Stacking the Shelves (#10) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.


I've had the best reading week, it's been a while, and received three good ones, too! Two for review and one I've bought.

For Review

Thanks to Random Houses' Young Arrow for these awesome two! I actually featured (Confessions #2) on this weeks Waiting on Wednesday, so I'm super psyched! (Please ignore my DVD player's wire.)

Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro 

Confessions: The Private School Murders (Confessions #2)

Bought

The Dream Thieves by  Maggie Stiefvater

So, that's it! What did you get? :)

 

A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter
• Teaser Tuesday from Antigoddess by Kendare Blake
• Waiting on Wednesday,  Confessions: The Private School Murders by James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro
• Booking Through Thursday: Imagery
• Friday I reviewed Skulk by Rosie Best

 

This week I have read:

• Antigoddess by Kendare Blake
• The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro  

 

 

Review: Skulk

Skulk
Author: Rosie Best

Publication Date: October 1st 2013        

Source: An advanced copy was provided by  Strange Chemistry in exchange  for an honest review.

To some, Meg Banks’ life might look perfect – she lives in a huge house in West London, goes to a prestigious school, and has famous parents. Only Meg knows the truth: her tyrannical mother rules the house and her shallow friends can talk about nothing but boys and drinking. Meg’s only escape is her secret life as a graffiti artist.

While out tagging one night, Meg witnesses the dying moments of a fox… a fox that shapeshifts into a man. As he dies, he gives Meg a beautiful and mysterious gemstone. It isn’t long before Meg realises that she’s also inherited his power to shift and finds an incredible new freedom in fox form.

She is plunged into the shadowy underworld of London, the territory of the five warring groups of shapeshifters – the Skulk, the Rabble, the Conspiracy, the Horde, and the Cluster. Someone is after her gemstone, however, someone who can twist nature to his will. Meg must discover the secret of the stone and unite the shapeshifters before her dream of freedom turns into a nightmare.

The night Meg snuck out of her bedroom to leave her mark behind her schools wall as graffiti artist Thatch, she gets a little more than she bargained for in the form of a dying fox...that transforms into a human right in front of her eyes and hands her a stone. On a night out with friends, on the verge of getting attacked Meg...shifts into a fox, and within doing so gets sucked into an underworld of rivalry and the power of The Skulk- the foxes, like her, and other shape shifters. The Rabble- The Butterflies The Horde- The rats, the Cluster- The Spiders and the Conspiracy- The Ravens.

Booking Through Thursday: Imagery.

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

 

This ones interesting for me! So, when reading I really don't visualise much, I see the basics.  I concentrate more on the plot and the characters, their personalities, and stuff like that. But, when thinking back at things when writing a review, I can see the scene play in my head, the place, how the people look. I think I can then because I can process it all without worrying about following along, while reading I don't like processing every little bit because I get distracted.

 

How about you? 

 

Waiting on Wednesday (#10)

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

 

 

Confessions: The Private School Murders (Confessions #2) by  James Patterson &  Maxine Paetro

  

Expected publication:  24 Oct 2013 by Random Houses' Young Arrow

 

 

Wealthy young women are being murdered, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right places. Enter Tandy Angel. Her first case was the mystery of her parents' deaths. Now she's working to exonerate her brother of his girlfriend's homicide. And danger just got closer.

One of the recent victims was a student at Tandy's own elite school. She has a hunch it may be the work of a serial killer... and Tandy perfectly fits the profile of the killer's targets. Can she untangle the mysteries in time? Or will she be the next victim?







I can't wait for this one, and I love that cover.

What are you waiting on? :)

 

Teaser Tuesday (9)

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

 

 

Title: Antigoddess

Author: Kendare Blake

Release date: September 10th 2013        

Publisher: Tor Teen

Page: 301


Old Gods never die…
Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.

Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god.

These days, Cassandra doesn’t involve herself in the business of gods—in fact, she doesn’t even know they exist. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning.

Because Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don’t just flicker out.

Every one of them dies in their own way. Some choke on feathers. Others become monsters. All of them rage against their last breath.

I'm cheating a little, since I just finished this, but I had to use it.

 

 

Review: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
Author:  Ally Carter

Publication Date: April 25th 2006        

Publisher: Orchard Books


Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school-that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist"-but can she manoeuvre a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?

Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission-falling in love

On the outside the prestigious all girls boarding school, The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is for the rich, the snobby and the genius.

They prefer it that way.

On the inside, it is for genius's, the only thing that is true. A training ground for young girls with the potential of being spies, the up-and-becoming from a line of iconic women through the ages.

Beginning their sophomore year marks the beginning of life changing decisions, of being more than just a Gallagher girl, their CoveOps starts, and with their first field mission changes everything for Cammie.