Across the Universe By Beth Revis

I love Sci-fi and I was really hoping to love this book and I did. The 1st chapter was so well written (so was the rest of the book but the 1st chapter grabbed me) that you could really tell what Amy was feeling. I liked the why the chapters alternated between Elder and Amy. If it was just frozen Amy's thoughts at the beginning for several chapters I would have put the book down but since Elder's chapters were in there the combination of both made it really interesting. Each main  character had their own well developed personality.  I really liked the relationship between Elder and Amy. It was nice to have the main male and female character develop a relationship instead of the instant love in other books.  The plot was mostly fast-paced and a nice blend of mystery, sci-fi and some romance.

book haul/IMM

About a Months worth of books 

Friday Finds

awesome looking sequel to a great book 

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7219902-tiger-s-quest

    

I read Enchanted Ivey by Sarah Durst and I love it, this one looks really good too 

http://www.thestorysiren.com/2011/02/books-to-pine-for-49.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595144110/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=159514045X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0HPEVNCDB15X8HEWRYD5

I had forgotten that they were releasing this series in a bind up. 

2011 debut author challenge

hosted by the story siren

I'm interested in participating the year and I hope to use my blog more

to read list :

 Across the universe  (reading)- READ
Tiger's Curse (own)
The Water Wars
Angelfire  (netgalley Today: Feb 1st)- Reading
The Iron thorn (own)
The Iron Witch (own)
and more !

Waiting on Wednesday

The next Max Ride book ! I still love this series but I couldn't get into his other YA books (witch and wizard, and Daniel x)

what are you reading mondays

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/

I am currently reading Hexbound (Dark Elite 2) by Chloe Neill
I just finished The Candidates (Delcroix Academy 1) by Inara Scott

I am also reading the Greek Play Medea for my acting class and I'm almost done

The Magnificent 12 The Call by Michael Grant

Until the 3,000-year-old man appeared in the boys' room, middle-schooler Mack MacAvoy had resigned himself to leading a middling, unexceptional life. That was before the ancient bathroom crasher identified Mack as one of The Magnificent Twelve, a group of talented12-year-olds who have been empowered the save the world. Before they can do that, however, Mack must track down these other special children and prepare to do battle. Action, magic, and laughs.

Hardcover, 256 pages

Published August 24th 2010 by Katherine Tegen Books

http://www.themag12.com/series/book-1-th...

I read this because I love Michael Grant's Gone series but it was very middle grade. I like some mg books but with The Call the plot was very basic. The characters were just all right but the writing was still really good. I did like that the perspective switch between the protagonist set in todays world and set in a fantasy world. There wasn't any real character development.  It was funny at times but not as funny as the reviews says for me. It was a fun simple read and I may continue the series to see how it continues and because I really love Michael Grant.

5/10 stars

Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and she was supposed to be one of the most Talented among them. But Tamsin's magic never showed up. Now seventeen, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan, far from her family. But when a handsome young professor mistakes her for her very Talented sister, Tamsin agrees to find a lost family heirloom for him. The search—and the stranger—will prove to be more sinister than they first appeared, ultimately sending Tamsin on a treasure hunt through time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the sins of her family, and unleash a power so vengeful that it could destroy them all. This is a spellbinding display of storytelling that will exhilarate, enthrall, and thoroughly enchant.
-GoodReads-


I really enjoyed this book.  Tamsin is a great character. I loved Gabriel but some of her family annoyed me, they acted weird toward Tamsin because she is different from them.  I really like the time traveling aspect of the story. The plot flows very well. Since there is only one sequel, you get a lot of answers in this book and it's not just a set up. The romance aspect was a minor part of the story which I like. It was part of the story and not too over the top.  I loved her writing style. 

Awesome Contest

http://www.electrifyingreviews.com/2010/12/one-year-blogoversary-giveaway.html

Zombie Vs. Unicorns (edited by Justin Larbalestier and Holly Black)

This book was awesome. I usually don't like short stories because as so as you get to know the characters its over or you don't really know the characters, but this book has some great authors and I love the arguments before each story. It goes back and forth with a unicorn story first than zombie and it ends with a zombie story. There are six stories for each side.  The 1st story, The Highest Justice by Garth Nix, I enjoyed it combined both Unicorns and zombies, so that was cool. Love will Tear Us Apart by Alaya Dawn Johnson was okay but focused too much on the romance than zombies for me. I really enjoyed the unicorn, Purity Test by Naomi Novik. I have read Carrie Ryan's novel and the short story Bougainvillea is set in the same world and it was okay, I didn't love The Forest of Hands and Teeth as much as a lot of others did but I still enjoy her writing. A Thousand Flowers by Margo Lanagan was also just okay for me. It wasn't really exciting for me and was confusing. The children of the Revolution by Marren Johnson  was a good zombie one. I loved Rampant by Diana Peterfreund and really enjoyed her short story The Care and Feeding of you Baby Killer Unicorn. Inoculata by Scot Westerfeld was a zombie one I really enjoyed. I also enjoyed Princess Prettypants by Meg Cabot.  As much as I enjoy the killer unicorns I also enjoyed the rainbow, happy, kiddie version too. I love Cassandra Clare and her version of zombie in Cold Hands. The Third Virgin was a weird story but I liked it. It was different. The final story Prom Night by Libba Bray was also pretty good.

Overall 5 stars, brillant anthology

Torment by Lauren Kate

Spolier warning for Fallen


I really enjoyed Fallen even though it was slow in the middle and picked up right at the end. I was hoping Torment would be full of action and fast paced through out the book because the first book was a set up for the series. I heard this from other reviewers before I read it but she is taken to another boarding school and it is slow paced like Fallen but still really good. I liked the new characters and that Penn was remembered.  Sometimes after characters die they are forgotten in the next book and not really mentioned.  The writing was awesome like in Fallen.

4.5 stars

Awesome Contest

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Beautiful Darkness

Sequel to Beautiful Creatures

Amazing book!  I really enjoyed the new characters although Lena kinda annoyed me in this one. It was sorta slow paced at the beginning like the first one but still really good and it the action pick up in the last half and I couldn't put it down. Ridily is awesome and really grew as a character.  The writing was just as good as before and it's amazing how well they can write together.   The readers keep learning new things about Gatlin and the casters. I love this series and can't wait for the next one

IMM 8

Torment by Lauren Kate

The Familiars 

Demon 

The Thirteenth chime (not in video) 

Waiting on Wednesday

Tyger Tyger by Kersten  Hamilton

Teaser Tuesday

"Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven, 'Would Tomorrow be too early to start looking, do you think?"

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

what are you reading Mondays

I just finished Mockingjay 

I'm reading Clockwork Angel

Then I'll read Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
I'm also working on : Another Faust by daniel & dina nayeri, and Jealousy by Lili St.Crow 

Imm (7)

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Radience by Alison Noel

The Magnificent 12: The Call by Michael Grant

Unraveled by Gena Showalte

Black Hole Sun David Macinnis Gil

WWW Wednesday

I am reading Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
I finished Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
I will read Clockwork Angel as soon as my pre-order gets here

waiting on Wednesday

Stork sounds really good
Another Pan is the Sequel to Another Faust
Both are released Oct 12