Teaser Tuesday (12)

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

 

 

Title: Unbreakable

Author: Kami Garcia

Release date: October 1st 2013 

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers       

Place: 54% in Kindle.

When Kennedy Waters finds her mother dead, her world begins to unravel. She doesn’t know that paranormal forces in a much darker world are the ones pulling the strings. Not until identical twins Jared and Lukas Lockhart break into Kennedy’s room and destroy a dangerous spirit sent to kill her. The brothers reveal that her mother was part of an ancient secret society responsible for protecting the world from a vengeful demon — a society whose five members were all murdered on the same night.

Now Kennedy has to take her mother’s place in the Legion if she wants to uncover the truth and stay alive. Along with new Legion members Priest and Alara, the teens race to find the only weapon that might be able to destroy the demon — battling the deadly spirits he controls every step of the way.




I've just finished this Unbreakable, but I'm using it anyway.

 

Link me! :)

 

Review: After Eden

After Eden
Author: Helen Douglas

Publication Date: November 7th, 2013

~A copy was provided by Bloomsbury Childrens UK, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.~

Eden Anfield loves puzzles, so when mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school she's hooked. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So why doesn't he recognise pizza? And how come he hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden the most, however, is the interest he's taking in her.

As Eden starts to fall in love with Ryan, she begins to unravel his secret. Her breakthrough comes one rainy afternoon when she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written over fifty years in the future. Confronting Ryan, she discovers that he is there with one unbelievably important purpose ... and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success
 

When Ryan Westland comes into Eden Anfields' life, she finds him strange. He doesn't recognise popular food, or important icons of history or anything a modern twenty-first century American guy should already know.

Unless he lives in a cult.

Or a religious sector that limits his information.

Though he drives.

Both she considers, and are viable, as his sisters just as weird as him, until she returns his jacket one afternoon and accidentally takes one of his books home with hers and finds one that catches her eye with an author whose name she knows.

Her best friends.

After Eden's set in Cornwall, which I've never actually been (shocker), it's a pretty popular holiday destination here, so I went in with no expectations.

I was still disappointed.

Stacking the Shelves (#13) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Last week, I didn't mention since I didn't want to make my post too long, but there was a redraw and I won Strange Chemistry's Friday the 13th giveaway! They arrived Monday...

(Thanks Strange Chemistry!)

 

• Skulk by Rosie Best 
• The Holders by Julianna Scott
• Emilie & the Hollow World by Martha Wells
• Shift by Kim Curran
• Zenn Scarlett by Christian Schoon
• Blackwood by Gwenda Bond
• When the World was Flat (and we were in love) by Ingrid Jonach
• Pantomime by  Laura Lam
• Playing Tyler by T.L. Costa
• Katya's World by  Jonathan L. Howard
• The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond
• The Assasin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clark 

 

 

I also picked up a few more Harper titles on Edelweiss, because I have no self-control.

 

• All That Glows by Ryan Graudin
• No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale

 And finally...

 

 

        I bought;

• The Wicked Within (Gods & Monsters #3) by Kelly Keaton
• Unbreakable by Kami Garcia

 

        Hachette also sent me a paperback copy of Antigoddess. (Guess who'll be doing a giveaway this week?) :)

• Antigoddess by Kendare Blake

 

 

What did you get this week? Link me! :)



 

       A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Confessions: The Private School Murders by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
• Tuesday I helped reveal the cover and title of Defector (Variants #2) by Susanne Winnacker
• Waiting on Wednesday: Minders by Michele Jaffe
• Booking Through Thursday: Pointed
• Friday I reviewed The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Feature & Follow Friday (#3)

 

This week I have read:

• Pawn by Aimee Carter
• The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine
• No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale 

Feautre & Follow (#3)

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly bloghop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

 

This weeks Question:

 "What book (or TV show or movie) have you not read that seemingly everyone else has?"

So hard to just pick one, so I've gone modern/classic.

                             

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

What about you? :)

Review: The Naturals

The Naturals
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Publication Date: November 7th

~An advanced readers copy was provided by Quercus in exchange for an honest review.~


 Cassie Hobbes is not like most teenagers. Most teenagers don’t lose their mother in a bloody, unsolved kidnapping. Most teenagers can’t tell who you are, where you’re from and how you’re likely to behave within moments of meeting you. And most teenagers don’t get chosen to join The Naturals.

Identified by the FBI as uniquely gifted, Cassie is recruited to an elite school where a small number of teens are trained to hone their exceptional abilities.

For Cassie, trying to make friends with the girls, and to figure out the two very different, very hot boys, is challenging enough. But when a serial killer begins recreating the details of her mother’s horrific crime scene, she realises just how dangerous life in The Naturals could be...




Cassie's mother was murdered when she was twelve, five years ago. Presumed dead, no body recovered. Now, Cassie's been dragged into the world of the FBI's super secret program of The Naturals. It was an easy choice for her, since it's a brand new start. It's been five years, and though living with her father's Mother- and the Italian family that comes with it, who are nice and kind albeit nosey, Cassie's never felt like she fit in. She's not like them, and no matter how much they treat her like family, she doesn't feel it. She knows things, she can do things that other people can't. That people train years to do. She's a Natural profiler. Cassie can look at a person and tell you everything about them, the type of person they are: messy/neat. Their personality. But, she's relied on what she can do to hide herself and now she's in a house with four other people who are like her.

She has nowhere to hide.

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?