tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25494144498708204812024-02-02T03:24:31.998-05:00Book Comfort1.) BOOK {noun} a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together into a volume. 2.) COMFORT {noun} a satisfying or enjoyable experience.Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549414449870820481.post-10172096136885714842011-06-18T00:00:00.000-04:002011-06-18T00:00:01.661-04:00On My Wishlist {9}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0ZnWsO_hEePt7dGymi0vrqj6_Rqz93QOr2_aZecxPNKpmu53nWAYKSHjTWFb6inhN68w8EYIV-hQiU3KMpLzE9sHVSixlYNreM4fXA519LdIfdGePfdnD_1FEMTRBcMWIDFf1-T8A5f1/s1600/On-My-Wishlist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0ZnWsO_hEePt7dGymi0vrqj6_Rqz93QOr2_aZecxPNKpmu53nWAYKSHjTWFb6inhN68w8EYIV-hQiU3KMpLzE9sHVSixlYNreM4fXA519LdIfdGePfdnD_1FEMTRBcMWIDFf1-T8A5f1/s320/On-My-Wishlist.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by <a href="http://www.bookchickcity.com/">Book Chick City</a> and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I haven't read the Perfect Chemistry series yet and I have heard so many great stuff about these books. I sure wish I get my hands on them soon!<br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for—her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect.<br />
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Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.<br />
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In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.</span></b></span></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qBXy1CCUL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qBXy1CCUL.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><b>Rules of Attraction by </b><b>Simone Elkeles</b></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></span><br />
<blockquote><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">When Carlos Fuentes returns to America after living in Mexico for a year, he doesn’t want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him at a high school in Colorado . Carlos likes living his life on the edge and wants to carve his own path—just like Alex did. Then he meets Kiara Westford. She doesn’t talk much and is completely intimidated by Carlos’ wild ways. As they get to know one another, Carlos assumes Kiara thinks she’s too good for him, and refuses to admit that she might be getting to him. But he soon realizes that being himself is exactly what Kiara needs right now.</span></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290058000l/8662836.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1290058000l/8662836.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><b>Chain Reaction by </b><b>Simone Elkeles</b></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 2px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Continuing all the steamy romance of the first two books, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Simone Elkeles gives fans one more satisfying taste of the irresistible Fuentes boys.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br />
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What about you? What do you have on your wishlist?<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare will be released on December 6th 2011. This is the second book in the Infernal Devices series. I know that I still got like six months worth of waiting, but I just can't get my thoughts off this book! I simply love all the novels by Cassandra Clare and I cannot wait much longer for this one.</span><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.<br />
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With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.<br />
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Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?<br />
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As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.</span></span></div></blockquote><a href="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-86" height="100" src="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" title="signature" width="150" /></a>Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549414449870820481.post-7676180488243356722011-06-14T00:00:00.000-04:002011-06-14T00:00:03.157-04:00Teaser Tuesdays {14}<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSjY16HIf0wtZYdbuWrZ30biAME2Cpa7rqqDUXQQYQdBkId-oa9wGuJjlsnzZb9jthkbeCt3PmM9uNyal_0_n8MUlEozVuQeDfRgHib7rozPt_ASo_iKQ3mA0b6ATbUwPte8J7lDzsKr3/s1600/Teaser-Tuesday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSjY16HIf0wtZYdbuWrZ30biAME2Cpa7rqqDUXQQYQdBkId-oa9wGuJjlsnzZb9jthkbeCt3PmM9uNyal_0_n8MUlEozVuQeDfRgHib7rozPt_ASo_iKQ3mA0b6ATbUwPte8J7lDzsKr3/s320/Teaser-Tuesday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em><strong>Teaser Tuesdays</strong></em> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <em><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Should Be Reading</a>. </em>Anyone can play along! Just do the following:</span><br />
<div><div><div><div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Grab your current read</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Open to a random page</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong> (<em>make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!</em>)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share the <strong>title & author</strong>, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Cover Crazy is a weekly meme that was created by Tawni over at <a href="http://thebookworms.org/">The Book Worms</a> to show which cover(s) you are absolutely going crazy over!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This week I can't get my eyes off this book, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer Smith which will be released on January 2nd 2012.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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What about you? Which book covers are you lusting over?<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In My Mailbox is an amazing weekly meme hosted by Kristi from <a href="http://www.thestorysiren.com/">The Story Siren</a> that features the books we have received during the week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the books I bought this week:</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Calla loves summer because summer means Duncan. They’ve been best friends for years, but Calla has never worked up the nerve to tell him how she really feels. This summer, the summer before college, is Calla's last chance.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Violet isn't much of a rule breaker in real life. But this isn't real life, this is summer, and Violet is determined to make the most of it. Besides, a little sneaking out never hurt anyone. And sneaking out with James is 100% worth the risk...even though James is completely off-limits.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Daisy has never been the sister that boys notice, but when sparks fly with Joel at the first bonfire of summer, it seems so easy and right. So why is being his girlfriend so complicated?</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Alona Dare–Senior in high school, co-captain of the cheerleading squad, Homecoming Queen three years in a row, voted most likely to marry a movie star… and newly dead.<br />
