Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser this week:

"Hold on, Lily," he said. "We're going to get you out of here."

The world went black.

Firespell - Chloe Neill pg.95

Mailbox Monday & What Are You Reading

Mailbox Monday was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but is now a meme that travels to a new blog every month.This is a weekly meme is being hosted by Mari @ Mari Reads for the month of May. Join the fun and post what you got in your mailbox last week!

I received one book last week:







Lakebridge Spring - Natasha Troop (author)
















It's Monday What are you reading this week? Hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books. This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.

Books I finished in the last week:

French Lessons - Ellen Sussmen
Gamers - Thomas K Carpenter

Books I am reading this week:

This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa



Books to finish this week:

This is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx

Gamers - A Review

Gamers - Thomas K. Carpenter (author)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Black Moon Books
• Sold By: Barnes & Noble
• Format: NOOK Book (eBook) , 320pp
• Sales Rank: 284,150
• Age Range: Young Adult

• File Size: 596 KB
• BNID: 2940012448248
• These items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses only.

Synopsis

Two points for brushing your teeth. Ten points for keeping your room tidy. Seventy-two points for the Bioeconomic Game Design pop quiz on the ride to school in your personal FunCar. Another thirty for making every hurdle in gym class.

Life is a game, unless you're not the one winning.

When Gabby DeCorte, top student and reality-hacker extraordinaire, learns the truth about LifeGame, she must choose between winning and what she believes in.

My Thoughts:

I thought this was a quick, fun read. In the beginning, I wasn't so sure how I would enjoy it, but by the end I found that I really liked it.

It reads very much like a dystopian kind of book but set in and written in a gaming world. I will say that if you are not a gamer of some sort, you might find this book difficult to get through. Not because the story isn't good, but the language and such might be a bit confusing.

I enjoyed the characters quite a bit and I look forward to see how this plays out in the next book.

Author's website: Thomas K. Carpenter

French Lessons - A Review

French Lessons - Ellen Sussman (publisher)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Format: Paperback , 256pp
• Sales Rank: 330,411
• ISBN-13: 9780345522771
• ISBN: 034552277X

Synopsis

A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.

Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world.

As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.

My Thoughts:

I found this book to be charming and it made me long to see Paris. This won't be a long detailed review however. The book is short and sweet and probably not meant for everyone. I have to say the book read very much like a short story book rather than a novel. Even though the tutors all worked for the same place, that's really only thing that tied it together for me. It's not necessarily a bad thing, I did enjoy each individual story, but I think I would have like to gotten to know the tutors better than we got too.

Author's Website: Ellen Sussman

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser this week:

"Am I talking to myself?" Madam Huggins suddenly had that dangerous sarcasm in her voice, the tone that generally went before detention, or worse - a trip to Miss Parker's office. Not that Steve was a stranger to either penalty.

The Midnight Gate - Helen Stringer pg. 1 (taken from arc subject to change)

Mailbox Monday & What Are You Reading

Mailbox Monday was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but is now a meme that travels to a new blog every month.This is a weekly meme is being hosted by Mari @ Mari Reads for the month of May. Join the fun and post what you got in your mailbox last week!

I got a couple books last week:






French Lessons - Ellen Sussman (publisher)
















The Midnight Gate - Helen Stringer (author)


















It's Monday What are you reading this week? Hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books. This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.

Books I finished in the last week:

Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson

Books I am reading this week:

This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
French Lessons - Ellen Sussman




Books to finish this week:

French Lessons - Ellen Sussman
This is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx

Songs for a Teenage Nomad - A Review

Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson (own)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
• Sold By: Barnes & Noble
• Format: NOOK Book (eBook) , 256pp
• Sales Rank: 1,378
• Age Range: Young Adult
• File Size: 535 KB
• ISBN-13: 9781402245473
• ISBN: 1402245475
• These items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses only.

Synopsis

What is the soundtrack of your life?

After living in twelve places in eight years, Calle Smith finds herself in Andreas Bay, California, at the start of ninth grade. Another new home, another new school...Calle knows better than to put down roots. Her song journal keeps her moving to her own soundtrack, bouncing through a world best kept at a distance.

Yet before she knows it, friends creep in-as does an unlikely boy with a secret. Calle is torn over what may be her first chance at love. With all that she's hiding and all that she wants, can she find something lasting beyond music? And will she ever discover why she and her mother have been running in the first place?

