Year: 2016

Love is a Disease – Delirium {Review}

Posted July 23, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Love is a Disease – Delirium {Review}Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Series: Delirium #1
Publisher: HarperTeen (2011)
Hardcover (441 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, Read 2016

Synopsis

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing.
They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.
But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.

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A Solid Plot & Great Character Development – Queen of Shadows {Review}

Posted July 21, 2016 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

A Solid Plot & Great Character Development – Queen of Shadows {Review}Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas
Series: Throne of Glass #4
Publisher: Bloomsbury (2015)
Hardcover (648 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Crown of Midnight
Also in this series: Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire
Reading Challenges: 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

The queen has returned.
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…
She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.
She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.
The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.

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An Exceptional End to a Beautiful Duology – The Rose and the Dagger {Review}

Posted July 18, 2016 in Reading, Review / 3 Comments

An Exceptional End to a Beautiful Duology – The Rose and the Dagger {Review}The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh
Series: The Wrath and the Dawn #2
Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons (2016)
Hardcover (420 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The Wrath and the Dawn
Also in this series: The Wrath and the Dawn
Reading Challenges: 2016 Retelling Challenge, 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.
In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is forced from the arms of her beloved husband, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once thought Khalid a monster—a merciless killer of wives, responsible for immeasurable heartache and pain—but as she unraveled his secrets, she found instead an extraordinary man and a love she could not deny. Still, a curse threatens to keep Shazi and Khalid apart forever.
Now she’s reunited with her family, who have found refuge in the desert, where a deadly force is gathering against Khalid—a force set on destroying his empire and commanded by Shazi’s spurned childhood sweetheart. Trapped between loyalties to those she loves, the only thing Shazi can do is act. Using the burgeoning magic within her as a guide, she strikes out on her own to end both this terrible curse and the brewing war once and for all. But to do it, she must evade enemies of her own to stay alive.
The saga that began with
The Wrath and the Dawn takes its final turn as Shahrzad risks everything to find her way back to her one true love again.

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In Which I’m Going to Disappear…

Posted July 17, 2016 in Faith / 2 Comments

In case you have missed it, I’m going to World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland! I am super excited about this (and also a bit nervous because of celiac).

Anyway, I can’t guarantee internet access and will likely disappear from everything for a few weeks. I have some reviews scheduled while I am gone and that is about it.

I will definitely share my trip when I return in August.

Please keep me in your prayers and let me know if there is anything you would like me to pray for while I am on pilgrimage.

amanda

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Not My Cup of Tea – Beautiful Creatures {Review}

Posted July 16, 2016 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

Not My Cup of Tea – Beautiful Creatures {Review}Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
Series: Caster Chronicles #1
(2009)
Audiobook
{17 hours and 38 minutes} (563 pages)
Via: Audiobook Sync
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, Read 2016

Synopsis

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

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