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I’m the girl you hated in high school. Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot bod, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of band geeks—is there anything more humiliating? As it turns out, yes—watching your boyfriend and friends move on with life, only days after your funeral. And you wouldn’t believe what they’re saying about me now that they think I can’t hear them. To top it off, I’m starting to disappear, flickering in and out of existence. I don’t know where I go when I’m gone, but it’s not good. Where is that freaking white light already?<br />
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Will Killian–Senior in high school, outcast, dubbed “Will Kill” by the popular crowd for the unearthly aura around him, voted most likely to rob a bank…and a ghost-talker.<br />
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I can see, hear, and touch the dead. Unfortunately, they can also see, hear and touch me. Yeah, because surviving high school isn’t hard enough already. I’ve done my best to hide my “gift.” After all, my dad, who shared my ability, killed himself because of it when I was fifteen. But lately, pretending to be normal has gotten a lot harder. A new ghost—an anonymous, seething cloud of negative energy with the capacity to throw me around—is pursuing me with a vengeance. My mom, who knows nothing about what I can do, is worrying about the increase in odd incidents, my shrink is tossing around terms like “temporary confinement for psychiatric evaluation,” and my principal, who thinks I’m a disruption and a faker, is searching for every way possible to get rid of me. How many weeks until graduation?</span></div></div></div><br />
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What do you have in your mailbox?<br />
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<strong>Trade Paperback</strong>: 281 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>: </span>Hyperion Book CH<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (June 29<sup>th</sup> 2010)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>142312197X <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9781423121978<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from National Bookstore</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>First Sentence</strong>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">"It was easy enough to sneak out of school."</span></span><br />
<strong>Favorite Line from the Book</strong>: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">"'My hair is naturally this color. I have three earings in one ear, that's it. This shirt' -I tugged at the fabric across my chest- 'is navy blue, and if I act weird all the time, it's because of ghosts like you.'" </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Alona Dare–Senior in high school, co-captain of the cheerleading squad, Homecoming Queen three years in a row, voted most likely to marry a movie star… and newly dead. </span></span><br />
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I’m the girl you hated in high school. Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot bod, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of band geeks—is there anything more humiliating? As it turns out, yes—watching your boyfriend and friends move on with life, only days after your funeral. And you wouldn’t believe what they’re saying about me now that they think I can’t hear them. To top it off, I’m starting to disappear, flickering in and out of existence. I don’t know where I go when I’m gone, but it’s not good. Where is that freaking white light already?<br />
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Will Killian–Senior in high school, outcast, dubbed “Will Kill” by the popular crowd for the unearthly aura around him, voted most likely to rob a bank…and a ghost-talker.<br />
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I can see, hear, and touch the dead. Unfortunately, they can also see, hear and touch me. Yeah, because surviving high school isn’t hard enough already. I’ve done my best to hide my “gift.” After all, my dad, who shared my ability, killed himself because of it when I was fifteen. But lately, pretending to be normal has gotten a lot harder. A new ghost—an anonymous, seething cloud of negative energy with the capacity to throw me around—is pursuing me with a vengeance. My mom, who knows nothing about what I can do, is worrying about the increase in odd incidents, my shrink is tossing around terms like “temporary confinement for psychiatric evaluation,” and my principal, who thinks I’m a disruption and a faker, is searching for every way possible to get rid of me. How many weeks until graduation?</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Before I start with my review, let me say that this is the very first time that I read a book about ghosts, with ghosts, or whatnot. Vampires, I can deal with. Werewolves, I definitely am fascinated. Aliens, I can say I am always an avid reader of those. But, ghosts? Hmmm... I have to think twice before I pick it up.<br />
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The Ghost and the Goth is a fun, easy read. Although at the start, its readers might think that the story is just so clinche - you know, popular, beautiful cheerleader meets the sullen outcast, as you move along the story it definitely is not as cliche as you once thought it would be. The author was able to weave the characters of Alona and Will so perfectly, that it seems that they were based on actual persons. Yes, there were shallow moments in the book, but well, I feel that those scenes were needed. Alona is such an adorable character. Yes, she might be shallow sometimes, really is the epitome of that perfect popular cheerleader, but as the story progresses, she also grows and she lets us see that her life, or rather, afterlife is not so perfect after all. Will, the boy who sees, hears, and talks to ghost, definitely won me over. He was such a cute misunderstood boy, but just as lovable.<br />
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I love how the author wrote the scenes in this book. The novel gives us two perspectives - Alona's and Will's. We get to read their thoughts, their feelings, and see what they are seeing. I also applaud the author for writing such an adorable book. There are moments that I am literally laughing out loud while reading those quirky and funny comebacks between Alona and Will.<br />
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Overall, this book is such a fun read with a great pacing and just the right amount of conflicts that will make you want to turn another page. I cannot wait to read its sequel, Queen of the Dead.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by <a href="http://www.bookchickcity.com/">Book Chick City</a> and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">This week I have <strike>three</strike> five books which I really want to get copies off, but unfortunately, are not yet available in our local bookstores... (so sad).<br />
