Posted July 13, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Winner's Crime by
Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner's Trilogy #1 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (2015)
Hardcover (402 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Winner's Curse,
The Winner's Kiss Also in this series: The Winner's Curse,
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Book two of the dazzling Winner’s Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love.
The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret.
As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspicion that Kestrel knows more than she shows. In the end, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. And when that happens, Kestrel and Arin learn just how much their crimes will cost them.
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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,
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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 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Mortal Heart by
Robin LaFevers Series: His Fair Assassin #3 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014)
Hardcover (444 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Grave Mercy,
Dark Triumph Also in this series: Grave Mercy,
Dark Triumph Reading Challenges: 2015 Finishing the Series,
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Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.
She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn’t mean she has.
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Posted June 4, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Magic Study by
Maria V Snyder Series: Study #2 Publisher: Luna (2006)
Audiobook {11 hours and 35 minutes} (392 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Poison Study,
Fire Study Also in this series: Poison Study,
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You know your life is bad when you miss your days as a poison taster…
With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she’d been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can’t help feeling isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her in many ways—and her newfound friends and relatives don’t think it’s for the better….
Despite the turmoil, she’s eager to start her magic training—especially as she’s been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes involved with a plot to reclaim Ixia’s throne for a lost prince—and gets entangled in powerful rivalries with her fellow magicians.
If that wasn’t bad enough, it appears her brother would love to see her dead. Luckily, Yelena has some old friends to help her with all her new enemies…
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Posted June 3, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
A Wrinkle in Time by
Madeleine L'Engle Series: Time Quintet #1 Publisher: Yearling Newburry (1962)
Paperback (256 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract”.
Meg’s father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?
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