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