Saturday, September 03, 2011

Review: Divergent


Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
Publication Date: May 3, 2011
Ages: 14 and up
Pages: 496
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books










Veronica Roth

Biography

Veronica Roth is a 22-year-old debut author, and a recent graduate of Northwestern University's Creative Writing program. While a student, she often chose to work on the story that would become Divergent instead of doing her homework. It was a transforming choice. Now a full-time writer, Ms. Roth lives near Chicago.






My Review:

Simply put, I did not like this book. I tried to like it. I forced myself to make it to chapter 12 and after that.... I was done. I just posted my review and noticed how many people like this book so I hope that this doesn't deter people from reading it. But it just wasn't for me.

The beginning starts off way WAY. I still don't have a clear picture of what was really going on with everything. I even ended up rereading a few chapters just to see if I could understand it better.

The way the book was written was very annoying. And it took me forever to reach chapter 12. When I can read a 600 page book in a day and it took me about 4 hours just to get to page 130. And the words that were used some of them were very hard to pronounce and I hate to think I'm saying it wrong.











Friday, September 02, 2011

200 Follower Contest Where U Get To Pick The Book


Ok so since Google decided that closing the GFC was a good idea. We are all having to redo our followers. So I'm do an ongoing contest until I reach 200 followers on one of my social sites.  For Google + you will get two points. And I will follow anyone who follows me.  You can follow me on Facebook, twitter, rss, and stumble upon with the icons on the upper right hand corner. 


and taking one or both of my buttons for your site is now worth 10 points each.  So points will be added monthly.  And you still get to pic the book you want to win and the format.  

Follow Me at the places below:




Google + +2
Follow Twitter +1 Like Facebook +1
Stumble Upon +1


For an extra chance to win post my Button on your site. +10
Then just comment here and let me know what you did and how many points you have.  
Don't forget to include the following:


Number that blogger says for followers.  
Make sure you check it AFTER you follow. 
Following me as? (I will need each places name you are following me at) 
Your email
The link to the site if you posted my button
And last What Book You Want. 

Its an ongoing contest so Get All Of Your Friends To Join!!
Points are added at the end of each month. 





Monday, August 29, 2011

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Life Eternal (Dead Beautiful #2) by @yvonnewoon #BookReview

 
 
Ren e Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Ren e can never reveal the truth: she died last May, and was brought back to life by the kiss of her Undead soul mate, Dante Berlin. 

Now, her separation from Dante becomes almost unbearable. His second life is close to an end, and each passing day means one less that she will spend with the boy who shares her soul.

Just when Ren e has almost given up hope, she learns of the Nine Sisters-brilliant scholars who, according to legend, found a way to cheat death. She can't shake the feeling that they are somehow connected to her dreams, strange visions that hint at a discovery so powerful, and so dangerous, that some will stop at nothing to protect it. 

Ren e thought she knew the truth about life and death. But there is a secret woven through history that holds the only hope for Dante and Ren e. Unless they find answers soon, their time together is doomed to be cut short.

Elemental Reality Blog Tour



I am so EXCITED to be a stop on the blog tour on Aug. 30 for Cesya MaRae Cuono’s debut novel,Elemental Reality. The book has got to be one of the best books that I have read this year!!   

Check back then to sign up to win a free ebook copy of this amazing book and COMMENT
 for a second chance to win.  

And Make sure to check out my review that will be posted the same day!!!





Cesya MaRae Cuono hails from a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Alvernia University where she majored in Business Administration and also received her certificate of Multi-Media & Production makeup from Cosmix School of Makeup Artistry. You can find any updates from Cesya on her website atwww.cesyacuonobooks.blogspot.com.

















Sunday, August 28, 2011

Manic Monday!!

















so since >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                                    




For New Followers ONLY!
Im not only giving out 1 free ebook!!  
Im giving out 2 ebooks!! 
Books go to the First 3 Followers!!
Follow then comment here with email!!





City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments #4)






























*books are in pdf*



Saturday, August 27, 2011

Stalker Sundays



Well its SUNDAY so that means its time to STALK someones blog. HEHEHE So without further ado lets get STALKING!!!


The BLOG we will be STALKING this week is 




So sit down and 







Friday, August 26, 2011

!!Flipping Friday!!


So today is the start of a NEW giveaway!!


The first 5 people to follow me today & Comment to this post will receive a

 FREE EBOOK
 of 

Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)
!!!BLOODLINES!!!




Make sure you comment with your email address







Here is my current personal collection of swap bookmarks.  Most of them are signed and they are my pride an joy.  I mean who doesn't like getting signed stuff from their fav authors.

Well if I get enough of this stuff ( as in copies) Ill be more than happy to post a giveaway!!!  

The Vamps are BACK and So Are The BOYS!!!



Thursday, August 25, 2011

First Winner of 100 Followers Contest



Our first winner is Jiranda Borcherds Smith
And her book she choose is
Bloodlines from
Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)

She Won So How Do You??

