Book Blitz: Rush by Eve Silver

Posted on Monday, July 8, 2013 6:29 PM


Release Date: June 11, 2013
Publisher: Harper Teen

Summary from Goodreads:
So what’s the game now? This, or the life I used to know?

When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says the game isn’t really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival, and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn’t. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.

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Teaser #1:
He smiles, a faint curve of his lips that reveals the barest hint of a long dimple carved in his right cheek. “No, but I can read your expression. And I’ve been doing this long enough that I know what most people tend to think when they first open their eyes.”
“Doing what long enough?”
“This,” he says, and nothing more.
A second of silence stretches into two. Though I can’t see behind his glasses, I have the feeling he’s not looking at me anymore, that he’s scanning the area, looking for…something. But as I stare at him, I see me—tiny distorted reflections of me in the shiny, convex lenses.
Copyright © 2013. Eve Silver. All Rights Reserved.



Teaser #2:
I stare at the things in front of me: the Drau. I can’t look away.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember Jackson talking about Medusa.
Don’t look at their eyes.
Their mercury eyes.
They’re poison.
They will kill me.
Copyright © 2013. Eve Silver. All Rights Reserved.


Teaser #3:
Color and sound explode, too bright, too loud. Even the air on my skin feels like it’s too much. My fingers go lax. The bag’s handle slides down my palm, then along my fingers to the tips, impossibly slow. The world tips and tilts and I flail for balance.
Luka grabs my hand and holds tight.
I blink. My house, my open front door, Dad, they’re all gone. My breath comes in short gasps and every muscle in my body feels like it’s knotted up tight.
I’m standing in a grassy clearing bounded by trees.
The lobby.
We’ve been pulled.
Copyright © 2013. Eve Silver. All Rights Reserved.




About the Author
Eve Silver lives with her gamer husband and sons, sometimes in Canada, but often in worlds she dreams up. She loves kayaking and sunshine, dogs and desserts, and books, lots and lots of books. Watch for the first book in Eve’s new teen series, THE GAME: RUSH, coming from Katherine Tegen Books, June 2013. She also writes books for adults.


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Once Upon A Read-A-Thon - Updates & Mini Challenges

Posted on 12:00 AM
 
This is the first Readathon that I've participated in and I'm super excited.
 
Once Upon A Readathon is hosted by Reading Angels, Candace's Book Blog and Pure Imagination.  You can keep track of all the readathon happenings on Twitter by following @OUReadathon
 
My goal for this readathon is 3 books in 3 days.  I will be updating this post with my reading progress throughout the next 3 days so be sure to check back in.  Also, if you're participating leave me a link so I can check out your progress.
 

The Books:

Chosen at Nightfall by C.C. Hunter
Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover
Wild Cards by Simone Elkeles
 
Update: I'm so happy that I met my reading goals for the Once Upon a Read-A-Thon!  I will definitely be participating next year :)
 
Books read: 3
Total pages read: 1023
 

Mini Challenge #1 (Cover2CoverBlog)

1. Which book you are most excited to read in the coming year? It can be already released or coming soon.  There are so many books that I can not wait to read but the ones that I’m most excited for are Allegiant by Veronica Roth, Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones and Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout.
2. Which book would you re-read if you had the time and weren’t so busy reading ALL of the other good things? Hopefully, I will get to re-read Divergent and Insurgent before the release of Allegiant this fall *fingers crossed*  
3. and lastly, If you could meet any fictional character who would it be and why? I would love to meet Daemon from Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Lux series, because he’s hot and kind of has the bad boy smart ass attitude going on (I’m a sucker for bad boys) and did I mention he’s HOT?  Oh, and obviously he has a thing for book bloggers ;)
 
Mini Challenge #2 (BookBFFs)
 
- Commented under Christy Mullins



Mini Challenge #3 ( Better Read than Dead)


 
You’re in a bookstore and you’ve just purchased 5 books you’ve been dying to read, when the apocalypse hits.  You’ve got one chance at survival, what 2 books do you take and what 3 other items do you take? This is a tough question; it’s so hard to choose only 2 books to bring.  I guess I would pick one of the Charley Davidson books by Darynda Jones because Charley always cheers me up and Divergent by Veronica Roth because Tris is badass and doesn’t let anyone or anything hold her back.  As far as the 3 items I would choose, baby formula would be number one because my two month olds screaming would attract a lot of attention if I didn’t feed her, a backpack full of food and water and I’m going to be optimistic and assume there is a katana lying around that I could take (yes, I’m totally pretending that I could be as lethal as Michone.  Now where can I find some zombie pets?)   

