Teaser Tuesday (2)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Read more about Teaser Tuesdays HERE. 

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!

My teaser:
There was blackness for as far as she could see. No streetlights, no signals in the distance. Nothing.
-P.197 "Desires of the Dead" by Kimberly Derting.

Fast Forward (2)

Last week I didn't get to read as much as I wanted to and I only finished The Body Finder.

This week I'm going to read book 2 Desires of the Dead and hopefully get reviews up about those two this week.

What are you reading this week?
If you have a blog, what is happening on your blog this week?

In My Mailbox (2)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created and hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren for bloggers to show all of the great books or book related things that you have gotten over the past week!  It can be books bought, gotten from the library, received for review ect.
Go HERE to read more about IMM.

Won
Dark Time by Dakota Banks (Mortal Path 1)
Sacrifice by Dakota Banks (Mortal Path 2)

Thank you so much Parajunkee from Blog With Bite for hosting this great contest and thank you to Dakota Banks for signing them!

Gift
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - Thank you Emilie!

Borrowed
The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer - Thank you Maria!

I cannot wait to read all of them!
What did you get in your mailbox this week?

On My Wishlist (2)

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday.
It's a place where you can list all the books you desperately want but haven't actually bought yet.
They can be old, new or forthcoming.
Read more about it HERE.

My wishlist:

My Soul to Take
Rachel Vincent
(Soul Screamers #1)
Published August 1st 2009

I love Rachel Vincent's Shifters series but I haven't had the fortune to start this series yet. If it's nearly as great as her Shifters series it's going to be a fantastic read.

My Soul to Take description:
She doesn't see dead people. She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.
Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who'll be next.










The Iron King
Julie Kagawa
(Iron Fey #1)
Published February 1st 2010

I have wanted to start this series for a while. I have heard some great thing about this book and the cover looks awesome. I hope to get my fingers on a copy soon.

The Iron King description:
Meghan Chase has a secret destiny—one she could never have imagined…
Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school…or at home.
When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.
But she could never have guessed the truth—that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face…and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.
 




13 To Life
Shannon Delany
(13 to Life #1)
Published June 22nd 2010

I'm very excited to start the series, the book sounds interesting and book two has just been released so what better time to begin this series.

13 To Life description:
Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…
When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it’s for one of two reasons. Either they’ve finally figured out who wrote the scathing anti-jock editorial in the school newspaper or they’re hosting yet another intervention for her about her mom. Although far from expecting it, she’s relieved to discover Guidance just wants her to show a new student around—but he comes with issues of his own including a police escort.
The newest member of Junction High, Pietr Rusakova has secrets to hide--secrets that will bring big trouble to the small town of Junction—secrets including dramatic changes he’s undergoing that will surely end his life early.

Cover art (4)

Four new beautiful covers, I like them they are pretty in their own way, very different.

So Silver Bright by Lisa Mantchev
Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
Green-eyed Envy by Kasey Mackenzie
Supernaturally by Kiersten White

What do you think?

News from authors (2)

News 1

Kimberly Derting has announced that there will be two more books in The Body Finder series.

She also have a new book called THE PLEDGE coming out November 15th 2011.

Short teaser:
A romantic fantasy set in a dystopic, war-torn world, in which a teenage girl realizes that she may be the key to saving her country.

News 2

Stacia Kane has announced that the title for book four in the Downside Ghosts series will be called:

SACRIFICIAL MAGIC

The titles for the series are:
1# Unholy Ghosts
2# Unholy Magic
3# City of Ghosts
4# Sacrificial Magic

News 3

Cat Clarke has announced that the title for book two will be called:

TORN

Here's what the book is about:
The most popular girl in school is dead. Everyone thinks they know the score, but only Alice and her friends know what really happened to golden girl Tara.  But Alice starts to doubt her own version of events when, haunted by visions of Tara, she realizes the truth is much, much darker. And she's the only one who wants to uncover it.

The titles for the series are:
1# Entangled
2# Torn  (Expected publication January 2012)

News 4

Kim Harrington has announced that the title for the second Clarity book will be called:

PERCEPTION

The titles for the series are:
1# Clarity
2# Perception (Expected publication March 2012)


I look foward to all of them and can't wait for the release dates!
If you have some news from other authors I would like to hear it, I'm sure there's a lot I haven't seen:-)

Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore

About Graceling

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight — she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme, and in her case horrifying, skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change.
She never expects to become Po’s friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace — or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away... a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

Source: Goodreads

Review

This book was very interesting and it was nice to read some fantasy again.
The writing was good, the world was though trough, the characters where lovable and the plot was very good.

 

I like the idea of some people having been born with a grace, people with a special gift for something.

I really felt like I understood Katsa in many of her problems and challenges and it was believable that she acted the way she did in her situation and made the decisions she did.

 

I enjoyed the books focus on love and friendship and how Katsa gets stronger and grows when she realise how important these things are for her. She learns to care for other people and open up a part of herself to another person.

The big plot in the book is about power. Who has the most power and how do you use the power you have been given.

 

A thing I was not so fond of was the ending, it did not end the way I had hoped it would. After reading the end I sat there with this feeling that I wanted a little more from the book.

 

I thought this book was a good book and I recommend it to people who like fantasy and a good adventure. It reminded me a little of Tamora Pierce’s books and I love those with there strong main character and a lot of magic.

I give Graceling 4 out of 5.

Next in the series:

2# Fire

3# Bitterblue (Expected release September 15th 2011)