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In Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed ‘brat’ has trained into one of three groups–Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.<br />
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As a Huntress, her purpose is clear—to brave the dangerous tunnels outside the enclave and bring back meat to feed the group while evading ferocious monsters known as Freaks. She’s worked toward this goal her whole life, and nothing’s going to stop her, not even a beautiful, brooding Hunter named Fade. When the mysterious boy becomes her partner, Deuce’s troubles are just beginning.<br />
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Down below, deviation from the rules is punished swiftly and harshly, and Fade doesn’t like following orders. At first she thinks he’s crazy, but as death stalks their sanctuary, and it becomes clear the elders don’t always know best, Deuce wonders if Fade might be telling the truth. Her partner confuses her; she’s never known a boy like him before, as prone to touching her gently as using his knives with feral grace.<br />
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As Deuce’s perception shifts, so does the balance in the constant battle for survival. The mindless Freaks, once considered a threat only due to their sheer numbers, show signs of cunning and strategy… but the elders refuse to heed any warnings. Despite imminent disaster, the enclave puts their faith in strictures and sacrifice instead. No matter how she tries, Deuce cannot stem the dark tide that carries her far from the only world she’s ever known.</span></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289410187l/9464733.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1289410187l/9464733.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><b>Beauty Queens by Libba Bray</b></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></span><br />
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Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.</span></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306793074l/9462795.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1306793074l/9462795.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Starcrossed by Josephone Angelini </b></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 2px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">How do you defy destiny?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297987541l/9166877.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297987541l/9166877.jpg" width="208" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>The Girl In The Steel Corset</b></div></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 2px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one…except the "thing" inside her.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But no <em>normal</em> Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with one punch….</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Only Griffin King sees the magical darkness inside her that says she's special, says she's one of <em>them.</em> The orphaned duke takes her in from the gaslit streets against the wishes of his band of misfits: Emily, who has her own special abilities and an unrequited love for Sam, who is part robot; and Jasper, an American cowboy with a shadowy secret.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Griffin's investigating a criminal called The Machinist, the mastermind behind several recent crimes by automatons. Finley thinks she can help—and finally be a part of something, finally fit in.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">But The Machinist wants to tear Griff's little company of strays apart, and it isn't long before trust is tested on all sides. At least Finley knows whose side she's on—even if it seems no one believes her.</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416BNt6-UpL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416BNt6-UpL.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>The Summer of Firsts and Lasts by Terra Elan McVoy </b></div></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(255, 102, 255); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 2px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Three sisters. One life-changing summer.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Calla loves summer because summer means Duncan. They’ve been best friends for years, but Calla has never worked up the nerve to tell him how she really feels. This summer, the summer before college, is Calla's last chance.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Violet isn't much of a rule breaker in real life. But this isn't real life, this is summer, and Violet is determined to make the most of it. Besides, a little sneaking out never hurt anyone. And sneaking out with James is 100% worth the risk...even though James is completely off-limits.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Daisy has never been the sister that boys notice, but when sparks fly with Joel at the first bonfire of summer, it seems so easy and right. So why is being his girlfriend so complicated?</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br />
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What about you? What do you have on your wishlist?<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Death Cure by James Dashner will be released on October 11th 2011. This is the third book of the Maze Runner series. I am very much excited to read the conclusion in this </span>trilogy and get answers to my questions!<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.<br />
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What Wicked doesn't know is that something's happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can't believe a word of what Wicked says.<br />
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The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine.<br />
Will anyone survive the Death Cure?</span></span></div></blockquote><a href="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-86" height="100" src="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" title="signature" width="150" /></a>Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549414449870820481.post-86337367423449962992011-06-07T00:00:00.001-04:002011-06-07T00:00:00.458-04:00Teaser Tuesdays {13}<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSjY16HIf0wtZYdbuWrZ30biAME2Cpa7rqqDUXQQYQdBkId-oa9wGuJjlsnzZb9jthkbeCt3PmM9uNyal_0_n8MUlEozVuQeDfRgHib7rozPt_ASo_iKQ3mA0b6ATbUwPte8J7lDzsKr3/s1600/Teaser-Tuesday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSjY16HIf0wtZYdbuWrZ30biAME2Cpa7rqqDUXQQYQdBkId-oa9wGuJjlsnzZb9jthkbeCt3PmM9uNyal_0_n8MUlEozVuQeDfRgHib7rozPt_ASo_iKQ3mA0b6ATbUwPte8J7lDzsKr3/s320/Teaser-Tuesday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em><strong>Teaser Tuesdays</strong></em> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <em><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Should Be Reading</a>. </em>Anyone can play along! Just do the following:</span><br />
