tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40795468944420073242024-03-05T19:42:09.195-08:00All about me...teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-6721415842479586082014-08-26T04:23:00.000-07:002014-08-26T04:23:00.660-07:00Book Review: Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Love burns. Worlds collide. Magic reigns.</i></div>
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<i>This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying many of the experiences that other teenagers take for granted...which is why she is determined to enjoy her first (and perhaps only) high-school party. But Lily's life never goes according to plan, and after a humiliating incident in front of half her graduating class Lily wishes she could just disappear.</i></div>
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<i>Suddenly Lily is in a different Salem - one overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women called Crucibles. Strongest and cruellest of all the Crucibles is Lillian . . . Lily's identical other self in this alternate universe. This new version of her world is terrifyingly sensual, and Lily is soon overwhelmed by new experiences.</i></div>
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<i>Lily realizes that what makes her weak at home is exactly what makes her extraordinary in New Salem. It also puts her life in danger. Thrown into a world she doesn't understand, Lily is torn between responsibilities she can't hope to shoulder alone, and a love she never expected.</i></div>
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<span class="s1">For as long as she can remember, the world has been trying to kill Lily Proctor. She is allergic to just about everything and it stops her from living her life the way she wants to…the way her friends take for granted. But the one positive thing in her life has always been Tristan. He is her best friend and has never given up on her when most other friends fall away when Lily can’t do all the same things they can. Of course, Lily is head over heels in love with Tristan. She is overjoyed when Tristan seems to return her feelings. But a devastatingly embarrassing night in front of her entire class destroys Lily. And when she hears a voice whispering to follow it, she has no reason not to.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Lily finds herself in her town of Salem, but it is not her town. It is a terrifying new world that is ruled by dark witches - the strongest of which is Lily’s other self, Lilian. Lily is thrown headfirst into a war she can’t begin to understand and if she discover her true potential, Lily might the only thing that can stop it. She is armed only by a few friends, one of which being the alternate Tristan…who I much preferred! And the distrustful Rowan, who used to be the closest person to Lilian.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I loved, loved, LOVED this book. I’m not usually one for witches and alternate realities, but I totally fell down the rabbit hole with this one. Lily is such a sympathetic and strong character. I loved that she effortlessly led us through the story and I cheered for her every step of the way. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><i>It's the summer of 1964 and the four Gloss interns are back in New York. Sherry is working at Gloss when she gets involved in the civil rights movement and finds herself falling in love with someone she never expected to, Donna is caught up in the world of high fashion and Upper East Side rich kids, Pamela is desperate to become an actress, no matter what it takes, and Allison is finding out that going steady with a teen heart-throb isn't all it's cracked up to be. The girls are discovering that following your heart sometimes means that you can't follow your dreams . . .</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s the summer of 1964 and the four summer interns are back in New York. Sherry, Donna, Allison and Pamela are reunited and things couldn’t be more different for all of them. The four are all set with new challenges as they embark on new jobs and relationships. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I absolutely adored this book. I have to admit I haven’t read the first in the series, but it didn’t ruin the second for me. The characters are introduced in a vivid way with just enough backstory to stop things from being confusing. The four girls could not be more different who, although they come together with this great bond, have four very different stories to tell. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">There is a very serious heartbeat to this book. Set in the middle of the sixties, there are many class and race issues that are raised. Sherry befriends William, a black man who is a student at Columbia University. Sherry is a southern girl and back home things aren't quite as liberal and forward thinking as the people in New York. She is a sympathiser and quite simply just wants equality for everyone, regardless of their sex, skin colour or social standing. Sherry is met with quite a bit of distrust when she tries to join a few groups who want equality and it is at one of these meetings that she is introduced to William. </span></div>
