Stacking the Shelves (#20) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

So, I've had a pretty bad reading week. I only bought one physical book, but I'll leave that until next week, but I bought some for my kindle. None for review this week, either. I haven't seen Catching Fire yet! Eek. Hopefully this week. But, anyone seen the trailer for Vampire Academy that came out this week? I'm not passing judgement over it until I've seen the whole film, but it does look funny.

 

Bought

 

 

 

 

• Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
• Reboot by Amy Tintera

 

 

I'm also participating in 4th Annual Broke & the Bookish Secret Santa, so have bought a couple of books for that, which I can't say what books, but one of them is one of my favourites.

 

 

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

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine 
• Teaser Tuesday from A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey
• Waiting on Wednesday: Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff
• Friday I reviewed The Syndicate by Shelena Shorts 

 

This week I have read:

• A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey

 

DNF Review: The Syndicate

The Syndicate
Author: Shelena Shorts 

Publication Date: July 9th 2012         
Publishers: Lands Atlantic Publishing 

For centuries, the Petrescu family has been protecting society from a danger that moves among the population undetected. Eighteen-year-old Vasi Petrescu has never had a problem carrying out his duty, but, when ordered to eliminate an eighteen-year-old girl, he is immediately taken out of his comfort zone.

The Syndicate has never targeted a female before, yet somehow this one has ended up on more than one hit list. Vasi would like to find out why, but there may not be time.

Now, he'll have to decide whether or not to keep her alive even if it means going against his own family.

I can't believe I tortured myself with The Syndicate for so long. It started off bad, but somewhere between the bad and 30% I started to enjoy it, BUT, past that 30%, it welcomed back the bad with welcoming hands. My initial percentage for books I'm not enjoying is always 50%, but it's safe to say I didn't get there. I managed 42%, and there is a specific reason as to why I stopped there.

1) The Syndicate has never heard of feminism.

2) It's never learnt of pacing, either.

Waiting on Wednesday (#20)

 

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

 

 

Fiendish  by Brenna Yovanoff

Expected publication: June 26th 2014 by Razorbill, Penguin Putnam




Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten.

Now she’s out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and why.

When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend. The townsfolk blamed the fiendish people out in the Willows and burned their homes to the ground. But magic kept Clementine alive, walled up in the cellar for ten years, until a boy named Fisher sets her free. Back in the world, Clementine sets out to discover what happened all those years ago. But the truth gets muddled in her dangerous attraction to Fisher, the politics of New South Bend, and the Hollow, a fickle and terrifying place that seems increasingly temperamental ever since Clementine re-emerged.



I have yet to read The Replacement but I've read The Space Between and Paper Valentine, and enjoyed them well enough...and really, how good does it sound?

What are you waiting on?

Teaser Tuesday (18)

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: 222

 

 

 

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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"You are a fool," he whispered, his hand tightening around hers. He leaned in until his mouth was barely inches from hers. He smiled crookedly, wickedly. "If you think that."

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Yup, I'm using the same book as last week, I only got so far and wasn't really feeling it, so I moved onto another book, and went back to this one yesterday, and now I'm getting into it, so yay. Cormac's a great character, even if I do want to slap him half the time.
 

What're you reading? :)

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