Posted July 6, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by
Maggie Stiefvater Series: The Raven Cycle #3 Publisher: Scholastic (2014)
Hardcover (391 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shiver,
The Scorpio Races,
The Raven Boys Also in this series: The Raven Boys,
The Dream Thieves,
The Raven King Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.
The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.
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Posted June 29, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Dream Thieves by
Maggie Stiefvater Series: The Raven Cycle #2 Publisher: Scholastic (2013)
Paperback (437 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shiver,
The Scorpio Races,
The Raven Boys Also in this series: The Raven Boys,
Blue Lily, Lily Blue,
The Raven King Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?
Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.
One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.
And sometimes he’s not the only one who wants those things.
Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan’s secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.
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Posted June 24, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Titan's Curse by
Rick Riordan Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3 Publisher: Scholastic (2007)
Paperback (312 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Lightning Thief,
The Sea of Monsters,
The Sword of Summer Also in this series: The Lightning Thief,
The Sea of Monsters,
The Battle of the Labyrinth Reading Challenges: 2015 Mythology,
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When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he’ll need his powerful demigod allies at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and . . . a ride from his mom.
The demigods race to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods, whose parentage is unknown. But that’s not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up a devious trap, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.
Hilarious and action-packed, this third adventure in the series finds Percy faced with his most dangerous challenge yet—the chilling prophecy of the Titan’s curse.
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Posted April 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Raven Boys by
Maggie Stiefvater Series: The Raven Cycle #1 Publisher: Scholastic (2012)
Hardcover (416 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shiver,
The Scorpio Races,
The Dream Thieves Also in this series: The Dream Thieves,
Blue Lily, Lily Blue,
The Raven King Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
2015 What's In A Name?,
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“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
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Posted March 18, 2015 in Reading, Review / 4 Comments
The Scorpio Races by
Maggie Stiefvater Publisher: Scholastic (2011)
Hardcover (404 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shiver,
The Raven Boys,
The Dream Thieves Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
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