Book Blogger Confessions #12

Book Blogger Confessions is a new bi-weekly meme hosted by Tiger @ All Consuming Books and Karen @ For What it's Worth Reviews.

We have created a blogging time machine! Pretend you can start over. Knowing what you know now about blogging – what do you wish you did differently when it comes to creating/running your blog?

I would have planned better most definitely. When I first started blogging I had A LOT of time on my hands so I just posted by the seat of my pants which is fine when you have time but then I got a job and keeping up with posting was a lot harder and so consistency kind of faltered. I also wouldn't have accepted any books for review until I was comfortable with blogging and was able to keep up to date.

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Cover Up #10.5

During one trip to the local book store that likes to change the location of it's books whenever it feels like it the WildFire Writing team noted some lovely covers that stood out from the display and shelves.

Fateful by Claudia Gray

I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

Railsea
by China Miéville

Did you discover any pretty covers during your last trip to the bookstore?

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Book Review: Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick’s saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume…

Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him.

He’s learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive such a difficulty? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.

And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known.

Or he’ll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he’ll lose everyone he cares about.

Even himself.

San-Ree Book Club Book for March 16 – April 15 2012

Rating: 4.5/5

For those who don’t know Infamous is the 3rd book in Sherrilyn Kenyon, Chronicles of Nick series, the book order is:-
1) Infinity
2) Invincible
3) Infamous
4) Inferno (Release Date: March 4th 2013)

I started reading this story because of what happen to Nick in the Dark Hunter series and I wanted to know what was going on. These books were expected to be great, just as the Dark Hunter series and they are, but in a way they are different because you truly don’t find out what going on until book 3.

Nick is a lovable kid. He is the son everyone wants, and never wants, but he is the kind of guy you want on your side. This I do believe in.

I was a bit discouraged in find out there will be another book coming after this book. I really thought that this would be the last book. I read 3 lines (I will not say what they were), but after that all I could wonder was; how dumb could one kid be? Then I remember that he is a kid who needs someone to trust, someone to understand him and stand by him.

I gave the book another chance and was no longer disappointed. It is all coming together and in a way I can’t exactly see where it is going, but I can see that it is going to be worth it. In the end you want to see if he will destroy the world or save it and destroy himself in the process?

They show you a boy who loves his mother and all those he calls family. I hope in the end they will love and see the beauty of his heart, behind the black soul he was born with and still love and stand beside him.

This book was worth the read, I find that it is much better than the 2nd book in a way. There is just something so special about Nick; it is hard to keep away from him. I must say that this book does end in a cliff hanger.


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Book Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bones by Laini Taylor

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.

When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

Karou is a young lady who was raised by monsters whom she loves very much and would do anything to protect. She is an art student and in her spare time, she draws but the rest of her time is basically running dangerous errands collecting teeth for her family. She doesn't know what the teeth are for but does it any way.

The only father she knows is called the Wish Monger; who in exchange for the teeth, gives people wishes. One day while out on a run for him, Karou gets into a fight with an angelm who she finds out later is at war with her family.

The sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone

These angels are not kind, they were made to fight and do battle in the name of their father. She manages to get away but the angel follows her begins to fall for her.

I can continue and tell you what happens nextm but  I am not supposed to lol. But I can tell you that by the end of the book, you will love this story. Karou finally finds out the truth about everything, including herself.

I love this book! The story was very exciting and different from other supernatural books I have read; it was nice and unexpected.

Stay tuned for a sneak peak of the first few chapters of the sequel in coming reviews.
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Book Review: Drink Deep by Chloe Neill

Drink Deep by Chloe Neill

Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and Merit the vampire can't tell if this is the darkness before the dawn, or the calm before the storm. With the city itself in turmoil over paranormals and the state threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, times have never been more precarious for the vampires. If only they could lay low for a bit...

Then magic rears its ugly head when Lake Michigan turns black. The mayor insists it's nothing to worry about, but Merit knows a panic is coming. She'll have to turn to friends old and new to find out who's behind this, and stop them before it's too late for both the vampires and humans.

In the very short time that I have been reading this series, it has now been placed in my top 20 series list. The books pull you in, and keeps you there. Always have you wanting more, wanting to know what is going to happen next.

Sometimes the main charactor does get on my nerves,  but after a while you come to understand that not everything is what it seems and at some point the betrayal in this book can be too much. I cried in the last book because we lost one of the main charachtors, but the betrayal in this book was overwhelming. I don't know why all of these things have been happening, but I can promise you that at the end of the book, things will be clear. I was a bit sad because there was a lot of drama and things I feel are still left to be said.

This book was prefect and unbelievable, I had the villain in mind but I didn't want to accept it. In the end I was corrected but it was still unbelievable. It goes to show that know matter how much you know a person they can change and not all the time for the better.
Love centred Merit, but it blinded her away from the truth that was in front of her. 

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Book Blogger Confession #11

Book Blogger Confessions is a new bi-weekly meme hosted by Tiger @ All Consuming Books and Karen @ For What it's Worth Reviews.

Choosing your next book. How do you decide which book to read next? How do you balance “review” reading with “fun” reading?

This is an easy one I choose whatever I am in the mood for, if what I do pick up isn't holding my interest I put it down and pick up something else :). Currently and for a while I haven't been reading much review books so it's mostly been just books read for my own pleasure, which is the way I prefer it and I don't plan on accepting any more then one book at a time to officially review through requests.

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Cover Up #10

This is the cover reveal I have been waiting for since the book was mentioned.

I am happy to see it's people free and I think it's a nice cover, very eye catching but since I can't help comparing it to the book covers of the Wicked Lovely series I have to say this cover doesn't wow me. I don't love it.

The cover along with an exclusive excerpt from the book is found here at USAToday.

What about you? Do you love the cover? Hate it? Have you been waiting for the reveal as long as I have? Share your thoughts!

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