All you have to do is follow

My Site +1

Follow Twitter +1             Like Facebook +1

Follow  Goodreads  +1

For an extra chance to win post my Button on your site. +3

Then fill out the form and send it off.

Its an ongoing contest so Get All Of Your Friends To Join!!


Numbers were chosen by my 7 year old daughter


Saturday, August 20, 2011

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark! Ya Right!










So we went to go watch this movie today in Orlando.  And I must say it is not one of my fav movies from director Del Toro.  I don't know why I watch these things.  I always end up way scared when night comes lol.  I guess I like so many others just love being scared.  If you know Faerie Lore than this movie will make much more sense to you vs. people who don't.  It had a LOT of celtic overtones. From a Faerie Ring to the artwork in the house.  

All in all it was a wonderful remake of the made for tv movie from the 70's but if you ask me they could have changed the ending and gave it a better story.  As a story for the 70's vs. the 21st century where we have ghost hunters and the vampire diaries.  I think they could have kicked some monster ASS and it would have been a better movie.  

Well anyhoo this movie gets Four Trees since it was fairly scary.  But I still think that they could have done better.

PS. If you have seen this movie or you are going to see it.  The Runes above the ash shoot say BE WARNED.  I hate it when they use things like this but then don't say anything about it.  It really ticks me off.










Below is information about this movie. (taken from Wikipedia.com)

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a 2011 American horror film written by Matthew Robbins and Guillermo del Toro and directed by comic book artist Troy Nixey. The film stars Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, and Katie Holmes, as a man, his daughter, and his girlfriend moving into an 19th century Rhode Island mansion, where his withdrawn daughter begins to witness malevolent goblin-like creatures that emerge from a sealed fireplace in the basement of the house. It is a remake of the 1973 ABC made-for-television horror film of the same name that starred Kim Darby.


!!WARNING!!


A gruesome prologue set on the night of October 1910 shows the home's deranged first owner, artist and biologist Emerson Blackwood, luring his maid, Miss Winter, into the dungeon-like basement and rem
oving teeth from the mouth of the terrified young woman. As he carries out the atrocity, he explains to the young maid that they, the goblin-like creatures known as Homunculi, have taken his son and will only give him back with teeth. As the young woman screams, whispering can be heard all around the room from the sealed up fireplace. Blackwood makes his way over to the fireplace and offers the teeth in exchange for the return of his son, only to be told his offering wasn't acceptable and he is pulled into the fireplace. The basement is sealed and forgotten over the generations.
The movie then opens with a young girl, Sally Hirst (Bailee Madison), moving into Blackwood Manor, the Gothic mansion being restored by her architect father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes), an interior decorator. Her father is renovating the house they live in, in hopes of having it on the front page of a known magazine. Due to the fact that her mother recently abandoned her, Sally has become a distant child with emotional vulnerability. Although Kim tries to befriend her, Sally alienates herself from her.

One day, Sally hears voices calling her name and follows them — finding a hidden basement with a fireplace that has been bolted shut. She is drawn toward the fireplace, as she can hear voices that beg her to open it, promising friendship. One day she sneaks into the basement to open the fireplace, but her father stops her before she can get the door completely open. The Homunculi escape, however, and begin to torment Sally at night telling her to turn the lights out.

As the days progress, Kim finds several of her dresses shredded, and Alex's straight razor goes missing. Shortly afterward, a teddy bear that Kim gave to Sally is found destroyed underneath her bed after she yelled for her Dad having been scared by the creatures. Sally claims that someone (or something) else is to blame for these things, but her father does not believe her and is preoccupied with renovating the house. Kim, however, begins to believe her claims, as strange incidents occur more frequently.
Kim then leaves to speak with the house's groundskeeper, who knows the history of the house and was severely injured by the Homunculi for warning the family to leave. She asks him about the house and the truth behind the fireplace. He tells Kim to go to the local library to search for history of the house and the original o
wner. Upon looking into the history Kim discovers the previous owner's son went missing at a young age. Before his own disappearance, Blackwood ranted about small creatures dating back from the Stone Age that were known to kidnap people, usually children, for the purpose of replenishing their numbers and eating their victims' bones and teeth. Kim looks at Blackwood's images of the creatures, and finds that they match Sally's illustrations and descriptions.
Realizing the danger, Kim attempts to get Sally out of the house, and stay in a hotel. However, before they leave, the creatures cut the house's power. The creatures trap Alex in the garage and try to kill him. They trip Kim as she is walking down the stairs, tie up Sally and pull her into the basement. Kim awakens and is able to cut Sally's ropes before the creatures can pull her into the fireplace. Sally is also able to kill one of the creatures with the camera. However Kim's leg becomes tangled in the rope. Alex escapes the garage and arrives just in time to see Kim being pulled into the fireplace.
In the epilogue, after Alex and 
Sally escape, the house goes into foreclosure. They visit it one last time so that Sally can leave a drawing she had made of her and Kim as a memorial to Kim for her sacrifice to save Sally. After they leave, the drawing mysteriously floats down to the basement and into the fireplace. The film concludes with Kim (who has become one of the creatures) and the creatures speaking to each other, patiently waiting for their next victims to move into the house.



