Shimmer by Alyson Noel
I really like how pretty this trailer is! Also, it makes the books sound ace:) It's published March 2011.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Sunday, 6 February 2011
In My Mailbox (76) & (77)
In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren
Review:
Awakened by PC and Kristen Cast (Audio book)
I love audio books! I really need to catch up with this series!
Wood Angel by Erin Bow
Rockoholic by C J Skuse
Plus a Curly Wurly bar - awesome! - which isn't in the photo because..yes..I ate it! Both books look fab and I've heard awesome things about Rockoholic.
Glee: Foreign Exchange by Sophia Lowell
Gleeeeeee!
The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi
This sounds ace! Looking forward to reading it. (opps just realised it's missing from the picture - I knew I'd forget one.)
Milo and the Restart Button by Alan Silberberg
This looks sooooo good!
My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent (Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!)
I love the UK covers for this series and I can't wait to read this one - more Nash:)
Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!)
I.Can't.Wait.To.Read.This! Looks soooooooo good! Fancy a taster - check out the first chapter & trailer here.
I was really lucky to be invited to a Simon & Schuster event on Thursday. Such a fab event! Massive thanks to the S&S team and the authors who came:) And it was lovely to catch up with everyone who came:) *waves*
I also picked up these lovelies:
Raising Demons by Rachel Hawkins (Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!)
13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison (I loved 13 Treasures so looking forward to this!)
Daughters of Darkness by Virginia Andrews (sounds great!)
Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler (sounds awesome!)
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (I've heard great things about this one)
The Cursed Ones by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (Vampires! Looks great!)
Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (Zombies! Love Zombies:) )
Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen (looks really good - and it's Zombies! See above!)
Bought:
Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
Song Quest by Katherine Roberts (Squee! - I loved this book! You can read my review here)
Incareron by Cathering Fisher (I've wanted to read this for ages!)
Priviliged by Zoey Dean (Looks like it could be good)
I found these three in a charity shop! Most impressed!
TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow
I love this series!
Mortal Kiss by Alice Moss
I really like the look of this. I've heard mixed reviews so am interested to see what I think.
Hope you all had a great week:)
Review:
Awakened by PC and Kristen Cast (Audio book)
I love audio books! I really need to catch up with this series!
Wood Angel by Erin Bow
Rockoholic by C J Skuse
Plus a Curly Wurly bar - awesome! - which isn't in the photo because..yes..I ate it! Both books look fab and I've heard awesome things about Rockoholic.
Glee: Foreign Exchange by Sophia Lowell
Gleeeeeee!
The 10pm Question by Kate de Goldi
This sounds ace! Looking forward to reading it. (opps just realised it's missing from the picture - I knew I'd forget one.)
Milo and the Restart Button by Alan Silberberg
This looks sooooo good!
My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent (Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!)
I love the UK covers for this series and I can't wait to read this one - more Nash:)
Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!)
I.Can't.Wait.To.Read.This! Looks soooooooo good! Fancy a taster - check out the first chapter & trailer here.
I was really lucky to be invited to a Simon & Schuster event on Thursday. Such a fab event! Massive thanks to the S&S team and the authors who came:) And it was lovely to catch up with everyone who came:) *waves*
I also picked up these lovelies:
Raising Demons by Rachel Hawkins (Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!)
13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison (I loved 13 Treasures so looking forward to this!)
Daughters of Darkness by Virginia Andrews (sounds great!)
Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler (sounds awesome!)
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff (I've heard great things about this one)
The Cursed Ones by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (Vampires! Looks great!)
Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (Zombies! Love Zombies:) )
Married With Zombies by Jesse Petersen (looks really good - and it's Zombies! See above!)
Bought:
Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
Song Quest by Katherine Roberts (Squee! - I loved this book! You can read my review here)
Incareron by Cathering Fisher (I've wanted to read this for ages!)
Priviliged by Zoey Dean (Looks like it could be good)
I found these three in a charity shop! Most impressed!
TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow
I love this series!
Mortal Kiss by Alice Moss
I really like the look of this. I've heard mixed reviews so am interested to see what I think.
Hope you all had a great week:)
Friday, 4 February 2011
Win a signed copy of More Bloody Horowitz by Anthony Horowitz (UK only)
From Goodreads: From Anthony Horowitz, the bestselling author of "Alex Rider" and "The Power of Five", comes a collection of ten macabre tales...It may look like a book of innocent fables for nice, well-mannered boys and girls, but beneath the cosy exterior, this is Anthony Horowitz at his most wicked...Stories of ultimate revenge, from freshly sold human meat, and reality TV where death is the penalty, to a car that leads its driver to his death at an abattoir, and a snake-charmer's human curse - all told with dark humour and gruesome relish. This title is from award-winning author Anthony Horowitz, author of "Alex Rider" and "The Power of Five" - high-profile publicity opportunities through the year. The author features prominent horror-writing reputation through the highly popular, long-running TV series "Midsomer Murders". This title presents an old-fashioned cover look that belies the gruesome interior: makes for a great marketing story.
