Teaser Tuesday (20)

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

 

 

 

Title: White Space

Author: Ilsa J. Bick

Release date: February 11th 2014              

Publisher:  Egmont USA   

Place: 10%

 

 

 

 Ilsa Bick’s WHITE SPACE, pitched as The Matrix meets Inkheart, about a seventeen-year-old girl who jumps between the lines of books and into the white space where realities are created and destroyed – but who may herself be nothing more than a character written into being from an alternative universe.

 

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"The doctors said her migraines were to blame for these pesky litte episodes. Her symptoms even had a name: the Alice in Wonderland syndrome."

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I've been reading this for five days. Five freaking days because it hurts your brain if you read more than an hour of it at a time. Also, I have 36 highlights and this is the only one I could use. So who else thought this is going to be awesome when they heard The Matrix meets Inkheart? I don't know whether to cry or go back to sleep. You know everybody who watched Lost from the beginning and towards the end thought we're finally going to get it and then it ended like that and you wanted 6 years of your life back? I want my 6 hours back, please. And then I realised it's only book one.

 

 

What're you reading?

 

Review: The Rules

The Rules
Author: Stacey Kade

Publication Date: April 23rd 2013        
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
 

1. Never trust anyone.

2. Remember they are always searching.

3. Don’t get involved.

4. Keep your head down.

5. Don’t fall in love.

Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane’s survival—and that of her adoptive father—depends on her ability to blend in among the full-blooded humans in a small Wisconsin town, to hide in plain sight at her high school from those who seek to recover their lost (and expensive) “project.”

But when a cruel prank at school goes awry, it puts her in the path of Zane Bradshaw, the police chief’s son and someone who sees too much. Someone who really sees her. After years of trying to be invisible, Ariane finds the attention frightening—and utterly intoxicating. Suddenly, nothing is simple anymore, especially not the rules.

Dear Hannah Montana, where did this book go?

Disappointment, disappointment, disappointment.

It was so promising, it really was..

Stacking the Shelves (#21) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

This week was so much better than last week, I'm no longer freaking out about buying Christmas presents, my Secret Santa was sent, I also received mine yesterday! I'm dying to open it, but I won't...yet. See how long that lasts. I've gotten a ton of things sorted, which has put a positive spin on everything, so things have been good! Happy 1st December! Now I have to put up decorations, damn.

 

 For review:

 

 

Vengeance, Staying Strong (365 days a year)

(Thanks to Bloomsbury Childrens, Netgalley & Headline)

 

 

Bought

Secret Santa

 

Since I haven't opened it, whoever mine was, thank you! You totally brightened my day.:)
 

 

 

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

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Revel by Maurissa Guibord 
• Teaser Tuesday from Fake ID by Lamar Giles
• Waiting on Wednesday: Landry Park by Bethany Hagen
• Booking Through Thursday: Holiday Season
• Friday I reviewed The Almost Girl by Amalie Howard
  Feature & Follow (#7)  

This week I have read:

• The Almost Girl by Amalie Howard 
• This Wicked Game by Michelle Zink
• Fake ID by Lamar Giles

Review: The Almost Girl

The Almost Girl
Author: Amalie Howard  

Publication Date: January 7th 2014 by  

~A copy was provided by Strange Chemistry, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.~    

 

 

Seventeen-year-old Riven is as tough as they come. Coming from a world ravaged by a devastating android war, she has to be. There’s no room for softness, no room for emotion, no room for mistakes. A Legion General, she is the right hand of the young Prince of Neospes, a parallel universe to Earth. In Neospes, she has everything: rank, responsibility and respect. But when Prince Cale sends her away to find his long-lost brother, Caden, who has been spirited back to modern day Earth, Riven finds herself in uncharted territory.

Thrown out of her comfort zone but with the mindset of a soldier, Riven has to learn how to be a girl in a realm that is the opposite of what she knows. Riven isn’t prepared for the beauty of a world that is unlike her own in so many ways. Nor is she prepared to feel something more than indifference for the very target she seeks. Caden is nothing like Cale, but he makes something in her come alive, igniting a spark deep down that goes against every cell in her body. For the first time in her life, Riven isn’t sure about her purpose, about her calling. Torn between duty and desire, she must decide whether Caden is simply a target or whether he is something more.

Faced with hideous reanimated Vector soldiers from her own world with agendas of their own, as well as an unexpected reunion with a sister who despises her, it is a race against time to bring Caden back to Neospes. But things aren’t always as they seem, and Riven will have to search for truth. Family betrayals and royal coups are only the tip of the iceberg. Will Riven be able to find the strength to defy her very nature? Or will she become the monstrous soldier she was designed to be? 

 

 

Firstly, look at the pretty cover! Pretty and appropriate to the book. *clap*

What drew me to the book was the infinite possibilities of parallel universes, seriously, I love it. And with infinite possibilities brings so many different versions that is completely fascinating and for most of it The Almost Girl didn't fail. It was completely badass.

Feature & Follow (#7)

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

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This weeks Question:

What’s your favorite Thanksgiving Day food? If you’re not American or Canadian, what is your favorite holiday food?

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I don't eat red meat all year, so I mainly only do around this time because I can't not have pigs in blankets.

What about you?

Booking Through Thursday: Holiday Season

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


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Do you have a reading equivalent of holiday music to get you in the mood for the holiday season? Any books you make a point of reading this time of year?

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Ahh, I can't say that I do. I tend to read less heavy books and more happy go lucky ones, but none that focuses on Christmas or anything like that. I'm not a really festive person (don't look at me like that) until a few days before Christmas. Probably because it eclipses my birthday. I've never forgiven myself for being born on the 23rd. ;)

What about you?