Publisher: Mira Books Publishing Date: June 1 2004 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback Page count: 409 My rating: When Yelena is saved from execution only to become the General’s new food taster, captive in this position by a poison due to kill her in two days if she does not regularly take the rare antidote, she acknowledges this only chance to […]
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Waiting on Gravity by Melissa West (7)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking The Spine. It’s all about spotlighting upcoming releases we’re eagerly anticipating. Share your books and remember to visit Breaking The Spine for more great books! This week I’m eagerly waiting on: Gravity by Melissa West Expected publication: October 30 2012 Publisher: Entangled Publishing From Goodreads: In […]
Top Ten Favourite Authors in X Genre (7)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s all about bookish lists! Share your lists and remember to stop by The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began. This week’s list: Top Ten Favorite Authors In the YA ‘Genre’ I don’t feel that YA is […]
Waiting on Sacrifice by Cayla Kruver (6)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking The Spine. It’s all about spotlighting upcoming releases we’re eagerly anticipating. Share your books and remember to visit Breaking The Spine for more great books! This week I’m eagerly waiting on: Sacrifice (Legacy #3) by Cayla Kruver Expected publication: October 23rd 2012 Publisher: HarlequinTeen From Goodreads: […]
Top Ten Tuesday REWIND (6)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s all about bookish lists! Share your lists and remember to stop by The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began. This week’s list: Top Ten REWIND (pick a past topic that we’ve done that you missed or […]
ARC Book Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Publisher: Faber and Faber/Macmillan Publishing Date: October 16 2012 Genre: YA, Fantasy, Dystopia Format: e-ARC Page count: 368 (paperback) My rating: When Adelice slips up at her compulsory testing and accidentally weaves time and space in front of the selectors, she is pulled from her home in the middle of the night to become a Spinster – a woman […]
Waiting on Velveteen by Daniel Marks (5)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking The Spine. It’s all about spotlighting upcoming releases we’re eagerly anticipating. Share your books and remember to visit Breaking The Spine for more great books! This week I’m eagerly waiting on: Velveteen by Daniel Marks Expected publication: October 9th 2012 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers […]
Top Ten “Older” Books I Don’t Want People To Forget About (5)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s all about bookish lists! Share your lists and remember to stop by The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began. This week’s list: Top Ten “Older” Books You Don’t Want People To Forget About You can define […]
ARC Book Review: What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Publishing Date: October 1 2012 Genre: YA, Sci-fi, dystopia Format: e-ARC Page count: 342 (paperback) My rating: Kat Zhang’s lushly imagined What’s Left of Me spins the tale of what happens when a recessive soul sharing one body with a dominant soul refuses to fade away, as they’ve been led to believe is inevitable. Anyone left with […]
Mini Review: Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Date: April 8 2008 Genre: YA, Fantasy, Steampunk Format: Hardcover Page count: 110 My rating: Once Upon a Time in the North tells a prequel tale of the aeronaut Lee Scoresby from Pullman’s fantastic world-wide hit trilogy His Dark Materials and his first meeting with the ice bear, Iorek Byrnison, set in the familiar […]