Firelight by: Sophie Jordan About the book: Jacinda is not your typical 16 year old girl. Actually, she’s not your typical girl period. She’s a draki, a descendant of dragons, able to shift from human form to dragon form at will. Yet, even among draki she stands out. Not only is she exceptionally fast, she… Read more »
Book banning kind of makes me ill. Seriously. It reminds me of that saying, “Your right to swing your fist ends when your fist meets my face.” You have a right to dislike a book or feel it’s inappropriate… just keep it to yourself. It sounds kind of harsh but I really don’t want to… Read more »
Maggie Stiefvater just revealed the cover of the third and final books in the Shiver series!!! Isn’t it BEAUTIFUL!!! You can preorder a signed copy here: http://www.fountainbookstore.com/autograph-maggie. It’s coming out in July 2011. I CANNOT wait! If you haven’t read the first two I highly recommend it. The audiobook of Linger is amazing too! Pre-order… Read more »
Alright, it’s been nearly a month since I read Mockingjay. I figured it’s time to blog about it. The more I thought about it the more I realized I really don’t want to write a review. I’m actually still processing it. So, having said that, here are my two main responses to it. No spoilers… Read more »
Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes My rating: 4 of 5 stars A number of things drew me to this book. 1. Melissa Marr tweeted (very positively) about it and I love her books. 2. It’s about werewolves. If you’re team Jacob or just team “werewolves are not all evil monsters” you’ll enjoy it…. Read more »
I first came across Sherwood Smith when Crown Duet was recommended to me by YA author Anne Osterlund (you HAVE to read her books Aurelia and Academy 7!!!) I went to the book store and bought Court Duet expecting to pick it up now and again when I had some time. However, once I picked… Read more »
So, when I went to leave the house yesterday I nearly stepped on a large brown box outside my door. I assumed it was the incredibly cool Hunger Games stuff I ordered (board game, journal, keychain. shirt, etc…) but it wasn’t. It was something completely unexpected… a box of ARCs form Scholastic. How exciting is… Read more »
The Drake Chronicles by: Alyxandra Harvey I bought the first two books in this series a couple weeks ago but didn’t have time to sit down and read them until yesterday. I’m glad I waited for a day when I could read both at once… if there had been something I had to do I… Read more »
How did I miss this?!?! Home Girl’s Book Blog is doing a YA reading challenge (check it out here) It is so my kind of thing!! I’ve signed up to read 75 YA books this year. Since the year is more than half over I went through my goodreads profile and copied over the YA… Read more »
Radiant Shadows by: Melissa Marr I briefly mentioned Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely series of books in a previous post nearly a year ago. I want to revisit them for a number of reasons. 1. That’s what happens when you read really good books….you want to tell everyone about them! 2. The fourth book was recently… Read more »
