Review: Just Like Fate

Just Like Fate
Author: Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young

Publication Date: August 27th 2013        

Publisher: Simon Pulse


Caroline is at a crossroads. Her grandmother is sick, maybe dying. Like the rest of her family, Caroline's been at Gram's bedside since her stroke. With the pressure building, all Caroline wants to do is escape--both her family and the reality of Gram's failing health. So when Caroline's best friend offers to take her to a party one fateful Friday night, she must choose: stay by Gram's side, or go to the party and live her life.

The consequence of this one decision will split Caroline's fate into two separate paths--and she's about to live them both.

Friendships are tested and family drama hits an all-new high as Caroline attempts to rebuild old relationships, and even make a few new ones. If she stays, her long-time crush, Joel, might finally notice her, but if she goes, Chris, the charming college boy, might prove to be everything she's ever wanted.

Though there are two distinct ways for her fate to unfold, there is only one happy ending...


Now I can say I've read all of Cat Patricks, up to this point, and I can honestly say that Just Like Fate is one of her strongest. I can't compare Suzanne Youngs' since I haven't read any of hers yet, but I think that's why this one was so strong.

Usually, when having two different writers, I expect it to feel different when it's the same perspective, and maybe fall apart in some places, but it didn't. Caroline's voice was eerily similar, though different experiences happen, the essence is there, and that was a really good surprise.

Stacking the Shelves (#15) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

How's everybody's week been? My reading week has been pretty good.
Book wise, just one for review and bought some this week (and I was doing so good with the no buying until you read what you got.) but I caved because I need to know what I'm missing out on one of the series'.

 

For Review

 

 

• Teardrop by Lauren Kate (Thanks to Random House Children’s UK & Netgalley.)

                                                                            

 

 Bought







 

 

• Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
• Dare You To by Katie McGarry
• Two Lies and a Spy by Kat Carlton (Anybody else think the first guy looks like Paul Wesley?) 

 

What did you get this week?

 

 



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Countdown by Michelle Rowen
• Teaser Tuesday from Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
• Waiting on Wednesday: The Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman
• Friday I reviewed Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender
  Feature & Follow (#4) Magazine Edition

 

This week I have read:

• Uninvited by Sophie Jordan
• Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
• Cracked by Eliza Crewe

 

Review: Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer
Author: Katie Alender

Publication Date: September 24th 2013

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Colette Iselin is excited to go to Paris on a class trip. She’ll get to soak up the beauty and culture, and maybe even learn something about her family’s French roots.

But a series of gruesome murders are taking place across the city, putting everyone on edge. And as she tours museums and palaces, Colette keeps seeing a strange vision: a pale woman in a ball gown and powdered wig, who looks suspiciously like Marie Antoinette.

Colette knows her popular, status-obsessed friends won’t believe her, so she seeks out the help of a charming French boy. Together, they uncover a shocking secret involving a dark, hidden history. When Colette realizes she herself may hold the key to the mystery, her own life is suddenly in danger . . .

With her French class on their way to France, Colette Iselin knows somehow that this trip will change her. After going from being secure to a small cramped apartment and shopping for clothes in thrift stores, she just wants to go away and forget about all of that, with her friends by her side. What she didn't bargain was getting tangled within a gruesome string of murders of prestigious kids with rich blood, with more than their decapitated heads in common.

And Colette being next on the list.

Right, now I wouldn't call this paranormal. I mean, it is. But apart from the quick flashes of ghosts, and gruesome murders by said ghost...

Feature & Follow (#4)

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly bloghop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

 

This weeks Question:

"What are some of your favorite magazines?"

Since magazines aren't exactly cheap for it's worth anymore (especially the gossip ones, which you can find online anyway.) I don't really buy any. But I used to when I was in school, walking home afterschool, our shop block was five minutes away, so I'd used to go into the paper shop on a Friday and buy one.

Weird mix right? And yes, I used to hang out in the Mosher corner. I do miss my black hair.

Waiting on Wednesday (#15)

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

 

 

The Glass Casket  by McCormick Templeman

Expected publication: February 11th 2014 by Delacorte Press

Death hasn’t visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders’ bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that whatever it was must have been brutal.

Rowan’s village was once a tranquil place, but now things have changed. Something has followed the path those riders made and has come down from the hills, through the forest, and into the village. Beast or man, it has brought death to Rowan’s door once again.

Only this time, its appetite is insatiable.




Creepy, with an extra dose of creepy cover.

What are you waiting on this week? :)

 

Teaser Tuesday (13)

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

I had this awesome teaser, but it's a bit of a spoiler, boo. :( But, gorgeous cover alert!

 

Title: Cruel Beauty

Author: Rosamund Hodge

Release date: January 28th 2014        

Publisher: Balzer + Bray       

Place:  11% in Kindle.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.

With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.

As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.