New Design!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't our new design beautiful!!!??? I'm in love with it. Special thanks to Lori from Imagination designs (button on the side... go look at her other designs they are beautiful) I keep staring at it all creepily and I can't decide what part is my favorite. :) Happiness!

Waiting on Wednesday

Happy Wednesday! Jill from Breaking the Spine hosts a wonderful meme every week called Waiting on Wednesday where us YA book type can gush about the books that we can't wait to get our hands on. This week I'll be obsessing over Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep which is the second book in the Mythos Academy  series. I just finished reading the Hunger Games and Catching Fire so I would use a little romantic mythology right now, and I really really enjoyed the first book in this series... Touch of Frost. Check out my review in the Archives section. :) Anyway without further ado..... WOW

Logan Quinn was try­ing to kill me. My Spar­tan class­mate relent­lessly pur­sued me, swing­ing his sword at me over and over again, the shin­ing sil­ver blade inch­ing closer to my throat every time. A smile tugged up his lips, and his ice-blue eyes prac­ti­cally glowed with the thrill of battle...

I’m Gwen Frost, a second-year warrior-in-training at Mythos Acad­emy, and I have no idea how I’m going to sur­vive the rest of the semes­ter. One day, I’m get­ting schooled in sword­play by the guy who broke my heart — the drop-dead gor­geous Logan who slays me every time. Then, an invis­i­ble archer in the Library of Antiq­ui­ties decides to use me for tar­get prac­tice. And now, I find out that some­one at the acad­emy is really a Reaper bad guy who wants me dead. I’m afraid if I don’t learn how to live by the sword — with Logan’s help — I just might die by the sword …

COMING TO A SHELF NEAR YOU: November 29th, 2011

Shelf Candy

I haven't read this book or its prequel (Once a Witch) yet...though I intend to...but when I saw this particular cover, I fell in love. It is so GORGEOUS! And I hear that everything in it has meaning which makes it twice as awesome because it's not just random; it says something about the book. So I can't wait to read this series, if only to be able to look at this cover every day :)

Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

Seriously, cannot wait to read this series... Which cover do you think is better? This one or the first one, Once a Witch? 

Waiting on Wednesday

This awesome meme is hosted by Breaking the Spine and this Wed I CANNOT WAIT for Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver to come out. I read the first one (Delirium) in just a couple of days and I absolutely fell in love with it. When the new edition of Delirium came out (the one that contained the first chapter of Pandemoniun at the end of it), me and Del went straight to Barnes and Noble, just to read that chapter. We are SO excited for this book to finally come out... Now we just need to wait another 6 months or so... I hate waiting... On a happier note, now I give you...

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Goodreads Summary:

Lauren Oliver captivated readers with Delirium, the first book in a thrilling dystopian trilogy in which Lena Haloway dared to fall in love with Alex and escape the cure, the government-mandated procedure that renders a person immune to the disease of love. Lena and Alex staked their lives on leaving their oppressive society, but only Lena broke free.

Pandemonium continues Lena’s gripping story. After escaping from Portland, Maine, Lena makes it to the Wilds and becomes part of an Invalid community, where she transforms herself into a warrior for the resistance. A future without Alex is unimaginable, but Lena pushes forward and fights, both for him and for a world in which love is no longer considered a disease. Swept up in a volatile mix of revolutionaries and counterinsurgents, Lena struggles to survive—and wonders if she may be falling in love again.

Full of danger, forbidden romance, and exquisite writing, Lauren Oliver’s sequel to Delirium races forward at a breathtaking pace and is sure to appeal to fans who crave the high-stakes action of The Hunger Games and the bittersweet love story of Romeo & Juliet.

Teaser Tuesday

On this lovely (rainy and cold) Tuesday... it's fall what do you expect?... I would like to go back to a book I had started reading over the summer. I put it down because I was sent Oriana's Eyes and have been focusing on that ever since. However I saw it on my bookshelf and wanted to revisit it with a teaser for today because I miss it. So thank you MizB of Should Be Reading for hosting this fun meme and now I give you...

 

Rebel Angels by Libba Bray

"I'm losing  her again. 'What happened to the other girls, Nell?' She starts to whimper like a wounded animal. 'It wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault!'" p. 298

If you haven't read this series yet, you REALLY need to.

Review'd: Drink Slay Love by Sarah Beth Durst

Book Review:
Title: Drink Slay Love 
Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Published: September 13th 2011 by Margaret K. McElderry
Rating: 4 Stars


Goodreads Summary: 
Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire... fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil... until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops.

Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don't exist), and they're shocked she survived. They're even more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now withstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The Vampire King of New England has chosen Pearl's family to host his feast. If Pearl enrolls in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the King's feast -- as the entrees.

The only problem? Pearl's starting to feel the twinges of a conscience. How can she serve up her new friends—especially the cute guy who makes her fangs ache—to be slaughtered? Then again, she's definitely dead if she lets down her family. What's a sunlight-loving vamp to do?


DeLibrarie (Del) Review: After I read the Twilight series and Infinite Days, I told myself I would NOT read another Vampire book... simply because I was sick of hearing about them and ready for new fresh ideas. I was fooled by the lack of vampires mentioned in the synopsis of Haven... so I read that Vampire book... and then I also read The Vampire Stalker... but vampires are ACTUALLY evil in that one so i don't really count it. Then there's this one... I don't know what it was about the synopsis... maybe it was the mention of a sparkly unicorn stabbing a vampire in the chest... ok that was definitely why. :) I was pleasantly surprised with this book, it was predictable and a bit cheesy at times but it was always entertaining and the writing flowed nicely making it an easy, enjoyable read. I'm glad I broke my 'No More Vamp Books' rule for this one. :) Solid 4 Stars.

The Time Will Come

After I had first seen the movie Howl's Moving Castle, I had fallen in love with the story. Then I discovered that it was based off of a book (Don't you love it when that happens?)! So of course the first thing I did was go out and buy it. Alas, I had yet to have the time to sit down and read it. But one thing's for sure, the time will definitely come for...

Howl's Moving Castle

by Diana Wynne Jones

Goodreads Summary:

In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.
After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.
The Hatter sisters--Sophie, Lettie, and Martha--and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.
In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?
Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place.


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