Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Teaser Tuesday #1
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:1. Grab you current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) “teaser”
sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what
you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they
like your teasers!
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“She was in his blood as surely as his blood was in her skin. He felt her tenderness, her compassion, her strength, her yearning for love.”
- p. 200, Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
Release Date: January
5, 2010
Publisher: St.Martin’s Griffin
Genre: Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 256
Description:
Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her and her best friend's boyfriend start going around.
Now Regina Regina
Tensions grow and the abuse worsens as the final days of senior year march toward an explosive conclusion in this dark new tale from the author of Cracked Up To Be.
My Review:
This was the first novel I have read by Courtney Summers and it was an utterly compelling read, I could not put it down, I was so absorbed in the world and the characters Summers crafted that I read it in a couple of hours.
The book begins at a party full of drunken high school teenagers, Regina Regina Regina puts up a good fight and manages to get away, distraught she runs to Kara’s house (one of the members of her clique at school, the Fearsome Fivesome and Regina Regina and tells Anna that Regina Regina
At first I didn’t think I would feel sympathy for Regina, after all she was part of the clique that made many peoples life at the school miserable, okay I’ll say it she was a bitch and now she was getting a taste of her own medicine, but in a testament to Summers writing I started to feel sympathy for Regina’s situation and wanted everything to work out for her especially her developing relationship with Michael. The relationship portrayed with Michael was realistic, it wasn’t instantaneous but was slow burning which is understandable after years of mean gossiping about him from Regina Regina
Some Girls Are was a raw, intense and sometimes difficult reading but well worth the read. Perhaps as the title suggest Some Girls Are … just bitchy. A must read for all teenage girls, utter perfection. Sign me up for more Courtney Summers.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
In My Mailbox #3
In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren once a week which explores the weekly contents of your mailbox and books bought.
Bought:
Some Girls Are by
Courtney Summers (St. Martin's Griffin
Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-
girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her and her best friend's boyfriend start going around.
Now Regina
and her ex-best friends are out for revenge. If Regina
of Michael Hayden, a misfit with a tragic past who she herself used to bully. Friendship doesn't come easily for these onetime enemies, and as Regina works hard to make amends for her past, she realizes Michael
could be more than just a friend... if threats from the Fearsome Foursome don't break them both first.
Tensions grow and the abuse worsens as the final days of senior year march toward an explosive
conclusion in this dark new tale from the author of Cracked Up To Be.
I’ve been wanting to read Some Girls Are for ages, so what luck I thought when I was rummaging through my local bookstores shevles and found it tucked right down the bottom, so I quickly grabbed myself the one and only copy, I've already read it and it was intense. The review has been written already so I'll post it real soon.
Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill
(NAL Trade/July 6, 2010)
Merit, Chicago
Merit must accept the assignment, even though she knows that she’ll probably regret it. And she’s not wrong. Someone is gunning for Gabriel Keene, and Merit soon finds herself in the line of fire. She’ll need all the help she can get to track down the would-be assassin, but everywhere she turns, there are rising tensions between supernaturals—not least between her and a certain green-eyed, centuries old master vampire.
I pre-ordered this book once I finished reading Friday Night Bites I needed to read more of this addictive series. I got this in the mail on Tuesday and had it finished by Wednesday loved it, my favourite of the series so far, I’ll be posting the review soon.
So that’s what I got in my mailbox, as I’ve already read them both I’m going to have to rummage through my pile of other books I bought a couple of weeks ago that are sitting on my bedside table just waiting for me to read.
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