<div><div><div><div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Grab your current read</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Open to a random page</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong> (<em>make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!</em>)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share the <strong>title & author</strong>, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!</span></li>
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<blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I love how tragic looking this cover is. With the girl curled up as if she's waiting for the waves to engulf her is just so heartbreaking and so lonely. I like how her red dress is in contrast to the light colored backdrop which is the ocean. It brings her out and it simply draws your attention to her. The line, "Romeo and Juliet: the greatest love story ever told, is a lie," is just so intriguing and makes me want to read it now.</div></blockquote><br />
What about you? Which book covers are you lusting over?<br />
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<strong>Hardcover</strong>: 360 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>: </span>Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (October 12<sup>th</sup> 2010)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>0385738757 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9780385738750<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from Fully Booked</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>First Sentence</strong>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">"She spoke to him before the world fell apart."</span></span><br />
<strong>Favorite Line from the Book</strong>: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might’ve had.</span>" </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">S<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">olving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?</div></span></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">I have been looking for this sequel to The Maze Runner for a while now as it is always sold out in our local bookstores. Good thing I was able to spot the single copy last week and finally got to read it. I haven't been mistaken. It is simply awesome!<br />
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The book started just where The Maze Runner ended. We can still see the usual gang - Thomas, Teresa, Newt, Minho, and Frypan. Another character was also introduced - Aris. He is the equivalent of Teresa in Group B. Yes, there is another group and another maze which Wicked developed and ran simultaneously with Thomas' group - Group A. I am going to stop here now as I might not be able to stop and continue retelling the story which I know will just piss you off. This book is THAT amazing! I can go on and on about it and might not stop. Okay, stop now! ^_^<br />
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Anyway, the story is still told in Thomas' point of view. The book was even more descriptive than the first. Its readers will get to understand what happened in their futuristic world and actually feel that intense heat, The Flare, by just reading through the book. This second book was told in such a way that its readers will actually think about what would happen next. It is gripping and it made me feel that I was on the edge a lot of times, trying to guess what their next move would be.<br />
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The climax and the ending of this novel is not what I expected it to be. Well, neither did The Maze Runner... Which is just so awesome! It is so unpredictable that I actually re-read the last two chapters just to check if I missed anything that led to the ending. If The Maze Runner is a cliffhanger, I don't know what to call this second book. It has so many twists and turns that you can never guess what comes next. It is so intense that its readers will not and cannot take their eyes off the book until the very end. I just couldn't wait for the third book, The Death Cure, to be released and finally get the answers to my questions and get my mind at ease.<br />
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I have to commend James Dashner for being able to write such a climactic, intense novel which can make your head spin. I'm so looking forward to the conclusion of this series.<br />
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<strong>Hardcover</strong>: 184 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>:</span> Farrar Straus Giroux<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (October 27<sup>th</sup> 2009)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>0374322287 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9780374322281<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from Power Books</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">What’s your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you’re lots of fun and a bit sassy. Or a medium americano? You prefer simplicity in life. Or perhaps it’s a small decaf soy sugar-free hazelnut caffe latte? Some might call you a yuppie. Seventeen-year-old barista Jane Turner has this theory that you can tell a lot about a person by their regular coffee drink. She scribbles it all down in a notebook and calls it Espressology. So it’s not a totally crazy idea when Jane starts hooking up some of her friends based on their coffee orders. Like her best friend, Em, a medium hot chocolate, and Cam, a toffee nut latte. But when her boss, Derek, gets wind of Jane’s Espressology, he makes it an in-store holiday promotion, promising customers their perfect matches for the price of their favorite coffee. Things are going better than Derek could ever have hoped, so why is Jane so freaked out? Does it have anything to do with Em dating Cam? She’s the one who set them up! She should be happy for them, right?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">With overtones of Jane Austen’s <em>Emma </em>and brimming with humor and heart, this sweet, frothy debut will be savored by readers.</span></div></span></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is just a very quick read to me given that it is just a little short of reaching 200 pages. This book is what you definitely expect from a chick-lit novel - light, fun, and romance. The idea behind this book is just plain genius. Who would ever think of classifying people based on their preferred and favorite coffee mix and matching them with the other coffee addicts based on their drinks? But of course, all of the greatness just plainly stopped there. This novel, although a fun read, is also pretty much predictable. The characters are purely average and I couldn't even pinpoint anyone who stood out. The book didn't intrigue me much as compared to the summary of the book. What I do love about this novel though is how each coffee drink is greatly described and assigned to a certain type of person. I feel that the author has really researched on this through observing people in a coffeehouse. