Jennifer L. Armentrout - Opal

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Even though I usually write 8 posts between book-reviews this time I decided to break that rule, because the third book on the Luxen series - Opal - written by Jennifer L. Armentrout is so, so painful to think about that I honestly don't know how I'm going to survive until July.

"No one is like Daemon Black.

When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn't fooling around. Doubting him isn't something I'll do again, and now that we've made it through the rough patches, well... There's a lof of spontaneous combustion going on.

But even he can't protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.

After everything, I'm no longer the same Katy. I'm different... And I'm not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I'm capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won't turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever."


As you can still see by my list on the right this book was supposed to be released today but I don't know why it was just available soon and I'm not complaining at all.

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Onyx

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Here I am again to write about the third book if you count Shadows on the Luxen series written by Jennifer L. Armentrout.

"Being connected to Daemon sucks...
Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon's determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I've sworn him off, even though he's running more hot than cold these days. But we've got bigger problems.

Something worse than the Arum has come to town...

The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do an that we're linked, I'm a goners. So is he. And there's this new boy in school who's got a secret of his own. He knows what's happened to me he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that's possible. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. Hard.

But then everything changes...

I've seen someone who shouldn't be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he's never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them-from me?

No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies..."


I already wrote about Shadows and Obsidian making this the third book I've read on the Luxen series.

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Obsidian

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After sometime without touching blogger, I'm back. Writing about the first book on the Lux series - Obsidian - written by Jennifer L. Armentrout.

"When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

And then he opened hos mouth.

Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpecting happens.

The hot alien living next door marks me.

You heard me. Alien. Turns out Damon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.

If I don't kill him first, that is."


A few weeks ago, I wrote my opinion on the prequel. The book is called Shadows and is kind of an supplement to Obsidian. Shadows is the 0.5 in the series and is about the story of Daemon's brother Dawson and his girlfriend Bethany which if you've read Obsidian know it's an important subject on its storyline.

Wendy Heggins - Sweet Evil

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I have 9 books I've read during these last months that I haven't written about here and have 8 books waiting to be devoured by me.
Today I'm going to write about Sweet Evil by Wndy Heggins.

"Embrace the forbidden.

What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?

This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.

Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of the struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but Anna, the ultimate good girls, has always had the advantage of her angel side to balance the darkness within. It isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?"


I read this book last month, around 21st, during my I don't want to call it obsession because it wasn't but every book that caught my eyes was about demons.
And after reading Falling Under and Dreaming Awake I wasn't expecting being surprised by anything that could happen in this.

Susan Ee - Angelfall

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If I said a few weeks ago that I had a pretty amount of books to write about, well, now I have even more.

I read Angelfall written by Susan Ee during the first week of July, I think.

"It's been six weeks since of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to ger her back.                                     

Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.                              

Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl.

Traveling through a dark twisted northern California, they hae only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco whre she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again."

This is the first book in the Penryn & The End Of Days series.
And I realized I do, really, like to read about angels. Those seem to be the most frequent type of books that catch my eye...

Anne Greenwood Brown - Lies Beneath

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I'm late on my book reviews. According to my iPad I still have 5 books to write about here but today is Anne Greenwood Brown's Lies Beneath turn.

"Calder White in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of merpeople obsessed with killing Jason Hancock, the man they blame for their mother's death. To lure the aquaphobic Hancock onto the lake, the mermaids charge Calder with the task of seducing the man's daughter, seventeen-year-old Lily Hancock. "Get close to the daughter," they tell him, "and you'll get close to the family. Get close to the family, and you'll get close to the man. Get him in the water. We'll take care of the rest."

But Calder screws everything up by falling in love. Now he's in the unenviable position of trying to love the girl while simultaneously plotting her father's murder. Suffice it to say, his sisters aren't pleased with his effort, and Calder's running out of time (and excuses)."

This is the second book I've read about mermaids.Being the first Of Poseidon written by Anna Banks. Between the two is complicated for me to say which is the best because they're different.

Lauren Oliver - Delirium

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Last week I read Delirium written by Lauren Oliver.

"They didn't understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, the is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands all citizens receive the cure upon turning 18.

Lena Holoway has always looked forward to th day when she'll be cured.

A life without love is a life without pain: safe, mesured, predictable, and happy.

But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: she falls in love."

