Posted June 6, 2016 in Reading, Review / 4 Comments
Risuko by
David Kudler Series: Seasons of the Sword #1 Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press (2016 - June 15)
eARC (230 pages)
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Can one girl win a war?
My name is Kano Murasaki, but most people call me Risuko. Squirrel.
I am from Serenity Province, though I was not born there.
My nation has been at war for a hundred years, Serenity is under attack, my family is in disgrace, but some people think that I can bring victory. That I can be a very special kind of woman.
All I want to do is climb.
My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Squirrel.
Risuko.
Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan -- or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems.
Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is.
Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Or could she?
Historical adventure fiction appropriate for young adult and middle-grade readers.
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Posted June 4, 2016 in Reading, Review / 4 Comments
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by
J K Rowling Series: Harry Potter #5 Publisher: Scholastic (2003)
Hardcover (870 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books,
2016 Re-Reading,
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Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His best friends Ron and Hermione have been very secretive all summer and he is desperate to get back to school and find out what has been going on. However, what Harry discovers is far more devastating than he could ever have expected...
Suspense, secrets and thrilling action from the pen of J.K. Rowling ensure an electrifying adventure that is impossible to put down.
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Posted May 23, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Winner's Kiss by
Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner's Trilogy #3 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (2016)
Hardcover (484 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Winner's Curse,
The Winner's Crime Also in this series: The Winner's Curse,
The Winner's Crime Reading Challenges: 2016 Royal Challenge,
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War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people—and certainly more than she did for him.
At least, that’s what he thinks.
In the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay for what they’ve done to her.
But no one gets what they want just by wishing.
As the war intensifies, both Kestrel and Arin discover that the world is changing. The East is pitted against the West, and they are caught in between. With so much to lose, can anybody really win?
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Posted May 9, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Raven King by
Maggie Stiefvater Series: The Raven Cycle #4 Publisher: Scholastic (2016)
Audiobook {11 hours and 51 minutes} (438 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Shiver,
The Scorpio Races,
The Raven Boys Also in this series: The Raven Boys,
The Dream Thieves,
Blue Lily, Lily Blue Reading Challenges: Read 2016 Synopsis
Nothing living is safe. Nothing dead is to be trusted.
For years, Gansey has been on a quest to find a lost king. One by one, he’s drawn others into this quest: Ronan, who steals from dreams; Adam, whose life is no longer his own; Noah, whose life is no longer a lie; and Blue, who loves Gansey…and is certain she is destined to kill him.
Now the endgame has begun. Dreams and nightmares are converging. Love and loss are inseparable. And the quest refuses to be pinned to a path.
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Posted May 5, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
For a moment I am going to imagine myself in Harry’s place during his fourth year at Hogwarts. It would be a terrible disaster! Let me share with you just some of the ways I would likely have died during Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
1. The Quidditch World Cup
This could actually probably be two ways since there are at least two things here to kill me. The first would be the height of the top box. If you know me, you know I definitely don’t enjoy heights so that would have been… interesting. Then the Death Eaters would probably have gotten me. I don’t exactly run, ever. Yep, I would have been pretty easy to catch and then that would not have been pretty.
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