Review: The Promise of Amazing

The Promise of Amazing
Author: Robin Constantine

Publication Date: December 31st 2013        

~A copy was provided by Balzer + Bray, via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.~

Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she’s not popular, but not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet, “good” girl who's always done what she's supposed to—only now in her junior year, this passive strategy is backfiring. She wants to change, but doesn’t know how.

Grayson Barrett was the king of St. Gabe’s. Star of the lacrosse team, top of his class, on a fast track to a brilliant future—until he was expelled for being a “term paper pimp.” Now Gray is in a downward spiral and needs to change, but doesn’t know how.

One fateful night their paths cross when Wren, working at her family’s Arthurian-themed catering hall, performs the Heimlich on Gray as he chokes on a cocktail weenie, saving his life literally and figuratively. What follows is the complicated, awkward, hilarious, and tender tale of two teens shedding their pasts, figuring out who they are—and falling in love.

I'll be the first to admit that when it comes to Contemporary Romance, I am out of my comfort zone, I don't read them often, but it's good to go over that line of comfort zone once in a while, and you know what? The Promise of Amazing is just about that.

Crossing lines, pushing the limits, being taken out of that comfort zone and actually finding you like it.

Stacking the Shelves (#19) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

How's everyone's week been? Mines been good, I uh, went into town twice this week, even though I said I banned myself last week. But, I only got three! And none for review this week, which I'm so happy about, I'm getting through some of them now.

Bought
 

 

 

  

 

• The Gods of Olympus by Barbara Graziosi (Actually, my nan bought me this. She knows me so well.
• Every Day by David Levithan (Though, I do love the cover, but it's too bright of an orange and hurts my eyes.)
• This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith (I finally got around to buying it! I really liked The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, and I've been wanting to get it for a while, so yay!)

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

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  Witchstruck by Victoria Lamb
• Teaser Tuesday from A Breath of Frost by Shelena Shorts
• Waiting on Wednesday: The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
• Friday I reviewed Cracked by Eliza Crewe
• Saturday Blog Tour: Guest Post by Eliza Crewe
 

 

 

This week I have read:

• Revel by Maurissa Guibord  
• Heartbeat by Elizabeth Scott
• Witch Finder by Ruth Warburton

 

Review: Cracked

Cracked
Author: Eliza Crewe

Publication Date: November 5th 2013

Source: An advanced copy was provided by  Strange Chemistry in exchange  for an honest review.

Well, technically, she eats their soul. But she totally promises to only go for people who deserve it. She’s special. It’s not her fault she enjoys it. She can’t help being a bad guy. Besides, what else can she do? Her mother was killed and it’s not like there are any other “soul-eaters” around to show her how to be different. That is, until the three men in suits show up.

They can do what she can do. They’re like her. Meda might finally have a chance to figure out what she is. The problem? They kind of want to kill her. Before they get the chance Meda is rescued by crusaders, members of an elite group dedicated to wiping out Meda’s kind. This is her chance! Play along with the “good guys” and she’ll finally figure out what, exactly, her ‘kind’ is.

Be careful what you wish for. Playing capture the flag with her mortal enemies, babysitting a teenage boy with a hero complex, and trying to keep one step ahead of a too-clever girl are bad enough. But the Hunger is gaining on her.

The more she learns, the worse it gets. And when Meda uncovers a shocking secret about her mother, her past, and her destiny… she may finally give into it.

Stuck in an asylum for the past two weeks, what Meda's anticipated since then has finally arrived, and as her mother used to say, she's hangry. To live and to survive, Meda must eat a living soul, it's messy and bloody, but she's equipped and enjoys it. She makes it a point, on her mother's wishes, that she only kills bad people. Which, brings us back to the slimy asylum, in which she admitted herself to get closer to the target of a girl ghosts' murder.

She doesn't like the tables being turned.

Feature & Follow (#6)

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

 

This weeks Question:

Are there any book to movie adaptations where you think the movie is better than the book?

Okay, you're probably going to shout at me but, I liked The Hunger Games, not because it was better than the book, but because it was just really nice to see all of it come to life. But, since that's not really an answer I'd say Dear John, though I loved the book, I preferred the movie ending that the actual ending in the book. Also, Channing Tatum. Enough said.

What did you pick?

Waiting on Wednesday (#19)

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

 

 

The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings

Expected publication: June 10th 2014 by Greenwillow / HarperCollins
 

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.

Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision. The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is-although he doesn't know it-one of the MC's programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family? Action-packed, blood-soaked, and chilling, this is a dark and compelling debut novel by Lindsay Cummings.



So, I was going to pick this one a few weeks back, but wanted to do it when it had a cover. And it is awesome.

What are you waiting on? :)

Teaser Tuesday (17)

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

 

 

 

Title: A Breath of Frost

Author: Alyxandra Harvey

Release date: January 2nd 2014         

Publisher:  Bloomsbury Childrens UK

Page: 24

 

 

 

Emma Day and her two cousins, Gretchen and Penelope, are uninterested in their debutante lives. All the boring balls, tiresome curtsying and polite conversation leave much to be desired. Then a girl is found dead, frost clinging to her lifeless body, and the murder is traced to Emma. As their world is turned upside down, Emma discovers more about herself and her cousins, from her connection to the murders to the secrets of her family legacy. Now the girls must embrace their true Lovegrove inheritance in order to stop the chaos, even if that means risking their lives. Dangerously handsome Cormac Fairfax wants to help Emma – but, with secrets of his own to hide, can she trust him?

 

 

 

 

 

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"The dog licked her nose frantically.  "I don't have biscuits," she said. "You look like a tea cake. Honestly, I'm embarrassed for you. And I hope you bit Lady Pickford for doing that to you," she said conversationally."

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I'm loving Gretchen's character already.

 

What're you reading? :)