Booking Through Thursday: Neither a Borrower.

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme, hosted by btt2, about (mostly) books and reading.
 

I’ve asked before how you feel about lending your books. I’ve asked how you feel about libraries. But—how do you feel about borrowing books from friends? Is this something you like to do? Does it make you feel uncomfortable or rushed while reading? Does it affect how you feel about the book you’re reading, pressured into liking it?

I love the general idea that comes with borrowing books from friends- the discussions and fangirling over a book you both love, but I do hate borrowing books. I don't even know why, I just like reading a book that's my own copy. Maybe it's because I feel like they have to borrow one in exchange, and I'm a bad reader that way because I hate lending books. Especially if you know they're the type of person who page folds. I borrowed my cousins copy of L. J. Smith's Night World #01-3 bind-up, and took it on holiday with me. How long did it take me to read all 729 pages of it? 8 hours out of a 10 hour couch ride to Lockerbie for an overnight stay in Lockerbie Manor, before moving onto Edinburgh and Stirling, (traffic was slow.)

I think she borrowed my copy of Vampire Diaries, can't actually remember, but she gave me back mine in pristine condition, probably because I gave her the whole 'do not fold the pages.' and the poor thing probably thought I would hit her or something.

Alas to say, she stuck to borrowing games. :)
I don't feel pressured into reading it as quickly as I can, but I wouldn't like to go over a week and a half, and I'm not pressured into liking it either, we have similar tastes, but when it comes to some books, no. She likes the House of Night series. I can't stand it.

Waiting On Wednesday (#6)

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

 

Summer didn't last. It's raining. Again. 3 days straight. And the ice-cream van's outside.

So, this week I'm looking forward to...


Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell Expected publication: April 1st 2014 by Katherine Tegen Books.


Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.
Rule Two—Be careful.
Rule Three—Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they’re the strongest part of your body. Your arms are the weakest.
Rule Four—Hit to kill. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible.
Rule Five—The letters are the law.

Kit takes her role as London’s notorious “Perfect Killer” seriously. The letters and cash that come to her via a secret mailbox are not a game; choosing who to kill is not an impulse decision. Every letter she receives begins with “Dear Killer,” and every time Kit murders, she leaves a letter with the dead body. Her moral nihilism and thus her murders are a way of life—the only way of life she has ever known.

But when a letter appears in the mailbox that will have the power to topple Kit’s convictions as perfectly as she commits her murders, she must make a decision: follow the only rules she has ever known, or challenge Rule One, and go from there.

1) I might be a little twisted.
2) I watch too much Criminal Minds, and Bones and NCIS LA, I could go on...


What are you waiting on this week?
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P.S. I can't even... You saw that VA teaser trailer right? Badass, just...badass.

Teaser Tuesday (5)

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

Title: Chantress
Author: Amy Butler Greenfield

Release date: May 7th 2013

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page: 58%

 “Sing, and the darkness will find you.” This warning has haunted fifteen-year-old Lucy ever since she was eight and shipwrecked on a lonely island. Lucy’s guardian, Norrie, has lots of rules, but the most important is that Lucy must never sing. Not ever. Now it is 1667, Lucy is fifteen, and on All Hallows’ Eve, Lucy hears a tantalizing melody on the wind. She can’t help but sing—and she is swept into darkness.

When she awakes in England, Lucy hears powerful men discussing Chantresses—women who can sing magic into the world. They are hunting her, but she escapes and finds sanctuary with the Invisible College, an organization plotting to overthrow the nefarious Lord Protector. The only person powerful enough to bring about his downfall is a Chantress. And Lucy is the last one in England.

Lucy struggles to master the song-spells and harness her power, but the Lord Protector is moving quickly. And her feelings for Nat, an Invisible College apprentice and scientist who deeply distrusts her magic, only add to her confusion...

Time is running out, and the fate of England hangs in the balance in this entrancing novel that is atmospheric and lyrical, dangerous and romantic

I felt my neck hairs rise. "You mean...you called up the dead?"

"The dead?" Lady Helaine raised her eyebrows.

"What a question, Lucy. I am a Chantress, not a necromancer."