My Thoughts:

I really enjoyed this book and mostly for all the music name dropping. It just added a little bit extra to the story. I felt bad for Calle and her mom's nomad lifestyle that was put upon Calle even though she hated it.

Calle tells her story of all the dad's she has known throughout her life except for the one she wants to know the most, her real dad. As they story moves along we do get to learn about him and decide for ourselves what we think. Though I didn't find his portion of the story to be that important to me.

What I found to strike the biggest chord with me was Calle finding her place in her new town and making real friends. Putting down roots for the first time.

Author's Website: Kim Culbertson

What Are You Reading

It's Monday What are you reading this week? Hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books. This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.

Books I finished in the last week:

Dark Descendant - Jenna Black

Books I am reading this week:

This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson



Books to finish this week:

This is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson

It has been a very bland reading week for me. I have found I am either too distracted or too busy to get much reading done and when I did have time, nothing called out to me. I hope to pick it up a bit this week.

Between Here And Forever - A Review

Between Here And Forever - Elizabeth Scott (egalley from S&S)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Format: Hardcover , 256pp
• Sales Rank: 170,346
• Age Range: Young Adult
• ISBN-13: 9781416994848
• ISBN: 141699484X

Synopsis:

Abby accepted that she can’t measure up to her beautiful, magnetic sister Tess a long time ago, and knows exactly what she is: Second best. Invisible.

Until the accident.

Now Tess is in a coma, and Abby’s life is on hold. It may have been hard living with Tess, but it's nothing compared to living without her.

She's got a plan to bring Tess back though, involving the gorgeous and mysterious Eli, but then Abby learns something about Tess, something that was always there, but that she’d never seen.

Abby is about to find out that truth isn't always what you think it is, and that life holds more than she ever thought it could...

My Thoughts:

What a sad story. My heart ached for this family. I can't imagine being in a situation like this and the stress and sadness it brings.

Abby's is so down on herself. Her self esteem is so wrapped up in her perfect sister, she can't imagine she's worthy of anything or anyone. It just breaks my heart.

This book is as much about Tess is it about Abby growing up and learning to let herself feel what she feels. As Abby learns more about Tess's life and how it truly was and not what she thought, she starts to bloom in her own life.

You'll want a box of tissues for this one folks.

Author's Website: Elizabeth Scott

Dark Descendant - Blog Tour May 10, 2011

Dark Descendant - Jenna Black (Blog tour)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
• Format: Mass Market Paperback , 336pp
• Sales Rank: 28,684

• Series: Descendant Series , #1
• ISBN-13: 9781451606799
• ISBN: 1451606796

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of the Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist books comes the gripping first novel in a new series about a private eye who discovers, to her surprise, that she’s an immortal huntress.

Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest client turns out to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki now discovers she can’t die. . . . Crazy as it sounds, Nikki’s manhunting skills are literally god-given. She’s a living, breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped right into a trap set by the children of the gods. Nikki’s new “friends” include a descendant of Eros, who uses sex as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no laughing matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who thinks she’s a spy. But most powerful of all are the Olympians, a rival clan of immortals seeking to destroy all Descendants who refuse to bow down to them. In the eternal battle of good god/bad god, Nikki would make a divine weapon. But if they think she’ll surrender without a fight, the gods must be crazy. . . .

My Thoughts:

Okay let me get the bad out of the way so I can get to the good. The bad is really simple, I received this book Saturday evening after work, leaving me 2 days to read the book. Now I can read fairly fast, but add it to my normal life activities and there is no way I am finishing a book this quickly. It would have been nice to have a few more days at least to read. Needless to say I am not done yet.

On to the good. I have read about half of the book and from what I have read, I am loving it! Now I have no clue where things are going yet, but I am finding the characters are interesting and complex so far. It seems as Greek Gods and Goddesses are the new vampire, angels, etc. and that is fine by me. I have always love reading about them and this just adds to my liking.

I think I have read enough at this point to honestly say, I will enjoy this book and will have no problem getting it finished up in a few days.

Author's Website: Jenna Black

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser this week:

My entire world shattered on a cold, rainy, miserable night in early December.

The evening started off desperately normal with a blind date arranged by my sister, Steph.