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</em></strong></div>Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549414449870820481.post-12124603756463005872011-06-01T00:00:00.000-04:002011-06-01T00:00:03.606-04:00Waiting on Wednesday {11}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0JJCugO-oAAlVeEbhNPrKQS80NoR8R3a8mteQj2JKVYAhu48ZbeJqB1MWNcpLcA2wX9XRxA7oFay_y2q5JfpI9_DfEmQLSsBAdTdACiyPXbE6_3J_EkQ3-TMWQzO8l8fOUiYGJUWBLkj2/s1600/New+WoW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptS4Y_SH_F55B13EKlXL9OW6B8YPDZiZ84RZQ6DhPa93dUGM4q1Ck5I5BXlK-F2CDBRd6Anp0OuENqvalHUDQI5f1LWshosv0ETq6ZgAfZJvMuJOag3-r9eIyJVozntK6d2ymfwx7Z8wQ/s1600/Waiting-on-Wednesday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptS4Y_SH_F55B13EKlXL9OW6B8YPDZiZ84RZQ6DhPa93dUGM4q1Ck5I5BXlK-F2CDBRd6Anp0OuENqvalHUDQI5f1LWshosv0ETq6ZgAfZJvMuJOag3-r9eIyJVozntK6d2ymfwx7Z8wQ/s320/Waiting-on-Wednesday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking the Spine</a> that spotlights upcoming releases you are eagerly anticipating.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen will be released on September 20th 2011. This is the second book of The Bright Young Things series. I am excited to read what happens with Corderlia, Letty, and Astrid. I loved how their stories were told in the first book and I can't wait to know what the future beholds for them as they embark on another chapter of their lives.</span><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">The exciting sequel to <em>Bright Young Things</em>, by the bestselling author of The Luxe, promises romance, adventure, and intrigue in the final days of the Roaring Twenties.<br />
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In this must-have sequel to <em>Bright Young Things</em>, Cordelia and Letty are small-town girls no longer. Letty is ready at last to chase her Broadway dreams. Cordelia thought she lost her true love, but a chance meeting will change her fortune—and her future. The unflappable flapper Astrid Donal has promised herself to Charlie Grey, Cordelia’s half-brother, but isn’t sure their love is true enough to survive. And a bitter rivalry will ensnare them all in a dangerous feud played out in the speakeasies of Manhattan and on the great lawns of Long Island. As these bright young things live out their beautiful days in the summer of 1929, they find romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, new friends and unexpected rivals.<br />
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Fans of The Luxe series, <em>A Great and Terrible Beauty</em>, Martin Scorsese’s hit HBO series <em>Boardwalk Empire</em>, and, of course, <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, will delight in the Jazz Age setting, a time when girls were enjoying newfound freedom and excitement could be found behind any door in Manhattan.</span></span></div></blockquote><a href="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-86" height="100" src="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" title="signature" width="150" /></a>Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549414449870820481.post-36547765954400505152011-05-31T00:39:00.001-04:002011-05-31T00:40:02.156-04:00Teaser Tuesdays {12}<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSjY16HIf0wtZYdbuWrZ30biAME2Cpa7rqqDUXQQYQdBkId-oa9wGuJjlsnzZb9jthkbeCt3PmM9uNyal_0_n8MUlEozVuQeDfRgHib7rozPt_ASo_iKQ3mA0b6ATbUwPte8J7lDzsKr3/s1600/Teaser-Tuesday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSjY16HIf0wtZYdbuWrZ30biAME2Cpa7rqqDUXQQYQdBkId-oa9wGuJjlsnzZb9jthkbeCt3PmM9uNyal_0_n8MUlEozVuQeDfRgHib7rozPt_ASo_iKQ3mA0b6ATbUwPte8J7lDzsKr3/s320/Teaser-Tuesday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><em><strong>Teaser Tuesdays</strong></em> is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of <em><a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Should Be Reading</a>. </em>Anyone can play along! Just do the following:</span><br />
<div><div><div><div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Grab your current read</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Open to a random page</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!</strong> (<em>make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!</em>)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Share the <strong>title & author</strong>, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!</span></li>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In My Mailbox is an amazing weekly meme hosted by Kristi from <a href="http://www.thestorysiren.com/">The Story Siren</a> that features the books we have received during the week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the books I bought this week:</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.<br />
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During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.<br />
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Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1280164815l/7631105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1280164815l/7631105.jpg" width="212" /></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Scorch Trials by James Dashner </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?</span></div></div></div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Before I end my In My Mailbox post, I've got some kinda crazy news for all of you... I got featured in Book Lover Discovers AND it's my first time to be featured by another blogger... so I'm kinda ecstatic about it! LOL! Please check out my original post <a href="http://bookcomfort.blogspot.com/2011/05/book-lover-discovers-me.html">HERE</a> and get to know me better at Book Lover's weekly feature <a href="http://yabookloverblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/booklover-discovers_28.html">HERE</a>. Have a great week ahead you guys!</span></strong></div><br />
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What do you have in your mailbox?<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9eUyeLQe5kh3QKLByQ6RjMtJv7aW4HdSJiLF7l84ywymyctXs54SqYczoDlk4SUcdfWUNZk63PQSV3HO9sx0zszR6YxWZlaQVDZoqAhiIMGBaA9BLd2EyQ-9vRNaF467Qov-l5Mb0Oj5U/s1600/signature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9eUyeLQe5kh3QKLByQ6RjMtJv7aW4HdSJiLF7l84ywymyctXs54SqYczoDlk4SUcdfWUNZk63PQSV3HO9sx0zszR6YxWZlaQVDZoqAhiIMGBaA9BLd2EyQ-9vRNaF467Qov-l5Mb0Oj5U/s1600/signature.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549414449870820481.post-36511378440487558982011-05-28T16:52:00.000-04:002011-05-28T16:52:11.560-04:00Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-haeg5NHqTXBRCVZ1CZHdXzGaSKhWVB5qw7K3NXEUVBy2htwXx4mgQv4WZwRyJd01mo3sK2AmW9VGgT-tJjZFYJvme8oAq4QPe2LlgbWKJsfdn5M85tpQYo71JnfSK7vRzjhuqkPi8v_a/s1600/before+i+fall.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mry4w810L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mry4w810L.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Reading Level</strong>: Young Adult<br />
<strong>Hardcover</strong>: 487 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>:</span> Katherine Tegen Books<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (May 3<sup>rd</sup> 2011)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>0062024027 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9780062024022<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from Fully Booked</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>First Sentence</strong>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"There is one mirror in my house.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"</span></span></span></span><br />