Sound good? Well thanks to Just So I have one signed copy to giveaway!
The contest is open to UK only.
Closing date is 11 February 2011
You don't need to be a follower of my blog to enter.
I will need to forward the winner's details on to my contact with Just So - so please only enter if you are happy for me to do so.
Just fill in the form below - Good Luck:)
Sound good? Well thanks to Just So I have one signed copy to giveaway!
The contest is open to UK only.
Closing date is 11 February 2011
You don't need to be a follower of my blog to enter.
I will need to forward the winner's details on to my contact with Just So - so please only enter if you are happy for me to do so.
Just fill in the form below - Good Luck:)
This giveaway is now closed.
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
For Review: Hodder & Stoughton. Published 3 February 2011
From Goodreads: Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver was one of my favourite reads of 2010. It was one of those books that I had high expectations for and it still managed to exceed them. Delirium was exactly the same! I absolutely loved it!
Lauren Oliver has such a beautiful writing style. She managed to have me completely invested in the characters and story. I adored Lena, and it is through her that the story is told as a first person narrative, which works brilliantly. To start with Lena is convinced that the cure will be her salvation and she counts the days - waiting for the time when she will be safe. Her friend Hana seems less convinced and it is during one of their runs together that Lena meets Alex. Slowly the two develop a friendship which blossoms into more - and as their relationship progresses so do the cracks in Lena's wholehearted belief that the cure will save her. Instead everything she has believed in - everything she was told - slowly unravels until there is only one truth left...
The relationship between Alex and Lena was lovely! I loved that he was the one to see her first and how honest he was with her. It felt sweet and gentle as opposed to the really intense romances we often get in Young Adult Fiction. I also enjoyed how her friendship with Hana went through many changes throughout the story, and I loved Gracie!
I don't know how to sum up how much I loved this book! I loved how it was written, and although the pace at the beginning of the story may be too slow for some readers, I found it gave the story a gentle intensity. It felt as if I were there with Lena every time she discovered something new to shatter what she had always been told. You could feel her fear underneath her wonder - was she sick? Would she die? How could how she felt be wrong? There was just something so sinister and creepy about the idea that people could believe so strongly that what they were being forced to do was the right thing! That a world without love, without desire could ever be a better alternative.
The ending of this makes Pandemonium an absolute must read! It completely blew me away! If I could have read Pandemonium the minute I had finished Delirium I would! I really, really loved it!
From Goodreads: Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver was one of my favourite reads of 2010. It was one of those books that I had high expectations for and it still managed to exceed them. Delirium was exactly the same! I absolutely loved it!
Lauren Oliver has such a beautiful writing style. She managed to have me completely invested in the characters and story. I adored Lena, and it is through her that the story is told as a first person narrative, which works brilliantly. To start with Lena is convinced that the cure will be her salvation and she counts the days - waiting for the time when she will be safe. Her friend Hana seems less convinced and it is during one of their runs together that Lena meets Alex. Slowly the two develop a friendship which blossoms into more - and as their relationship progresses so do the cracks in Lena's wholehearted belief that the cure will save her. Instead everything she has believed in - everything she was told - slowly unravels until there is only one truth left...
The relationship between Alex and Lena was lovely! I loved that he was the one to see her first and how honest he was with her. It felt sweet and gentle as opposed to the really intense romances we often get in Young Adult Fiction. I also enjoyed how her friendship with Hana went through many changes throughout the story, and I loved Gracie!
I don't know how to sum up how much I loved this book! I loved how it was written, and although the pace at the beginning of the story may be too slow for some readers, I found it gave the story a gentle intensity. It felt as if I were there with Lena every time she discovered something new to shatter what she had always been told. You could feel her fear underneath her wonder - was she sick? Would she die? How could how she felt be wrong? There was just something so sinister and creepy about the idea that people could believe so strongly that what they were being forced to do was the right thing! That a world without love, without desire could ever be a better alternative.
The ending of this makes Pandemonium an absolute must read! It completely blew me away! If I could have read Pandemonium the minute I had finished Delirium I would! I really, really loved it!
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Across the Universe: Sneak Peek and Trailer
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone--one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship--tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
I am soooooo looking forward to reading this book! It sounds amazing and I love the trailer.
You can also check out the UK Facebook Page and become a fan - there will be an exciting competition happening there soon!
And for those of you desperate for a sneak peek you can check out the first chapter below:
Across the Universe Extract
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