W.O.W & Wishlist Wednesday #30

    

Wishlist Wednesday, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper & Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.

Title: Tell the Wind and Fire

Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

 Series: N/A

Publisher:  Clarion Books  

Release Date: April 5th 2016  

Tell the Wind & Fire is about a young girl called Lucie who lives in a New York very different from the New York we know: the city is torn between two very different kinds of magic, and Lucie’s own family was torn apart years ago by that conflict. Lucie wears magic rings and carries a burden of guilt she can’t share with anyone.

The light in her life is her sweetheart boyfriend Ethan, but it turns out Ethan has a secret too: a soulless doppelganger created by dark magic, who has to conceal the face identical to Ethan’s with a hood fastened by a collar nobody but a Light magician with magical rings can take off… and who introduces himself to both of them by, for reasons nobody can understand, saving Ethan’s life…

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W.O.W & Wishlist Wednesday #29

    

Wishlist Wednesday, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper & Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.

Title: The Way I Used To Be 

Author: Amber Smith

 Series: N/A

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books   

Release Date: March 22nd 2016 

In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault.

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes.

What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be.

Told in four parts—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year—this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman’s strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, and while learning to embrace a power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart.

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W.O.W & Wishlist Wednesday #28

    

Wishlist Wednesday, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper & Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.

Title: We Are The Ants

Author: Shaun David Hutchinson 

 Series: N/A

Publisher: Simon Pulse   

Release Date: January 19 2016 

Henry Denton doesn’t know why the aliens chose to abduct him when he was thirteen, and he doesn’t know why they continue to steal him from his bed and take him aboard their ship. He doesn’t know why the world is going to end or why the aliens have offered him the opportunity to avert the impending disaster by pressing a big red button. 

But they have. And they’ve only given him 144 days to make up his mind.

Since the suicide of his boyfriend, Jesse, Henry has been adrift. He’s become estranged from his best friend, started hooking up with his sworn enemy, and his family is oblivious to everything that’s going on around them. As far as Henry is concerned, a world without Jesse is a world he isn’t sure is worth saving. Until he meets Diego Vega, an artist with a secret past who forces Henry to question his beliefs, his place in the universe, and whether any of it really matters. But before Henry can save the world, he’s got to figure out how to save himself, and the aliens haven’t given him a button for that. 

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October Wrap Up & November TBR

October was a great month for me, I was able to read 13 books!

A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean ★★★★
Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo ★★★★★

Dark Places by Gilliani Flynn ★★★★

Big Driver by Stephen King ★★★ 

The End Games by T. Michael Martin ★★★

Let's Get Invisible! (Goosebumps #6) by R.L. Stine ★★★

It by Stephen King ★★★★

The Wrath & The Dawn (The Wrath & The Dawn #1) by Renee Ahdieh ★★★★

Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies #1) by Isaac Marion ★★★★

 A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis ★★★★

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson ★★★★

The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki ★★★

Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke, Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A.G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige, Carrie Ryan, Megan Shepherd, Nova Ren Suma, McCormick Templeman, Cat Winters ★★★★ 

September book of the month was:

 

Challenge Progress:  

2015 TBR Pile: 26/11-20  

Debut: 3/12-15 

Dystopia: 33/13-18   

"Real" Book: 39/11-20 

And So It Begins: 32/7 
Sequels: 68/10-15 
We Stand Alone: 51/10-15 
Fairytale: 4/5-9  
Re-read: 9/10-15  
Flights of Fantasy: 64/10-20 
Goodreads: 155/100  

Popsugar: 26/50  

November TBR:  
Again I don't really know what I want to read this month, here are some that I might get around to.

Between Shades of Gray by Sepetys 

The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

The Martian by Andy Weir
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Maggie Stiefvater 
The Scorch Trails (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner
Death Sworn (Death Sworn #1) by Leah Cypess
Illusionarium by Heather Dixon
Poison Study (Study #1) by Maria V. Snyder

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W.O.W. & Wishlist Wednesday #27

    

Wishlist Wednesday, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper & Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.

Title: Timber Creek Station

Author: Ali Lewis

             Series: N/A

Publisher:  Carolrhoda Books  

Release Date: March 1st 2016 

"He was fifteen when the accident happened. That was when everything kind of stopped."

Danny Dawson lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. The whole station is preparing for the annual cattle muster, and normally Danny would be bursting with excitement. But everything is different now. Because Danny's beloved older brother died in an accident last year, and nobody will talk about it. Because his teenage sister is pregnant and won't tell anyone who the father is. Because his mother can't cope with any of it and has hired a house girl-a wide-eyed English backpacker named Liz who has never even seen a cow milked before-to deal with the family. Liz doesn't understand how to cook hearty meals, how to clean laundry, and especially why the station's Aboriginal workers are treated as second-class citizens. Liz helps Danny see that the way things have always been is not the way they should always be.

Timber Creek Station is the story of a grieving family, entrenched racism, and the surprising ways one boy-who thought he'd be stuck in one terrible place forever-can take a leap forward

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W.O.W. & Wishlist Wednesday #26

    

Wishlist Wednesday, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper & Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.

Title: This Savage Song

Author: Victoria Schwab

             Series: (Monsters of Verity #1)

Publisher: Greenwillow Books   

Release Date: June 7th 2016 

The city of Verity has been overrun with monsters, born from the worst of human evil. 

In North Verity, the Corsai and the Malchai run free. Under the rule of Callum Harker, the monsters kill any human who has not paid for protection. In the South, Henry Flynn hunts the monsters who cross the border into his territory, aided by the most dangerous and darkest monsters of them all—the Sunai, dark creatures who use music to steal their victim’s souls.

As one of only three Sunai in existence, August Flynn has always wanted to play a bigger role in the war between the north and the south. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate Harker, daughter of the leader of North Verity, August jumps on it.

When Kate discovers August’s secret, the pair find themselves running for their lives and battling monsters from both sides of the wall. As the city dissolves into chaos, it’s up to them to foster a peace between monsters and humans.

A unique, fast-paced adventure that looks at the monsters we face every day—including the monster within. 

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W.O.W & Wishlist Wednesday #25

    

Wishlist Wednesday, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper & Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine to post books that you have been really wanting for a long time.

Title: The Passion of Dolssa 

Author: Julie Berry

Series: N/A

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers   

Release Date: April 12th 2016   

I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. 

Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. 

Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she’s on the run from the friar who condemned her mother to death by fire, and wants Dolssa executed, too.

Botille is a matchmaker and a tavern-keeper, struggling to keep herself and her sisters on the right side of the law in their seaside town of Bajas.

When their lives collide by a dark riverside, Botille rescues a dying Dolssa and conceals her in the tavern, where an unlikely friendship blooms. Aided by her sisters and Symo, her surly but loyal neighbor, Botille nurses Dolssa back to health and hides her from her pursuers. But all of Botille’s tricks, tales, and cleverness can’t protect them forever, and when the full wrath of the Church bears down upon Bajas, Dolssa’s passion and Botille’s good intentions could destroy the entire village. 

From the author of the award-winning All the Truth That’s in Me comes a spellbinding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page and make you wonder if miracles really are possible.

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