It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme
Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.
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Finished reading
June 18, 2012
Belated 6 Months Blogoversary
On May 17 was my 6 months blogoversary and I totally forgot about it. So now I´m going to celebrate a belated blogoversary plus the 700 follower appreciation with a giveaway!.
If the book is in a series you haven’t started, you can pick the first one in the series instead.
Win a book of you choice from the 9 books shown below. The giveaway is International.
Details
- There will be one winner.
- Win one(1) book of you choice from the 9 books (shown above) or Win one(1) book of your choice up to $20 USD from Book Depository.
- You must be a follower via GFC.
- International as long as Book Depository delivers to your country, check here.
- Giveaway ends on July 18.
- Winner will be announced on July 20 in this post..
WINNER: Rogier C.
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June 14, 2012
If I Die by Rachel Vincent
Title: If I Die (Souls Screamer #5)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release date: September 27th 2011
Rating: 5/5
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The entire school's talking about the gorgeous new math teacher, Mr. Beck. Everyone except Kaylee Cavanaugh. After all, Kaylee's no ordinary high-school junior. She's a banshee—she screams when someone dies.
But the next scream might be for Kaylee.
Yeah—it's a shock to her, too. So to distract herself, Kaylee's going to save every girl in school. Because that hot new teacher is really an incubus who feeds on the desire of unsuspecting students. The only girls immune to his lure are Kaylee and Sabine, her boyfriend's needy ex-girlfriend. Now the unlikely allies have to get rid of Mr. Beck…before he discovers they aren't quite human, either.
But Kaylee's borrowed lifeline is nearing its end. And those who care about her will do anything to save her life.
Anything.
If I Die takes place six weeks after the events of My Soul to Steal, Kaylee is dating Nash and all seems to be going well, then she finds out that she is on the reapers list and she may die in less that a week; that is the main plot of this book, there is a subplot but I´m not going to go into details because this book is about Kaylee and how she handles the news about her possible death and honestly she handles herself very well.
Kaylee throughout the series have followed all the rules, is responsible, as long as it doesn´t endanger the life of someone else and if that´s the case, she´ll disobey him, hiding things to save or help anyone in need. Also she almost never loses patience and tries to get along with everyone (the only exception of this is Sabine). But in If I Die Kaylee we see a slightly different, which I feel is obvious with the news that she could die. She is distracted by a new case and feels that if she isn´t distracted, she could not keep her composure and may collapse, so keeps busy. Another character that I really liked in this book is Kaylee's father obviously he´ll try everything humanly and non-humanly necessary to save her.
I´m glad I decided to participate in the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge, this is a really good series.
If I Die is my favorite book of the series, is an emotional ride; shocking, heartbreaking, with unexpected surprises, this book made me laugh and cry; I LOVE it so much! and now I´m team Tod! (I still love Nash though). Can´t wait to read Before I Wake.
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Book Cover Battle #10
This section or meme is call Book Cover Battle, the first time I saw it was at Books Passion for Life as UK vs US and Bookaholics book club as UK vs The World but because I don´t live in the UK, I can´t name it that way, so for now is Book Cover Battle .
This week book cover battle is
My favorite is the US cover, although I also like the spain cover.
This week book cover battle is
Angel by L.A. Weatherly
US UK Spain
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My favorite is the US cover, although I also like the spain cover.
What do you think? Which is your favorite?
June 13, 2012
Waiting on Wednesday (28)
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone
Publisher: Hyperion
Release date: October 9th 2012
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Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett’s unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna’s life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility.
As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate—and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.
Fresh, exciting, and deeply romantic, TIME BETWEEN US is a stunning and spellbinding debut from an extraordinary new talent in YA fiction.
Which book are you waiting this week?
June 12, 2012
My Soul to Steal by Rachel Vincent
Title: My Soul to Steal (Soul Screamers #4)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release date: January 4th, 2012
Rating: 4/5
Buy it at: Amazon | B&N | BookDepository
Trying to work things out with Nash—her maybe boyfriend—is hard enough for Kaylee Cavanaugh. She can't just pretend nothing happened. But "complicated" doesn't even begin to describe their relationship when his ex-girlfriend transfers to their school, determined to take Nash back.My Soul to Steal takes place 2 weeks after the events of My Soul to Keep, Kaylee and Nash are no longer dating but they´re trying to overcome it and see if they can be together again. Kayle loves him and misses him very much but is not sure if she could trust him and if she could forget what happened. Meanwhile Nash want to return with her but knows that it is not so easy and he´s fighting every day with his addiction and the guilt. And in this situation arrives Sabine in to their lives, she´s Nash ex girlfriend who moved to town determined to recover him at all cost.
