Waiting on Wednesday (#41) #LGBTApril

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

Dark Metropolis by Jaclyn Dolamore

Expected publication: June 17th 2014 by Disney-Hyperion

 

 

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Cabaret meets Cassandra Clare-a haunting magical thriller set in a riveting 1930s-esque world.

Sixteen-year-old Thea Holder's mother is cursed with a spell that's driving her mad, and whenever they touch, Thea is chilled by the magic, too. With no one else to contribute, Thea must make a living for both of them in a sinister city, where danger lurks and greed rules.

Thea spends her nights waitressing at the decadent Telephone Club attending to the glitzy clientele. But when her best friend, Nan, vanishes, Thea is compelled to find her. She meets Freddy, a young, magnetic patron at the club, and he agrees to help her uncover the city's secrets-even while he hides secrets of his own.

Together, they find a whole new side of the city. Unrest is brewing behind closed doors as whispers of a gruesome magic spread. And if they're not careful, the heartless masterminds behind the growing disappearances will be after them, too.

Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, this is a chilling thriller with a touch of magic where the dead don't always seem to stay that way.
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☑ Magic?
  ☑ Thriller?

☑ 1930's?

    ☑ Me want?



 

What're you waiting on?

 

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Review: The Taking

The Taking
Author:  Kimberly Derting

Publication Date: April 29th 2014        
~A copy was provided by HarperTeen  and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review~

 

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A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing.

When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day.

Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men.

Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own.

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You know what's really annoying with this? I read it back in March and I still don't know if I actually liked it or not. But, I do know that I just...didn't feel it. Which is weird, right? Since it's (spoiler (about alien abductions)) ) you'd think I'd be all over that. I was, when it was to do with that part, but it wasn't a lot of it. And that's the problem, for a huge chunk of it, it could've been an contemporary mystery or thriller and you wouldn't have known the difference. There was no balanced pace either, the beginning started off fast and dropped you right into it, and while I do like when you're dropped into the middle of things, there was no time to get attached to it, which led to a whiny ass character.Like I said, where dropped into it, but while you were told a little about Kyra, her boyfriend who she's soooo in love with, her best friend and suddenly with a flash of light were five years later and everything has changed.

Review: Sleep No More

Sleep No More
Author:  Aprilynne Pike

Publication Date: April 29th 2014        
~A copy was provided by HarperTeen  and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review~

 

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The blockbuster film Inception meets Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy in this dark paranormal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike. This novel is also perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Alyson Noel, and Kimberly Derting.


Charlotte Westing has a gift. She is an Oracle and has the ability to tell the future. But it doesn't do her much good. Instead of using their miraculous power, modern-day Oracles are told to fight their visions—to refrain from interfering. And Charlotte knows the price of breaking the rules. She sees it every day in her wheelchair-bound mother and the absence of her father. But when a premonition of a classmate's death is too strong for her to ignore, Charlotte is forced to make an impossible decision: continue following the rules or risk everything—even her sanity—to stop the serial killer who is stalking her town.

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My head did not sign up for this. I probably won't even rate it until I finish this review, whereas I normally know around the 3/4 what rating it's going to be.

I'm not sure where to start, hell, I'm not sure if this is a positive or negative review right now, but I'll start with something simple. Sleep No More. Quite accurate. I'd never want to sleep again either. Now, this lovely comes from Goodreads, " Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy meets the blockbuster Inception" In a way, okay. But in five words? Hell to the fucking no. It's so misleading, because this is powerful and more personal than anything and that makes it sound like it's this epic rollercoaster ride.

Stacking the Shelves (#40) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

This week has been pretty uneventful and a short haul- hopefully I'll be able to make a dent in the TBR this week. :) But ugh, for the first time ever The Book Depository has been a bitch to me. My The Forever Song pre-order has only just been sent and I was hoping to read it this weekend but obviously that's not going to happen and IKEFIASDF. Unfair.

Happy Easter!


For Review
Edelweiss:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bought

(Yes, I know, finally.) 

 

 

 

   Compulsion and Fangirl
(Simon Pulse and Edelweiss)

 

  What did you get this week? :)

   



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  The Eighth Day by Dianne K. Salerni
• Tuesday I reviewed: House of Ivy & Sorrow by  Natalie Whipple 
• Waiting on Wednesday: I'll Give You the Sun by  Jandy Nelson
• Thursday I reviewed The Fearless by Emma Pass

Review: The Fearless

The Fearless
Author:  Emma Pass

Publication Date: April 24th 2014
~A copy was provided by RHCP and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review~

 

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The Fearless. An army, powered by an incredible new serum that makes each soldier stronger, sharper, faster than their enemies. Intended as a force for good, the serum has a terrible side-effect - anyone who takes it is stripped of all humanity, empathy, love. And as the Fearless sweep through the country, forcing the serum on anyone in their path, society becomes a living nightmare.

Cass remembers the night they passed through her village. Her father was Altered. Her mother died soon after. All Cass has left is her little brother - and when Jori is snatched by the Fearless and taken to their hellish lair, Cass must risk everything to get him back.

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So this isn't a DNF review (I kind of wish it was), but it's going to be more of a rant because I just hate myself for just not DNF'ing it. I'd already done it with like three for April, so I just felt so bad if I had, but really, it would've been worth it because the first thing I have to say about The Fearless is that it's so boring.

Waiting on Wednesday (#40) #LGBTApril

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

I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Expected publication: September 16th 2014 by Dial Books for Young Readers

 

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A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her brother, Noah, are incredibly close twins. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude surfs and cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and divisive ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as an unpredictable new mentor. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant, fully alive, sometimes very funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

 

 WHY CAN'T IT BE OUT NOW? :(

 

What're you waiting on?

 

LGBT Month is hosted by Cayce at Fighting Dreamer and Laura at Laura Plus Books. It runs throughout April and it’s here to celebrate LGBT readers, LGBT authors and of course LGBT books!