Beautiful Creatures Post

This book has everything in it. A little Romeo and Juliet, the love that wasn't meant to be. With a full southern drawl. I don't normally like books from the south, or characters, one of the reasons i could not get into House Of Night was because of the Southern character drove me bonkers (no offense) I find that there are not really any true tales of the south that reflect the honest to god values. I think Beautiful Creatures does.
Now I am from a small town and everyone knows everyones businesses, its unbelievable. Like when someone is pregnant it goes around the rumor mill and you hear it from a complete stranger who doesn't know that she's your best friend. So I could not imagine how it would work in a small time like Gatlin. This does the small town thing really well.Ethan and Lena's love is amazing, they are drawn to each other, I am not normally a fan a insta-love but unlike some books this is done well, its not love per-say but there is defiantly love like qualities to it.

Over all this book was breath taking. and I would to have need the next book like now. The ending is perfect for this book, but the ending lingers in you and slowly makes you need it more and more until you are counting down the minutes.
This is a long over due review. I got Beautiful Creatures for my 18th birthday, (woot first legal drink *cough I live on the boarder of Quebec). Anyways I devoured this book on New Years Eve. I was reading Beautiful Creatures into the New Year and I, I finished it on the 3rd. Now normally it takes me a day or two to read a book. But this book was 563 pages of a haunting read. This book cough my instrest and kept it. It is the story of a Cursed Love.

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Teaser Tuseday - Linger

Teaser Tuesday is the weekly meme from MizB from should be reading.


If I hadn't gone back to becks house, if Isabel hadn't heard Cole outside her door, if she hadn't dilivered Cole to me, if Cole hadn;t been equal parts junkie and asshole and genius --- how would life have unfolded?
Rilke says: "Verweilung, auch am Verstauteten nich, ist uns gegeben." ---" We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate."

Page 108 - Linger by Maggie Stiefvater (ARC)

Hey It's Monday What Ya Reading?

This is a weekly Meme run by Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books. Post the books completed last week, the books you are currently reading, and the books you hope to finish this week.

So This week Read:
37: Silent Echos - Carla Jablonski (June 20th)
38: Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Wolves At The Gate - Joss Whedon (June 20th)
39: Dark Visions The Strange Power - L.J Smith (June 21st)
40: American Gods - Neil Gamian *Audio* (June 23rd)
41: Dark Visions The Possessed (June 26th)
42: Dark Visions The Passion June 27th)

Currently Reading
Tithe - Holly Black
Linger - Maggie Stifvater

Next Up:
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain

Sunday - IMM

Thus week in my Mailbox I got

The Dark Divine By Bree Despain (and Swag)
Linger by Maggie Stivfater
and a Forgive My Fins Book Mark
Catie at Book Bound

Thanks Hun!!

Kill The To Be Read (shelf) Challange

So me and my friend Catie have this problem. We buy books. Actually we buy a lot of books. so we have this bet. (of sorts) And I am pretty sure that its going to drive BOTH of us bonkers! But we are both poor students, and I don't know about Catie but I have been known to live off Rice and Soup because there has been no money for food because I went on a book binge.

So right now my To Be Read Shelf stands at about 40+ books, and Ms. Catie's stand at about 100+ books (She makes me feel good about myself.) (Luv you!)

Now this bet: Basically one night me and Catie were texting each other and we were both broke, talking about how big our tbr shelves are. She said something said something to the effect of my bookshelves are going to stage an intervention, because she got yet another book that day. She was also talking about the order of books she had to read.

So here is the bet:
Buy one book a month, until your TBR Shelf is done.

Sounds easy enough: Wrong. . . well if you buy books like us.

Rules:
Don't buy books. Your Favorite Author doesn't count. (But only one! You have to state which author is your one exception.)
You can enter as many contests as you like (In fact, its encouraged)
Do whatever you have to get ride of your books! (Books you know you won't read again. Not all of them.) Blog giveaways, donate to the Library, Yard Sales, Used-Book-Stores.
You can borrow books from Library or from friends. (this is as much as to save on our bank accounts as it is to save shelf space.

Now you may be thinking what do you get for all this? The good of donating books you're never going to read. (I have books that have been on that shelf for years!) The Knowledge from the books! Helping out the Book Bloggers by entering their contest. Not enough? Well there might be a little something more in it if you tell all your friends and leave a comment with email and how many books are on your tbr shelf.

lets see who else can do it.

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce.

A jaw dropping read. I didn't know weather or not to sit and read it all at once, or space it out. I did both. Tried to make it last as long as possible but I NEEDED to get to the end.

Sisters Red is the story of two sisters, Rosie and Scarlett who after the death of there grandmother (Oma March) they decide that now that they know of the Finris, they need to fight them. Or Scarlett desided this. After Scarlet saved Rosie's life, she feels that she owes Scarlett her life, that she always needs to do as she is told, because without her sister she wouldn't be there.
One thing (among many) that stuck out about this book was the fact that Scarlett and Rosie have different fathers. This is inportant to me because a lot of books (not all) have siblings that get along are full-siblings and haft's don't. Haft siblings don't get along, don't get along stereo type has always gotten me. I'd be damned if anyone told me my sister wasn't my sister, because of our dads, hell 7years apart and different dads, and hell we couldn't be closer if we were twins.
. And I think it was a good touch for Jackson's book.

Also the differences between Rosie and Scarlett amaze me. Rosie is so soft and sweet, but to quote the book "fucking deadly with a knife." and all she wants to do is have a normal life, fall in love, be her self instead of a clone of her sister. Where Scarlett wants to kill Finris and thats that. She thinks her and her sister are two hafts of the same person, that they both want the same thing. Which Rosie wishes to be true, but in her heart of hearts isn't?

