Posted February 11, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Winner's Curse by
Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner's Trilogy #1 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (2014)
Hardcover (355 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Winner's Crime,
The Winner's Kiss Also in this series: The Winner's Crime,
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As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction.
Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.
Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.
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Posted February 9, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Poison Study by
Maria V Snyder Series: Study #1 Publisher: Mira (2005)
Audiobook {10 hours and 26 minutes} (416 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Magic Study,
Fire Study Also in this series: Magic Study,
Fire Study Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
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About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.
As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear…
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Posted February 4, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Seeker by
Arwen Elys Dayton Series: Seeker #1 Publisher: Random House (2015)
eARC (448 pages)
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Quin Kincaid has been put through years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a revered ‘Seeker’.
Only when it’s too late does she discover she will be using her new-found knowledge and training to become an assassin. Quin’s new role will take her around the globe, from a remote estate in Scotland to a bustling, futuristic Hong Kong where the past she thought she had escaped will finally catch up with her.
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Posted January 31, 2015 in Reading / 2 Comments
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Posted January 30, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
The Fellowship of the Ring by
J.R.R. Tolkien Series: The Lord of the Rings #1 Publisher: Mariner Books ((originally) 1954)
eBook,
Audiobook {19 hours and 11 minutes} (398 pages)
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The first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
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