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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

A to Z Wednesday

Welcome to A-Z Wednesday!!
To join, here's all you have to do:
Go to your stack of books and find one whose title starts with the letter of the week.
Post:
1~ a photo of the book
2~ title and synopsis
3~ link(amazon, barnes and noble etc.)
4~ Come back here and leave your link in the comments
If you've already reviewed this book you can add it also.
Be sure to visit other participants to see what book they have posted and leave them a comment.
(We all love comments, don't we?)
Who knows? You may find your next "favorite" book.

THIS WEEKS LETTER IS: V

My "V" book is:


Valiant - Holly Black

Synopsis (via B&N)

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.
But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there’s Luis’s brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet.
When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

This is another Holly Black book from the Faerie series. This one I haven't read yet but hope to soon.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not my kind of book, but I love the cover!

Thanks for playing!

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

I probably wouldn't enjoy it, but it sounds like a unique story...the cover is great, too.

Here's mine:

http://laurel-rain-outonalimb.blogspot.com/2010/07/z-wednesday.html

Nise' said...

My son's friend has recommended this series to me. It is a lovely cover.

jlshall said...

I always had a feeling there were weird things going on in those subway tunnels! Hope you enjoy the book.

My "V" book.

Irene said...

I'm thinking I'd like to try this for one of my challenges. Thanks for posting it.

fredamans said...

Looks amazing!

http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-z-starts-with-v.html