Princess of the Silver Woods

Title: Princess of the Silver Woods
Author: Jessica Day George
Pages: 336


My Review: 5 Stars

When I requested this on Netgalley I didnt relaize that it was a book three.  So after reading the first two books. Which now that I think about I haven't done the reviews for that one.  lol. Bad reviewer. This one was great. I love the cover! So spooky and pretty!  I do state that you should read book one and two before you read this one. 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Thanks to Netgalley and Bloomsbury for the review copy! 

Book Description

Publication Date: December 11, 2012 | Series: Twelve Dancing Princesses

When Petunia, the youngest of King Gregor's twelve dancing daughters, is invited to visit an elderly friend in the neighboring country of Westfalin, she welcomes the change of scenery. But in order to reach Westfalin, Petunia must pass through a forest where strange two-legged wolves are rumored to exist. Wolves intent on redistributing the wealth of the noble citizens who have entered their territory. But the bandit-wolves prove more rakishly handsome than truly dangerous, and it's not until Petunia reaches her destination that she realizes the kindly grandmother she has been summoned to visit is really an enemy bent on restoring an age-old curse. The stories of Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood get a twist as Petunia and her many sisters take on bandits, grannies, and the new King Under Stone to end their family curse once and for all.

About the Author

JESSICA DAY GEORGE is the author of Princess of Glass and Princess of the Midnight Ball as well as three novels in the Dragon Slippers series, andTuesdays at the Castle. Originally from Idaho, she studied at Brigham Young University and was a movie store clerk, a bookseller, and a school office lady before becoming a writer. www.jessicadaygeorge.com

More About the Author

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Biography

It's all about the books. Friends, family, school, "real jobs", they were just obstacles to be tackled so that I could return to my true love: books. All I have ever wanted in this world is to read and write books. My criteria for choosing a purse is that it must be able to fit a paperback book inside. I took books on my honeymoon, and bought more while we were there. I picked my major because it looked like I would get to read a lot of books, and also I thought it would provide me with interesting background information for my own books (which it did). From the time I was twelve on up, I told people that I wanted to be a writer. When they said, "So, you'll teach and then maybe try to write a book?" I would just shake my head. No, I was a writer, and that was all I wanted to do. So over the years until I got published, I lived in Idaho, in New Jersey and Delaware, and in Utah, because it didn't matter. I could read and write anywhere. I've worked at a wedding invitation factory (Bet you didn't know they made them in big scary factories, did you?), at a video store (back at the birth of DVD), at libraries and bookstores, and even been an office lady at a school while I waited to get published. I knew that I would be published eventually, because . . . well, I just had to be.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have other interests. I took eight years of German, four of Norwegian, and even studied Old Norse so that I could read the great Viking sagas in the original language. I knit like a maniac: hats, scarves, sweaters, dog sweaters, socks, felted purses, you name it. I play the piano and viola, love to travel and to watch movies.

But mostly, it's about the books.

Visit Jessica at http://www.JessicaDayGeorge.com

Monday Note

• Finished:
• The Critter Club
• Demon's Cure
• My Invented Life
• The Rebels of New Sun
• This is How I Save My Life
• Forbidden Sister
• Darker Still
• Twisted Tragedy
• Pure
• Fuse
• Hysteria
• The Goddess Inheritance
• Stating
• Pivot Point
• Dance of Shadows
• Dualed
• Jack Templar
• Daynight
• Warm Bodies
• TBR
• Beautiful Creatures
• Snow White and the Queen of Mayhem
• The Girl's Guide the Love and Supper Clubs
• Winger
• The Murmuring
• Poison
• The Duff Series
• Elixir
• Devoted
• Ture
• Doll Bones
• The Host
• And the list goes on, and on, and on, and on...........................................................

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If You Have A Craving, I Have A Cure

My Review:

I grabbed this one because of the recipes. I love to cook and now that we're living on our own (instead of with family) we have full range over the kitchen. So this month I will be trying a lot of the recipes from the book.  So don't just cure your craving for food! Have fun and cure your craving for life, health, and spirituality!   

I wanted to make a side note.  That although this book is made to be Christian it can work for any religion.  Just switch the deities to your own and your good to go! 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2012

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale Momentum (December 20, 2012)

Life can be hard . . . but food, faith, and fun are three amazing gifts from God to satisfy and refresh us every day. Yet all too often, we focus primarily on what we can not do, and what we should not eat—which leaves us feeling deprived and depressed. Instead of being energized by following Christ, we waste our days feeling bored and burnt-out on our faith, while battling the guilt that comes from craving the food that we love. In If You Have a Craving, I Have a Cure, best-selling author and speaker Sheri Rose Shepherd encourages you to embark on a new adventure with faith and food. She reveals the food coaching tips that enabled her to lose over 50 pounds and keep it off, and shares fun recipes in celebration of the healthy, delicious food our God created for us to enjoy. It’s time to let go of guilt, grab hold of grace, and recapture the life God craves for us to live! “Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!” (Psalm 34:8)

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Ok so this one is something that I have an extra copy of laying around.  This book was so cute and it is now out.  This ARC is a SIGNED COPY!! And has never been read so it looks very nice. 

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Thursday Thoughts: Reviews?

Every time I do a review I wonder what I should put with it.  Currently I add the following:

1. Book Cover:  via HTML from Amazon
2. About the book
3. About the Author
4. Links to buy book via: Amazon, BAM, BN
5. My Review
6. My Rating
7. Note thanking the publisher/author for sending me the book
8. Note that the review is 100% my honest opinion.  
9. Links to the author stuff if given

I always wonder if I should ad something else.  But in the end doing the following takes me around 2-5 minutes. So not long at all.  Do any of you add anything else to your post?  

I am on the look out for Bloggers to Blog on my Blog (say that three times fast) If you would like to submit a topic for discussion please fill out the form below.  With the discussion I will also post a link to your site.  So you get more traffic yay!!!  

Another Look At Under The Never Sky

Updated Review:  1/3/13

Reading this book for the second time was a joy!  I remembered things I had forgotten and loved the story even more. I think in this series I love Roar he is the witty comedian in this book and he brings a light to a serious story. Aria found herself in a place where she thought she would die and became the woman that she always was. I so love this series. Come back tomorrow for my review of book 2 out this month. Through The Ever Night. 

 My Review from 1/16/12

Ok first off I thought this book was WAY SLOW!  It was good but all the really good stuff started around 200 pages in.  So the last 100 pages was all the REALLY GOOD STORY!

Ok so Aria is a great character and so is Perry!  I fell in love with Roar he is such a great friend and more.

This book takes us on a wild ride under a never sky that can kill you in a heat beat.

This book is told in two pov  that of Aria and Perry and it works out great!  I was kinda mad on where it ended it left at a somewhat big cliffhanger but thats fine.  I hope that the next book is out soon.

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 2012

Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive.

A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.

In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.

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     About the Author

Veronica Rossi graduated from UCLA and studied fine art at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She began writing fiction for teens and received first-place awards in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and SouthWest Writers annual contests before completing Under the Never Sky. It’s since captivated publishers in more than twenty countries worldwide and been optioned for film by Warner Bros. Veronica lives in northern California with her husband and two sons.