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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Teaser Tuesday (3)

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

 

 

 

Title: The Woken Gods
Author: Gwenda Bond

Release date: September 3rd 2013

Publisher: (Strange Chemistry) Angry Robot
Page: 130

 

 

Five years ago, the gods of ancient mythology awoke around the world.

This morning, Kyra Locke is late for school.

Seventeen-year-old Kyra lives in a transformed Washington, D.C., home to the embassies of divine pantheons and the mysterious Society of the Sun. But when rebellious Kyra encounters two trickster gods on her way back from school, one offering a threat and the other a warning, it turns out her life isn’t what it seems. She escapes with the aid of Osborne “Oz” Spencer, an intriguing Society field operative, only to discover that her scholar father has disappeared with a dangerous relic. The Society needs it, and they don’t care that she knows nothing about her father’s secrets.

Now Kyra must depend on her wits and the suspect help of scary gods, her estranged oracle mother, and, of course, Oz–whose first allegiance is to the Society. She has no choice if she’s going to recover the missing relic and save her father. And if she doesn’t? Well, that may just mean the end of the world as she knows it.

 

Teaser

 

 

“Let’s do it,” Justin says. “I can revisit the text on the Apkallu you have.”

“Seven sages put something in your head?” Oz asks, and begins to walk. To me, he explains, “That’s another name for them.”

“I’ll never catch up to all the stuff you guys know.” Good thing I won’t have to.

 

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Review: Dark Spell

Dark Spell
Author: Gill Arbuthnott

Release date: August 1st 2013 (first published July 1st 2013) 
Source :  Received a digital copy via Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteen-year-year-old Callie Hall has just found out that she is a witch...and things keep going wrong. Sometimes her mind seems to make things happen, things she cannot control. She can set fire to things without a match, and when she's angry people can get hurt. Her friend Josh understands that she's a bit strange, but it is only on a dark and dangerous visit to the tunnels beneath the ruins of St Andrews' castle that he realises just how strange she really is. Something comes back with Callie--in Callie--something she cannot escape. Can Callie control her power long enough to send back the darkness before it takes over her life? Will Josh ever understand her secret?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review

 

This will be a short review, as I neither enjoyed or hated Dark Spell, it was just...there.

Fifteen year old Callie thinks her life is boring. She isn't popular, and she really doesn't have any friends, (well, not in her town) her only solace being Josh, whose from Edinburgh and keeps in contact via facebook. Me, being in Wales , knows this method very well as I have a really good friend in Canada.

Stacking The Shelves #3 & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Well, it's been a crappy week for me. I'm not liking my doctors at the moment, but does anyone?

I've also recently started reviewing with ReadGig

Right, not many this week. Silver lining? I can play catch up!

For Review

(Click on covers for goodreads!)
 

 

                          First book from Readgig!                  Edelweiss. Thanks Egmont!

                                                                        

Bought

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 Yes, I loved All Our Yesterdays so much I had to buy it. Hallelujah to the Book Depository for early releases. All have such pretty covers, too!

 

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

 

 

A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed Branded by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki
• Teaser Tuesday from All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
• Waiting on Wednesday, The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton
• Thursday Playlist for All Our Yesterdays
• Friday I reviewed All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

I really sense a All Our Yesterday theme this week!

 

This week I have read:

• All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
• The Poisoned House by Michael Ford
• Dark Spell by Gill Arbuthnott

Review: All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays
Author: Cristin Terrill

Release date: August 1st 2013 (UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens
Source :  Received a digital copy via Bloomsbury UK and Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you! No, really. Thank. You.)

  

 

Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet.

Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture - being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future.






-Spoilers ahead!-

Oh. I can't take it, you guys! You know when you've read something so good you wish you hadn't read it so you could re-read anew?

I've only had a few books out of my two decades of life, one of the main ones being Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne, and Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson.

I'm not going to go into the whole Doctor Who thing, because I live in Cardiff and I'd be shunned and my best friend would kill me.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, really, because finally, a book with such a beautiful cover, and, dude time travel, lived up to what I thought it would be.