Review: After the End

After the End
Author:  Amy Plum

Publication Date:  May 6th 2014  

~A copy was provided by HarperTeen and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review~

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She’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future.

World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.

At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.

When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.

Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.

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After The End was an average read for me, which is so disappointing because I enjoyed the Revenant series and was so looking forward to something new from Amy Plum. With the synopsis, and what you think is a pretty interesting one, and what I thought would end up being a good conspiracy story ended up being like a homeopathic 101. 

Review: We Were Liars (Yes, that one.)

We Were Liars
Author: E. Lockhart

Publication Date:  May 15th 2014        
Publisher: Hot Key Books

~A copy as provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~

 

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A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.
Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

 

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So, I've been wanting to read We Were Liars for ages, but waited. The first time I read it was with the #liarsliveread on twitter, and reactions really are everything. And emotions are everything, and those hours were well spent. We had to post our reactions to certain pages.

 

Stacking the Shelves (#45) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

How was everybody's week? Mine's been pretty slow, but I've checked a few books of my schedule, so yay! I've also been in Once Upon a Time withdrawals (the finale, people!) so I started watching Haven and it's weird, but my kind of weird. It's good.


 

For Review

Edelweiss:

 

 

 

 

 

Pack of Dorks  

(Sky Pony Press and Edelweiss)

 

 

Poor things all on it's own.

What did you get this week? :)

   



 A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
• Tuesday I reviewed: The Three by Sarah Lotz
• Waiting on Wednesday: Confessions: The Paris Mysteries  by James Patterson and  Maxine Paetro
• Thursday I reviewed: Run by Gregg Olsen
• Friday: I helped reveal the cover for Madly, Deeply. (And because of that I keep singing Truly, Madly, Deeply.I want to stand with you on a mountain, I want to bathe with you in the seaaaaa. It's been in my head for the last two days. Help.)

Cover Reveal: Madly, Deeply.

Today we have a gorgeous cover reveal for the surprise upcoming novel from Erica Crouch, which started out to be a short story for an anthology, but became it's own, Madly, Deeply.


Want to hear a little more about it?...

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                                                        Synopsis

   

 

 

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea... Annaleigh Wells and William Calloway had a love even the angels envied. It was as if the universe spun them toward one another, like the stars crafted their souls to fit perfectly together. With a wedding on the horizon, fate had a change of heart. Whispered warnings from phantoms and morbid nightmares darkened every night—but even visions of the future couldn’t save Annaleigh. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem Annabel Lee, Crouch’s period romance Madly, Deeply tells the tale of love so great, it cannot be contained in just one life.

Review: Run

Run
Author: Gregg Olsen

Publication Date:  May 1st 2014        
Publisher: Hot Key Books

~A copy as provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~

 

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What if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie?

Rylee is fifteen. She comes home from school one afternoon to find the most shocking thing possible - her father dead, with a knife through his heart, and a key clutched in his hand. Her mother's purse is on the counter, but she appears to be long gone. A message in blood is written on the floor... RUN.

With her brother in tow, Rylee begins a dark journey, one that will uncover horrific and chilling crimes and lead her to an unexpected and gruesome discovery about her real father and what - or who - is behind his insatiable desire to kill. By the journey's end Rylee's childhood is a long way behind her...

RUN is the first title in the new Vengeance series, following Rylee as she begins to piece together the story of her life and to avenge unpunished crimes - starting with her own. This is DEXTER with a feisty female protagonist unlike any other in contemporary young adult fiction

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Run, is a special one my friends. You know I'm weird, right? You know I like serial killer books, right? You know I loved Dear Killer for that very reason, right? Don't judge. ;) This book was made for me.

Whereas Dear Killer was set in the mind-set of a teenage serial killer, it wasn't quite as disturbing as Run. I know. Hard to believe. Being in a teenage serial killers head, what's worse or creepier than that? Run. That's what. It's also really inappropriate to say I laughed . (But I'll get to that reason later, because you know, I don't make it a habit to laugh at murder books. I'm not that weird.)

Waiting on Wednesday (#45)

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

Confessions: The Paris Mysteries  by James Patterson and  Maxine Paetro

Expected publication: October 6th 2014 by Little, Brown and Company


 

 

 

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The City of Lights sets the stage for romance, drama and intrigue in the latest Confessions novel from the world's bestselling mystery writer!

After investigating multiple homicides and her family's decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, Tandy is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister. With no way to tell anymore who in her life she can trust, how will Tandy ever get to the bottom of the countless secrets her parents kept from her? James Patterson leads this brilliant teenage detective through Paris on a trail of lies years in the making, with shocking revelations around every corner.
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Because I just love the series, okay? Don't look at me like that.
 

What're you waiting on?