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-5300870792624856572014-08-15T04:12:00.002-07:002014-08-15T04:12:42.186-07:00Book Review: Summer's Shadow by Anna Wilson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-37960984931215444102014-04-25T06:24:00.000-07:002014-04-25T06:24:00.485-07:00Book Review: Unforgotten by Jessica Brody<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1">Zen and Sera have escaped from the scientists at Diotech who created Sera. They have travelled back in time to 1609 and, so long as they keep to themselves and make sure nothing they do becomes part of public record, they can live out the remainder of their days in peace and safety but more importantly, together. Diotech can never find them. </span></div>
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-71165983058490832362014-04-21T06:10:00.003-07:002014-04-21T06:10:40.913-07:00Book Review: Because it is my Blood by Gabrielle Zevin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1"><i>Because It Is My Blood</i> was as action-packed and thrilling as the first book in this tremendous series. Anya has just been released from prison and she wants nothing more than to go back to normal. But unfortunately for Anya, nothing can ever be the same. She is still fiercely protective of her family, of her brother Leo who she hasn’t seen in forever for his own safety, and the brilliant Natty, and for good reason, since a few members of the Balanchine family seek retribution for the shooting of her uncle. Anya can’t even seem to find a school willing to take her, what with the criminal record and ties to the mafia, and all. And worst of all, is Win, who seems like he has had no trouble whatsoever in getting over Anya. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>Because It Is My Blood</i> was a rich and engrossing novel and I drank it in, savouring each and every word. I adored Anya’s story in this instalment of the trilogy and loved seeing how much she has grown as a character. I was kept guessing for the most part of this book and the moment it was finished I felt like I could finally let the breath go that I had been holding. </span></div>
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-88025297138541319632014-03-28T06:06:00.000-07:002014-03-28T06:06:00.145-07:00Book Review: A Kiss in the Dark by Cat Clarke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-70192706935395481422014-03-25T05:50:00.003-07:002014-03-25T05:50:59.135-07:00Book Review: Amy & Matthew by Cammie McGovern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Amy is unflinchingly honest about her limitations. Born with cerebral palsy, she can’t walk or talk without help. But trapped inside this uncooperative body lies a brilliant mind and a luminous spirit – a girl capable of truly loving and worthy of being loved in return.</i></div>
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<i>Matthew has his own set of challenges – a mind consumed by unwanted repeated thoughts, obsessive rituals and a crippling fear that he can't explain. But underneath all of the anxiety lies a deep seed of hope for someone to come along who believes in him…</i></div>
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<i>This is the story of Amy and Matthew. It may not be a fairy tale romance or set in an imagined world far from our own. But the love they share is real. And yes, there's magic in it.</i></div>
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-15472088172821378792014-02-21T07:30:00.000-08:002014-02-21T07:30:01.005-08:00Book Review: Stella by Helen Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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By contrast, new girl Caitlin Clarke has until now lived a quietly conformist life in New York. With the collapse of her parents’ marriage she has been sent across the Atlantic for an English boarding school education, only to discover that at Temperley, the only important rules are the unwritten ones. It's a world of the beautiful and the dangerous, and acceptance means staying on the right side of Stella Hamilton, the most beautiful and dangerous of them all.</div>
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-6928925011327540932014-02-18T07:11:00.000-08:002014-02-18T07:11:00.056-08:00Book Review: Sea Glass by Maria V Snyder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-29538542637059106772014-02-14T06:11:00.000-08:002014-02-14T06:11:08.496-08:00Book Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more - she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life.</div>