<strong style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Line from the Book</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"'</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I might be in love with you.' He smiles a little. 'I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.'</span>" </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. </span></span><br />
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During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.<br />
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Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.</span></span></div></blockquote><div>There are two kind of books - the one which doesn't live up to the hype and the one which can and did. Divergent definitely lived up to my expectations AND to its hype.<br />
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This is a fast read for me and it has 487 pages! This book is just so engaging and action packed that reading it will just take a breeze. With every turn of the page, I felt that I was being sucked into the world of future Chicago.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Divergent is set in a undetermined future in Chicago wherein people are divided into factions: Candor (honest), Abnegation (selflessness), Dauntless (daring), Erudite (knowledgeable), and Amity (peaceful). At the age of sixteen, teenagers are given the chance of choosing which factions they will go to. Take note though that ones you choose your faction you want to be with, you will make that faction your life, your family, your identity: "Faction before blood." Different factions have different ways on how they conduct their rigorous trainings to the initiates. Not everyone passes and those who didn't make the cut will be fanctionless.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">What I love best in Veronica Roth's writing is that even though the setting is futuristic, the characters are still real. You can get to connect with each of them. Even the relationships with each characters are not forced nor stiff. All their reactions to the situations presented to them in the novel are so genuine that you wouldn't think that you are with them living in a futuristic world. I love how Veronica Roth developed Tris. I like her. I love her attitude and even her flaws. The author was able to build her, slowly at first, but as the story progresses, Tris as a character, grows too. Four on the other hand, I totally adore. He is such a tough guy on the outside, but has lots of beliefs and feelings which he wouldn't let anyone see. I love the mysteriousness which was mixed in his character. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All in all, the story is well developed. The twists are shocking and the climax was totally awesome. The ending to this book has just the right amount of perfection to make us want the second book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<strong>Hardcover</strong>: 264 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>: </span>Dutton Juvenile<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (April 5<sup>th</sup> 2011)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>0525422943 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9780525422945<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from Power Books</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>First Sentence</strong>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: <i>It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through</i>.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"</span></span></span></span><br />
<strong style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Line from the Book</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.</span>" </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future–and each other.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined <em>If I Stay</em>, <em>Where She Went</em> explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.</div></span></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like <i>If I Stay</i>, this companion novel had me preoccupied for about a couple of hours and when I say preoccupied I am the kind who cannot be bothered or talked to coherently. It means that my mind is totally else where... it means that I was in New York following Adam's and Mia's story. That was how engrossing this book is. Unlike <i>If I Stay</i> though, <i>Where She Went</i> is not as emotionally packed novel (simply put, I didn't choke with tears), but still heartbreaking and intense. This novel is told in Adam's point of view and took place three years after Mia woke up.<br />
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This is Adam's story, his journey to life with Mia and without her. The book is centered around Adam's state after three years of Mia leaving him. Just like <i>If I Stay</i>, the novel still gives us flashbacks of the memories of Adam and through that we see his devastation, broken heart, watch him rise to fame, and see him trying to cure his wounds through writing music and watch him struggle to get over each day without Mia.<br />
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Mia on the other hand is still coping up with the loss of her family and through the author's writing, I felt how hard it would be if I am in Mia's shoes. I might as well end up making the same decisions as hers and even let go of that one person whom I love deeply.<br />
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I love how the author was able to write such a powerful and intense book. After reading <i>If I Stay</i>, I had my reservations about this book. I mean, can Gayle Forman top <i>If I Stay</i> with this sequel? My answer after putting down this book is a resounding YES! She was able to yet again engulf me in the world of Mia and Adam and she was able to envelope me with the emotions of both characters. <br />
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<i>Where She Went</i> is a book about selflessness, sacrifices, moving on, acceptance, closure, and forgiveness. Any person who will read this book will get a feel of how it is like to live your life day in, day out knowing that you have this entire hole in your being and only one person can fill it in. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, so I got up real early today (it's only 2:46AM here in Manila) and started reading the blogs I follow. As I was reading through the new posts in Google Reader I was surprised to see this...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am featured in Book Lover Discovers... This is the very first time I got to be featured... yay! Please check out Chloe's post to get to know me better.... ^_^</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This week I can't get my eyes off this book, The Girl In The Steel Corset by Kady Cross which will be released this week, May 24th.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I absolutely love that red gown. Let's just say I'm a little drawn to covers with red dresses, but that is not the only thing that I like about this cover. Look at her right hand. She has this thingymajig attached to her finger or is it <i>her</i> finger? I want to know what that is and if that thing plays an important part in the novel. I also love the expression on her face. She looks like someone who knows a secret and the look on her face tells me that she'll use that to her advantage. Good thing the book will be released this week, I'll get to know how this cover comes to play with the story. I'm extremely excited about it!</div></blockquote><br />