See, Sabine isn't just an ordinary girl. She's a mara, the living personification of a nightmare. She can read people's fears—and craft them into nightmares while her victims sleep. Feeding from human fear is how she survives.
And Sabine isn't above scaring Kaylee and the entire school to death to get whatever—and whoever—she wants.
The arrival of Sabine shakes Kaylee a little because she´s not ready to forgive and forget what happen with Nash but she´s aware that if she doesn´t make a decision soon she could lose him. Nash accepts Sabine into his life because he´s in a time when he needs a friend, someone to listen him, someone that give him support and acceptance. And that someone is Sabine.
Outside of the love triangle, we have Emma, Kayle´s best friend, we also get to know a little more about Alec, the "young man" that Kaylee rescue from the Netherworld. And finally we get a little more of Nash´s brother Tod.
I loved My Soul to Steal! I love this series and can´t wait to read If I Die.
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June 11, 2012
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Journey.
Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.
Click on the image to look description in Goodreads.
Finished reading
Glamorous Illusions, I really like it .(review)
I loved My Soul to Steal!!
I´m currently reading
What I´m going to read next?
June 8, 2012
Glamorous Illusions by Lisa T. Bergren
Title: Glamorous Illusions (Grand Tour series #1)
Author: Lisa T. Bergren
Publisher: David C. Cook
Release date: June 1st, 2012
Rating: 4/5
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When Cora Kensington learns she is the illegitimate daughter of a copper king, her life changes forever. Even as she explores Europe with her new family, she discovers that the most valuable journey is within. The first book in the Grand Tour series takes you from the farms of Montana through England and France on an adventure of forgiveness, spiritual awakening, and self-discovery.I loved Glamorous Illusions! This is the first book that I´ve read by Lisa T. Bergren, but I´ve read good reviews about the River of Time series (another novels by this author) this coupled with the cover that I loved was what decide me to read this book.
The takes place in Montana 1913, Cora just returned home for the summer from normal school when she´s studying to be a teacher. There she found out that things aren´t going well at home and the family is almost in bankrupt. At this point Wallace Kensignton enters the life of Cora, and her mother tells her that she´s the illegitimate daughter of Mr. Kensington. He offer her to send Cora abroad to take the Grand Tour, that last all the summer, pay for her tuition and help her parents.
Twenty year-old Cora is sent to Europe with her half-siblings, other family and their guides Stuart and William the young apprentice. She´s a young woman who knew her place in the world and her goals but now her circumstances have changed and she finds herself in a world unknown to her, she don´t get along well with her companions and in this trip she is in a journey to rediscover herself. Williams is a handsome young man who is interested in Cora but is forbidden flirtation between guides and their charge, so he approaches her only as a friend even though he starts to have feelings for her.
I really loved Glamorous Illusions and can't wait for the next one.
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June 7, 2012
Book Cover Battle #9
This section or meme is call Book Cover Battle, the first time I saw it was at Books Passion for Life as UK vs US and Bookaholics book club as UK vs The World but because I don´t live in the UK, I can´t name it that way, so for now is Book Cover Battle .
This week book cover battle is
This week book cover battle is
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
US (original cover) US (New cover) UK
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Click on the image to go to Goodreads
I like both US covers but my favorite is the new US cover.
What do you think? Which is your favorite?
June 6, 2012
Waiting on Wednesday (27)
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release date: October 23rd 2012
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Don't look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them.
That is Ethan Chase's unbreakable rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs—including his reputation—begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he's dare to fall for.
Ethan thought he had protected himself from his older sister's world—the land of Faery. His previous time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust for the world Meghan Chase has made her home, a land of myths and talking cats, of magic and seductive enemies. But when destiny comes for Ethan, there is no escape from a danger long, long forgotten.
My name is Ethan Chase. And I may not live to see my eighteenth birthday.
I loved The Iron Fey series! I can´t wait to read The Lost Prince.
Which book are you waiting this week?
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