Booking Through Thursday: Pointed

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

Which is better (or preferred) … stories with multiple character points of view? Or stories that stick to just one or two at most? And, why?

Before, I would have said I'm strictly a one point of view person, I don't even know why. I just used to hate reading more than one.

Now I really do enjoy two, I guess it depends on the story and whether it merits two point of views, since there's two sides to every story and all that.

I'm still sketchy with more than two, especially if they're both male/female, and are not fleshed out enough for you to dictate which the voice belongs to. Because then I have to keep checking and that distracts me and ruins the story.

What do you think?

Waiting On Wednesday (#13)

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

 

 

Minders by Michele Jaffe

Expected publication: January 30th 2014 by Razorbill

 

 

 

Q: If the boy you love commits a crime, would you turn him in?

Sadie Ames is a type-A teenager from the wealthy suburbs. She's been accepted to the prestigious Mind Corps Fellowship program, where she'll spend six weeks as an observer inside the head of Ford, a troubled boy with a passion for the crumbling architecture of the inner city. There's just one problem: Sadie's fallen in love with him.

Q: What if the crime is murder?

Ford Winters is haunted by the murder of his older brother, James. As Sadie falls deeper into his world, dazzled by the shimmering pinpricks of colour that form images in his mind, she begins to think she knows him. Then Ford does something unthinkable.

Q: What if you saw it happen from inside his mind?

Back in her own body, Sadie is faced with the ultimate dilemma. With Ford's life in her hands, she must decide what is right and what is wrong. And how well she can really ever know someone, even someone she loves.

How awesome does it sound? What're you waiting on this week? :)

 

 

 

Cover & Title Reveal: Variants #2

We don't have a synopsis yet but I am so excited to help reveal the cover and title of Variants #2. won't bore you with chatter, so first, I will reveal the title.

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Defector

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Defector by Susanne Winnacker
(Variants #2) 

Published by: Razorbill
Publication date: June 26, 2014
Genres: Thriller, Young Adult

Susanne Winnacker studied law before she became a full-time writer. She lives with her husband, a dog and three bunnies in Germany. She loves coffee (in every shape and form), traveling and animals.
When she isn't writing, you can usually find her in the kitchen, experimenting with new vegan dishes.
Her YA thriller IMPOSTOR will be published on May 28, 2013. It has been optioned for TV by Warner Brothers!

You can find Susanne Winnacker at;



Review: Confessions: The Private School Murders

Confessions: The Private School Murders
Author: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Publication Date: October 24th 2013

~A copy was provided by Arrow (Young) in exchange for an honest review.~



 Tandy Angel may have played the hero when she solved the case of her magnificently wealthy parents' mysterious deaths, but she isn't done yet. Her brother Matthew stands trial for homicide, young girls are found murdered all around New York's Upper West side, and Tandy is determined to use her piercing intellect to get to the bottom of both cases. But the biggest mystery of all may be what actually happened to James Rampling, the handsome son of a family enemy, whom Tandy fell in love and ran away with--though most of her memories of the affair are disturbingly absent...

The confessions keep coming as Tandy delves even deeper into her own tumultuous history and the skeletons in the Angel family closet.




Oh dear everything that's holy, my heart hurts. It freaking hurts.

Ugh, I don't know where to start.

The Private School Murders kicks off three months after Confessions of A Murder Suspect, Matthew's still in jail pending trial on a charge, the mystery of James Rampling is fracturing, and we get to know him and oh my fictional guy. This is the part where I could gush and fangirl, but you know what? James Rampling deserves more, so I'm saying I wish this guy was real. So damn real. Anyway, back to topic, where was I? Right...

Stacking the Shelves (#12) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

I have no voice. *croak* Lost it last night thanks to a lovely chest infection. But I don't care because this is the longest book haul I've gotten, and it includes a few I've picked for my Waiting on Wednesday's.

 

 

 

 

 (Thanks to HarperCollins, Edelweiss, Harlequin (UK) & Netgalley.)

Really, I requested most of them over a month ago, and I've just gotten auto-approved. So I got them. All. At. Once. So. Excited! I also now have a reading schedule.

I also bought one book this week, which I'll leave until next week, because I won't be reading it any time soon.

What did you get this week? :)

 

 

 

A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  In The After by Demitria Lunetta
• Teaser Tuesday from After Eden by Helen Douglas
• Waiting on Wednesday,  Premeditated by Josin L. McQuein   
• Thursday Cover Reveal of Booking Through Thursday: Best or Favourite
• Friday I reviewed Confessions of A Murder Suspect by James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro

 

This week I have read:

• After Eden by Helen Douglas
• Countdown by Michelle Rowen  
• Mind Games by Kiersten White

 

Review: Confessions of A Murder Suspect

Confessions of A Murder Suspect
Author: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Publication Date: September 27th 2012

~A copy was provided by Arrow (Young) in exchange for an honest review.~

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things:

1. She was one of the last people to see her parents alive.

2. She and her brothers are the only suspects.

3. She can't trust anyone - maybe not even herself.

Having grown up under their parents' intense perfectionist demands, none of the Angel children have come away undamaged.

Tandy decides that she will have to solve the crime on her own, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous game. As she uncovers haunting secrets and slowly begins to remember flashes of disturbing past events buried in her memory, Tandy is forced to ask: What is the Angel family truly capable of?

The Angel household is about to be changed, for the worse or better, you pick. Matthew (the oldest) Tandoori "Tandy", her twin Harry, and Hugo (The youngest) are woken up to police threatening to break down their door, and find out that their parents are dead. Not only have their parents been murdered, but there was no break-in, nothing unlocked or out of normal, no sign of a struggle, and they are the main suspects.

Even our Narrator, Tandy, thinks it could be one of them, even herself, thanks to her little black-out tendency and holes in her memory. She even thinks it could be her twin. With little evidence of outside foul play, all evidence points to them, and since she's the most methodical and emotionless one, all fingers point to her. But being all of those things also make her the sharpest and intelligent of them.