This is the first book in the trilogy and being the beginner I think is a great novel.
Mainly because it gets you caught up it in without you noticing and when you do you're done with the the whole book.

Anna Banks - Of Poseidon

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After reading so much about Of Poseidon written by Anna Banks I decided to give it a try.

"Galen is the prince of the Syrena, sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. Emma is on vacation at the beach. When she runs into Galen - literally, ouch! - both teens sense a connection. But it will take several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, for Galen to be convinced of Emma's gifts. Now, if he can only convince Emma that she holds the key to his kingdom..."

This being the first book I've ever read about mermaids, I can say it was pretty interesting.

Jennifer Bosworth - Struck

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I decided to read Struck written by Jennifer Bosworth because so many people were saying it was pretty good and I wouldn't waste my time. And that is an expression I love to hear.

"Mia Price is a lightning addict. She's survived strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.

Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthwake devastes the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny- Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far devastating storm that is yet to come.

Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and aluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn't who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strenght to safe the people she loves or lose everything."

A girl who can sort of control lightnings? Hell yes I was going to read this book.
But it isn't exactly that way the book follows...

Catherine Fisher - Incarceron

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I finished Incarceron written by Catherine Fisher.

"Imagine a living prison so vast that it contains corridors and forests, cities and seas.

Imagine a prisoner with no memory, who is sure he came from Outside, even though the prison has been sealed for centuries and only one man, half real, half legend, had ever escaped.

Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires.

One inside, one outside.

But both imprisoned.

Imagine a war that has hollowed the moon, seven skullrings that contain souls, a flying ship and a wall at the world's end.

Imagine the unimaginable.

Imagine Incarceron."

How does that sound to you?

Promising, right?

Leigh Bardugo - Shadow And Bone

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Even though I don't like it, today it's another book post. And I'm sorry in advance if it bothers you.

Thus, the book I've read this time is Shadow And Bone, the first book in the Grisha trilogy written by Leigh Bardugo.

"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 unlikely 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."

That's a long summary, which explains basically everything. When I found this book this wasn't the one I read, I wish it had been.

Emmy Laybourne - Monument 14

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I finished reading Monument 14 written by Emmy Laybourne a few minutes ago.

"Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not - you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.

Only, if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.

But the bus was barreling down the street, so I ran.

Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong."

Now tell me, if you read this summary for the first time what would you think the book was about?

Dearly, Departed - Lia Habel

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Lately this blog seems like a book-review kind of website. Books everywhere... I don't think it's a bad thing but can be boring.
But now that school's over and I have so much free time I can't stop reading.
This time I read Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel.

"A cyber-Victorian/steampunk romance - with zombies.

Almost two hundred years in the future, Nora Dearly lives in a world of bustled gowns, fake manner, watery tea, and uppity lords and ladies.

Thank God the zombies came to rescue her.

Drangges into the night by the living dead, Nora finds herself fighting for the father she thought long gone, the friend she was forced to leave behind - and the love of a handsome, noble young army captain.

Who just happens to be a walking corpse."

This is the second book I've read whereas zombies are the main theme (the first was Warm Bodies written by Issac Marion). That's one of the reasons why I decided to read this book, the other was because the summary says steampunk and being interested in the manner I thought "hell, yeah. you're going to read that book."
But or I don't have the minimal idea of what steampunk is or the book is lacking on it.

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

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I started reading The Night Circus written by Erin Morgenstern a few days ago, but then Rapture was released and it stayed on hold.

"The circus arrives without warning.

No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not...

In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Circe des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. The circus seems to cast a spell over its aficionados, who call themselves the rêveurs - the dreamers. But who is the sinister man in the grey suit who watches over it all? Behind the scenes a dangerous game is being played out by two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who, at the behest of their masters are forces to test the limits of the imaginations - and of love."

The cover is beautiful. Simple and delicate.

When I read the summary I was so intrigued by the the circus theme that I had to put my hands on it as soon as I could and as it was released last year I thought it wouldn't be difficult to accomplished my wish. And it wasn't.

Rapture - Lauren Kate

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As I wrote on Tumblr, I finished Rapture written by Lauren Kate a few minutes ago.

I confess unashamed that I cried.
I think it happened because while I was waiting for the book, I created many stories in my head for what might happen and none of them actually was close to the real one, therefore I was surprised, and when towards the end you start to put the pieces together and realize how obvious and unbelievable it all is you're stunned.

