Hey look, I’m doing the thing! Hopefully I will continue on with it but I suppose we will see, won’t we? This is my book haul for the week, and it’s a particularly good one so let’s get started. I’ll tell you what each book is and where I got it for now, maybe later […]
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson Release Date: April 11, 2005 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 422 Pages Received: Bought used Format: Paperback Rating: Description: In James Patterson’s blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of […]
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) by Sarah J Maas Release Date: August 27, 2013 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s 420 Pages Received: Borrowed from Library Format: Hardcover Rating: Description: “A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached. It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.” From the […]
Four (A Divergent Collection) by Veronica Roth Release Date: July 8, 2014 Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books 285 Pages Received: Bought Format: Hardcover Rating: Description: Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he […]
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassins #1) by Robin LaFevers Release Date: April 3, 2012 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 549 Pages Received: Library Format: Hardcover Rating: Description: Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. […]
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare Release Date: August 31, 2011 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books 479 Pages Received: Bought Format: Paperback Rating: Description: In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices […]
The Magicians (The Magicians #1) by Lev Grossman Release Date: August 11, 2009 Publisher: Viking 402 Pages Received: Borrowed from Professor Format: Hardcover Rating: *This review contains mild spoilers* Description: Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. He’s a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he’s still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy […]
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch Release Date: June 3, 2014 Publisher: Hogarth 387 Pages Received: From publisher through Blogging for Books Format: Hardcover Rating: *3 or 3 1/2 Stars* Note: I’m still conflicted on the rating I should give this book. Description: When a medical mistake goes horribly wrong and […]
Ruin and Rising (Grisha #3) by Leigh Bardugo Release Date: June 17, 2014 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. 454 Pages (B&N Edition) 417 Pages (Standard Edition) Received: Bought from Barnes & Noble Format: B&N Exclusive Edition Hardcover Rating: Description: The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation’s […]
Karen Amanda Hooper, author of The Kindrily series and The Sea Monster Memoirs, is releasing a new series, Virtual Arcana. Today, we’re helping her reveal the cover… Get ready…. Get set… Here it is! Karen says: “I love the cover because it represents the story so perfectly—a blend of old-fashioned and techy, romance and magic, […]