Review: Dark Spell

Dark Spell
Author: Gill Arbuthnott

Release date: August 1st 2013 (first published July 1st 2013) 
Source :  Received a digital copy via Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteen-year-year-old Callie Hall has just found out that she is a witch...and things keep going wrong. Sometimes her mind seems to make things happen, things she cannot control. She can set fire to things without a match, and when she's angry people can get hurt. Her friend Josh understands that she's a bit strange, but it is only on a dark and dangerous visit to the tunnels beneath the ruins of St Andrews' castle that he realises just how strange she really is. Something comes back with Callie--in Callie--something she cannot escape. Can Callie control her power long enough to send back the darkness before it takes over her life? Will Josh ever understand her secret?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review

 

This will be a short review, as I neither enjoyed or hated Dark Spell, it was just...there.

Fifteen year old Callie thinks her life is boring. She isn't popular, and she really doesn't have any friends, (well, not in her town) her only solace being Josh, whose from Edinburgh and keeps in contact via facebook. Me, being in Wales , knows this method very well as I have a really good friend in Canada.

Stacking The Shelves #3 & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Well, it's been a crappy week for me. I'm not liking my doctors at the moment, but does anyone?

I've also recently started reviewing with ReadGig

Right, not many this week. Silver lining? I can play catch up!

For Review

(Click on covers for goodreads!)
 

 

                          First book from Readgig!                  Edelweiss. Thanks Egmont!

                                                                        

Bought

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 Yes, I loved All Our Yesterdays so much I had to buy it. Hallelujah to the Book Depository for early releases. All have such pretty covers, too!

 

What's did you get this week? Leave your links and I'll have a look!

 

 

A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed Branded by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki
• Teaser Tuesday from All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
• Waiting on Wednesday, The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton
• Thursday Playlist for All Our Yesterdays
• Friday I reviewed All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

I really sense a All Our Yesterday theme this week!

 

This week I have read:

• All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
• The Poisoned House by Michael Ford
• Dark Spell by Gill Arbuthnott

Review: All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays
Author: Cristin Terrill

Release date: August 1st 2013 (UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens
Source :  Received a digital copy via Bloomsbury UK and Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you! No, really. Thank. You.)

  

 

Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet.

Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture - being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future.






-Spoilers ahead!-

Oh. I can't take it, you guys! You know when you've read something so good you wish you hadn't read it so you could re-read anew?

I've only had a few books out of my two decades of life, one of the main ones being Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne, and Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson.

I'm not going to go into the whole Doctor Who thing, because I live in Cardiff and I'd be shunned and my best friend would kill me.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, really, because finally, a book with such a beautiful cover, and, dude time travel, lived up to what I thought it would be.

Playlist Thursday

Music has always been apart of my life, and like others, especially when writing. Certain songs have gotten me through certain parts of my life that could have ended a lot different than it did.

I usually don't listen to music while reading, but recently I've started compiling playlists for books before reading just by the summary and feel, to see if what I've picked works with the one I'm reading, which I recently did with Branded by Abi Ketner, Missy Kalicicki, (you can find that playlist and review here.)

Now, while reading All Our Yesterdays  (which, I'll be posting my review tomorrow!), as soon as I got sucked into that heart-breaking world, I knew I had to finish it before even thinking of applying music to it. I've gone through tons and I mean  tons of songs and finally compiled a playlist!

Since my review isn't due until tomorrow I thought I'd preview my playlist instead. Since I can literally talk your head off about music (seriously I so could), and can compile a playlist the size of my iPod, I've done a Top Ten. I've also decided to do this every Thursday.

(Click on the song titles to listen!)

1. Irrelevant- Lauren Aquilina
2. Currents- Dashboard Confessional
3. The Whole World Is Falling Apart, & The Salvation of One - Enation (Technically, this is 2, but shhh.)
4. This Is The First Thing  - You Me At Six
5. Falling - Florence + The Machine
6. Explode - Darren Hayes
7. Cruel Cruel World - Darren Hayes
8. Enemy Among Us - Paper Route
9. Goodbye - Secondhand Serenade
10. The War Inside - Switchfoot

Do you create playlists when writing/reading?

Waiting on Wednesday (#3) The Wicked Within

Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases.

 

The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton Expected publication: September 17th 2013 by Simon Pulse

(Yes, it's been a while between A Beautiful Evil, to this, but perfection is not rushed.) 

 

 

 

Ancient lore leads to present danger in the final book in the dark and sexy paranormal romance trilogy about a descendent of Medusa, set in a richly reimagined New Orleans.Her fate is not set in stone.

Having temporarily defeated Athena, Ari races to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries. Her one lead sends her on a quest for the Hands of Zeus, an ancient relic last seen in the charge of New 2’s ruling elite, the Novem. But if there is one thing that Athena desires as much as revenge, it’s the Hands of Zeus—and Athena always gets what she wants.







 

How gorgeous is that cover? What's your WoW?

Teaser Tuesday (2)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Title: All Our Yesterdays
Author: Cristin Terrill
Release date: August 1st 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens
Page: 181

 

Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet.

Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture - being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future.







Teaser

"If that's true, you should just tell the police," Finn says.

"They wouldn't believe me!" I say. "And I don't trust them to keep James safe anyway."

"What makes you think someone's after me?" James asks.

"You were shot at!  And Richter's lying about who did it I know he is."

Leave me a link to your teasers!