 Mini Challenge #4 (IB Book Blogging)


 

 

Make your dream guy using characteristics, personalities, looks, and anything else you can think of from your favorite book boyfriends.  The characteristics that I would choose from my book boyfriend to make the perfect dream guy would be: Dimitri’s hot body (Vampire Academy Series), Bones’ protectiveness (Night Huntress Series), Daemon’s cockiness (Lux Series), and Tod’s witty personality (Soul Screamer series) 


 
 

Mini Challenge # 5 (Rainy Day Ramblings)

Solved the puzzles :D
 

 Mini Challenge # 6 (Dizneeee's World of Books)

Tell me your favorite genre, favorite book within that genre, and your favorite character from the same genre.
·         *Favorite Genre: YA Contemporary
*Favorite Book: Ok, this was a really tough question because I’m very indecisive when it comes to favorites so I think I might cheat a name a few before I have a panic attack trying to narrow my list down to one.
o   My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
o   Wild Cards by Simone Elkeles
o   Something Like Normal & Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller
o   Golden by Jessi Kirby
* Favorite Character: Augustus Walters from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green because he is funny, strong and he doesn’t let the fact that he has Cancer keep him from enjoying his life. 

 



Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Posted on Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:56 AM

 
Series: The 5th Wave #1

Format: Hardcover

Source: Bought

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Pages: 457

Publication Date: May 7, 2013

( Goodreads /  Amazon )

 
The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.







This book has been sitting on my TBR shelf since its release date because I had so many review books that I needed to read first that I had to put it on the backburner for a while. Well, I still have a bunch of review books that I need to read but after seeing all of the glowing reviews on this book, I just could not take it anymore, I HAD to read the 5th Wave and I’m so glad that I did, this book is fantastic.

17 year old Cassie will do anything to find her little brother who was taken from her. Cassie is one bad ass teenage girl. Most people would break if they had been through everything that she has, but Cassie comes out stronger. One of Cassie’s rules to survive is to not trust anyone, but when mysterious Evan saves her she doesn’t really have a choice but to put a little trust in him. 

Ben and Ringer are at Camp Haven. Camp Haven is a place where kids are trained to be solders. Ben and Ringer are amongst many that think they are training to fight against the aliens, but with everything that is happening around them, can they be absolutely certain that people in charge are actually human? I really liked that this story was told in multiple POVs. I don’t think the story would have been as strong as it was if we only had Cassie’s perspective. 

The 5th Wave is packed with non-stop action and twists that will have you gripping the edge of your seat. I would definitely recommend this to fans of the post-apocalyptic/dystopian genre as well as fans of the television show Falling Skies. I can’t wait to get my hands on the next book in this series.


“Maybe the last human being on Earth won’t die of starvation or exposure or as a meal for wild animals.
Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive” - PG 15

“I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway.  I am the one not running, not staying but facing.
Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity
And if this is humanity’s last war, then I am the battlefield” – PG 101


 

Stacking the Shelves (17)

Posted on Saturday, July 6, 2013 1:00 AM
 
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  This meme allows us to show off what books we got during the past week.
 
Here's what I got this week:
 
 
Moonglass by Jessi Kirby (Traded)
 
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Purchased)
 
Chosen at Nightfall by C.C. Hunter (Purchased)
 
 
 
For Review:
 
 
Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover
 
 
 
What books did you get?


 
 
 
 

Book Blast: SHARDS by Lisa Amowitz

Posted on Friday, July 5, 2013 12:00 AM

Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Glass never expected to wake up in the hospital one morning with a broken leg. His crush, Susannah, has disappeared, and he doesn’t know where to look for her. What happened on the night she disappeared? Keep reading for a clue:









"For the past year, Susannah’s been inexplicably texting me with YouTube links to her haunting stop-action animations."



