Category: Reading

3 Things I Would Do If I Had a Hippogriff – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban {Review}

Posted April 14, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

3 Things I Would Do If I Had a Hippogriff – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban {Review}Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter #3
Publisher: Scholastic (1999)
Paperback (435 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, 2016 Re-Reading, Read 2016

Synopsis

Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has already survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It's assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney's ghoulish predictions seriously?

Find the book: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Find the author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads

Read More

Tagged as ,

{TTT} Lesser Known Books Every Fantasy Lover Should Read

Posted April 12, 2016 in Reading / 2 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week’s list is the Top Ten Books Every X Should Read. I am choosing to write about the Lesser Known Books Every Fantasy Lover Should Read. As a note, I am picking lesser known how I see it. If some of these are rather well-known, I may be unawares and then we should have a party! I also know it will be unlikely that I get to ten.

Green RiderAkarnaeSacrificed
Daughter of the ForestThe Ring and the CrownDream A Little DreamBecoming Darkness

Read More

Tagged as

Everyone is Keeping Secrets from Someone Else – The Orphan Queen {Review}

Posted April 11, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Everyone is Keeping Secrets from Someone Else – The Orphan Queen {Review}The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Series: The Orphan Queen #1
Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books (2015)
Hardcover (391 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

Wilhelmina has a hundred identities.
She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne.
She is a spy. Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate Skyvale Palace to study their foes. They assume the identities of nobles from a wraith-fallen kingdom, but enemies fill the palace, and Melanie’s behavior grows suspicious. With Osprey missions becoming increasingly dangerous and their leader more unstable, Wil can’t trust anyone.
She is a threat. Wraith is the toxic by-product of magic, and for a century using magic has been forbidden. Still the wraith pours across the continent, reshaping the land and animals into fresh horrors. Soon it will reach the Indigo Kingdom. Wilhelmina’s magic might be the key to stopping the wraith, but if the vigilante Black Knife discovers Wil’s magic, she will vanish like all the others.
Jodi Meadows introduces a vivid new fantasy full of intrigue, romance, dangerous magic, and one girl’s battle to reclaim her place in the world.

Find the book: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Find the author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr

Read More

Tagged as ,

Not What I Expected – The Young Elites {Review}

Posted April 9, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Not What I Expected – The Young Elites {Review}The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Series: The Young Elites #1
Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons (2014)
Audiobook
{10 hours and 9 minutes} (355 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.
Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family’s good name and standing in the way of their fortune. But some of the fever’s survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars—they are believed to have mysterious and powerful gifts, and though their identities remain secret, they have come to be called the Young Elites.
Teren Santoro works for the king. As Leader of the Inquisition Axis, it is his job to seek out the Young Elites, to destroy them before they destroy the nation. He believes the Young Elites to be dangerous and vengeful, but it’s Teren who may possess the darkest secret of all.
Enzo Valenciano is a member of the Dagger Society. This secret sect of Young Elites seeks out others like them before the Inquisition Axis can. But when the Daggers find Adelina, they discover someone with powers like they’ve never seen.
Adelina wants to believe Enzo is on her side, and that Teren is the true enemy. But the lives of these three will collide in unexpected ways, as each fights a very different and personal battle. But of one thing they are all certain: Adelina has abilities that shouldn’t belong in this world. A vengeful blackness in her heart. And a desire to destroy all who dare to cross her.

It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.

Find the book: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Find the author: Website, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest

Read More

Tagged as ,

2 Things I Would Love and 4 I Would Not from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets {Review}

Posted April 7, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

2 Things I Would Love and 4 I Would Not from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets {Review}Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter #2
Publisher: Scholastic (1998)
Audiobook, Paperback
{9 hours and 24 minutes} (341 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, 2016 Re-Reading, Read 2016

Synopsis

All Harry Potter wants is to get away from the Dursleys and go back to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby - who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.
But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself.

Find the book: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Find the author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads

Read More

Tagged as ,