Teaser Tuesday (#35)

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: The Witch of Salt and Storm

Author: Kendall Kulper

Publication Date: September 4th 2014        

Publisher: Orchard Books

 

Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the island's whalers safe and prosperous at sea. But before she could learn how to control her power, her mother - the first Roe woman in centuries to turn her back on magic - steals Avery away from her grandmother. Avery must escape before her grandmother dies, taking with her the secrets of the Roe's power.

The one magical remnant left to Avery is the ability to read dreams, and one night she foresees her own murder. Time is running short, both for her and for the people of her island who need the witches' help to thrive.

Avery has never read a dream that hasn't come true, but a tattooed harpoon boy named Tane tells her he can help her change her fate. Becoming a witch may prevent her murder and save her island from ruin, but Avery discovers it will also require a sacrifice she never expected. And as she falls in love with Tane, she learns it is his life and hers that hang in the balance.

A sweeping romance with a spellbinding twist - from a talented new voice in YA fiction

I hope, also, that they remember none of it would have happened had my mother not turned her back on magic. Or had my mother left me alone in my grandmother's cottage. Or had my mother, drunk on the cult of domesticity and stuffed to the bring with 1860's mortality, not been so determined to see me a proper lady.

So, if the people of my island blame anyone, better her than me.

                                    -Both taken from page 20 in ARC

It was a slow start from me, but such beautiful writing, but it picked up and it's pretty amazing, by the time this is posted I've probably finished it, and it's one of those that you don't want to carry on reading because it means it'll end. :(

What're you reading? :)

Review: Between the Lives

Between the Lives
Author: Jessica Shirvington
Publication Date: July 8th 2014        
Publisher: Orchard Books
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~

The perfect life or the perfect love. You choose.

For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every 24 hours she shifts to her 'other' life - a life where she is exactly the same, but absolutely everything else is different: different family, different friends, different social expectations. In one life she has a sister, in the other she does not. In one life she's a straight-A student with the perfect boyfriend, in the other she's considered a reckless delinquent. Nothing about her situation has ever changed, until the day when she discovers a glitch: the arm she breaks in one life is perfectly fine in the other.

With this new knowledge, Sabine begins a series of increasingly risky experiments that bring her dangerously close to the life she's always wanted. But if she can only have one life, which is the one she'll choose?

A compelling psychological thriller about a girl who lives two parallel lives - this is Sliding Doors for the YA audience.

While I did really enjoy Between the Lives, there was something missing for me that kept me from really loving it, I don't even know what it was either, or maybe it was just a few little issues, but still, it was different from what I was expecting (in a good way). A girl who lives two lives, a parallel world type, so you think fun, right? That's what I thought, turns out it's not as fun as you think.

Stacking the Shelves (#55) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

So, how was everybody's week? The beginning of the week was good for me, and went downhill from there, so it's been a pretty crappy week. Mainly Friday, where the highlight was Starbucks. I had to go up the Hospital. my appointment was at 11, had to leave at 9 (since I don't drive) so had to get up at 7 on 3 hour sleep. Got up there, wasn't called until 11:15, which isn't so bad, you say...Yeah, so would I, if it wasn't just to wait in another waiting room. Didn't get called then until 12:15. And was out of there at 12:20 with nothing done for the reason why I was up there, which has happened TWICE now. So yeah, I was pissed. Know what's therapeutic though? Writing ranty reviews.

I was supposed to be doing a physical stack this week but I'm so tired, and new Harper titles were added to EW, so I'm going with that.

For Review

Edelweiss

 

 

 

The Last Time We Say Goodbye , Red Queen (AHHHHHHH!), Everything That Makes You , Liars, Inc , My Heart and Other Black Holes  and The Distance Between Lost and Found, 

(Thanks to HarperTeen, Katherine Tegen Books, Balzer + Bray and Edelweiss )

 

 

                                                        

                                                                 What did you get this week? :)
 

Recap

• Monday I reviewed: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
• Teaser Tuesday: Falls the Shadow by Stefanie Gaither
• Waiting on Wednesday: Captive by Aimee Carter
• Thursday: Cosplay Antics: MCM Part 1
• Friday I reviewed: The Moment Collector  by  Jodi Lynn Anderson

Review: The Moment Collector

The Moment Collector
Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publication Date: August 7th 2014
Publisher: Orchard Books
 ~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
 

 A haunting mystery, romance in the vein of The Lovely Bones by New York Times bestselling author.

"The yard of this house is a graveyard of moments and everything left behind is a clue. And I am here to dig."

There's a ghost haunting 208 Water Street. She doesn't know who she was, or why she's still here. She does know that she is drawn to Maggie, the new girl in town, and her friends - beautiful, carefree Pauline and Liam, the boy who loves her.

But the ghost isn't all that's lurking in Gill Creek... Someone is killing young girls all across the county. Can the ghost keep these three friends safe? Or does she have another purpose?

You know those moments when a book completely stuns you?  Makes you angry, and makes you cry simultaneously. The type that you didn't know it got under your skin until this moment when something bad really happens and it's like you're right there in that book, with that character? Hey, The Moment Collector.

Cosplay Antics: MCM Part 1

 

 

Cosplay Antics will be a behind the scenes look into what Cosplay really is, the creations of favourite characters from books/graphic novels/manga/anime/Disney as they are being made and the final product before meets. We will also be including some guest posts from other Cosplayer's.

Back in May this year, I went to my first major Cosplay event outside of Cardiff, MCM in London. To prepare for the Cosplay event, I started the costume I wanted to wear back in the previous September

Note- I cannot use a sewing machine, so everything I do is glued or hand sewn. Not bragging or anything. ;)

What I wanted to do, I decided to Cosplay the Classical/Dapper Mickey Mouse. There were a ton of things  I had to do to complete the outfit, which included;

•  Top Hat with ears,

•  Bow Tie,

•  Shirt,

• Waist Coat,

• Pants/Trousers,

• Boots and Spats (boot covers)

• Cane.

Waiting on Wednesday (#55)

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

Captive by Aimee Carter

 

 Expected publication: November 25th 2014 by Harlequin Teen

 

 

For the past two months, Kitty Doe's life has been a lie. Forced to impersonate the Prime Minister's niece, her frustration grows as her trust in her fake fiancé cracks, her real boyfriend is forbidden and the Blackcoats keep her in the dark more than ever.

But in the midst of discovering that her role in the Hart family may not be as coincidental as she thought, she's accused of treason and is forced to face her greatest fear: Elsewhere. A prison where no one can escape.

As one shocking revelation leads to the next, Kitty learns the hard way that she can trust no one, not even the people she thought were on her side. With her back against the wall, Kitty wants to believe she'll do whatever it takes to support the rebellion she believes in—but is she prepared to pay the ultimate price?

 

 

 

 

 

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

 

What're you waiting on?