Posted March 19, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Raelia by
Lynette Noni Series: The Medoran Chronicles #2 Publisher: Pantera Press (2016 - March 23)
eARC (436 pages)
Via: NetGalley Rating: Also by this author: Akarnae Also in this series: Akarnae Reading Challenges: Read 2016 Synopsis
“Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices.”
Returning for a second year at Akarnae Academy with her gifted friends, Alexandra Jennings steps back through a doorway into Medora, the fantasy world that is full of impossibilities.
Despite the magical wonder of Medora, Alex’s life remains threatened by Aven Dalmarta, the banished prince from the Lost City of Meya who is out for her blood.
To protect the Medorans from Aven’s quest to reclaim his birthright, Alex and her friends seek out the Meyarin city and what remains of its ancient race.
Not sure who—or perhaps what—she is anymore, all Alex knows is that if she fails to keep Aven from reaching Meya, the lives of countless Medorans will be in danger. Can she protect them, or will all be lost?
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Posted March 17, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Anne of Green Gables by
L M Montgomery Series: Anne of Green Gables #1 Publisher: Barnes & Noble (1908)
Hardcover (371 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books,
2016 Re-Reading,
Classics Club,
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever... but would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was not like anybody else, everyone at Green Gables agreed; she was special -- a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreamed of the day when she could call herself Anne of Green Gables.
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Posted March 16, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Hidden Twin by
Adi Rule Publisher: St Martin's Griffin (2016 - March 22)
eARC (272 pages)
Via: NetGalley Rating: Reading Challenges: 2016 Royal Challenge,
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For eighteen years a girl with no name, a Redwing, has been hidden away in a small attic room within a city of hissing pipes and curving temples perched on the side of the great volcano, Mol, while her sister, Jey-identical except for her eyes-has lived her life in public as an only child. Their father had hoped the hidden girl would one day grow up to be a normal human girl and not the wicked creature mythology has promised, so he secretly spared her life as an infant.
But when she switches places with her sister, striking up a flirtation with the son of the Empress while working in the royal gardens and gets attacks by two suspicious priests on her journey home, she is forced to call forth fire to protect herself, unleashing her previously dormant powers and letting her secret out. She soon catches the attention of a cult with a thousand year old grudge as well as a group of underground rebels, both seeking her for their own gain. But when her sister goes missing and the Redwing uncovers a great plot to awaken Mol and bring fiery destruction upon them all, she is forced to embrace her powers.
In Adi Rule's new novel, The Hidden Twin, the girl with no name, must choose a name and a path for herself, drawing a line between myth and history to prove herself more than a monster if she is to save both her sister and her home.
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Posted March 14, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Lost Lake House by
Elisabeth Grace Foley Series: Historical Fairytales #2 Publisher: Second Sentence Press (2016 - March 16)
eARC Via: Author Rating: Reading Challenges: 2016 Retelling Challenge,
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses meets the heady glamor and danger of the Jazz Age
All Dorothy Perkins wants is to have a good time. She’s wild about dancing, and can’t understand or accept her father’s strictness in forbidding it. Night after night she sneaks out to the Lost Lake House, a glamorous island nightclub rumored to be the front for more than just music and dancing…in spite of an increasingly uneasy feeling that she may be getting into something more than she can handle.
Marshall Kendrick knows the truth behind the Lost Lake House—and bitterly hates his job there. But fear and obligation have him trapped. When a twist of circumstances throws Dorothy and Marshall together one night, it may offer them both a chance at escaping the tangled web of fear and deceit each has woven…if only they are brave enough to take it.
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Posted March 12, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Publisher: Puffin (1977)
Paperback (80 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books,
2016 Re-Reading,
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Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again.
Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan.
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