So Remember Tonight When You Go To Sleep


Friday, August 19, 2011

Underworld part 4



Ok now who doesn't love this series?  I just hope that they do a great job continuing the storyline.  Instead of killing it like a  lot of movies they should have just started and finished with one.

I can't wait to see what they have in store for Selene and her new daughter.  My only real question which Selene asks in they teaser is WHERE IS MICHAEL???

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Up Coming Giveaway

There will be a new contest posted for the upcoming book called Elemental Reality. It will start Aug. 30 and run to Sept 3rd.



When Callie Pierce was ten, her mother disappeared without a trace. On the eve of her disappearance twelve years later, the Earth seemingly comes alive. The elements speak to Callie, and that's only the beginning. Everything she has ever known was a twisted fabrication to protect her. Now the truth is set free. Callie and her sister are more powerful than any Faerie ever born. Now they have to use their powers to save their mother and family from the evil hands of fate that threaten to tear them apart. Welcome to her elemental reality.


Release Date: August 21, 2011

Click here to go to the giveaway starting Aug. 30th-Sept 3rd

 Giveaway will run August 30, 2011 and end at 11:59pm EST on September 3, 2011.  The giveaway is for US residents only.  I will announce the winner on Sept 6th, 2011

Monday, August 08, 2011

Glow

Glow (Sky Chasers, #1)Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Ok so I’m torn between giving this book two to three stars. I’ve heard that this book is like The Hunger Games, which I hope that it isn’t.

This book in a lot of ways was very godly. Very preachy and I’m not into that. It had a very intense message and was very political.

At the beginning of the book I was drawn in and I really liked it. Yet, as the story progressed it had parts that were written for the teen crowd then others that seemed would have been better suited for a children’s book.

The book also jumped POV, which made it a very slow and irritating read. The books love triangle didn’t really make much sense as Seth has done things that are not redeemable and Kieran and Waverly spent most of the book separated. So it made it very hard to become a fan of either love interest. It all felt very detached.

By the end of the book I couldn’t pick a team Kieran or Seth. And most of the time it felt like it was every person for themselves.

This book is listed as a book 1, so I guess unless I’m sent an ARC of the book 2. It will not be flying across my part of space.

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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Circle Nine

Circle NineCircle Nine by Anne Heltzel

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This book was so weird. I read a few reviews and just couldn't finish it. I skipped to the end and read some of that and I must say that was a very very odd book. I always try very hard to finish a book no matter how bad it is but this one I just couldn't 10 pages in and I was wondering what was going on with it.



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Sunday, July 31, 2011

First Winner Number 23!

We chose number 23 as it is the day that my husband and I got married. 
Our first wedding anniversary is coming up Sept 23.  

Our first winner is Jiranda Borcherds Smith 

And her book she choose is 

Bloodlines from  
Out on August 23, 2011

Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)


We are still looking for our first contest winner for Liking the page through Facebook. (to like or follow look at the bottom of the blog) 

#BookRecommendation: The Iron King (The Iron Fey #1) by @jkagawa




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.

Friday, May 20, 2011

#BookReview for The Strange Case of Finley Jayne (Steampunk Chronicles 0.5) by @AlterKates


Synopsis: Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. 

Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. 

Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's offered the lofty position of companion to Phoebe, a debutante recently engaged to Lord Vincent, she accepts, despite having no experience. 

Lord Vincent is a man of science with his automatons and inventions, but Finley is suspicious of his motives where Phoebe is concerned. 

She will do anything to protect her new friend, but what she discovers is even more monstrous than anything she could have imagined.





Tuesday, April 26, 2011

#BookReview for Dark Mirror (Dark Mirror #1) by M.J. Putney


Synopsis: At sixteen, Lady Victoria Mansfield, youngest daughter of the earl and countess of Fairmount, is destined for a charmed life and her choice of mates worthy of her status. Then she makes a terrifying discovery that will ruin her life and disgrace her family forever. Tory's blood is tainted... by magic.

When a shocking accident forces Tory to reveal her despised skill, she is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. Tory's greatest wish is to be cured so she can return home and perhaps recover some of her shattered life.

Instead, curiosity and the lure of magic lead Tory to rebel students who have pledged their talents to protect England. As she joins them in their secret studies, she discovers her full powers - and is drawn to the handsome, enigmatic young Marquis of Allarde. But Allarde'a reserve and haunting secret keep him away, though she can see equal longing in his eyes.

Then Tory's pledge sweeps her and her friends into a perilous world of danger, challenge, and a triumph that saves Britain from conquest. Can danger also bring Tory and Allarde together, despite all that stands between them?