Stacking the Shelves #4 & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

 

For Review

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                                              Netgalley

                               Edelweiss. Thanks Egmont!          Random House Children's

 

 

Thanks, Strange Chemistry!

 

 

I haven't bought any this week. I'm actually proud of myself, mainly because I've been ill and have this following me everywhere.

 

Yeah.

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

 

 

A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed Dark Spell by Gill Arbuthnott
• Teaser Tuesday from The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond
• Waiting on Wednesday, Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan 
• Booking Through Thursday: It's Personal
• Friday I reviewed The Poisoned House by Michael Ford
• Feature & Follow #1

This week I have read:

• The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond
• Maid of Secrets by Jennifer McGowan  

Review: The Poisoned House

The Poisoned House
Author: Michael Ford

Publication Date: 2010        
Source : Received print copy via Bloomsbury Publishing & Readgig (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Life can be cruel for a servant girl in 1850s London. Fifteen-year-old Abi is a scullery maid in Greave Hall, an elegant but troubled household. The widowed master of the house is slowly slipping into madness, and the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs. Cotton, punishes Abi without mercy. But there's something else going on in Greave Hall, too. An otherworldly presence is making itself known, and a deadly secret will reveal itself--a secret that will shatter everything Abi knows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review

The year is 1856 and Abigail Tamper has had enough. Mrs Cotton, the housekeeper, though the house doesn't belong to her, but her sister- who died years before, and her husband, Lord Greaves Mrs Cotton likes to think it's her right to push the staff how she likes, and takes a particular shine to Abi, unfortunate for her. She picks on Abigail like no other, she doesn't give the poor girl a break, and God forbid anything goes wrong because Abi get's the end of it.

Feature & Follow (#1)

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly bloghop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. I participated last week and discovered a lot of great blogs, so I'm really looking forward to doing the same this week!

 

This weeks Question:

 How do you handle a book you don’t like? Do you DNF or do you power  

through?

For me, it depends on the type of book it is, if it's one I've been looking forward to and start reading and not sure of, I'll read until at least 50% and then DNF. If it's one I'm not too sure about and don't like, I give up within 20 pages.


Happy Friday!

Booking Through Thursday: It's Personal

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

Question for the week:

Do you have a preference between “person” in the books you read? Do you prefer third-person to first-person? Or don’t you care? And … why??

I'm indecisive about this one. Always have been, if you would've asked me years ago, I would have said I preferred first person, and generally I used to steer away from third person. Now, I kind of prefer third person, since you do get more of a perspective on everything than you would with first person. I guess you get to understand a character better that way, at least, I do. Saying that, I do connect more with characters in first person since they have more of a "voice"...see? Indecisive.

Unlike before, I read both.

Now, switching from first and third and multiple perspectives in one book, is a whole different issue.

Waiting On Wednesday (#4)

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

 

What a day! Anyway, this weeks WoW is...

 

Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan Expected publication: August 29th 2013 by Simon & Schuster UK

 

                                                              

Free from bonds, but not each other

It’s time to choose sides… On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy English town. But Kami Glass knows the truth. Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. In the old days, the Lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission in order to kill for blood and power. Now the Lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so that the town can return to the old ways.

But Rob and his followers aren’t the only sorcerers in town. A decision must be made: pay the blood sacrifice, or fight. For Kami, this means more than just choosing between good and evil. With her link to Jared Lynburn severed, she’s now free to love anyone she chooses. But who should that be?

 

I loved Unspoken, can't wait for this one. For real.

 

What's on yours this week?

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