Short and sweet.

Now that's done, who cares. Anybody seen the VA movie stills? Because I'm trying not. to. look.

Review: Maid of Secrets

Maid of Secrets
Author: Jennifer McGowan

Publication Date: May 7th 2013 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Source: Own

Seventeen-year-old Meg Fellowes is a wry, resourceful thief forced to join an elite group of female spies in Queen Elizabeth’s Court. There she must solve a murder, save the Crown, and resist the one thing that will become her greatest freedom–and her deadliest peril.

 

For Meg and her fellow spies are not alone in their pursuit of the murderer who stalks Windsor Castle.

 

A yo...moreSeventeen-year-old Meg Fellowes is a wry, resourceful thief forced to join an elite group of female spies in Queen Elizabeth’s Court. There she must solve a murder, save the Crown, and resist the one thing that will become her greatest freedom–and her deadliest peril.

 

For Meg and her fellow spies are not alone in their pursuit of the murderer who stalks Windsor Castle.

 

A young, mysterious Spanish courtier, Count Rafe de Martine, appears at every turn in the dark and scandal-filled corridors of the Queen’s summer palace. And though secrets and danger are Meg’s stock-in-trade, she’s never bargained on falling in love…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh My Queen. -curtsy-

Now, I don't dislike Historical Fiction, but usually it doesn't hold me as much as other genres,  but this has spies people, spies. I just had to read it. I had no clue what I let myself in for.

Let me introduce to you the Maid of (Freaking awesome) Secrets.

Meg Fellowes, orphan, a thief in the Golden Rose acting troupe who put on plays to entertain people before they take their money and any other valuable possessions on the unsuspecting victims. Meg's one of the best, but when she pick-pockets one of Queen Elizabeth Is' trusted men and gets caught she's taken and is brought forth to Windsor Castle and subjected to training to replace one of the Queens' Maid of Honour's. The five of them, the ever dangerous and every ounce of spy, Jane, the incredibly scholar Anna, the youngest, shy and unsure Sophia, whose fainting really should get an award, and the prim and proper (and sometimes over-indulgent bitch) Beatrice, and Meg.

Stacking the Shelves #5 & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

I haven't requested any this week, or heard any back but I did buy these two beauties!

 

 

                                             

                             

• Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke
• False Sight by Dan Krokos

What did you get this week?

 

 

A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond
• Teaser Tuesday from Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
• Waiting on Wednesday, Unbreakable by Kami Garcia
• Thursday I revealed the cover of Entice (Ignite #1.5) by Erica Crouch
• Booking Through Thursday: Tragedy or Comedy?
• Friday I reviewed When the World was Flat (and we were in love by Ingrid Jonach

This week I have read:

• Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
• In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

Review: When The World Was Flat (and we were in love)

When the World was Flat (And we were in love)
Author: Ingrid Jonach

Publication Date: September 3rd 2013
Source : Received a digital ARC via Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry and Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you!)

Looking back, I wonder if I had an inkling that my life was about to go from ordinary to extraordinary.

When sixteen-year-old Lillie Hart meets the gorgeous and mysterious Tom Windsor-Smith for the first time, it's like fireworks - for her, anyway. Tom looks as if he would be more interested in watching paint dry; as if he is bored by her and by her small Nebraskan town in general.
But as Lillie begins to break down the walls of his seemingly impenetrable exterior, she starts to suspect that he holds the answers to her reoccurring nightmares and to the impossible memories which keep bubbling to the surface of her mind - memories of the two of them, together and in love.
When she at last learns the truth about their connection, Lillie discovers that Tom has been hiding an earth-shattering secret; a secret that is bigger - and much more terrifying and beautiful - than the both of them. She also discovers that once you finally understand that the world is round, there is no way to make it flat again.

 Review
Before I even go into detail... and well, to be a inclusive tease...

WHY.DID.YOU.DO.THAT.TO.ME?

Secondly, look at the pretty cover!

Thirdly, I couldn't stop listening to Amy Hit the Atmosphere- Counting Crows and Begin Again- Measure, while reading.

Fourthly (?) Such an appropriate title.