know how to do it.

Okay, those were the most important ones. Though there's a million other books about other stuff, but that would be a list way too long!


PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your answer in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks! :)

Cover Crazy #9

Yet another Cover Crazy, hosted by The Book Worms.



Spell Bound by Rachel Hawkins




Hailed as “impossible to put down,” the Hex Hall series has both critics and teens cheering. With a winning combination of romance, action, magic and humor, this third volume will leave readers enchanted.

Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies—the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending. But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident.

Sophie’s bound for one hell of a ride—can she get her powers back before it’s too late?



I love all the Hex Hall- covers!


I love this cover because :
* Love the contrast of purple and green
* Also, I have a thing for purple and green together
* Love the sword
* Love the cat just chilling


Dislike?
* Nothing really

In My Mailbox #5

Here's some books I borrowed, bought and received! IMM (In My Mailbox) is a meme hosted by The Story Siren!



borrowed from library



Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
Pure Dead Magic (Pure Dead #1) by Debi Gliori
Pure Dead Wicked (Pure Dead #2) by Debi Gliori
Bras & Broomsticks (Magic in Manhattan #1) by Sarah Mlynowski
Frogs & French Kisses (Magic in Manhattan #2) by Sarah Mlynowski
The Spiderwick Chronicles #1-5 by Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi



from Netgalley




The Wedding Gift by Kathleen McKenna
My Lunatic Life (Lunatic Life #1) by Sharon Sala



ARC (from author)




Feyland: The Dark Realm by Anthea Sharp (my first ARC ever!)

From Book to TV #2

I have this habit to watch any tv show/ movie based on book. Many times, they're just crab, but I haven't let that stop me! So I'd like to introduce some of those tv shows/ movies! If you'd like to participate, just leave a comment and a link to your own blog post!

This times serie is fairly new, too, since only two episodes has been aired.

once upon a time

From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis comes a bold new imagining of the world, where fairy tales and the modern-day are about to collide.

And they all lived happily ever after – or so everyone was led to believe. Emma Swan knows how to take care of herself. She’s a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who’s been on her own ever since she was abandoned as a baby. But when the son she gave up years ago finds her, everything starts to change. Henry is now 10 years old and in desperate need of Emma’s help. He believes that Emma actually comes from an alternate world and is Snow White and Prince Charming’s missing daughter.
According to his book of fairytales, they sent her away to protect her from the Evil Queen’s curse, which trapped the fairytale world forever, frozen in time, and brought them into our modern world. Of course Emma doesn’t believe a word, but when she brings Henry back to Storybrooke, she finds herself drawn to this unusual boy and his strange New England town.
Concerned for Henry, she decides to stay for a while, but she soon suspects that Storybrooke is more than it seems. It’s a place where magic has been forgotten, but is still powerfully close… where fairytale characters are alive, even though they don’t remember who they once were.

The epic battle for the future of all worlds is beginning, but for good to win, Emma will have to accept her destiny and fight like hell.

Drama/Fantasy

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thoughts

This show is loosely based on our favorite stories. I just had to pick this, since there's only two episodes aired.

I really didn't know what expect since this show has the same executive producers as Lost did. And I didn't like Lost (*gasp* old ladies clutching their pearls). So far, I've enjoyed watching this show. I just wish there was less flashbacks and more present day, but hopefully the back story will be explained soon enough. I absolutely adore Robert Carlyle, just love him! Hopefully he's not a totally bad guy, as usually.

Again, it's hard to say anything more about the show, but so far, I've enjoyed it. And soon there will be episode three, yay!

On My Wishlist #4

Meme hosted by Book Chick City!

Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely #1)

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
From Goodreads:

All teenagers have problems, but few of them can match those of Aislinn, who has the power to see faeries. Quite understandably, she wishes that she could share her friends' obliviousness and tries hard to avoid these invisible intruders. But one faery in particular refuses to leave her alone. Keenan the Summer King is convinced beyond all reasoning that Aislinn is the queen he has been seeking for nine centuries. What's a 21st-century girl to do when she's stalked by a suitor nobody else can see? A debut fantasy romance for the ages; superlative summer read.

Hunting Lila (Lila #1)

Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson
From Goodreads:

17-year-old Lila has two secrets she's prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, since forever. Or thereabouts.
After a mugging on the streets of South London goes horribly wrong and exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust - her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they've found them. Trying to uncover the truth of why her mother was killed, and the real remit of The Unit, Lila becomes a pawn in a dangerous game. Struggling to keep her secrets in a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone - there are others out there just like her - people with special powers -and her mother's killer is one of them...

Book Review: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Released : December 1st 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format : Paperback
Pages: 592
Series: Caster Chronicles #1
Source : Bought from Amazon
Buy : Amazon UK / Book Depository

synopsis

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

thoughts

*MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS*
It took me a while to start this book. And then it took me a while to read it through. Yes, it's a good read, but the overall writing wasn't as captivating as I expected. It's kind of slow paced, and occasionally just not that fluent.
There's the whole thing with the Civil War. Yes, it's somewhat important part of the characters' history, but all the historical reenactments and history lessons just didn't do it for me. Same with the DAR and PTA. Witch hunt also included, but that was a big part of the plot, so that I could have lived with.

Parts about the Civil War could have been completely removed, and I probably wouldn't have noticed a difference. They only distracted me, and I wished those parts were replaced with Ethan's and Lena's romance. Since there could have been so much more details about that, then I would've been happy.

Overall, I liked Ethan and Lena. A couple, who are destined to be together, though the fate is against them. Especially when we find out the thing about Mortals and Casters not working so well together.

Ethan is a narrator, which was interesting considering women authors. Despite that, Ethan was a believable character. He's blind to Lena's flaws, but isn't that how it always is when you're madly in love with someone. They're the perfection and you would do anything for them. So Ethan's quite the knight in shiny armor through out the book.

And Lena. She seems so nice. So, so nice. She would never even hurt a fly, except when she loses the control of her powers. But then again, when she gains the control, her niceness starts cracking. The thing with the book and sort of brainwashing her aunt and cousin? Not nice! So even though I liked her and Ethan together, I liked Ethan more.

There's a bunch of other people hanging around, but only few I really liked, being Uncle Macon, Link and Ridley. Believe it or not, I really liked her! Especially the thing with "Sympathy for the devil"- song, that was quite funny. Luckily, there's more of her in the second book!

Overall, a good read. The ending saved the whole book, before that I had some troubles following the story, but the end was loud and clear. I cried like a baby. Like I always do, when there's a good story going on. This was the reason I started book 2 right away!



Rating:

The Time Will Come #8

The Time Will Come is a meme hosted by Books for Company!






The Rules
* Pick a book from your bookshelf that you've had for a while and really can't wait to read, but haven't managed to get to yet.
* Put the details on your blog and head back over to Jodie's blog to fill in the Mr Linky.
* Go and visit some other bloggers who are joining in.


Torment by Lauren Kate







Hell on earth.

That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel.
It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.

At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous.
What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?

The second novel in the addictive FALLEN series . . . where love never dies.



The first book wasn't as good as I expected, but I'm quite sure "Torment" will be a good read!