What about you? Which book covers are you lusting over?<br />
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<strong>Hardcover</strong>: 196 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>: </span>Dutton Juvenile<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (April 9<sup>th</sup> 2009)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>0525421033 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9780525421030<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from Book Depository</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>First Sentence</strong>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"Every one thinks it's because of the snow.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"</span></span></span></span><br />
<strong style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Line from the Book</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.</span>" </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In a single moment, <em>everything</em> changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...</span></span><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make—and the ultimate choice Mia commands.</span></span></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">If I Stay had me reading until the wee hours of the night. I finished the book in only one sitting. Although this novel is quite short as compared to the other YA books, the book can give you a mean punch.<br />
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Mia is your typical seventeen-year old. She has a bright future awaiting her and planning on attending Julliard once accepted. She is a cellist. She has a family which everyone might wish for (I especially fell in love with her younger kid brother, Teddy). Mia has a boyfriend that utterly loves her and a bestfriend who will never leave her and is very much loyal.<br />
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One snowy day, a tragic event changed all these. And as Mia lingers in ICU, looking at her comatose self, she tells us her story.<br />
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I am at awe at how the author wrote this heartbreaking novel. I cannot imagine myself in Mia's situation and I cannot even predict what I will choose in the end. Dying is part of this novel, but the author didn't present it in a morbid way. She has written the novel in such a way that can make you understand the reason behind the difficult predicament that Mia is in - to move on along with her family or to stay.<br />
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The title of the book is very apt to the story. It clearly defined the state wherein Mia is in. It is a lingering question... full of uncertainty and pain, full of hesitations and what-ifs. Eventually Mia chose something in the end (I am not going to tell which one as there might be others who hasn't read this yet) and it left me reeling from pain.<br />
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If I Stay had me in tears during the last 4 chapters or so. It is just so heartbreaking and I applaud the author for writing such masterpiece which simply sucked you in. If I could just describe this in three words, they will be - intense, moving, and definitely heart wrenching.<br />
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P.S. If you decide to read this novel and I definitely recommend you to... be ready to have a box full of tissue.<br />
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Here's the book trailer:<br />
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<strong>Hardcover</strong>: 288 pages</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher</strong>: </span>Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">; 1<sup>st</sup> edition (April 26<sup>th</sup> 2011)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong>Language</strong>: English<br />
<strong>ISBN-10</strong>: </span>1416995587 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>ISBN-13</strong>: </span>9781416995586<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<strong>Source</strong>: Purchased from Book Depository</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #ffb3ff; border: 2px dashed #FF66FF; padding: 8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>First Sentence</strong>:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">"On Wednesday nights when I was little, my mom and I would watch old </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">musicals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">."</span></span></span></span><br />
<strong style="font-family: inherit;">Favorite Line from the Book</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There are moments in every girls life that are bigger than we know at the time. when you look back, you say that was one of those life-changing fork in the road moments and I didn't see it coming and then there are the moments that you know are big that whatever you do next there will be an impact. Your life could go one of two directions, DO or DIE.</span>" </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Book Summary: </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">It's been two years since Conrad told Belly to go with Jeremiah. She and Jeremiah have been inseparable ever since, even attending the same college-- only, their relationship hasn't exactly been the happily ever after Belly had hoped it would be. And when Jeremiah makes the worst mistake a boy can make, Belly is forced to question what she thought was true love. Does she really have a future with Jeremiah? Has she ever gotten over Conrad? It's time for Belly to decide, once and for all, who has her heart forever.</span></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">All I can say is that this third and final installment of the Summer series is truly the ultimate conclusion to the love story of Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah.<br />
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I learned about this series early this year when I started hogging other book blogs. I suddenly had the realization that I have been missing out a lot by not reading the series. When I started reading The Summer I Turned Pretty, I just couldn't stop. If you think after I read It's Not Summer Without You made me stop reading... Think again. I read We'll Always Have Summer twice! These books by Jenny Hann made me feel young again. They made me look back to my childhood dreams and fantasies. They made me remember how it was to fall in love for the first time.<br />
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The third book in the series is all about choices, repercussions, consequences, growing up, love, and letting go. It is not as tear-jerker as the first and second book, but all the scenes leading up to Belly's and Jeremiah's big day were just so heart-wrenching that I could even feel the pain. If the second book gave us glimpses of Jeremiah's thoughts and feelings, in this third book, it was Conrad's turn. I love knowing Conrad more. I honestly rooted for him since the second book and I always, always wished that he and Belly would end up together. Seeing a part of him made me love him more.<br />