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-59136006880029023732013-11-01T05:00:00.002-07:002013-11-01T05:00:53.923-07:00Book Review: Iron Prince by Julie Kagawa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-57657816355423117762013-05-28T08:24:00.000-07:002013-05-28T08:24:00.636-07:00Book Review: Goddess by Josephine Angelini<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-34862119504427769212013-05-21T08:14:00.000-07:002013-05-21T08:14:00.102-07:00Book Review: True by Erin McCarthy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-38764246591583039632013-05-17T08:10:00.000-07:002013-05-17T08:10:00.324-07:00Book Review: Kite Spirit by Sita Brahmachari<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-30679633840871407542013-05-14T08:07:00.003-07:002013-05-14T08:07:55.615-07:00Book Review: Vortex by Julie Cross<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-31757983127906035172013-03-12T08:24:00.000-07:002013-03-12T08:24:00.650-07:00Book Review: Speechless by Hannah Harrington<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-58744555770567064512013-03-05T08:19:00.000-08:002013-03-05T08:19:11.151-08:00Book Review: Unremembered by Jessica Brody<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Sixteen-year-old Sera is the only survivor of an explosion on a plane. She wakes up in hospital to find that she has no memory. The only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment. The only adult she trusts insists that she shouldn’t believe anything that anybody tells her. In a tense and pacy novel exploding with intrigue and action, Sera must work out who she is and where she came from. Eventually she will learn that the only thing worse than forgetting her past is remembering it.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1">When Sera wakes up in hospital, she realises she has absolutely no memory, and no way to answer the question on everyone’s lips: how did she survive the plane crash when no one else did?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Suddenly she is front page news. Everyone wants to know who she is. Including Sera. She doesn’t know who to trust and knows that people around her are lying. A strange boy keeps appearing, insisting she isn’t safe.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Trusting him is like taking a leap of faith and while she cannot deny the pull she has to him, or the familiarity of his words, Sera will come to realise that forgetting is sometimes better than remembering. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sera and Zen are two unforgettable characters. I felt almost maternal towards Sera as she struggled to make her way through a world with no memories to aide her. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>Unremembered</i> was a fantastic adventure read with corrupt societies and evil corporations and true love. It will appeal to a broad audience, fans of The Hunger Games and The Bourne Identity will love it. Every page had me guessing and I didn’t anything coming. This is sure to be a brilliant new book series. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Many thanks to Macmillan's Children's Books for the copy to review. Make sure to check out <a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/">MyKindaBook</a> for all the best Macmillan news and gossip and bonus material!</span></div>
teeny104http://www.blogger.com/profile/06260072334597335813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079546894442007324.post-91531862461542908502013-01-29T11:59:00.003-08:002013-01-29T12:00:55.259-08:00Special Post: Vortex by Julie Cross<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIB8XLvTvQdmaUe448pyXTof1SSiZquOcgjAI4cVM9RXaS7TRmsg9UZYx78oY27ZloJlhK95o9v-QcaIr0jZgWmVD6jjpeXSyYY8suj9xMq8MkNJeGXGyZAK23jj4QFl4dSPY3YeQwNeXi/s1600/vortex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIB8XLvTvQdmaUe448pyXTof1SSiZquOcgjAI4cVM9RXaS7TRmsg9UZYx78oY27ZloJlhK95o9v-QcaIr0jZgWmVD6jjpeXSyYY8suj9xMq8MkNJeGXGyZAK23jj4QFl4dSPY3YeQwNeXi/s320/vortex.jpg" width="201" /></a>So, like loads of other people, I absolutely loved <i>Tempest</i> by Julie Cross. Full of intrigue, action and suspense, sweet romance and double-crossing, <i>Tempest </i> was one of my favourite reads of 2012. And to get everyone in the mood to run out and read the highly anticipated sequel, <i>Vortex</i>, I have a few little extras for you all! Oh yes, we are talking diary entries, playlists, deleted scenes...and the first chapter of <i>Vortex </i>itself!<br />
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Read and enjoy...and let me know what you think!<br />
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Also, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/">My Kinda Book</a> for more behind the scenes content on all your favourite books :)<br />
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<a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/blogs/2012/12/Read-the-first-chapter-from-Vortex"><span style="color: blue;">First Chapter of <i>Vortex</i></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/blogs/2013/1/Diary-entry-from-Jacksons-agent-training"><span style="color: blue;">Jackson's Diary Entry</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/blogs/2013/1/Deleted-scene-from-Tempest-and-Vortex">Deleted Scene</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/blogs/2013/1/Extract-from-Hollys-diary">Holly's Diary</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mykindabook.com/blogs/2013/1/LISTEN-Playlist-for-Vortex"><i>Vortex</i> Playlist</a><br />
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Check back soon for my review of <i>Vortex.</i><br />
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