Friday, 7 May 2010

I want to read that...


Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel

From Goodreads: When Lenah Beaudonte, a 500-year-old vampire queen, wakes up a human teenager at an ultra-cliquey prep school, she must choose between embracing the humanity she’s always craved and saving her new friends from her vicious coven. The first in a sizzling new YA series.

Lenah Beaudonte is, in many ways, your average teen: the new girl at Wickham Boarding School, she struggles to fit in enough to survive and stand out enough to catch the eye of the golden-boy lacrosse captain. But Lenah also just happens to be a recovering five-hundred-year-old vampire queen. After centuries of terrorizing Europe, Lenah is able to realize the dream all vampires have -- to be human again. After performing a dangerous ritual to restore her humanity, Lenah entered a century-long hibernation, leaving behind the wicked coven she ruled over and the eternal love who has helped grant her deep-seated wish.

Until, that is, Lenah draws her first natural breath in centuries at Wickham and rediscovers a human life that bears little resemblance to the one she had known. As if suddenly becoming a teenager weren’t stressful enough, each passing hour brings Lenah closer to the moment when her abandoned coven will open the crypt where she should be sleeping and find her gone. As her borrowed days slip by, Lenah resolves to live her newfound life as fully as she can. But, to do so, she must answer ominous questions: Can an ex-vampire survive in an alien time and place? What can Lenah do to protect her new friends from the bloodthirsty menace about to descend upon them? And how is she ever going to pass her biology midterm?


This one sounds like it could be really good and I LOVE the cover! It's published August 3rd 2010 by St. Martin's Griffin (US)

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Cover Wars: My Worst Best Friend by Dyan Sheldon

Oooh! I really like them both - and they seem really different. The US one is a bit more quirky and captures my interest (love the shadow) so I think I'm going to go with the US cover this time.



UK / US

Which do you prefer?

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter

Review Copy. Orchard (6 May 2010)
From Goodreads: The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school teaches advanced martial arts in PE, chemistry always consists of the latest in chemical warfare, and everyone breaks CIA codes for extra credit in computer class. So in truth, while the Gallagher Academy might say it's a school for geniuses what they really mean is spies. But what happens when a Gallagher Girl falls for a boy who doesn't have a code name?

Cammie Morgan may be fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (three of which involve a piece of uncooked spaghetti), but the Gallagher Academy hasn't prepared her for what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through a mall without him ever being the wiser, but can she have a regular relationship with a regular boy who can never know the truth about her? Cammie may be an elite spy in training, but in her sophomore year, she's doing something riskier than ever—she's falling in love.


This one made me laugh. I liked the School and the whole idea behind it - and I really like the main characters. Cammie was fun and witty and I enjoyed having the story told from her point of view. Her friends Liz, Bex and Macey were great fun too! Especially Bex - she was my favourite and I loved her driving! Josh was interesting but the romance between him and Cammie only had my passing interest. I enjoyed the 'spy' stuff much more.

I admit it's a bit silly at times but I got the impression it wasn't supposed to be taken too seriously. The action scenes were my favourite part - and I liked how they were injected with humour. The final action scene had me laughing out loud.

This is going to be a guilty pleasure of mine. For some reason I feel as if I shouldn't have liked it but I did. I really did - and I can't wait for the next in the series!

Monday, 3 May 2010

Book Trailer of the Month: The Karma Club by Jessica Brody

I really love this trailer - it could be an advert for a TV series! Can't wait to read the book as it sounds ace. It's available now in the US and is published 30 June in the UK.



You can check out the authors website here and you can read an excerpt here

Saturday, 1 May 2010

In My Mailbox (37)

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren



For Review:
The Other Countess by Eve Edwards (Puffin: Published 1 July 2010)
The Pack by LM Preston (Phenomenal One Press - available now)
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell (Harpercollins - available now)
Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (Bloomsbury: Published 7 June 2010)

Bought:
The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
Society of S by Susan Hubbard
The Year of Disappearances by Susan Hubbard
Waiting For You by Susane Colasanti
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Welin
Locked Inside by Nancy Welin
Black Mirror by Nancy Welin
My Big Nose & Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter


How did you all do?

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