I don't cry during books. I really don't I didn't cry in Shiver (yes I am heartless Maggie) I had a spell when I cried for everything for 23-days but there was a reason for that. But for the last 50-pages of sisters red I was sobbing. I had to put the book down and go to bed, with dreams of the Finris.

At times this book broke my heart. At other I gasp in shock. At others I cried. This book has so many emotions in it. and was woven perfectly together. The tale of sisters, the tale of little red ridding hood, the tale of romance, and the tale of a strong independent women who doesn't want a love story who is content without one.

I look forward to Jackson's upcoming books and her Vlogs as well as her live show Tuesday nights.

Teaser Quote:
". . . You're in love with the hunt. You always have been."
My eyes narrows. "I hunt because I have to--"
"Whatever." he waves a hand dismissively. "It drives you. It inspires you, it completes you, Let. You come alive when you fight." - Page 256

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Review: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Title: Linger
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Relase date: July 20th 2010
Source: Catie from book bound
Page Count: 368 pages

Summary from Amazon
In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.


Note some spoilers for Shiver

OMG where to start.

So we know I wasn't a huge fan of the first haft of shiver. But Linger, was breath taking from the very beginning to the last words. I could not believe that consorting that I did not enjoy Shiver fully.

Linger Starts of a couple months after Shiver. And right away there is action, we have our peaceful moments between Sam and Grace and they are forced apart. Reading the pages in Sam and Graces Pov's when they were apart were heart wrenching. They love each other so much that it's hard to believe that they could function without each other.

Now there story has some up and downs. The first line of the prologue somewhat explains those "This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf and a girl who was becoming one." and what a story that was.

I was shocked to see 2 other points of view in this book but i was extremely grateful for those. Cole and Isabel. Now we met Isabel in Shiver, her brother Jack was infected by one of the wolves and Isabel gave him and Sam both the cure, now Sam was cured but it killed Jack, Isabel feels guilty for this. And the other point of view was Cole.

I have a deep soft spot for Canadian's. Now Cole Saint Clair is not just Canadian but he is in a band, the resident bad boy of the pack and he is effen smart. hes a triple threat, and man I love him. He is a drug addict who chose to be a wolf to escape the chaos that has become his unhappy life. Beck found him and turned in into one of his wolves. Now Cole wants to stay a wolf and he is not happy turning back human.

Where Isabel and Cole's story meets here come the steam that makes me love Maggie even more then I did. Cole enters Isabel's world naked, and it just shakes everything up.

Without a doubt this is an A read.

Claire De Lune by Christine Johnson

Werewolves is my number one love or a novel. But I am not in love with it. Nothing really happened. It just seems a little stero-typical. Girl is werewolve girl like guy but cant tell him. It seems a lot like Blood and Chocolate (which is one of my favorite books). I liked this book but it's not going on my top 10 werewolf read. but I am a werewolf junkie so.

In this book the passing was alittle off. This book takes place over three moons out of the thirteen. And I found myself wondering what had happened and how long it has been. At one point there was no page break between a couple of weeks. The passing of this book throw me off a lot.

One thing I really liked was, that Claire wasn't accepting the fact that she was a werewolf as easy as other characters have in other books. (though i am staring at my self right now and not finding a specific book to compare it too.)

And also one thing I loved was that Claire was dead set on not giving up her human life. She had her best friend (Emily) who was a little to annoying and obsessed with guys, They really didn't have a conversation in the entire book that wasn't about Matthew or Emily's life. Which would drive me up the wall. Actually it has I am not talking to my old best friend cause of this.

Which brings me to Matthew I sorta kinda love him. He's sweet and has a messed family and Claire Mother Marie hatted Matthew's father, which added more to the Matthew and Claire relationship a lot which was good for them.

There was a couple of things that didn't quite add up in this books. Over all a good solid read, but I would be waiting for paperback to buy it. Or get it from the library.

three out of five stars

As You Wish - Jakson Pearce

So I have been sitting on this review for a while. I am sorta in aw of this book. And I honestly don't know why. Besides that It is great.

I found Jackson Pearce VIA her YouTube Channel, she was giving a way a copy of her book AS YOU WISH. Sadly I didn't win, but I fell in love with her fun self. Her vlog were great, and also she was funny. Her video "Twilight made me Gay" I died laughing, and she also has a video where she eats oreo's for Modles don't eat Cookies. Again with the humour. Jackson her self, makes me want to read her books. Guess what? after a (almost) year I got As You Wish, by Jackson Pearce.

And

I

LOVED IT!

It was great, I loved, Jackson's humour leaked through it, and it broke my heart in some places. I read it in three days. This book was duo point of views, Jinn or jinn and Viola, I really loved both point of views, I found it odd to switch points of views so often, some of the parts where the the point's of view I went crazy because I wanted to find out what happened to them and then the POV just swiched. And there were something to change plot wise because it was too hard to deal with. At that point I did cry.

I love the character progression of Jinn. He went from the strict jinn into Jinn who is having his world shock upside-down. I love the character of Lawrence cause honestly who doesn't love a-girls-gay-best-friend. I think Viola share through the novel is great, how she would basically give up anything for him to be happy, as would he, which gets them into a situation, but enough of that. Viola had bugged me at some points, but that was mostly around the time of her first wish.

Over all this book is extremely cute, heartbreaking and lovable. Good Chick-Lit read with a twist of Supernatural along with the touch of masculine air for those girls like me who don't like Chick-Lit.

This book really tough me the value of a wish. I look forward to reading Jackson's Sisters Red, I am a werewolf junkie, so I am truly looking forward to this.

Find out more about Jackson Pearce at Http://JacksonPearce.com