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The ending of the book and the series is perfect. I am not going to spoil it for you by telling how it ended... but one word will describe it... perfection.<br />
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Jenny Hann made me part of the lives of the characters. These books made me feel that I grew up with Belly, Conrad, Jeremiah, and Steven. The ending was definitely bittersweet. I will miss Cousin's beach and I will definitely pick these books up just to re-read them over and over again.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In My Mailbox is an amazing weekly meme hosted by Kristi from <a href="http://www.thestorysiren.com/">The Story Siren</a> that features the books we have received during the week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the books I bought this week:</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sRUR+7c0L._SL500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sRUR+7c0L._SL500_.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Luxe by Anna Godbersen</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the self-contained world of young Gilded Age Manhattan socialites, Elizabeth and Diana Holland reign supreme. Or so it seems. Scratch the surface, though, and you can detect festering jealousies that threaten to topple them. Elizabeth suffers a more literal fall when her carriage overturns and she is carried away by the swift East River current. That's only the beginning of the action and suspense in <em>The Luxe,</em> the launch volume in a teen series by Anne Godbersen's.</span></span></div></div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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What do you have in your mailbox?<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by <a href="http://www.bookchickcity.com/">Book Chick City</a> and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I haven't read any books with ghosts in them and I plan to remedy that ASAP. I really want to read The Ghost and The Goth series by Stacie Kade. I've heard so many wonderful things about the first book and I just need to get a hold of that!<br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Alona Dare–Senior in high school, co-captain of the cheerleading squad, Homecoming Queen three years in a row, voted most likely to marry a movie star… and newly dead.<br />
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I’m the girl you hated in high school. Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot bod, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of band geeks—is there anything more humiliating? As it turns out, yes—watching your boyfriend and friends move on with life, only days after your funeral. And you wouldn’t believe what they’re saying about me now that they think I can’t hear them. To top it off, I’m starting to disappear, flickering in and out of existence. I don’t know where I go when I’m gone, but it’s not good. Where is that freaking white light already?<br />
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Will Killian–Senior in high school, outcast, dubbed “Will Kill” by the popular crowd for the unearthly aura around him, voted most likely to rob a bank…and a ghost-talker.<br />
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I can see, hear, and touch the dead. Unfortunately, they can also see, hear and touch me. Yeah, because surviving high school isn’t hard enough already. I’ve done my best to hide my “gift.” After all, my dad, who shared my ability, killed himself because of it when I was fifteen. But lately, pretending to be normal has gotten a lot harder. A new ghost—an anonymous, seething cloud of negative energy with the capacity to throw me around—is pursuing me with a vengeance. My mom, who knows nothing about what I can do, is worrying about the increase in odd incidents, my shrink is tossing around terms like “temporary confinement for psychiatric evaluation,” and my principal, who thinks I’m a disruption and a faker, is searching for every way possible to get rid of me. How many weeks until graduation?</span></div></div></blockquote><b></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Before Alona can make a final ruling on Will’s “friend” or “more” status, though, she discovers trouble at home. Her mom is tossing out Alona’s most valuable possessions, and her dad is expecting a new daughter with his wicked wife. Is it possible her family is already moving on? Hello! She’s only been dead for two months! Thankfully, Alona knows just the guy who can put a stop to this mess.<br />
Unfortunately for Alona, Will has other stuff on his mind, and Mina, a young (and beautiful) seer, is at the top of the list. She’s the first ghost-talker Will’s ever met—aside from his father—and she may hold answers to Will’s troubled past. But can she be trusted? Alona immediately puts a check mark in the “clearly not” column. But Will is - <em>ahem - </em>willing to find out, even if it means leaving a hurt and angry Alona to her own devices, which is <strong>never</strong> a good idea.<br />
Packed with romance, lovable characters, and a killer cliffhanger, <em>Queen of the Dead</em> is the out-of-this-world sequel to <em>The Ghost and the Goth</em>.</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></div>What about you? What do you have on your wishlist?<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore will be released on August 23rd 2011 and I am excited to read this because I simply loved I Am Number Four - both the book AND the movie. I can't wait to know what happens to Four and Six in their quest to find the others.</span><br />
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Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us—if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in, avoiding contact with one another . . . but our Legacies are developing, and soon we'll be equipped to fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign I've been waiting for? And what about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy eyes from my dreams? The girl with powers that are beyond anything I could ever imagine? The girl who may be strong enough to bring the six of us together?<br />
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They caught Number One in Malaysia.<br />
Number Two in England.<br />
And Number Three in Kenya.<br />
They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio—and failed.<br />
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I am Number Seven. One of six still alive.<br />
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And I'm ready to fight.</span></span></div></blockquote><a href="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-86" height="100" src="http://bookcomfort.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/signature.jpg" title="signature" width="150" /></a>Yashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102554013156556459noreply@blogger.com5