Review: Unbreakable

Unbreakable
Author: Kami Garcia

Publication Date: October 1st 2013        
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

I never believed in ghosts. Until one tried to kill me.
 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 really, really wanted to like Unbreakable.

1) It was in one of my Waiting on Wednesdays

and

2) It was pitched as Supernatural meets The Da Vinci Code.

What wasn't there to like?

A. Lot.

Stacking the Shelves (#17) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

How's everyone's week been?

Guess what time it is in my street? Christmas! Not even kidding, some people are already putting decorations up and everything. We still have Guy Fawkes night to get through first, bad street!


For Review

(Bracelet of Bones, Heartbeat, Witchstruck)
Thanks to Quercus, Harlequin Teen and Edelweiss.
(The Almost Girl)
Thanks to Strange Chemistry and Netgalley.

Bought

The Moth in the Mirror by A.G. Howard

 What did you get this week? Hope everyone had a fun Halloween! :)

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Mind Games by Kiersten White
• Teaser Tuesday from The Murmurings by Carly Anne West
• Waiting on Wednesday: Killer Instinct by Shannon Greenland
• Friday I reviewed Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone
  Feature & Follow (#5)

 

This week I have read:

• All That Glows by Ryan Graudin 
• The Murmurings by Carly Anne West
• The Moth in the Mirror by A.G. Howard

Review: Time After Time

Time After Time
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone

Publication Date: October 24th 2013 by Corgi Childrens      

~A copy was provided by Random House Children’s UK, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.~



Calling Anna and Bennett’s romance long distance is an understatement: she’s from 1995 Chicago and he’s a time traveller from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds.

It’s not a perfect arrangement, though, with Bennett unable to stay in the past for more than brief visits, skipping out on big chunks of his present in order to be with Anna in hers. They each are confident that they’ll find a way to make things work...until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen (and certainly never expected to). Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future he doesn't want?


 After reading  Time Between Us last year, I was kind of left with a bittersweet ending, though it somewhat, ended with a happy one. So I'm glad that Time  Between us wasn't the end, and was so excited to hear that the sequel was in Bennett's perspective. I think that was the best thing that could have happened, since it was Anna's perspective in Time Between Us and the experiences and her side of the relationship was already done,  and was there, so Time After Time would kind of be a repeat over.

Feature & Follow (#5)

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

 

This weeks Question:

"What book are you embarrassed to admit you LOVED? (try to think beyond Twilight)."

Hmm, I wouldn't say I was embarrassed by these, but more of my friends thought I was weird because I was reading them when I was 14/15, and they were Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan series (and yes, I love Bones.) Another one, which is a play, which I had to study for coursework and for my English Lit. GCSE, which was Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, I loved it, but some took the piss out of it, (didn't help that we were listening to the songs and had to act out some parts.)

 



How about you? :)

 

 

Waiting on Wednesday (#17)

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

 

 

Killer Instinct by Shannon Greenland

Expected publication: May 6th 2014 by Simon Pulse

 

 

 

She’s not evil, but she has certain... urges.

Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. Afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.

Why?

Because she might be one herself.

Lane channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals—delivering justice when the law fails. The vigilantism stops shy of murder. But with each visceral rush the line of self-control blurs.
And then a young preschool teacher goes missing. Only to return... in parts.
When Lane excitedly gets involved in the hunt for “the Decapitator,” the vicious serial murderer that has come to her hometown, she gets dangerously caught up in a web of lies about her birth dad and her own dark past. And once the Decapitator contacts Lane directly, Lane knows she is no longer invisible or safe. Now she needs to use her unique talents to find the true killer’s identity before she—or someone she loves—becomes the next victim...

 

 

 

Mine. Now. Please? :)

 

What're you waiting on this week?

 

 

Teaser Tuesday (15)

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

Title: The Murmurings

Author: Carly Anne West

Release date: March 5th 2013        

Publisher: Simon Pulse
Place:  59% in Kindle.





Everyone thinks Sophie’s sister, Nell, went crazy. After all, she heard strange voices that drove her to commit suicide. But Sophie doesn’t believe that Nell would take her own life, and she’s convinced that Nell’s doctor knows more than he’s letting on.

As Sophie starts to piece together Nell’s last days, every lead ends in a web of lies. And the deeper Sophie digs, the more danger she’s in—because now she’s hearing the same haunting whispers. Sophie’s starting to think she’s going crazy too. Or worse, that maybe she’s not...

 

 

I'm trying to look at that cover as least as possible. Creeeeepy.

What're you reading today? :)