Dark Descendant - Jenna Black pg.1

Mailbox Monday & What Are You Reading

Mailbox Monday was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but is now a meme that travels to a new blog every month.This is a weekly meme is being hosted by Mari @ Mari Reads for the month of May. Join the fun and post what you got in your mailbox last week!

I actually had a busy mailbox last week:







Wildefire - Karsten Knight (Publisher)
















South of Superior - Ellen Airgood (publisher)
















Dark Descendant - Jenna Black (blog tour)
















It's Monday What are you reading this week? Hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books. This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.

Books I finished in the last week:

City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare
Winter's Passage - Julie Kagawa
Between Here and Forever - Elizabeth Scott

Books I am reading this week:

This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
Dark Descendant - Jenna Black
Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson

Books to finish this week:

Dark Descendant - Jenna Black
This is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Kim Culbertson

City of Fallen Angels - A Review

City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare (own)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Format: Hardcover , 424pp
• Sales Rank: 39
• Age Range: Young Adult

• Series: Mortal Instruments Series , #4
• ISBN-13: 9781442403543
• ISBN: 1442403543

Synopsis

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

But nothing comes without a price.

Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary's best friend, Simon, can't help her. His mother just found out that he's a vampire and now he's homeless. Everywhere he turns, someone wants him on their side—along with the power of the curse that's wrecking his life. And they're willing to do anything to get what they want. Not to mention that he's dating two beautiful, dangerous girls—neither of whom knows about the other one.

When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. The stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.

My Thoughts:

I was very excited to hear this book from both Simon's perspective was being written. Being a huge fan of this series, I fully expected I would like this book. I wasn't let down.

What a joy to see life through Simon's eyes however filled with turmoil it is. It gave him so much more depth as a character and brought him more to life. humorous since he's a vampire and all lol.

We get non-stop action and drama filled pages as we did with the other books in the series. Always dangers lurking around the corner waiting to trap Clary and Jace and this time Simon.

I loved the new character Jordan. He reminds me a lot of Jace though, all the self-loathing that goes on with these characters is a bit thick but I love them nonetheless. I hope we get to learn more about Maia as well at some point.

Outside of the key characters, I loved getting to see the softer side of Isabelle. She such a bad ass character, you don't get to see that side often and it was nice to see her protectiveness of those she cares for.

What and ending! I had to go look and see if there were more books set to be released because the ending left me freak out a bit and wanting more. I definitely want to see where this is going.

Author's Website: Cassandra Clare

The Iron King - A Review

The Iron King - Julie Kagawa (own)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Format: Paperback , 368pp
• Sales Rank: 12,043
• Age Range: Young Adult
• Series: Iron Fey Series , #1
• ISBN-13: 9780373210084
• ISBN: 0373210086

Synopsis

Meghan Chase has a secret destiny—one she could never have imagined…

Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school…or at home.

When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.

But she could never have guessed the truth—that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face…and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

My Thoughts:

I loved this book! I was quickly drug into Meghan's story and even more so when she entered Nevernever. So many interesting and unique characters we are shown through out the book.

Meghan's brother has been kidnapped by someone in the Nevernever, leaving behind a ruthless, nasty changeling in his place. Meghan decides she must go find him once she knows what has happened to him. I don't think she realized just what she was getting herself into. One there she's chased, captured, escaped, chased some more.

As with all great reads, there are great male characters. I loved both Puck and Ash for different reasons and I hope to get to know them better later on.

It's hard to describe how much I enjoyed this book without giving away too much of the story. I can say however that I can't wait to continue on with the series. There are so many possibilities on directions it can take and I can't wait to find out which one it takes.

I read this as a group book chat with some twitter friends. What a great book to have a group to chat with. I have to say chatting with friends while reading this made this book even better. I loved all the discussions we had during it.

Author's Website: Julie Kagawa

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser this week:

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.

One. Two. Three. Blink.

Abandon - Meg Cabot pg.1

Mailbox Monday & What Are You Reading

Mailbox Monday was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but is now a meme that travels to a new blog every month.This is a weekly meme is being hosted by Mari @ Mari Reads for the month of May. Join the fun and post what you got in your mailbox last week!

I got one book last week:






Abandon - Meg Cabot (Amazon Vine)

















It's Monday What are you reading this week? Hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books. This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.

Books I finished in the last week:

The Iron King - Julie Kagawa

Books I am reading this week:

This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare




Books to finish this week:

City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare
This is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx