Book Tuesday: The Winner’s Curse

January 13, 2015 by ·

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Title: The Winner’s Curse (The Winner’s Trilogy #1)
Author: Marie Rutkoski
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication Date: March 4, 2014
Pages: 355
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Winning what you want may cost you everything you love.

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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Book Tuesday: The Caller

January 6, 2015 by ·

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Title: The Caller (Shadowfell #3)
Author: Juliet Marillier
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Pan Australia
Publication Date: September 9, 2014
Pages: 414
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Neryn has made a long journey to perfect her skills as a Caller. She has learned the wisdom of water and of earth; she has journeyed to the remote isles of the west and the forbidding mountains of the north. Now, Neryn must travel in Alban’s freezing winter to seek the mysterious White Lady, Guardian of Air. For only when Neryn has been trained by all four Guardians will she be ready to play her role in toppling the tyrannical King Keldec.

But the White Lady is not what she seems. Trapped with Whisper, her fey protector, Neryn is unable to send word to her beloved Flint, who is in danger of being exposed as a double agent. When a new threat looms and the rebellion is in jeopardy, Neryn must enter Keldec’s court, where one false move could see her culled. She must stand up against forces more powerful than any she has confronted before, and face losses that could break her heart.

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Book Tuesday: Top Books of 2014

December 30, 2014 by ·

Instead of a usual Book Tuesday post, I thought I would share the top books I read in 2014.  I originally tried narrowing it down to 10, but lets be real now.

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I tried to keep it short(er), but there were such great books this year! Keep in mind, I only started the blog in June so I haven’t reviewed all the books on this list.  Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check them out though!

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Book Tuesday: Can’t Wait Books of 2015

December 23, 2014 by ·

2014 is almost over and it’s been a great year in books! I am slowly narrowing down my  Top Ten Books of 2014 (which you will see next week!).  Meanwhile, I thought I’d look ahead and give you my Top Choices for 2015.  I honestly couldn’t narrow this list down to 10, but I stayed pretty close.

I swear…

 

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January 20                                              May 5                                                    May 5

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Book Tuesday: Winterspell

December 16, 2014 by ·

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Title: Winterspell
Author: Claire Legrand
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: September 30, 2014
Pages: 464
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The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince . . . but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.

New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor’s ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother’s murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.

Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.

Her home is destroyed, her father abducted–by beings distinctly not human. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they’re to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets–and a need she can’t define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won’t leave Cane unscathed–if she leaves at all.

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Book Tuesday: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

December 9, 2014 by ·

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Title: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy #1)
Author: N.K. Jemisin
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Hachette Book Group Orbit
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
Pages: 427
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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.

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Book Tuesday: Shadow and Bone

December 2, 2014 by ·

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Title: Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1)
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Publication Date: June 5, 2012
Pages:358
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Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.

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Book Tuesday: Chantress

November 25, 2014 by ·

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Title: Chantress (Chantress Trilogy #1)
Author: Amy Butler Greenfield
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Publication Date: May 7, 2013
Pages: 324
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“Sing, and the darkness will find you.”

This warning has haunted fifteen-year-old Lucy ever since she was eight and shipwrecked on a lonely island. Lucy’s guardian, Norrie, has lots of rules, but the most important is that Lucy must never sing. Not ever. Now it is 1667, Lucy is fifteen, and on All Hallows’ Eve, Lucy hears a tantalizing melody on the wind. She can’t help but sing—and she is swept into darkness.

When she awakes in England, Lucy hears powerful men discussing Chantresses—women who can sing magic into the world. They are hunting her, but she escapes and finds sanctuary with the Invisible College, an organization plotting to overthrow the nefarious Lord Protector. The only person powerful enough to bring about his downfall is a Chantress. And Lucy is the last one in England.

Lucy struggles to master the song-spells and harness her power, but the Lord Protector is moving quickly. And her feelings for Nat, an Invisible College apprentice and scientist who deeply distrusts her magic, only add to her confusion…

Time is running out, and the fate of England hangs in the balance in this entrancing novel that is atmospheric and lyrical, dangerous and romantic.

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Book Tuesday: Mortal Heart

November 18, 2014 by ·

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Title: Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin #3)
Author: Robin LaFevers
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: November 4, 2014
Pages: 444
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Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own.

She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn’t mean she has…

 

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Book Tuesday: Fall From India Place

November 11, 2014 by ·

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Title: Fall From India Place
Author: Samantha Young
Genre: New Adult
Publisher: NAL
Publication Date: June 3, 2014
Pages: 294
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When Hannah Nichols last saw Marco D’Alessandro, five long years ago, he broke her heart. The bad boy with a hidden sweet side was the only guy Hannah ever loved—and the only man she’s ever been with. After one intense night of giving into temptation, Marco took off, leaving Scotland and Hannah behind. Shattered by the consequences of their night together, Hannah has never truly moved on.

Leaving Hannah was the biggest mistake of Marco’s life, something he has deeply regretted for years. So when fate reunites them, he refuses to let her go without a fight. Determined to make her his, Marco pursues Hannah, reminding her of all the reasons they’re meant to be together.

But just when Marco thinks they’re committed to a future together, Hannah makes a discovery that unearths the secret pain she’s been hiding from him, a secret that could tear them apart before they have a real chance to start over again…

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