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Dying to know more? You can download the full prequel with all of the beautiful artwork here:


Find Lisa Amowitz and BREAKING GLASS online:

Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

Posted on Thursday, July 4, 2013 9:46 AM

Series: Throne of Glass #1

Format: Paperback

Source: Gifted

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's

Publication Date: August 7, 2012

Pages: 420

( Goodreads / Amazon )


 
 After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.

Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.

Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another.

Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.


 Celaena Sadothien isn't your ordinary eighteen year old girl, she is the most feared assassin in Adarlan.  Celaena has spent the past year in the Endovier salt mines serving out her sentence for the crimes that she has committed and she had accepted her fate until Prince Dorian made her an offer she that she couldn't refuse.  The Prince offered to give her freedom the condition that she be his champion in a competition that is being held by the king to be the royal assassin and if she wins he will grant her freedom after serving for four years.

Celaena accepts the Price Dorian's offer but soon after the competition begins, her competitors start dropping dead one by one and Celaena learns that there are dark forces at play within the castle and she must find out who or what is killing everyone before she becomes the next victim.

Celaena is definitely one kick ass heroine, I loved her sarcastic attitude.  I really liked her friendship with Nehemia and her relationships with both Chaol and Prince Dorian, unfortunately I'm still undecided which team I'm on, hopefully I will be able to choose a side after reading the next book in the series.

Throne of Glass was action an packed book with just enough mystery to keep you entertained from the beginning until the very last page, I can't wait to see what's in store for Celaena, Chaol and Prince Dorian in Crown of Midnight.

I would definitely recommend this book to fans of Grave Mercy and Maria V. Snyder's Poison series.





 

 

Waiting on Wednesday (18)

Posted on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 1:00 AM

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that showcases books that we are eagerly anticipating.

 
My Waiting on Wednesday pick this week is:

Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston

Expected Publication Date: September 17, 2013


From Goodreads:

From New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston comes this remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.

Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature—freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.

At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called “the Blue.” They say it’s a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it’s a place where Nat won’t be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.

But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson to take her there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies? Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all.

What book are you waiting on?


Deal Discoveries (2)

Posted on Tuesday, July 2, 2013 7:35 PM
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Here's a couple of great deals that I found on Amazon.

All of these Kindle books are CURRENTLY 4.99 or under




  
Also, I found some great paperback and hardcover books on sale so I thought I would include them as well.






Happy Reading! 

Top Ten Tuesday (7)

Posted on 12:00 AM


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
This weeks topic is Top 10 most intimidating books


Here's my list in no particular order:


1. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling  - I feel like the only person in the world that hasn't read this series or watched the movies.  I have yet to pick this up just because I'm afraid that I will be the only person EVER who does not like it.  Maybe Eventually I will get brave and give it a try.

2. The Host by Stephanie Meyer - The thing that intimidates me about this book is its size.  I'm the type of person that kind of gets bored if books are too long.

3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - I have heard amazing things about this book and I know I should read it, but by reading the summary it just doesn't sound like something I would like.

4. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin - This book sound so good but it's 837 pages!

5.  City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare - I read and enjoyed City of Bones up until the end when the whole 'thing' about Jace & Clary was revealed and that just tore me up so I'm kind of scared to read anymore. 

6. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - This is another one that I feel like everyone likes but I'm not sure that I will.

7. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare - After the whole thing with the City of Bones book (see above) I'm kind of scared to pick anything up by Cassandra Clare.

8. Room by Emma Donoghue - I just don't think I could handle this book.

9. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - A friend of mine has been trying to get me to read this series for a while but I don't think I will like it.

10. World War Z by Max Brooks - I usually try to read the book before I watch the movie but my husband talked me into watching it and it was AMAZING so now I don't want to read the book because I'm afraid I won't like it.
What's your most intimidating books?




Freedom to Read Giveaway Hop

Posted on Monday, July 1, 2013 8:14 PM

This giveaway hop is hosted by Bookhounds and I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and it runs from July 2nd until 11:59 PM on July 9th.  Winner will be chosen on July 10th using Random.Org.  Winner will have 48 hours to respond to my email or I will choose another winner.

This giveaway is US only

Be sure to check out my giveaway policy before entering.  You can find it HERE

What can you win:

One person will send me their top 3 choices from my For Sale/Trade list, I will then pick one book and surprise them with it. 

Just enter below and then hop on over to the other blogs participating. 






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