Tag: You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: Water Song

Posted February 17, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Water SongWater Song by Suzanne Weyn
Series: Once Upon A Time
Publisher: Simon Pulse (2006)
Paperback (189 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The Night Dance
Also in this series: Snow, Sunlight and Shadow, The Night Dance
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

Young, beautiful, and wealthy, Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life. Although war rages abroad, she hardly feels its effect. She and her mother travel from their home in Britain to the family estate in Belgium, never imagining that the war could reach them there. But it does.
Soon Emma finds herself stranded in a war-torn country, utterly alone. Enemy troops fight to take over her estate, leaving her with no way to reach her family, and no way out.
With all of her attention focused on survival and escape, Emma hardly expects to find love. But the war will teach her that life is unpredictable, people aren’t always what they seem, and magic is lurking everywhere.

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Review: The Kiss That Saved Her

Posted February 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Kiss That Saved HerThe Kiss That Saved Her by E M McCarthy
(2015)
eARC (280 pages)
Via: Author
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

Princess Joanna is expected to marry to protect her kingdom from the threat of war but she loves David, a common man. She will only marry if she loves her husband. Her dearest friend, Prince Samuel, has loved her since he met her. Rumors swirl about Prince Samuel’s relationship with a princess whose country has had a major discovery of gold. Will there be a change of heart? Is there really such a thing as love at first sight?

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Review: The Winner’s Curse

Posted February 11, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Winner’s CurseThe 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, The Winner's Kiss
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

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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Review: Poison Study

Posted February 9, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Poison StudyPoison 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, Read 2015

Synopsis

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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Review: Seeker

Posted February 4, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: SeekerSeeker by Arwen Elys Dayton
Series: Seeker #1
Publisher: Random House (2015)
eARC (448 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, Read 2015

Synopsis

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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