Stacking the Shelves (#28) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.



How was everyone's week? Mines been a little slow, none for review this week, but I finally bought a book (for the kindle) that seems to be rather popular, so yay.

 

 

 The Book of Blood and Shadow and  Pivot Point

That's it.  What did you get this week? :)

   



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville  
• Teaser Tuesday from Panic by Lauren Oliver  
• Waiting on Wednesday: Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano
• Booking Through Thursday: Hated
• Friday I reviewed The Drowned Forest by Kristopher Reisz 

 

Review: The Drowned Forest

The Drowned Forest
Author:  Kristopher Reisz 

Publication Date:  February 8th 2014                 

~A copy was provided by Flux via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Losing Holly is the hardest thing Jane has ever had to endure ... until Holly comes back.

Best friends Jane and Holly have jumped off the bluff over their Alabama reservoir hundreds of times. But one day, Holly’s jump goes wrong. Her body never comes up, yet something else does—a sad creature of mud, full of confusion and sorrow. It’s Holly, somehow, trapped and mixed up with the river. And if Jane can’t do something to help, Holly will take everybody down with her—even the people they love the most.

Blending Looking for Alaska’s theme of lost friendship with Stephen King’s sense of small-town horror, The Drowned Forest is a Southern gothic tale of grief, redemption, and the mournful yearning of an anguished soul. .

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Right, I am just going to say it and get it out of the way.

I'm not religious.

When requesting The Drowned Forest, from the blurb I had no idea that it was even  A) Religious  and B) Focused on religion.

Booking Through Thursday: Hated

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


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If there was one book you could make sure nobody ever read again … what would it be? And why?

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For once, this isn't a hard question for me. I know the exact book. But, everybody's tastes are different, so if I do say  a book, it doesn't necessarily mean it's not good, it's just like I didn't find it good.  Keeping that in mind, this ones the opposite, and judging by the ratings and reviews, I'm not the only person who thinks so. Although, I did love Heartbeat by her, my pick has to be As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott and if you've read it, you'll know exactly why. Because, ugh, really?

Waiting on Wednesday (#28)

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

Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

Expected publication: March 25th 2014 by Kathy Dawson Books

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Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary, brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end.

Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like her mother's job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with the personal ads, and especially the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's skin. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher, she confides in the one person she shouldn't trust: the new guy at school—a reformed bad boy working undercover for the police, doing surveillance. . . on her.

Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it all out soon—she'll be next.

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Nearly? Mouth. Shut. Otherwise, Bones meets Fringe? Mine.

What're you waiting on? :)

Teaser Tuesday (25)

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

 

 

 

Title: Panic

Author: Lauren Oliver     

Release date:  4th March, 2014  

Publisher:  HarperCollins
Page: 14

 

Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.
Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She’d never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.

Dodge has never been afraid of Panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game, he’s sure of it. But what he doesn't know is that he’s not the only one with a secret. Everyone has something to play for.

For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them—and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most

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"So: back to the day after graduation, the opening day of Panic, the day of the Jump. Rewind back to the beach, but pause a few hours before Heather stood on the ridge, suddenly petrified, afraid to jump."

"Turn the camera slightly. We're not quite there. Almost, though."

 

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Ugh, I'm halfway through this now, and I'm not really liking it, but since I have gotten that far, might as well finish it.

ARC Review: Gretel and the Dark

Gretel and the Dark
Author:  Eliza Granville

Publication Date:  February 6th 2014   

~An Advance Readers Copy was provided in exchange for an honest review~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope. Vienna, 1899.

Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance.

Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Krysta's Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the 'animal people', so little Krysta plays alone, lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel, the Pied Piper, and more. And when everything changes and the real world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale, Krysta finds that her imagination holds powers beyond what she could have ever guessed . . .

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Say hello to my little friend...

Joking.

I'm not friends with this book. So...