Posted July 29, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
All Fall Down by
Ally Carter Series: Embassy Row #1 Publisher: Scholastic (2015)
Audiobook {8 hours and 33 minutes} (320 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: See How They Run Also in this series: See How They Run Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
This exciting new series from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Ally Carter focuses on Grace, who can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world, and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row.
Now, at age sixteen, she’s come back to stay–in order to solve the mystery of her mother’s death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if she and the world are to be saved.
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Posted July 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Dream A Little Dream by
Kerstin Gier Series: The Silver Trilogy #1 Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (2015)
Hardcover (336 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Sapphire Blue,
Emerald Green Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yes, Liv’s dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially the one where she’s in a graveyard at night, watching four boys conduct dark magic rituals.
The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream. They’re classmates from her new school in London, the school where she’s starting over because her mom has moved them to a new country (again). But what’s really scaring Liv is that the dream boys seem to know things about her in real life, things they couldn’t possibly know–unless they actually are in her dreams? Luckily, Liv never could resist a good mystery, and all four of those boys are pretty cute…
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Posted July 15, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Ring and the Crown by
Melissa de la Cruz Series: The Ring and the Crown #1 Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2014)
Audiobook {10 hours and 23 minutes} (284 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: The Isle of the Lost Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Princess Marie-Victoria, heir to the Lily Throne, and Aelwyn Myrddn, bastard daughter of the Mage of England, grew up together. But who will rule, and who will serve?
Quiet and gentle, Marie has never lived up to the ambitions of her mother, Queen Eleanor the Second, Supreme Ruler of the Franco-British Empire. With the help of her Head Merlin, Emrys, Eleanor has maintained her stranglehold on the world’s only source of magic. She rules the most powerful empire the world has ever seen.
But even with the aid of Emrys’ magic, Eleanor’s extended lifespan is nearing its end. The princess must marry and produce an heir or the Empire will be vulnerable to its greatest enemy, Prussia. The two kingdoms must unite to end the war, and the only solution is a match between Marie and Prince Leopold VII, heir to the Prussian throne. But Marie has always loved Gill, her childhood friend and soldier of the Queen’s Guard.
Together, Marie and Aelwyn, a powerful magician in her own right, come up with a plan. Aelwyn will take on Marie’s face, allowing the princess to escape with Gill and live the quiet life she’s always wanted. And Aelwyn will get what she’s always dreamed of–the chance to rule. But the court intrigue and hunger for power in Lenoran England run deeper than anyone could imagine. In the end, there is only rule that matters in Eleanor’s court: trust no one.
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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,
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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