Amy Plum - Until I Die

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As promised, here I am. Talking about the sequel to Die For Me - Until I die - both written by Amy Plum.

"I wish there was only today, just right now, and no forever. It seems fitting that I fell in love in Paris, the most beautiful city in the world. And if I pretend, I can almost believe that my life is normal and everyone I care about is safe. But as I'm with Vincent, normal doesn't exist. Gorgeous, charming, and witty, he's everything you could ask for in a boyfriend but his destiny is so much more. Even more terrifying than his destiny are his dangerous enemies, enemies who will kill for immortality. How are Vincent and I supposed to be together forever if we're always danger? I know I'll do whatever it takes even if it means lying to the people I love to fight against a fate that is trying to tear us apart."

This time I decided to write iBooks' summary just because is more direct. Straight to it.

Amy Plum - Die For Me

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Right after ending The Temptation I started Die For Me written by Amy Plum.

"When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life - and memories - behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.

Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant -  an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray.

Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again."

The summary I had read was not that one, definitely, but I still wanted to read this book for quite some time. Why, you ask. Well, because of the title. I just thought it was dramatic and the storyline I instantly created in my mind seemed pretty great.

Alisa Valdes - The Temptation

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I read The Temptation written by Alisa Valdes in about 6 hours.

"His touch was electric.

His eyes were magnetic.

His lips were a temptation...

But was he real?

Shane is near death after crashing her car on a long stretch of empty highway in rural New Mexico when she is miraculously saved by a mysterious young man who walks out of nowhere. She feels an instant energy between them, both a warmth that fills her soul and tingle that makes her shiver. But who, or what, is he? For the first time in her life, she believes in the term "soul mates" - Travis is her destiny, and she is his. But she soon discovers that Travis is dead and strict rules govern kindred spirits of different dimensions. Even a kiss could destroy their souls.

And while Travis is almost impossible to resist, temptation proves to be the kindest enemy they encounter.

In this part romance, part supernatural thriller, true love discovers it may not be able to surpass all - especially the power of pure evil."

When I read this I automatically remembered The Hollow series by Jessica Verday and that was what made me read this book.
Well, now that I read it completely, I say it's similar but totally different.

Lisa McMann - Gone

Gone is the third and last book on the Wake series written by Lisa McMann.

"Janie thought she knew what her future held. And she thought she'd made her peace with it. But she can't handle dragging Cabel down with her.


She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams. He's amazing. And she's a train wreck. Janie sees only one way to give him the life he deserves - she has to disappear. And it's going to kill them both.


Then a stranger enters her life - and everything unravels. The future Janie once faced now has an ominous twist, and her choices are more dire than she'd ever thought possible. She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils. And time is running out..."

When I read all the books and completed the trilogy I put my mind rolling and thinking about the story and what lessons I could take from it.
The first thing I remembered was the last book was as dramatic as the second not tragic as I would think it would be if I started with Wake like a normal person. Then I remember that these books can really make you think that we should live in the moment and don't rush things, but at the same time to think twice before acting. You can take so many lessons from these 3 books that if I'd wrote every single one, I was still writing a month from today.

They didn't made a new trailer for each book but here's trailer, once again.

I read some comments on Youtube about the film they are making based on Wake and some people were saying Miley Cyrus was set to play Janie.
If you ask my opinion I'd I would not chose her. Because if she plays this role her fans will only watch the film because she's there and not because they read the book and now want to see the film adaptation. But I understand that if she's there profits will be pretty high and that's what they want when making a film.
So I 'm going to watch with or without Miley.

xx

Lisa McMann - Fade

Fade is the second book on the Wake trilogy written by Lisa McMann.

"For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They're just trying ti carve out the little (secret) time together, but no such luck. Disturbing things happening at Fieldidge HIgh, yet nobody's talking.

When Janie taps into a classmate's violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open - but nothing goes as planned. Not even close. Janie's in way over her head, and Cabe's shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both.

Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability. And it's bleak. Seriously, brutal bleak. Not only is her fate as a Dream Catcher sealed, but what's to come is way darker than she'd ever feared..."

At least this was the second book I read and is the second book from the 3, that was the only thing I did right.